Active Ageing
The ads have found you by now — Numan, Manual, a finger-prick test through the door, a mate who says he feels twenty-five again. Meanwhile you're tired at 3pm and the middle is softer than it was.
Active Ageing
What falls with age is your rate of recovery, not your capacity to work hard.
Movement
Watch someone put a sock on. Some stand there and do it. Others sit down on the bed or reach for the wall, and have stopped noticing that they do.
Active Ageing
There's a cost to meaning to. Nobody puts a number on it, so it feels like nothing — a decision sitting harmlessly on a shelf, available whenever you're ready. So here is the number. From around thirty-five, an adult who does no resistance training loses somewhere
Women's Health
Lisa asked how training, recovery and nutrition differ for women. The answer starts with an admission: we don't know as much as we should. For decades the studies were run on young men, because a menstrual cycle is an inconvenient variable. So a lot of what gets confidently
Active Ageing
I get asked this in the car park about once a week, usually by someone in their fifties, usually with an apology attached to the question. Yes. And I'll answer it from the register rather than from theory. We've been coaching people over fifty in this
Squat
If you only ever trained one movement for the rest of your life, it would be the squat, and it wouldn't be close. The squat is how you get out of a chair. Off the floor. Off a toilet, in and out of a car, up from the
Training
Jas asked me how muscle is actually built. There are four things. Everything else you've read is a variation on them, sold back to you with a name. One: the set has to get hard. A set only counts when the last few reps are genuinely difficult — two
Movement
Stand up from a chair without using your hands. Now lower yourself to the floor and get back up, using as little support as you can. How that felt — easy, or a production involving the worktop, a wobble and a grunt — tells you more about how well you're
CrossFit
If you've typed "getting back into exercise after years off" into Google more than once and closed the tab without doing anything, this is written for you. Most people in Amersham who haven't trained in a decade aren't held back by not
CrossFit
It's a fair question. Isn't CrossFit the thing where people throw barbells around and hurt their backs? If you're over fifty and weighing up whether to start, you deserve a straight answer from someone who coaches people your age every week. So here it
CrossFit
If you've found this by typing "CrossFit Amersham" into your phone late on a Tuesday night, once the kids are down and the house has finally gone quiet, you're probably not looking for a workout. You're looking for reassurance. You want to