Your muscles need recovery time to be able to repair, change and function properly before your next training session. Overworked muscles, damaged muscles and muscles that have been through hell and back will need some kind of downtime, but most of the time a good night’s sleep is all that is required. You can, in…
We push ourselves, we do our best and we feel like the kings and queens of the world… until the next day that is when an 80 year old granny can beat us up, everything hurts and crawling out of bed classifies as “achievement unlocked”. When you exercise small microscopic tears occur in the muscle….
When you are putting your body through its paces what you don’t do is every bit as important as what you do actually do. The amount of rest you get, the recovery time you allow and what you do to make sure you do not overtrain are every bit as important as the exercise routines…
The shoulder joint is one of the most complex joints in the body. It is actually made up of two separate joints, the glenohumeral and acromioclavicular joints, which work together as one to produce the most flexible joint in the body. Both the glenohumeral (ball and socket joint where the humerus bone of the arm…
Compared to the shoulder the knee is a seemingly simpler hinge joint that permits articulation between the femur (thigh bone) and tibia (shin bone) and between the femur and the patella (kneecap). That however doesn’t mean there is anything simple about it. The fact that it is one of the most frequently injured joints speaks…
When the worst illness that could affect us was the common cold in winter, exercising while sick was a lot easier to tackle. Covid-19 has changed all that. By introducing a new set of post-illness symptoms and conditions to deal with it has changed the approach to getting back to fitness after contracting the disease….
