by Jayne Attwood | May 31, 2022 | Classes, Pilates, Yoga
Plank is well-known Pilates and Yoga move, that we practise in almost every Ad Astra class, I even sneak one or two into Body Max! So why on earth do I keep making you do them, when there are so many other core exercises to choose from? Whilst plank is an excellent...
by Jayne Attwood | May 4, 2022 | Classes
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS), is the official name for stiff muscles and we all know what that is, right? Actually, the soreness you feel in your muscles after exercise is caused by microscopic tears in the muscle tissue. It happens when the muscles are under...
by Jayne Attwood | Feb 1, 2022 | Classes, Special offer
Share our love of Pump, and Vinyasa Yoga with your friends and they can come for free in February*. I’ve noticed that Mondays seem to be an unpopular time for exercising. Maybe it’s because we’re still coming down from a busy weekend, or tired from yet another Monday...
by Jayne Attwood | Dec 29, 2021 | Classes
As an exercise class teacher, particularly in yoga and Pilates, I have a lot of weird things run through my mind, so I thought I’d share my weirdness with my weird fellows! Is it just me..? Yin Yoga Yin is the type of yoga that is very soft and stretchy where we hold...
by Jayne Attwood | Dec 15, 2021 | Classes, Yoga
Organised by a local group, the 12ks of Christmas is a play on the phrase, 12 Days of Christmas, where willing participants committed to doing 12,000 of something to raise money for three local charities, APCAM, Yellow Submarine and Got2Be. Some walked or ran it, some...
by Jayne Attwood | Nov 30, 2021 | Classes, Yoga
What’s the difference between Vinyasa and Slow Flow Yoga? I’ve recently been asked what the difference is between our Vinyasa and Slow Flow Yoga classes, so here you go… Vinyasa Vinyasa in Sanskrit means ‘to place in a special way’, which means that...
