All Around approach to Health and Wellbeing – specialising in Biomechanics Coaching, Sports Psychology and Physical Training in Hampshire
This period of lockdown has fast-tracked online training, to become the new normal, something that would have taken years to do in the previous world of health and wellness training. This has been a fantastic option to offer clients during a time of financial uncertainty for some and isolation. This has created a regular, affordable …
This joint is very mobile with almost 3D movement, having 3 bones offered up to each other, no direct secure bone fixing in a ball and socket type fixing – they are held in place by muscles, rather than a solid joint of bone fitting into bone like the hip joint. Aside from an impact …
The knee joint is a very vulnerable joint – relying on the stability of the foot and the hip. The knee is a joint that is designed to bend and straighten, it is not designed to hyperextend nor to rotate. It’s stability depends on the foot functioning correctly, and the ankle having full mobility. This …
Running like all actions should not come from power but from stretch and recoil if you slam the door and the hinges on the wall are lose the floor will wobble around and hit the floor. If you slam the door and the hinges on the wall are tight and firm the whole energy of …
What is “Neutral Spine“???? Neutral spine is a phrase used to describe the ideal shape of the spine to avoid injury, allow good mobility, shock absorption and optimum efficiency for performance in day to day activity as well as sport. It describes the necessary curves required to keep all vertebra and discs articulating and bearing …
She was in a place of massive frustration. The route she had found available to her was constantly giving her the excuse that of course she was finding balance difficult – she had MS.
The root cause of many people’s lower back pain and other health problems could be down to tight hip flexors. The impact the hips have on the whole body was never totally clear to me until I trained as a biomechanist and started to understand the relationship between the hips and the body. Tight or …
It is all very well to correct our straightness and our posture in a controlled gym environment but what we really need to be doing is correct it in al the actions and things we do in life. This is where a static biomechanics assessment is invaluable – take a look from head to toe …
If your ankles do not have the same range of motion or strength – will that affect your body? Maybe there is no pain – but if you do not move and stabilise the same on each side you will compensate at your knee or at your hip or at your lower back in order …
If you slam the door of a room with a wobbly plywood wall as you slam the door the wall will wobble and much of the energy will be lost here rather than in the door actually slamming shut versus slamming the door on a brick wall, which will swing on a firm hinge and …