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Our new Chair Pilates video.

We've created this, with the less able-bodied person in mind, so if you struggle getting up and down to or from the floor, this is an ideal way for you to exercise your body, strengthening your core and your back, all from your chair!

Please enjoy! If you do, please feed back to us so we can create more like this for you. 😀

Beginner Chair Pilates
This is very basic. We will add to this, but we are releasing it to see how many people can utilise it.

What you need for the Class.

  • Some water to drink 😉
  • A band
  • A laptop/iPad/tablet to watch from, or a smart TV, so that you can see it
  • A cushion or a ball

Please try to do this routine every day, or at least 4 times a week, build it in like brushing your teeth, it's definitely as important. 😂

Online Consultations

Please do not forget that we now offer one to one online consultations, so we are still here to help and have already been working with patients in pain to relieve the symptoms remotely. How? you ask.....
We use all the tools we have and even instruct people within your own home to assist with the treatment, it works brilliantly and we are doing it all for Donations only until the 17th April, so give it a go. Also if you know someone who is suffering, or you think we could help, please share 😊

Next Newsletter

In the next episode we will be doing a complete posture video for anyone who is missing my nagging and needs a little reminder 👀

Check out our NEW Facebook page and give us a like, as we are updating it regularly, its a great way for us to stay in touch and for us to keep providing little tips and clips for massage and Pilates.

Love and Energy from Liz and Jessica x
Please send us what you've been up to, we love hearing from everyone, we're missing you all!

Stay Safe, see you soon xx

BackFit Osteomyology, Exercise

Here is your first Pilates Class with us.

This is our gift to you, to relieve some stress in these strange times. Whilst you have the time on your hands, why not increase your back strength and function, at the same time as helping you feel great and toning your lovely body.

This is the Prelude to the full class, it will give you the foundation to class 1. You need to follow this video first and you can watch it before doing it with me, if you like, it's only 10 minutes 😁

Beginner Pilates 1
This is it, its not perfect editing, as we are learning on the go, but it is very interactive and fun, even a little funny, especially the end!
This will with practice and dedication, create a strong, healthy and functional body. Pilates main aim is to strengthen the back and after years of doing and teaching it, I know it works.

What you need for the Class.

  • Some water to drink 😉
  • Enough space to lay down fully stretched
  • A mat that will support your body (couple of bath towels)
  • A laptop/iPad/tablet to watch from or a smart TV, so that you can see it
  • A hand towel as a prop for head or back

Please try to do this routine every day, or at least 4 times a week, build it in like brushing your teeth, its definitely as important, and the next class is coming soon and you want to be ready 😂

Online Consultations

Please do not forget that we now offer one to one online consultations, so we are still here to help and have already been working with patients in pain to relieve the symptoms remotely. How? you ask.....
We use all the tools we have and even instruct people within your own home to assist with the treatment, it works brilliantly and we are doing it all for Donations only until the 17th April, so give it a go. Also if you know someone who is suffering, or you think we could help, please share 😊

Next Newsletter

In the next episode we will be doing a complete posture video for anyone who is missing my nagging and needs a little reminder 👀

Check out our NEW Facebook page and give us a like, as we are updating it regularly, its a great way for us to stay in touch and for us to keep providing little tips and clips for massage and Pilates.

Love and Energy from Liz and Jessica x
Please send us what you've been up to, we love hearing from everyone, we're missing you all!

Stay Safe, see you soon xx

BackFit Osteomyology

Welcome to the new Back Fit Clinical Therapies site!

“We treat the cause, not just the symptoms”We are very pleased to announced the launch of our brand new Back Fit Clinical Therapies website!  It's been a long time coming but it's finally here.

Check out the rest of the posts on our blog here. More will be coming your way soon.

Are you currently experiencing an issue with pain or discomfort?  Take a look at the list of treatments we offer here.

Have a question for us? We'd love to hear from you, give us a bell or send us a message.

Love and energy,
Liz and Jessica x

Practical Nutrition

Time to slow down and enjoy the season?

Hopefully we now have sunny days urging us to think more about Mediterranean style eating?  By this I mean eating in a relaxed manner, preferably with good company; and savouring the flavours of fresh food.  How you eat at every meal can dramatically alter your digestion.

So out with eating on the hop or at your desk, watching TV, reading, having an argument or simply not enjoying the food.

In with pleasant aromas, convivial conversations or fond memories, enjoying textures and attractive crockery or flowers on the table - making eating a sensory pleasure.

It has been suggested (Julian Baggini, Welcome to Everytown a journey into the English mind) that us English are very out of touch with good eating, in both the quality of food and our eating styles.  We have lost (or maybe never had?)  the social function of food.  Excuses are easy in a fast life but just maybe it is time to slow down a little, enjoy some simple pleasures and find new ones.  And benefit from better digestion and vigour, leading to more productivity.  Win Win !

Love and energy,
Liz and Jessica x

Healthy Recipes

Asparagus & Bacon

Serves 4

  • 500g plump asparagus  Its nearly in season
  • 4 ripe vine tomatoes
  • 12 thin rashers of streaky bacon (optional but hey you can work in off!)
  • 1 tsp organic honey
  • 16 small new potatoes preferably Jersey Royals that will be around soon!
  • 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard
  • couple of packets of baby leaves or rocket salad
  1. Preheat the oven to 200C/Gas 6/fan 180C. Snap off the woody ends of the asparagus and discard. Arrange the asparagus in a single layer in a baking tray with sides. Cut the tomatoes in half widthways, nestle them in with the asparagus, season with sea salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil. Roll each bacon rasher into a tight roll (if large, first cut in half crosswise), and arrange in the tray. Drizzle the bacon rolls with the honey and bake for 20 minutes until the tomatoes are soft and the bacon is crisp.
  2. In the meantime, boil the potatoes until tender. Whisk the vinegar, olive oil, mustard, some sea salt and pepper in a large bowl until blended. Toss the salad leaves in half of the dressing, and arrange on a large serving plate
  3. Drain the potatoes and cut in half. Gently toss them in the rest of the dressing, and arrange on the plate with the asparagus. Tuck in the tomatoes and bacon...

Love and energy,
Liz and Jessica x

Healthy Recipes

Spicy Red Lentil Soup

It's  healthy, delicious and easy to make...Spicy red lentil Soup (Good with smoked bacon too!)
·  80g  tandoori paste
·  50g tomato puree
·  50g sunflower oil
·  400g tinned diced tomatoes
·  250g coconut milk
·  150g dried red lentils
·  200g carrots, peeled and 10mm diced
·  200g celery, 10mm diced
·  200g banana shallots 10mm diced
·  1 large red chilli de-seeded and sliced
·  salt and pepper
·  600ml vegetable or white chicken stock

Heat a large saucepan with the oil to a medium temperature.
SautĂ© the diced carrots, shallots and celery with a little bit of seasoning. Always remember to season, especially soups,a bit at a time, as during the  cooking  and reduction processes the flavours becomes stronger and it’s easy to over season. Cook until the vegetables become transparent but not coloured.
Add the sliced red chilli, tandoori paste and tomato puree, cook for 3 minutes, add the dried red lentils and stir.
Add the tinned diced tomatoes and the stock, bring the soup to the boil, turn the heat to low and cover the pan with a lid.
Simmer the soup for 40 minutes over low heat.
Add the coconut milk, turn the heat to high, bring the soup back to the boil and cook for 10 minutes.
Use a ladle and scoop a third of the hot soup in to a food processor  and puree until smooth, add this back to the soup and stir. By blending only a third of the soup, this will ensure that your soup has a silky thick and creamy texture with some whole bits of carrots and lentils.
Serve piping hot. (Fresh crusty bread is great with it if you wish)

It's yummy!

Love and energy,
Liz and Jessica x

Practical Nutrition

Best Diet, Perfect Diet, Performance Diet, Fun Diet

These and countless others are being promoted for your new year purging after recent (and not so recent) binges.

'diet' means a regulated selection
'purge' means to remove; rid of sin or guilt
'binge' means unrestrained self-indulgence

Every diet has worked for someone, yet quite probably won't work for you.

Why?  I'll offer just one reason for now -

We live in a culture of binge and purge.  A new diet (and diet equals deprivation) idea works for say three weeks, then temptation, hunger or convenience rise up and just a little something you like becomes bigger and bigger and...

So either you live with a few more pounds than you started with or get back onto the diet treadmill for another willpower workout.

Forget it.

Eat healthy, natural foods as much as you possibly can, avoiding all those things you know to avoid because they:

  • make you fat
  • make you tired
  • waste your hard earned money
  • raise your blood pressure
  • give you indigestion
  • bring you out in spots

and let wholesome foods do all the hard work for your body.

If you are serious about a life change then Keto diets are much the same as we had in the olden days, less choice and healthier options. There are plenty of books in our waiting room to leaf through and we can give first hand advice as we also do the keto and intermittent fasting for great health.

Love and energy,
Liz and Jessica x

Exercise

Exercises for Core Training

Learning to contract the Core.

Breathing.
Lay face up on the floor, in the psoas position (this means knees at 90 degrees and feet flat to the floor). Relax and practice breathing into the abdomen, with your hand rested gently over your navel. You should aim for the navel to lift about 2” on your in breath. Breath in through the nose and out through the mouth. Relax on the in breath and squeeze your stomach in when exhaling fully.

Once you have mastered this, relax and start again, but this time you need to make sure that your pelvis/spine is in a neutral position. To do this, place the heel of your hands on the prominent hip bones and your finger tips together on the pubic bone. They should all be level. Now start the breathing pattern again.

Then add in the contraction of the pelvic floor, whilst keeping the breathing pattern going. “Imagine stopping the flow, when going for a wee”

Next stage is to add in the contraction of the’ core’.

The best way to achieve this is to place your hands on the side of your ribs just below the chest level. You can use the pressure of your hands to push in, on the out breath, and encourage them to expand on the in breath. When ready tighten the whole of the abdominal area, holding the navel down toward the spine, but not moving the spine from its neutral position. The idea is to keep breathing normally as you do this. You will feel your abdominal area holding firm, as your lower ribcage expands laterally.

Lastly, try to slide one leg (heel down, toes up) away from the body. There should not be any movement, tilting or adjustments of the spine or pelvis to accommodate the one sided pressure. If there is then start again until there is no movement!

These exercises may take many sessions, even weeks to perfect and you should only move on a stage, once you have mastered the previous.

Love and energy,
Liz and Jessica x