What I know about Yoga (Go to last update 14 Oct 2022) First published 4th of November 2017 Yoga Journey Back in 1995, when I was in college, a friend told me about Yoga. She practised it at home, every morning at 6am and she said it had made her…
What I know about YouTube Fitness Videos
What I know about YouTube Fitness Videos (Go to last update 14 Oct 2022) First published 24th of September 2020 Lockdown YouTube Fitness Videos I’ve done a few fitness DVDs over the years: T25, Insanity, Ashtanga Yoga with David Swenson, Rodney Yee, Zumba… and I am a fan of them.…
PiYo Workout/Achilles tendinitis
30 August 2017 PiYo Workout/Achilles tendinitis I’ve had (self diagnosed) tendinitis on my right ankle since the beginning of July. I stopped running a couple of weeks after the ache started, perhaps I should have stopped sooner. Anyway, I started doing these eccentric heel drops on August 11, with leg…
Injury Update: needles and more needles, shoulder cortisone injection
10/04/2014 – First published (see below for recent updates) It’s been a week of needles… On Monday I went to see the Osteopath again. Chris found a particularly tender spot, the most painful yet, at the bottom of my spine, to the right. Same area the scan, from 3 years…
Shoulder Injury
21 November 2017 Shoulder Injury Previous post on shoulder injury So the shoulder injury has been back since early September – 2.5 months. I went to see a specialist, Mr Mark Jeffery @ Wimbledon Clinics last week and he gave this provisional diagnosis and then requested an ultrasound which I…
Left Hip and Cortisone Injection
17 February 2016 (scroll down for updates) Left Hip and Cortisone Injection On Sunday 7th, after class, I decided to take a break from Capoeira because my hip would get better and then worse after class. Taking a break from running wasn’t enough, it felt like I had to stop…
Left Hip Injury
10 Jan 2016 Left Hip Injury September 2015: after completing Insanity in June, and continuing to do it regularly and also running some of my fastest times, and doing a lot of capoeira, my left hip started to hurt. I had a similar pain on my right hip a few…
Osteopath Visit
24 March 2014 Osteopath Visit The NHS physio has not fixed me yet and I’m booked to have an injection on my arm on the 9th, as David (the physio) has spent no time on my back or hip – we decided to concentrate on the right arm. As my…
Gluteus Maximus/Medium trigger points
03 March 2014 Gluteus Maximus/Medium trigger points I’m looking further into this and putting all the info here. From the ‘Trigger Point Therapy Book’: Trigger points in your gluteus maximus can disrupt the comfortable patterns of every day life, if not make it completely miserable. A vivid example of this…
Physio – arm and buttock pain
02 March 2014 Physio – arm and buttock pain My life seems to be a catalogue of injuries… Yesterday I stubbed my right toe on someone’s leg during capoeira roda. One more reason to wear shoes – but I can’t do the movements with the same precision with shoes on!…