This section is bursting with education and information that you can use right away! Find quick drills to insert into your day for a quick energy boost, healthy habits from my book and the latest research distilled into bite sized morsels for you to digest at your leisure.
Quick drills for daily mobility
Education on injury prevention and recovery
Healthy Habits to insert into your day
Physio for Life
Healthy Habits to keep you on the move!
Body Fix, Body Fit is my book of tried-and-tested, evidence-based exercises and approaches that have proved extremely beneficial for many people over many years. I have tried to simplify and describe them to make them quick and straightforward to carry out and to work into a busy daily routine and now you can have it in the membership section!
The idea is to make staying fit – or tackling a specific issue - easy and fun, without having to leave the home, or break off from your daily schedule and take big chunks out of your busy day. I like to use them as pause exercises or snaxsercises when I am at my desk.
Dip into the Healthy Habits section a few times a day and try the exercise or idea on the page in front of you. Use the accompanying videos to get more information and progressions.Try to stretch yourself – in every sense - and don’t just try the ones you recognise or feel most comfortable with! You will feel good in yourself, as well as in your body, for the tiny bit of effort and discipline, and for the pleasing rhythm it will bring to your daily routine. Trust me, I’m a physio!
Here’s a little taster from the book and the matching video. When you subscribe, you unlock the full collection of exercise videos — each one walks you through the movement, shows you ways to progress, and explains how the exercise can help you feel stronger, more mobile, and more at ease in your body.
GET OFF YOUR BUTT- page 17 of Body Fix Body Fit
The gluteus maximus muscles (buttocks to you!) are the largest and strongest in your body and they see a lot of action. We use them all the time, most often during push-off to extend our hips while walking and running. Scientists say that the reason we can walk so well on two legs is most likely a result of our large butts. The problem is that instead of running across the plains of Africa as our ancestors might have, we spend most of our time sitting on it! The modern human therefore needs to give their butt special attention.
A quick way of firing up your gluteus maximus is to stand a couple of feet away from a wall. Bend one knee to ninety degrees and place your foot on the wall behind you. Now really squeeze your butt and push yourself away from the wall. Keep squeezing for 30 seconds. Now change sides and repeat on the other leg.
If you want a tougher challenge, try bending and straightening the supporting leg like a single-leg squat or try rising onto your toes. Make sure you keep your kneecap over your middle toe if you go into a bend.
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My copy arrived yesterday and I have to say it’s the most common sense I’ve ever read! Every step is so achievable. All I have to do now is spur myself into actually taking them.
Amazon Customer
This wonderfully written, easy to read book is so helpful at giving me simple little daily habits to keep my body in shape. Trish is full of practical wisdom and exercise tips that only take a few minutes to do each day. Her sports physio background is what makes this book really helpful for everyone!
Audrey B
I have been lucky enough to have Trish as my physio for a number of years. Little did I know that she was also a brilliant writer. Buy this little book- you won’t regret it! Full of simple, sensible exercises and ideas that you can dip into at any time. It sits on my desk and each day I adopt one of her ideas for the day. Now everyone can benefit from her encyclopaedic knowledge. Bravo Trish. Habits for a healthy life
Amazon Customer
Beautifully illustrated and a kind, gentle way of reminding or introducing readers to some excellent habits.
The illustrations really are brilliant.
Mark H
I have seen Trish several times over the years for relatively minor but annoying sports injuries, the most recent being diagnosed as tennis elbow. I really cannot recommend Trish highly enough as a physiotherapist. Trish always takes the time to identify the root of the problem, which often turns out to be something upstream and completely different to the injury. Her expertise and skilled treatment seems to quickly provide both pain reduction and mobility.
Home exercises specific to the injury are provided to accelerate healing, these are always fully explained and practiced during the session, videos are provided to assist when at home.
Being a very sporty person herself, I think she really understands the frustrations injuries cause, she often advises areas to work on relevant to your specific sports to avoid typical injuries and improve performance,
I have learnt to see Trish as soon as injuries occur, because I know she will identify the cause quickly and set me on the road to recovery, reducing time out from the court /piste. Trish’s approach is thorough, professional, and genuinely focused on long-term recovery rather than short-term fixes, she is thus highly recommended,
Simon Wallace