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How Stress & Trauma Causes Aches, Pains, ‘Tightness’ & Movement Dysfunction
Ever wonder why your shoulders feel like cement blocks, or why your back always aches after sitting at your desk all day? Sure, poor posture and inactivity may be contributing to the problem, but...
How Meditation Can Improve Health & Fitness
How Meditation Can Improve Our Health & Fitness Meditation is a practice that involves training the mind to focus and redirect thoughts, allowing us to achieve a state of mental clarity and...
What Is Mobility And Why Is It Important As We Age?
Mobility is a term that is often heard in the fitness world, but what does it actually mean? Mobility refers to the range of motion that a joint has. Basically, when you are able to move your joints...
Can You Really Improve Health, Fitness & Weight Loss Results By Changing How You Breathe?
The concept of nasal (nose) breathing is becoming more & more mainstream as people are starting to discover the array of health benefits that come along with it, both physically and mentally....
5 Ways To Get Better Health & Fitness Results By De-Stressing & Doing LESS
Health & fitness is not all about the ‘Go hard or go home’ mentality, and pushing your body to do things you don’t want to do. It’s really about giving your body what it needs, and caring for...
Covid-19 update. Gym is closed, but we’re still training
Hello everybody, Just a few updates on the current situation to keep you all in the loop. Firstly, I just want to say a big thank you to everyone for the show of support we are getting from all of...
Anti-Ageing Exercise
Most people, when they think of ‘getting fit’, they think of cardiovascular fitness as the most important thing. Whilst this is important, is can be a very one dimensional and limited way of looking...
What is functional training anway?…
Functional training is one of those terms that we all hear a lot these days, although if you ask most people what functional training actually is, most people are quite unsure. You could even ask 10...
Correct Your Breathing For Better Results & Improved Health
Excited to have world-renowned strength & conditioning coach, and personal trainer Steve Maxwell back at The Fit Stop this year in February. He will be hosting a 6 hour seminar on breathing....