by Tim Harwood | Oct 20, 2023 | Exercises, Lower body
This is quite a classic movement that is meant to help strengthen one of the hip stabilisers that is the Gluteus Medius muscle. This muscle fans across the side of the pelvis, from the boney point of the Greater Trochanter (which most people will point to when...
by Tim Harwood | Aug 18, 2023 | Exercises, Lower body
The side of the body can be an area that has a lot of tight areas. It can be the waist area or the hips and sides of the legs. So this stretch can be used to access all of them: the quadratus lumborum (QL) or the Glute Minimus, the Tensor Fascia Lata (TFL) and into...
by Tim Harwood | Aug 17, 2023 | Exercises
This stretch is a way to open the sides of the body and can feel like a really nice stretch from the hands to the armpit, to the waist, side of the pelvis to the knee. Its a good stretch for the latissimus dorsi muscles (the lats), the Quadratus Lumborus (QL) muscles...
by Tim Harwood | Jul 24, 2023 | Exercises
We often forget to stretch the wrists and forearms, even though we may spend a lot of our days at the computer, or holding things. These stretches can be done sitting at the desk, or standing next to it. There is a video at the bottom of this page taking your through...
by Tim Harwood | Jul 24, 2023 | Exercises, Lower body
This stretch is a way to open out the front of the shin, which can be an area that can be quite tight as many of us hold our ankles at ninety degrees when we’re walking. If you can’t kneel comfortably with the foot out flat in yoga, this might be a useful...
by Tim Harwood | Jul 24, 2023 | Exercises, Lower body
This stretch is a way to open out the front of the shin, which can be an area that can be quite tight as many of us hold our ankles at ninety degrees when we’re walking. If you can’t kneel comfortably with the foot out flat in yoga, this might be a useful...
