Back to Basics - Daily Activity

I've been thinking all day what to write about and have decided to put pen to paper based on experiences with my clients. Attending strength training sessions is so important for your body and has so many positive benefits including (not limited to): * improved mental health * cardiovascular health - your heart is a muscle and you strengthen it just like any other muscle through exercise * maintaining a healthy body composition  * increasing bone density - the more muscle your body has to support, the stronger in turn, your skeleton needs to be to support the muscles * core strength * posture alignment  This list is by no means exclusive and it is the last point I'd like to go into a bit further. Our bodies are extremely adaptive and our posture and the way we hold ourselves are  influenced by how we live our lives. This is so evident when you start looking at peoples different postures. We all no doubt hold some muscular imbalances through a...

Bootcampers 🙌 We have been a Bootcamp family for 5 months now 😁💪 Whilst attending my sessions is clearly very good for your health and the best thing you could do for yourself (🤣) I thought I'd put pen to paper to address some of the basics and will endeavour to task myself with writing a weekly blog style post for you. All guidelines say we should be physically active every day. I find a great way to do this, without factoring in exercise, is to increase your step count each day. With 3 Peaks planning I have set the group a target of 10,000 steps every day. This is the gold standard and one we should all be trying to adopt. This can give some people the fear if for instance you are tracking, on average , 5,000 steps per day. You may worry about how on earth you can double your step count. What I would suggest to you is trying to increase your steps on a weekly basis by 1,000 so that you can start making changes gradually which will mean in the long term that you will s...