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High blood pressure affects 1.13 billion people around the world and in 2019, it accounted for 10.8 million deaths. It is well known that exercise can play an important part in lowering blood pressure. Regular physical activity can strengthen the heart muscle meaning it can pump blood around the body with less effort, therefore […]
On Saturday 24th July, Sport Parkinson’s hosted it’s first ever Summer Try-athlon. This was a day for the Parkinson’s Community to come together and try a huge range of different activities. From football and walking netball to painting and aerobics, there was something to everyone. I was delighted to attend the event at […]
Research presented at the American Heart American Heart Association’s Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle & Cardiometabolic Health Conference 2021 has shown that taking more steps per day both at once or in short spurts could increase your life expectancy. What researchers found? In this study 16,732 women over 60 wore a waist step counter for […]
1 Year… In April last year I set up Bounce Back Exercise to improve the provision of exercise for people with cancer, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis and other long term conditions. Last June, I delivered my first Bounce Back session. A year on, I am still working with this client and feel so happy looking […]
Exercise pre-treatment, during and in the recovery of prostate cancer is hugely important. As well as lowering your risk of recurrence, exercise can help manage and gain control of any treatment and cancer related side effects. Why exercise? Exercise can help you manage negative treatment related side effects including weight gain, loss of […]
A huge well done to our member of the month: Bev! Bev started training with me in July 2020 as part of the Safe Fit trial with Southampton University. She started with three one-to-one sessions a week and is now a Bounce Back member and regularly attends the group classes. It has been fantastic […]
Resistance training commonly known as strength or weight training refers to any exercise that involves you lifting or pulling against a resistance. This includes exercises with dumbbells, resistance bands, machine weights or your body weight. Recent research looks at the benefits of resistance exercise and aims to understand more about ways we should […]
Dear Bouncers, I would like to say a huge well done to everyone who has been keeping up with their exercise over the past couple of months. It has not been an easy time for many of us and your commitment and dedication to your training sessions and exercise programmes has been fantastic. […]