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Things I learned being sick

July 7th, 2010 4 Comments

This is just a short post to say that I was really, really sick last week.  I got back from the Alps in the middle of the night on Saturday, 27 June and spent Sunday blogging and getting ready to go back into work. I went into work on Monday, although I was starting to [...]

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Soft tissue work and travelling

June 29th, 2010 1 Comment

I’ve just come back from a week’s hiking in the Alps, in the region around Mont Blanc.  The weather was (mainly) very kind and the scenary was beautiful as always.   We’ve done similar trips the last couple of years, where we do about 7-8 hours a day, covering anything up to 20km and 1,500m [...]

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Introducing: face pulls

June 16th, 2010 Comments Off

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about rehabbing my left shoulder, which took a beating from a week’s cycle touring holiday followed by a rushed bench session.  To be fair to my left shoulder, it was probably more to do with the decade of neglect than the recent events but hey. Anyway, I’m [...]

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Introducing: soft tissue maintenance

June 1st, 2010 3 Comments

A while back, I had a project where I worked really hard on my hip mobility and lumbar stability. Since I have a desk job and have had a desk job for around 10 years, I had found that my hip mobility was poor and that my body had worked around it by increasing my lower back mobility.  I did [...]

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My Hip Mobility programme

December 9th, 2009 Comments Off

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve written 4 articles to flesh out the introducing hip mobility and lumbar stability post that I did a little while ago. At the start, I outlined how I had allowed my desk job to cause my posture to deteriorate such that I developed an overly excessive lumbar lordosis [...]

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