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The most unique and innovative Personal Training and Rehabilitation equipment in UK. The Bodywall Training System

10/25/2012

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Come and use the most innovative and unique training  technology in UK to gain strength, get fit, stretch and lose weight on the Bodywall in Thame  - and best of all, soothe those body pain and injuries!

The Bodywall training system can be tailored to suit all fitness levels. At your initial session we will guide you through a questionnaire that will let us know exactly how to help you get the most benefit from your sessions and best meet your specific fitness goals.

The Bodywall system works because our patented technology can safely and firmly secure you in a huge range of positions and replicate the loads you get from doing the things you do in your normal daily life from lifting a toddler or a heavy load right up to high level athletic competition. The difference is we can do it over and over again for minutes at a time instead of a few seconds this lets us train you for exactly what is you do at loads well above what you need. This ensures you correctly recruit and then train the actual muscles you need to get the job done whether thats pulling weeds lifting up kids or traing for Olympic competition.

If you're passionate about having and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, then come and join us, and work your body in ways you never thought imaginable!
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The 'Magic Stick'

5/26/2012

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This is an email I got from a client regarding her treatment and the bodytool. Brigitte is a former Australian BMX Champion and flew down from Brisbane for the day due to an ongoing back injury she had been carrying for over a year.

Hi Mick and Chris,

So sorry I haven't got back to you sooner. Im feeling great!! Definitely felt a little beaten up the following day after the treatment. Really only in my calves and my belly button but I was expecting that.

I have renamed the 'Bodytool' to my 'Magic Stick'. I LOVE it! I have been treating myself a little bit every day and my back is feeling amazing. It hasn't felt this good in a year. It used to always be in the back of my head as a source of pain now if I do feel a little bit of tightness its so easy to rub out with the Magic Stick. Im really surprised at how easily I can treat pretty much the entire length of my spine with the tool, which is in my opinion a huge advantage cause you can target the exact source of pain and apply pressure accordingly. All the fascial adhesions through my thoracic spine are gone which I think has given me a huge amount of relief. I have found it really useful in releasing TFL, which was super tight on me and normally quite a hard muscle to release. You can really target TFL with the tool and I think this also helps take the pressure off my back. I have worked out how to release my psoas which is feeling really good. No more hot showers or heat packs :)

Thank you so much for the treatment and the 'Bodytool'! I feel amazing and really value the fact that I have this special little tool that I can use any wear, any time to get relief when I need it.

Thanks again,
Brigitte
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Heat. The Enemy of Recovery!

6/7/2011

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Heat, the enemy of recovery!

Myofascial pain is recognised today as one of the most common causes of musculo- skeletal pain. By understanding more about fascia and how it works, you will understand why certain injuries happen, and keep happening. So it will be easier for you to get the best out of your body, recover faster and stop injuring and re injuring yourself.

Fascia is important.

It has properties that let you use it for lots of tasks. Fascia is a gel so it can be liquid like jelly on the stove, or like jelly that’s been forgotten in the back of the refrigerator for a few weeks, so hard that you can’t get a knife into it.

It’s the tough outer skin of the muscle, (the muscle sheath) it’s also the glue that glues muscles tendons and ligament to bone, plus it’s the slimy stuff that lets muscles slide past each other when you’re using them.

If you’ve ever wondered what stops weightlifters muscles from bursting when they lift those hundreds of kilo’s or why your muscles form the shapes they do? It’s this tough stuff called myofascia.

For shortening recovery times and reducing injury one of the most useful techniques is helping you to understand that being nice to your Myofascia is essential to injury recovery and why fascia hates heat.

Fascia also combines with Collagen reinforcing strands to form a fabric that has a tensile strength 10 times that of steel. Because it can withstand up to 140 kg/cm2 of pressure the body uses Fascia to surround and protect all your organs and muscles. By comparison car tyres inflate to around 2 kg/cm2. Fascia is strong enough to crush bone and running or jumping on cold fascia is a major contributor to shin splints and many other stress fractures.
By learning to work with fascia, you will rehab faster and have lots more energy for the fun things in life.

Why you may be 'Showering yourself to a standstill'.

Myofascia is a gel and when gels are heated they liquefy. You can heat up your fascia naturally with exercise or unnaturally with things like heat packs, hot showers or spa’s. Many treatment plans that have no knowledge of fascia and how it works recommend this, we believe that’s a big mistake! Because when you heat a gel it must eventually cool down and, the more you heat gels the harder they set when they cool. After a really hard workout you can be stiff the next day, stuck fascia is part of the reason.

Making friends with your Myofascia.

If you use hot water on fascia to get relief from pain or tension. It just gets more and more addictive. Over time you will need hotter and hotter showers or heat packs to get any relief and then hours later when your fascia sets, you will blame it on what you’re doing at the time. Lets be really clear if you are having a hot shower in the morning and feeling terrible later on.

You probably did it to yourself!

Think about making jelly then keep heating and setting it for a few weeks, months, years. If you’re already using hot showers and heat packs you already know you need more and more heat.

There is a way out of this cycle. Stop having hot showers.

If you turn up injured at our clinics we insist you agree to follow this advice, or we don’t even start treatment.

Common excuses for using heat.

If you think you need hot water to get clean after work, hot water actually opens the pores wider and lets dirt get further in so when the skin cools it’s trapped underneath. Warm is best for cleaning skin, and if you think you need it to warm up in the winter, you don’t, your body was never designed to be put in hot water, for showering, pleasant warm is ok. Just not hot!
Thousands of case histories tell us over time you will find this is, one of the best things you’ve ever done for your overall health. You will find you can work (or play) longer, be less tired and have limbs that move smoothly everyday, and be able to do lots more things and get way less tired. Try it for 3 weeks. The positive change in how your body moves will surprise you.

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