Age is no Finish Line

Age is no Finish Line

Ageing Well, Exercise Goals

Age is no finish line. What kind of old lady are you planning to be? Your answer will be a mix of your preferences and personalising around any injuries or illness. Use it or lose it. Meet the three women who are quietly redefining both growing older and their...
3 Ways to Improve Your Balance

3 Ways to Improve Your Balance

3 ways to improve, Ageing Well

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...
Are You Planning To Get Older?

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...
Never Say Never

Never Say Never

Ageing Well, Hormones, Yoga Series

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

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

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...