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Kids and Teen Yoga

Kids and Teen Yoga

To sign up, call or text Emma on 07555220184 (anytime) Do you want to foster physical and mental health within the young people in your life? Are you wanting to assist them in setting up great habits that will serve them for their whole life? Starting yoga young can...

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The Need-To-Knows for Women who Fast

The Need-To-Knows for Women who Fast

At Energy for Life we believe fasting is a great tool with many benefits. It can help with weight management, with blood glucose stabilisation, it can help prevent disease, support brain function, delay ageing and support growth. New research is emerging all the time...

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To Train or Not To Train? That is the juggle

To Train or Not To Train? That is the juggle

In a ideal world we'd all have ample time in our days to invest it in the activities we enjoy and that we feel give us the most benefit. In reality, after commitments like work and family are upheld, there can be little time or energy left to spend doing the...

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Missing your ‘me’ time on the mat?

Missing your ‘me’ time on the mat?

Life can be super busy these days and without focus, sometimes our yoga routine can fall off the priority list. If this happens for a few weeks or more, it can be all too easy to tell yourself that it's too late to catch up, or you'll have lost all those flexibility...

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3 Tips for Avoiding Back Pain and Preventing Injury

3 Tips for Avoiding Back Pain and Preventing Injury

3 Tips for Avoiding Back Pain and Preventing Injury Many people come to us at Energy For Life, mentioning that they often experience lower back pain. Globally it’s recognised as a huge issue - according to a report published in The Lancet, lower back pain affects a...

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Five Top Tips for Low Plank in Yoga

Five Top Tips for Low Plank in Yoga

Low Plank Tips Practicing Low PlankToday, we’ll break down one of the hardest foundational poses to do well in yoga - which is the humble Low Plank pose or Chaturanga Dandasana. This pocket rocket of a pose is cheekily challenging and because of that it can often be...

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How to Build an Awesome Home Gym for Training and Boxing

How to Build an Awesome Home Gym for Training and Boxing

How to Build an Awesome Home Boxing Gym and Training Station Ever since the pandemic, more people than ever have been interested in doing their workouts and exercises at home. If you’re interested in designing a gym for home training, it’s a great way to save you a...

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12 Exercises for the perfect dynamic warm up

12 Exercises for the perfect dynamic warm up

This Dynamic warmup is a fantastic way to stretch daily or implement before workouts. It can help boost your speed, acceleration and agility whilst gradually increasing muscle temperature and heart rate. Dynamic exercises are perfect for enhancing performance and...

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6 must do exercises to prepare your wrists for Handstands

6 must do exercises to prepare your wrists for Handstands

6 must do exercises to prepare your wrists for Handstands We’ve designed this sequence of wrist drills to warm up and strengthen your wrists. They are also a must before any handstand, arm balancing and crawling workouts. The more time you invest in preparing and...

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Protect Your Knees With Wall Lean Calf Raises

Protect Your Knees With Wall Lean Calf Raises

Gymnasts do calf raises by the hundred, they know how important it is to have strong calves. This is a calf raise with a difference, because you are leaning forwards against a wall, it stretches the calf and ankle much more, plus it creates more mobility through your...

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Protect Your Knees With Soleus Raises

Protect Your Knees With Soleus Raises

Protect Your Knees With Soleus Raises The Soleus Raise is a key exercise for strengthening your lower legs including your knees, calves and improving your balance. In this blog post, we'll show you how to do the Soleus Raise properly so that you can get the most out...

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Protect Your Knees With Reverse Step Ups

Protect Your Knees With Reverse Step Ups

Now that we have built strength and mobility in the lower legs, it is time to move up above the knees and strengthen our quads, just above the knees in a muscle called the Vastus Medialis Oblique (VMO - one of the 4 quadricep muscles). The full version of the reverse...

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Protect Your Knees With Split Squats

Protect Your Knees With Split Squats

As a personal trainer who started out in the early 2000s, I was initially taught to coach people not to let their knees go forwards of their toes in squats and lunges. Fast forward 15 years and there is a growing movement which believes that is the wrong advice and...

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Protect Your Knees with Standing Hamstring Curls

Protect Your Knees with Standing Hamstring Curls

The final exercise in our protect your knees series focuses on building strength in your hamstrings, on the back of your upper leg. This is the last piece of the puzzle in terms of the major muscles above and below the knees that we want to get strong to help protect...

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KIDS: Animal Movement Class 9/4/20 (30mins)

KIDS: Animal Movement Class 9/4/20 (30mins)

Clear the floor and get ready for our kids Animal Movements session with Tom. This is a play back of one of our VIRTUAL classes for your kids will get them up and moving safely within the space of your own home.  Challenging their mobility, strength, flexibility and...

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KIDS: Animal Movements (30mins)

KIDS: Animal Movements (30mins)

This is a play back of one of our VIRTUAL classes for your kids will get them up and moving safely within the space of your own home. Challenging their mobility, strength, flexibility and their brains – using fun mobility challenges and natural crawling and movement patterns.

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MOBILITY: Foam Roller Flow (14mins)

MOBILITY: Foam Roller Flow (14mins)

Got a foam roller but not really sure what to do with it? Follow along to this head to toe foam roller flow, as a great way to improve mobility, promote blood flow, recover and release tension in your muscles and fascia.

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Learn to Handstand with our step by step tutorial

Learn to Handstand with our step by step tutorial

  The art of handstands is a perfect example of just one of an infinite number of movement journeys we can go on with our bodies and our minds. It is endless, there is always another level to take your skill to or another layer of fear and mental strength to master....

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