Heather Massey of the Extreme Environments Laboratory, School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science at the University of Portsmouth, takes the heat out of recovery and talks us through the latest science behind recovery cooling.

Four out of five Britons will suffer from back pain at some point and many will spend a small fortune trying to fix it, buying into the promise that practices such as yoga or Pilates will develop their spines to withstand everyday stresses.

I read the article below, brought to my attention by one of my gorgeous clients, with great interest. I would definitely agree with Dr Philippa Kaye – do not ignore pain and definitely numbness or discomfort in your pelvis region during or after cycling is not right.

The importance of the invisible exercise: Looking after your Pelvic Floor muscles. How do you train your pelvic floor muscles (PFM) and transversus abdominis (TA) effectively?

A new pioneering approach looks to help cancer patients prepare for and respond to treatment by offering them a combination of exercise, nutrition and psychological support.

The importance of regular physical activity has never been more evident, and yet the pandemic has forced us to become more sedentary than at any other time in the past 50 years.

It’s heartening to see that ‘Scientists are questioning whether stretching is as essential as we think”. Since studying Professor Stuart Mc Gill’s work on Low Back Disorders, I have changed my approach to exercise. I used to be a fan of yoga for all.

How slow can you go? It’s a question that Matt Little, a renowned trainer who worked with athletes and sports champions including the tennis player Andy Murray for 12 years, says we should all ask ourselves.

Strong glutes help prevent back pain and injury. Experts warn that a side-effect of too much sitting and inactivity, is that one of the biggest muscles (gluteals) in our body are becoming weak and deconditioned.

A ‘level of consistency’ is the key. You don’t have to be perfect all the time, that’s unrealistic. Things crop up and life often puts challenges in our way of routines such as injury or other demands on our time and attention.

My approach to helping clients become pain free has been revolutionised by the research of Professor Stuart McGill (www.backfitpro.com) – the world’s leading authority on low back pathologies and head of Spinal Biomechanics at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

COVID-19 has created a huge change for most people, and many of us are struggling to find the right exercise solution now. Keep in mind though, this won’t last forever, and it is forcing us to think outside the box. There is always a silver lining, we just need to find it!

Exercising at home is great for us all. Reporting in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from the US National Institutes of Health found that for an extra 4,000 steps taken in a day, the risk of dying early from heart disease, cancer and other causes drops by about 50 per cent.