Bridging The Gap

May 5, 2020 by Francesca Pioli
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From Injury To Your Optimal Performance  It is not uncommon when recovering from an injury or surgery, to have a loss of confidence in your ability, after your physiotherapist tells you that you are ready to return to sport, especially when that sport was the main culprit. There is a difference between being able to run, and being able to run 90km in one go. There is a difference between being able to go skiing, and being able to manage a 5 hour ski tour Continue reading →

Time to get ‘Sit Fit’

April 24, 2020 by Francesca Pioli
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For a lot of us, if not all of us, our daily routines have had a big impact and an inevitable change, and so have our bodies. We may have gone from working on our feet from 9-5 to being limited to our 1 hour of exercise a day (French restrictions), or have gone from our usual desk working space to our less ergonomically designed sofa office. Ultimately the majority of us are spending more time on the sofa and less time on our feet. Continue reading →

What is my core and where can I find It?

April 14, 2020 by Francesca Pioli
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Is this you? You may have heard us discuss our ‘core’ a number of times in many of our articles and fitness apps. Perhaps with your physiotherapist, in Pilates, your Yoga class, or at your local running club. It is a hot topic, with good reason. But what is it? We all know that it is good for our balance and stability but what actually is it? Classically in the past when people used to refer to your ‘core’ they were referring to your rectus Continue reading →

Pilates Vs Yoga

April 10, 2020 by Francesca Pioli
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Pilates Vs Yoga …or should we be doing both?   Yoga is fantastic, it helps build core stability and improves balance while improving and maintaining your range of movement. Pilates, you could argue does exactly that, with a slightly different manner. Okay, so Pilates hasn’t quite got the popularity and media attention perhaps as yoga does these days, but it definitely shouldn’t be shelved, and here’s why. Yoga and Pilates are two different forms of exercise and training, yet share strong similarities at the same Continue reading →

The spring transition from ski boots to trainers

April 7, 2020 by Francesca Pioli
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What do we need to be thinking about and doing to stay injury free this summer? Well what an unusual time this is! It has to be said, we did not expect to be writing this article so early in the year, but here we are. While a lot of us are stuck at home and are limited to running as our means of exercise, it seems to be the perfect time. Personally, here at BeFit Apps, we are still hopeful for some late spring Continue reading →

Which piste to take? “You have torn your ACL or you haven’t?”

January 29, 2015 by Jackie Maclean-Martin
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Image from PaperCards.com Have you caught yourself asking the same question? Have I just torn my ACL? Following an ACL injury, for some people it takes months, if not years to regain the confidence and strength to perform in sport at the same level as pre-injury. The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is an important stabilising ligament of the knee that is frequently injured, there are between 100,000 and 200,000 ACL ruptures per year in the United States alone. We treated over 40 ACL injuries in Continue reading →