Fitness

Keep your pelvis, lower back and hips healthy with daily hamstring stretches, especially if you spend much of your working day sitting. Try this intermediate hamstring stretch in the kneeling position.

Keep your pelvis, lower back and hips healthy with daily hamstring stretches, especially if you spend much of your working day sitting. Try this intermediate hamstring stretch in the kneeling position. Kneel upright behind the back of a chair, about an arm’s length away. Place your hands on the back of the chair. Find a […]

Boost your incidental activity with these workout hints when cooking in the kitchen or watching your favourite TV program.

This exercise helps release tension from the bottom of your feet and is excellent if you spend a great deal of time in high-heeled shoes.

Boost your incidental activity with these workout hints when cooking in the kitchen or watching your favourite TV program: Cooking capers Turn on some music that you can dance to, or move along with, while cooking. When getting the ingredients out of the cupboards feel how heavy they are by lifting them up and down […]

This exercise helps release tension from the bottom of your feet and is excellent if you spend a great deal of time in high-heeled shoes. Walking over a stick Align your bones in the standing position. Step the balls of your feet onto a stick or thin broom handle and rest for a short time. […]

Much of the activity required to support functional posture occurs at the deepest level of skeletal muscle in a process that we rarely notice. But it is the carriage of the upper back, head and arms that conveys a distinctively attractive posture. This is the area of the body that clearly demonstrates grace and poise.

This exercise is designed to articulate and create and awareness of the spine through flexion.

Much of the activity required to support functional posture occurs at the deepest level of skeletal muscle in a process that we rarely notice. But it is the carriage of the upper back, head and arms that conveys a distinctively attractive posture. This is the area of the body that clearly demonstrates grace and poise. […]

This exercise is designed to articulate and create and awareness of the spine through flexion. Align your bones sitting on a chair with your hands beside your knees as shown in the photograph. Take your chin down towards your throat and begin to roll down through the spine allowing the arms to slide down the […]