Bridging Brings Big Benefits

Bridging Brings Big Benefits

Have you tried this exercise? The simple bridge can be done on the floor or on a bed. This exercise will activate the muscles in your lower back, glutes (buttocks) and hamstrings (back of thigh). It will also stretch out your hip flexors  (muscles crossing the front...
Your Brain Needs Exercise? But How Much?

Your Brain Needs Exercise? But How Much?

‘Your brain needs exercise – two kinds.” Memory Foundation talks with Dr Jian Guan about her research into exercise and how – and why – it helps to slow brain ageing. Brain ageing has four main causes and here Dr Jian Guan talks about one...
Tap your Toes! Why?

Tap your Toes! Why?

Are you a foot-tapper? You hear music and away you go! Congratulations! Not only does toe-tapping lift your mood, It helps prevent trips and falls, too. How come? It’s all to do with the muscle that runs up the front of your shin – your tibialis anterior....
The Best Exercise for You.

The Best Exercise for You.

Why is this exercise Kris Tynan’s Number One? “We often get asked if there is one exercise we’d recommend for older adults. Of course we’d like to suggest more than one, and will do in coming issues, but if pushed we’d have to say the simple sit to...
Cycle and Stay Young.

Cycle and Stay Young.

News Flash! ‘Even the oldest cyclists had younger people’s levels of balance, reflexes, metabolic health and memory ability.’ Stephen Harridge, Director, Centre of Human and Aerospace Physiological Sciences, King’s College, London. Professor Harridge’s research...