Are your tight hips trying to tell you something? Throughout the body, stress, tension and emotion can mount and one of the areas it can build up in is in your hips. Our hips can be a storage ground for emotions such as fear, guilt and stress which is why you may feel emotional after attending a ...

Summer is here and this means of course, more festivals! You may not typically associate ‘yoga’ with festivals but in fact there are numerous yoga fests lined-up around the UK this summer and they’re pretty bustling...Read on for now about the Brighton Yoga Festival 2016! On Saturday 23rd July, ...

Your abdominals and core are the foundation of each and every movement your body performs keeping your body upright whilst allowing your body to hold proper posture. Your abdominals work 24/7 even when lying down so with this fact taken into consideration, a specific routine should be devised for ...

Do you find it embarrassing that you can't touch your toes or if you can, still find it difficult or awkward? You may well have tight hamstrings and stiff hips. Don't worry help is on hand, check out these 5 Top Tips for Increasing Your Flexibility! 1. Do yoga If you think you need to be ...

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced swimmer, there are always plenty of ways to boost your performance in the water. Here are some top tips with drill exercises to get you practising! 1. Focus on your breathing In any sport, coaches often underestimate the importance of breathing. But ...

With people of all age groups now taking to the floor to learn this classic dance style, it’s becoming an increasingly popular way to stay fit and socialise. Ballet involves learning a variety of steps with French names and incorporating them into a dance routine to music. But it does a lot more ...

The chest is a complex muscle which can be hard to target directly unless using the correct technique. This will usually involve pressing movements that keep your shoulder blades retracted. This helps zero-in on the pecs while ensuring maximum stretch is achieved on the negative part of the rep for ...

The triceps are made up of 3 heads and perform extension and pressing movements and the top 5 tricep exercises on this list will indeed involve extension and pressing movements. The triceps make up two thirds of your upper arm yet is often neglected in favour of the biceps, probably due to it being ...

The bicep is a simple muscle which only performs one function: to flex the arm, bringing the forearm closer to the body via elbow flexion. The biceps are made up of the lateral and medial head but in this article I am going to include two other muscles which work synergistically with them to ...

Healthy ice cream? Free gym membership? Getting fit whilst having a cuppa? Only in a perfect world right? But we all know a washboard six pack doesn’t merely come from kicking back on the couch, unfortunately in the real world it’s not that easy. However things are changing, read our ...