Exercise isn’t just about how you look

Exercise not only makes you feel better about yourself, I exercise regularly and it makes me feel great afterwards. It helps out in everyday life, the fitter you are just from increasing your heart rate from day to day activities such as running for the bus and going up and down the stairs without running out of breath has a huge effect on your life. Airports can be daunting places if you don’t have much upper body strength, lifting your suitcase off the platform can be too much for those who don’t use their upper body enough. This is why it is important you get the balance between cardiovascular training and muscular strength training, looking good will therefore become a bonus.

Our bodies are designed to work quite vigorously and without regular movement nothing works properly. Think back before people had office jobs and microwaves were invented, people had to chase down their own dinner, dig for their own vegetables and climb tress for their fruit this has all changed now and for this reason it is essential you keep your body active.

There are many health benefits from regular exercise, osteoporosis is prevented, you will have much more energy, sleep better, depression is at a lower risk and it also slows the onset of dementia.

Keep active and let’s enjoy exercise, here at Breadsall Priory we have a huge range of classes available including

: Yoga

: Circuits

: Boot camp

: Hydro

: Legs Bums and Tums

: Stretch and relax                         

and many more!

Along with a well equipped gymnasium with fully qualified gym instructors and personal trainers on hand to offer you help and guidance.

Corey Hodgkinson

Bosu Session

This session today focused on using the Bosu for the majority of the exercises. The Bosu is an excellent tool to use with all clients incorporating core stability to an exercise. The client performed squats, bicep curls and a shoulder press all standing on the Bosu. This made sure the client activated her core throughout the exercises to enable her to keep good technique and maintain posture throughout.

As well as standing on the Bosu performing exercises,  she also did ¾ press up with her hands holding onto the Bosu and a plank positioning her forearms on the bosu (see pic). Again with a press up this makes sure the core is engaged throughout and increasing the intensity to a basic plank. She also performed no crunches or stomach exercises during her session today yet because we used the Bosu to perform some basic exercise her core got a really good challenging workout.

 Bosu Crunch

I strongly recommend using a Bosu as part of your fitness program whether working as a Personal Trainer or training on your own. Get out there and try it!

Why not try the exercises shown on the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8mcHyfFvQI&noredirect=1