Exercise Advice & Helpful Tips
Beyond Wear & Tear
Beyond Wear & Tear
Why the answer isn’t to avoid load – it’s to become better prepared for it.
It happens every weekend.
Someone enjoys a long walk, spends an afternoon in the garden or helps a friend move house.
The following morning their back aches, their knee feels stiff or their shoulder begins to complain.
Do you think it’s too late to get strong?
For many years, the accepted advice for very old or frail people was simple:
Take it easy.
Don’t lift anything heavy.
Try not to hurt yourself.
In 1990, researchers at Tufts University decided to test that assumption.
Movement Control: Using what you’ve built
Mobility is often misunderstood.
It’s not just about flexibility or stretching.
Mobility is your ability to move through a range of motion with control.
Cardiovascular Exercise: Protecting Your Engine
Last week we discussed strength and its role in protecting independence and performance as we age.
Strength helps maintain muscle, protect bone and preserve the ability to produce force and react quickly when needed.
Recovery: More Than Rest
One of the biggest misconceptions in health and fitness is that recovery simply means doing less.
Take a rest day. Sit still. Stop training.
However, if better results only came from stopping, we’d all make progress simply by sitting still.
The Real Reason People Train
Why the true reward of training has less to do with fitness and more to do with confidence, clarity, and feeling like yourself again.
Strength: Your Independence Insurance
Strength is one of the most important physical qualities we can maintain as we age. It influences everything from sport and recreation to balance, independence, bone health and cognitive function. In this article, we’ll explore why strength training may be one of the best investments you can make in your future health, capability and quality of life.
Strength Training – How to continue, calmly
By the time we reach our forties, most of us aren’t inactive — we’re highly patterned.
We walk the same routes. Do the same daily activities. Repeat the same movements, week after week.
Variability – Connecting the Four Pillars
Earlier this week, I listened to a podcast by renowned sprint coach, Stu McMillan. It highlighted something that often gets overlooked:
A lack of variability doesn’t just affect muscles – it affects every system in the body.
Grit That Lasts & Building Anti-fragility
When people talk about grit, they often mean pushing harder.
Doing more. Ignoring discomfort. Forcing consistency.
Why Staying Active Matters More Than Training “Perfectly”
When we think about exercise, it’s easy to focus on the activity itself — what type of training we should be doing, how often, and whether we’re doing it “right.” But lasting progress is shaped just as much by mindset as it is by the exercises we choose.
Why Managing Your Training Load Matters More After 40
After a holiday, injury or even many years of not being active or having trained, we feel motivated and ready to “get back on it.” You return with good intentions and even more enthusiasm. You start with two sessions per week, and after only a couple of weeks, increase to four sessions per week. And that’s where things can go wrong.