Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors, Mother and Baby More information Simple strength training tips If you’ve never lifted weights in your life — and many people haven’t — why should you start now? The answer is simple: Muscle tissue, bone density, and strength all dwindle over the years. So, too, does muscle power. These changes open the door to accidents and injuries that …
Continue Reading 28 August, 2011
Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors, Mother and Baby, Pregnancy Best Walking Speed for a Longer Life By RealAge This Week’s Tips Burn More Calories with This Sandwich Choice Grow More Brains with Three of These Reduce Diabetes Risk 61 Percent with This Cereal Nibble This Dark Treat for a Healthy, Happy Stomach Sample These Teas for a Better Date Night Last 30 …
Continue Reading 13 May, 2011
Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors, Mother and Baby, Uncategorized Core crunching means squeezing your tummy ( make your waistline smaller) back and pelvic floor muscles symultaneously. Yes while your rest in bed right now. Start with imperceptible movements, just squeezing gently – do this repeatedly – ten squeezes or so, till you feel some sense of relief. We keep our core muscles in tip top …
Continue Reading 12 March, 2011
Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors, Mother and Baby, Uncategorized Ergogenic exercise. Now that’s a sexy term. What the …. does this mean? “Gizmos” to spur us on to exercise harder? Compression garments? Yep, we can wear them or NOT wear them. Professor Gordon Lynch was chatting about them and I found it kinda interesting. For some, wearing them makes some of us feel better …
Continue Reading 27 February, 2011
Back Care, Exercise, Fit Seniors, Mother and Baby Who said it was a contest? We need both. Partnering each other, they are the symbiotic relationship needed for muscular-skeletal fitness. Core stability training provides the framework – the hardware if you like. Cardio vascular exercise puts all this to the test, testing endurance and capacity of those very same muscles. In combination, both forms …
Continue Reading 12 February, 2011
Mother and Baby Exercising in the kind of heat we have just experienced can be tricky for breast feeding mums. Getting very hot and sweaty with exercise, then cooling down with airconditioning or just standing in a cool breeze, could trigger mastitis. Old wives tales of not getting a chill sometimes make more sense than we credit them …
Continue Reading 7 February, 2011
Mother and Baby Breast feeding mums you need to know your breast milk thins when it is hot. This provides baby with more fluids, makes baby want to feed more often both from thirst and hunger – watered down milk is less satisfying so they are hungrier. So be sure to compensate with fluid intake and drink more …
Continue Reading 7 February, 2011
One of 4 partners who launched The Physiotherapy Centre for Maternal and Child Health, and still “at it.” Delightedly coaching second generation Mums through pregnancy and post natal exercises and now loving her time as Granny Jane and sharing her expertise with the Fitseniors Class.
Proud to have opened in 1982 as Sydney’s Physiotherapy Centre for Maternal and Child health, we are now entering our 34th continuous year providing Core Stability Classes. Our brains trust of 4 physiotherapists who run the classes, range in age from 20 something to sixty something and with this impressive bank of experience, we know we have you covered. We adapt, monitor and guide you through each exercise in every session and are there in a professional physiotherapists advisory capacity to deal with any complications.
