I have recently learned of a great new piece of kit called the Alter-g Treadmill.  This proves to be one of the most important developments in lower limb injury prevention and rehabilitation in recent years. Originally developed by NASA to help astronauts exercise in space, the unique technology allows clients to run, walk, perform static or dynamic exercises at precisely controlled percentages of their body weight (between 20-100%). This allows individuals who have restricted weight-bearing post-injury or surgery, to maintain their neuromuscular patterning, control and cardiovascular training, whilst their body-weight is off-loaded …

There is generally a race to return to pre-pregnancy weight or better, but many women do too much too soon. There are some important points to consider before you restart. 6 week check a green light to go? After the postnatal check most people ask whether they can begin to exercise again. You normally can but don’t feel it necessary to exactly the same as before the birth. It might be a good idea to try some more stabilising based exercise such as specialist core stability work or better still Pilates. This …

We all seem to be short of time these days and in my experience that is the most common excuse for not exercising. So why not condense your cardio workout into your weights one by eliminating rest. Start every session you do with a 10 minute row of gradually increasing intensity. Then go straight to your first weights station and complete your first set. Instead of just sitting there resting, don’t stay on the same exercise do the firstset of your second one. Then straight back to the first one until …

The 300 (as in the film about the 300 Spartans) circuit is one of if not the hardest circuit I have ever done, it was one they using when training for the film. It goes like this: 25 full pull ups with an overhand wide ish grip (i.e knuckles facing you rather than chin ups), all in one go if possible, otherwise with the minimum rest between sets, that goes for the the exercises. Straight into 50 dead-lifts with a bar (20kg) + 15 kg on each end. Again no rest, …

Old fashioned it may be, but boxers are super-fit and they do hours of skipping every day. Cheap and relatively easy you can skip almost anywhere, its a great way to exercise and have fun at the same time. There are many different techniques and ways to change your skipping style to keep it fresh and interesting. Standard two foot slow jumps, faster small jumps, alternate feet (jogging on the spot) jumps, high knee alternate feet jumps, high knee both feet power jumps, school girl running skipping, cross over your …