Agility - Improve your Agility for Everyday Life.
Agility is our ability to change directions quickly. While it is useful in many sports including basketball, netball & soccer, it is also useful in everyday life for avoiding obstacles, playing games with children and preventing injuries. To improve your agility, it is best to practice using your agility in activities such as cone agility drills. Give these a go and see how your agility improves.
Triceps - The Three Headed Monster
Today we are going to look at the sternocleidomastoid. No, we haven’t started writing about dinosaurs! The sternocleidomastoid (SCM) is one of our neck muscles. Tight or painful SCMs can be caused by constant staring at laptops & phones and can result in pain in the jaw, neck, back of the head, ear, cheek or teeth, tension headaches, stiffness, dizziness and many others issues.
Fire trucks cause Fires - Correlation vs Causation
This week we will be looking at correlation vs causation. Health journalists often seem to get these confused. If a study found a correlation between eating biscuits and cancer, headlines will often read something like, “Biscuits cause Cancer!”. What is the difference between correlation and causation? Read more to find out.
Body composition. Your scales are NOT telling you the whole story.
Body composition is a measure of the relative amounts in the body of bone, water, fat and muscle. A lot of people focus on weight as a measure, however, two people can be the same weight but have a vastly different body composition. There are several ways to measure your body composition and many ways to improve it. Speaking to a professional about your diet or exercise program can really help.
Sternocleidomastoid - Not a Dinosaur. A Pain in the Neck
Today we are going to look at the sternocleidomastoid. No, we haven’t started writing about dinosaurs! The sternocleidomastoid (SCM) is one of our neck muscles. Tight or painful SCMs can be caused by constant staring at laptops & phones and can result in pain in the jaw, neck, back of the head, ear, cheek or teeth, tension headaches, stiffness, dizziness and many others issues.