3 Ways to Improve Your Balance

3 Ways to Improve Your Balance

Balance work becomes important as you get older in the context of falls prevention i.e. the better you are at balance work will reduce the likelihood of falling and breaking a bone. Bone health is one of the aspects of fitness that is potentially impacted by the...
3 Ways to Improve Your Quad Stretch

3 Ways to Improve Your Quad Stretch

Your quads are the big group of muscles at the front of your legs and they can often get tight from sitting a lot. If your quads are tight, you may notice it around your knee joint which is one end of the muscle group. The other end is your hips so they are a good all...
Organising Your Online Workout Videos Journal

Organising Your Online Workout Videos Journal

Spend your time working out, not searching the web for the one video you want but can’t remember its name! Organising your online videos is a new thing  that has come out of the vast amount of fitness videos that are available to us online. When you are working...
3,650,000 Steps A Year

3,650,000 Steps A Year

You are probably quite familiar with the guideline to walk 10,000 steps a day. What isn’t quite as well known is that this adds up to 3,650,000 steps a year Last year I walked 3,135,749 steps. Which sounds a lot and it is, but it was also down on the last few years...
Why Set Exercising Deadlines Post Menopause

Why Set Exercising Deadlines Post Menopause

Deadlines are a great way of helping you figure out what your priorities are and how much time you have. Being curious about whether you take action or not will help you to work out out how to workout v5.0 Samantha Valand is a Pilates teacher, Yoga Instructor and...