• Gym Equipment

    The Benefits of Using Swiss Balls

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    Welcome to the PhysioRoom blog! Today we’re going to gaze lovingly at some balls. No, we’re not watching a video of that marathon runner crossing the line the other week baring all to see, for these balls are swiss! They’re also made of synthetic materials and can have multiple benefits when incorporated in to a … Read more

    Wobble Boards and Cushions Explained

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    Today’s PhysioRoom Blog is going to take a look at wobble cushions and boards. What they are, what they do, and how they can help with injury rehabilitation and even with kids with ADHD Now of course, both wobble boards and cushions both have several benefits, many falling at  cross section between the two. But … Read more

    5 Items to Enhance Your Yoga Experience

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    Five Items to Enhance your Yoga Experience One of the best selling-points for doing Yoga is that you don’t need an awful lot of equipment to do it. But another aspect of yoga is its dynamism, the way even slight adjustments to a tricky pose or position can change what muscles it effects and how. … Read more

    PhysioRoom’s Guide to Foam Rollers

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    Ah the foam roller. How has something which is so little understood, is pretty uncomfortable to use and looks like a misplaced pool toy come to be the staple of any athlete’s rehab and recovery kit? Well simply, foam rollers work. You may have seen them in your gym and either not known what they … Read more

    The Benefits of Compression Clothing

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    In this day and age of fitness and exercise, we focus so much on what we put into our bodies. How much of it, what’s in it, and what effect it’s going to have, be it positive or negative. But what about what we put ON our body? Fitness clothing is more important than ever … Read more

    Weight Loss Tips and Tricks To Avoid

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    This is the time of year when we all want to lose weight. We may sign up to the gym, buy some trainers, get out the swimming things or simply use that Wii or Kinect we got for Christmas. Unfortunately, a lot of us will give up by the end of February before embarking on the same process next year.

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    What is Suspension Training?

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    Suspension trainers have become a gym floor mainstay over recent times, claiming to assist in the sculpting of functionally sound muscle and for creating an environment in which one can learn difficult-to-achieve exercises. Building muscle with merely two over-sized elastic bands? Surely not. Yet over a decade after it was unleashed on the fitness community, ... Read more

    Strength Training for Women

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    Using strength training to aid weight loss Personal trainer and fitness blogger Alexis Fletcher is back once again with more quirky insights into the world of health and fitness. This week Alexis uses strength training to aid weight loss! “Many of my female clients complain of the usual hard to reach weight loss areas – legs, bums, ... Read more

    Hangin’ from the Rafters: The Benefits of Suspensions Training

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    What are the benefits of suspension training? PhysioRoom.com investigates. Potter around the gym floor in 2017 and a whole range of odds and ends, gimmicks and fads will no doubt be overflowing out of a randomly placed blue box in the corner of the room. Gym staff try and hide it, but it’s always there ... Read more

    Improving Grip Strength

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    “What do you grip, mate?”  How often have you come across that question? Exactly, never – grip strength isn’t exactly the most hotly disputed factor of strength. And it’s rare that people will talk about the big four exercises being; bench press, squat, deadlift and thumb squeezers. After all, one would think that in training a variety ... Read more