Fitness and Training

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You’ve probably heard the phrase “use it or lose it” more than enough times throughout your life, and when it comes to exercising in our later years, it’s an important phrase to remember!

It’s good understand that whatever sport or exercise you choose to engage in, there are specific areas of the body which will be placed under more stress or repetitive load and the injuries that may result as a consequence of this. Cross training – or exposing your body to several types of exercise – can improve performance for an athlete of any level.

When it comes to Clinical Exercise, there’s an abundance of moves and sequences that can be performed to sculpt your body and improve your core stability. Following the six core Clinical Exercise principles of concentration, control, centring, fluidity, precision and breath - there are a range of floor, ball and body weight exercises that are low-impact and safe to perform.

You might have seen people using them at the gym in the stretching area, or near the yoga mats at the sports store, and that’s because foam rollers are quickly becoming the weapon of choice when it comes to fighting muscle soreness and increasing your flexibility.

These little blocks of cylindrical, brightly coloured foam, are actually one of your greatest allies.