Lakeside Fitness

3 days to go! If you’re thinking of joining us please register on eventbrite. Tickets are free but spaces are limited.

Excited to say it’s less than a month now until our specialist seminar on nutrition for optimum performance for endurance athletes. Any questions or for more information do get in touch 👇🏼.

Maintenance, injury recovery or prevention. Massage is a great way to feel better. Think it might be for you… drop me a line, all treatments can be tailored to you.

So glad your injury is feeling better G. And after just one treatment!

Do give me shout if you too have a ni**le or soft tissue injury, I’d be happy to help.

Fi has been coming to our Friday morning group PT class.

Try it out if you’re looking for…
✅small, personalised class
✅ improving running efficiency and technique
✅ building strength to avoid injury and delay aging.

Kicking off 2023 with a bang! 🤩
Thanks to everyone who attended the “Train smarter not harder” event on Friday.
It was great to welcome some old and new faces to the clinic 👩🏼‍🏫.
If you’re interested in learning how you can see big improvements in your health, fitness or running, without changing your lifestyle, get in touch for your free taster session.

See you at the next one! 😃

I’m really excited to be launching a new aspect to Lakeside fitness. If you’re thinking of running a marathon or half this year you won’t want to miss out.

Grab a bargain pair for shoes with terrific customer service…

Ladies out there, this is awesome news 🥳 📰

Jen Albano is an expert in her field and one of the very few instructors in the UK qualified at this level 🙌

If you’d like to join us on this call on Thursday 9th June at 20:30pm, let me know in a private message and I will send you the zoom code 🎉

Would a you benefit from a sports massage?

Regular training can cause tightness or inflammation in damaged muscles, which in turn can reduce blood flow. Meaning your tissues aren't getting the vital nutrients and energy they need to repair.
Fortunately regular sports massage can combat this... 😀

🤸🏼‍♀️ Improve tissue elasticity – hit a wall with your training? Tough sessions can make for tough tissues which hampers training adaptation. Massage reverses tissues hardening through gentle stretching.

🩸Aids blood flow - different strokes are used to move blood into and out of tissues and encourages micro circulation.

🥳 Faster recovery - after a hard session, ni**le or injury its especially important for muscles to take up oxygen and nutrients which help them recover quicker.

🚨 Removes waste - by increasing tissue permeability massage helps remove waste products, eg lactic acid and allows fluids to enter more easily so more oxygen and nutrients can be absorbed.

😌 Relaxation – touch, pressure, tissue length and warmth are used to stimulate the body's relaxation reflex.

🧎🏻‍♀️Stretching – muscles fibres, muscles sheath and facia can all be stretched lengthways and sideways, unlike conventional stretches so is better able to release tension or pressure.

😳 Pain reduction – by releasing endorphins, easing tension and removing waste products massage helps to reduce pain.

💔 Break down scar tissue – scar tissue (tissue resulting from previous injury) is often tough and fibrous. Muscles, tendons and ligaments with scar tissue have reduced elasticity and flexibility meaning supporting tissues compensate, leading to injury and pain.

Sports massage has many benefits and so can play an important part in the life of any active person by helping to maintain the body in generally better condition, prevent injuries and loss of mobility, cure and restore mobility to injured muscle tissue, boost performance and extend the overall life of your sporting career.

If you would like to book a sports massage with me, please DM me or pop into the clinic on Street Lane. Feel free to share if you know someone who would benefit from a treatment.

Great session this morning, working on heel lift. Some serious progress on show 💪😃
Well done folks 👏👏👏

A great evening teaming up with 💪🏋🏼‍♀️🌟🏃🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️

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Wonder why I talk about muscle fibres so much? 🤔..

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Fibre optic broadband? Nope - miscroscopic view of muscle fibres. Great image from Rethinking Physiotherapy

Woodrup cycles have recently relaunched their bikefitting service having recruited a new fitter. TeeJay ( ), a life-long cyclist herself, is also dual qualified as a Personal Trainer and Sports Massage Therapist. She has a special interest in human movement and injury prevention which means she brings a wealth of anatomical and physiological knowledge to the bikefitting process.

Their bikefitting process is designed to help you get as much out of riding your bike as possible. We begin with an in-depth assessment to help us get to know you as a cyclist – from how often you ride, the type of riding you do, how comfortable you feel on your bike currently, and a full injury history. This all helps them determine what kind of fit is most suitable.

They then measure you and your bike and set everything up on an indoor trainer using Shimano’s bikefitting.com fit software combined with our traditional bikefitting methods.

Their standard Bikefit at £150 also includes a cleat fit, we then offer an optional advanced physiological assessment where flexibility, core strength and glute strength are tested. This additional service helps identify areas of muscular weakness which you can then address going forwards to help improve your fit, and ultimately, your speed (or comfort). The total cost including the advanced assessment is £200.

They have already accumulated multiple 5* Google reviews since relaunching this service, if you would like to book in please email [email protected]