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The 4 Best Practices to Achieving your Fitness Goals

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The 4 Best Practices to Achieving your Fitness Goals

Fitness can be both effective and injury free. 🤯 Here’s how we do it.

~5 minute read

There is a big dilemma for people over 50 when it comes to fitness. 😩

We call it the “injuries vs. fitness conundrum”. It’s the idea that you can’t both be injury-free and fit after the age of 50. Through countless bad experiences, fitness failures and long lists of injuries that plague them, the people over 50 that we’ve spoken with often doubt that you can be both at the same time.

When speaking with 50+ people, we’re often asked questions like these:

  • Can you get fit if you have an ongoing injury?

  • Will trying to get in shape inevitably get you injured?

  • Does taking care of my injuries mean I have to put my fitness goals on hold?

  • Can I achieve both an injury-free body and get fit and lose weight?

We’re big believers that you can address both injuries and fitness at the same time. It does not have to be one or the other. 🥳

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Overcoming the #1 Obstacle 👊👊👊

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Overcoming the #1 Obstacle 👊👊👊

The most important factor for fitness success after the age of 50

~6 minute read

The most important factor for fitness success after the age of 50 is your ability to be consistent.

It sounds simple, but it’s true. Consistency allows you to keep making progress through all the ups and downs that life brings.

On the other hand, inconsistency will prevent you from making any worthwhile changes.

When you commit to consistency (rather than perfection) you’ll continue to make progress, even in the face of set backs. This could (but doesn’t always) mean slower progress at first, which may not sound as exciting as a full sprint towards your goals. But the important thing to remember is that the health and fitness journey is a MARATHON NOT A SPRINT. 🏃‍♀️🙂

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Confused On How To Get Out Of Pain? Learn The Approach Used By The Pros.

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Confused On How To Get Out Of Pain? Learn The Approach Used By The Pros.

~5 minute read

Do you find yourself with constant aches in your joints and unsure why?

Often the pain we experience can be pin-pointed to a specific area.

By understanding how neighbouring joints and surrounding muscles function, pain can be significantly reduced with relative ease.

The Joint by joint approach

The “Joint by joint approach” theory developed by Mike Boyle and Gray Cook, explains how joint pain is often caused by improper function at an adjacent joint. If a joint isn’t performing the way it should be, it adds stress to a neighbouring joint because of the muscles that attach them together.

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Get out of pain by improving posture 🚶💪

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Get out of pain by improving posture 🚶💪

We’ve been told for years that it’s important to have a good posture but very rarely is it ever explain WHY it’s so important.

Over time, the muscles get used to being in a certain position. If we have bad posture and we’re constantly putting them in a bad position, they will begin to grow and fix themselves into this position forever. However this can be reversed by understanding how the muscles interact with each other and learning the proper stretching and strength building techniques to ‘reset’ our muscles and return to a good posture.

The reason this is so important is because with bad posture, mobility problems arise soon after, followed by unnecessary joint pain. Some of the most common signs of bad posture are;

  • shoulders rolled too far forward

  • neck too far forward

  • lower back flexed and hips rolled forward

  • planting the ball of the foot first instead of heel striking while walking

These common postural imbalances can often explained by something called upper crossed and lower crossed syndromes.