Delivering Easy Functional Fitness for Lifelong Wellbeing

Neutral Posture is not only important for the health of your spine as it ages, but is essential for the activation of the ‘True Core’; the key factor for driving Perpetual Fitness. Neutral Posture is characterized by the specific alignment of 3 external points along the skeleton and is interlinked and interdependent on good flexibility throughout all joints.

‘True Core’ strength is created by a specific vertical activation of an internal muscle group that produces a stabilizing girdle of force around the Centre of Gravity (COG). The task of the ‘True Core’ is to support a neutral skeleton, initiate all movement away from the COG, and drive strength and power into the limbs when they are loaded for functional tasks.

Cardio Fitness is not exclusively about the time or speed at which you do exercise but, may be, more importantly, about the speed at which your heart rate returns to its normal baseline rate after a physical challenge.

HiiT (High-intensity interval Training) has become the most popular training method of choice for improving Cardio Fitness. My version of HiiT could have you Cardio Fit in as little as 2-5x/week, at 5-9 min/session.

The Balance System is very complex. Put into the simplest of terms, it is largely driven and controlled by 3 systems: Visual inputs: our 1st defence against falling; Proprioceptive inputs: our position sense, or how we perceive where we are in the space we occupy; and the Vestibular inputs: a complex system involving our inner ear fluid and the receptors in our neck muscles. Whew!!

We can correct for Visual changes through prescription lenses or surgery, but more importantly, we can train and strengthen the Proprioception and Vestibular systems to give 3 strong Balance Systems that can serve and protect us well and improve our safety as we age.