Ageing Well Archives - Samantha Valand

Menogise: Minimising Menopause Malarkey

Looking around at the fitness classes that are available to me approaching 50, there appears to be a big jump from standard classes to silver surfer classes with not much in between. So, I have created a class that I would like to attend! Menogise is a class for women...

3 Ways to Improve Low Back Stiffness

Ageing Well, Pilates, Work Life Balance, Yoga

Low back stiffness can occur for many reasons, but it is often because we spend so much time sitting. If you are a desk junkie, here are three ways to improve stiffness in your lower back. These movements can be performed a couple of times throughout the day, perhaps...

Never Say Never

Ageing Well, Hormones, Yoga

In the last decade of teaching Pilates I have always said that I would never teach Yoga. So, you won’t be surprised from the title when I say I have booked into a Hatha yoga course! Why now? I have been researching ageing well for the last year and discovered the...

Young at Heart

Ageing Well, Health

Want to know how young your heart is? Public Health England has created an online calculator to work out what your heart age is compared to your actual age. You can take the quiz here. It asks for your blood pressure and cholesterol levels. If you do not know them,...

Exercising For Health And Ageing Well

Ageing Well, Exercise

Most of us have grown up with the ‘no pain no gain’ mantra and exercising as only a means to manage our weight and to burn calories. As we get older, our thoughts turn to our health and ageing well. Exercise can play a big part in this but it means changing exercise...

Are You Planning To Get Older?

Ageing Well, Exercise

We plan our retirement decades in advance by paying into a pension. Do you think about your physical health in the same way? Most of us do not which means it is not until we ‘need’ to; we start to think about exercise as a way of improving our wellbeing and to help us...