by Body Chek | Apr 21, 2015 | Blog, Injury Rehabilitation, Sports Injuries, Tennis
If you’ve been following my posts for some time, you’ll know that in June 2013, I ruptured my L4/5, L5/S1 lumbar discs. I have a series of blogs over the last 22 months detailing my progress: Blog 1 Blog 2 Blog 3 Blog 4 Blog 5 Well, I’m happy to...
by Body Chek | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog, Professional Courses, Sports Injuries, Strength & Conditioning, Tennis
After a long day travelling from San Diego, I arrived in New York. I had a few days to recover from my travels and crossing time zones before I was due to teach at The ECA World Fitness Convention. It was a bit of shock going from hot weather to temperatures below...
by Body Chek | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog, BodyCHEK, General Health, Injury Rehabilitation, Sports Injuries
Following on from my European trip, I said I would update you as to my travels in the USA. In early March, I flew to San Diego to teach a workshop to the CHEK Academy Year 2 students. I taught two 1-day workshops, ‘Equal, but Not The Same’ (which is all...
by Body Chek | Mar 5, 2015 | Blog, Professional Courses
The last few weeks have been extremely busy. Two weeks ago I flew to Copenhagen to teach two workshops for CHEK Europe at Fitnessdk in Nygardsvej. I taught two workshops, ‘Program Design’ and ‘Scientific Core Conditioning’. I had a class of 22...
by Body Chek | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, BodyCHEK, Injury Rehabilitation, Sports Injuries
So what is tendinitis? Tendonitis is inflammation of a tendon (tendons are connective tissues that join muscles to bones). Tendonitis can occur with repeated stretching and overloading, the cross-linking structure of the collagen fibres break apart, causing micro...
by Body Chek | Jan 31, 2015 | Blog, Chronic Fatigue, Injury Rehabilitation, Sports Injuries
Over the years I have worked with a few clients that have stress fractures in one or more bones. Obviously, stress fractures cause pain, but they also greatly affect ones standard of living and often limits what physical activity they can do. The most common stress...
