Exercise Archives - Personal Space - Bristol Personal Training fitness studio

Exercise and ME / Chronic Fatigue

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Lisa King

I was very interested and moved reading Lara's story in Stu's blog last week. It is inspiring to hear that she overcame this major health setback and that exercise was part of her recovery. Personally I can relate to Lara's situation having suffered with ME / chronic fatigue in 2012 for about a year. I had flu, and didn't recover. The first few months were pretty terrible, and it would have...

Personal Trainer life hack #2

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Stuart Dollery

Personal trainer #2 life hack- prioritize eating, movement, and exercise, in that order for body compositional change. I thought it might be a bit of a surprise to some for me NOT to put exercise first!! Firstly it's very hard to 'out exercise' a bad diet, so I would encourage you to get the food manipulation right to suit you, in a sustainable way. Try and find a way that minimiz...

Cancer and the essential role of exercise

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Lisa King

I listened to a Macmillan webinar on physical activity and its importance for people living with and beyond cancer. Key facts - More than 2.5 million people live with cancer in the UK. More people are surviving and living longer with cancer. By 2020, one in every two people will have developed cancer in their lifetime. Forty percent of all cancers are caused by lifestyle factors, s...

Exercise is primary factor in fighting cancer say Macmillan Cancer Support

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Lisa King

Macmillan Cancer Support’s new message is Move More – physical activity, the underrated wonder drug! The cancer support charity has recently stated that “Family and friends could be doing more harm than good by insisting people with cancer ‘take it easy’ when they are going through treatment and recovery.” They add that “family and friends have a crucial role in supporting people to...

Exercise – grab it where you can!

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Lisa King

My client felt like cancelling yesterday morning because she didn't want to miss the solar eclipse excitement, but after reflection thought we could somehow manage to do both at the same time. She was right, we could. We met at her house but instead of heading off into the woods for a hilly walk, we walked up and down her own hilly back garden a few times to get warmed up (short but steep) and ...

This lady can!

Posted on January 23, 2015January 26, 2015 by Lisa King

Personal Space Bristol Personal Training Studio

Exercising into your eighties and nineties - does that sound like an impossibility? It isn't, and hopefully, as we are living in a country with an ageing population, we will see more and more older people staying active, and participating in games and sports. There is plenty of research documenting people aged over 80 starting weight lifting programmes and increasing their muscle mass, older p...

Knowledge is power! Ask Barry!

Posted on January 13, 2015January 20, 2015 by Stuart Dollery

With so much health & fitness information (perhaps it should be called 'misinformation') being bandied about, especially at this time of year, it's hard to sort the wheat from the chaff! The UK diet industry is worth in the region of £2 billion a year! What concerns me most is that, where money is to be made, many times its not with the persons best interests at heart - it's the company'...

Action Stations!!

Posted on January 6, 2015January 9, 2015 by Stuart Dollery

I will be blogging my ramblings about life through Personal Space over the year - straight from the hip! I will be putting the personal into personal space! I'm going to share with you the ups & downs through my perspective as a personal trainer & hopefully help a few people along the way! Through the year I'm going to share my journey with you & tell you what I've learnt, tha...

Exercise & Dementia

Posted on December 12, 2014December 18, 2014 by Lisa King

Dementia is the loss of mental abilities over time. It is often severe enough to interfere with a person’s ability to perform daily activities. People with dementia may have trouble learning new things and remembering names, and may have changes in behaviour. A growing body of research shows that cardiovascular exercise may help delay the loss of functional independence anddementia (Ahiskog et al...