Improve your performance in your sport without overstress

Injury is often considered a part of sports and training. Some part of the body seems always to be resisting, when one problem is treated, another one appears. Of course injuries occur in sports from time to time, but when done right, training and practicing shouldn’t break our bodies!

I strongly believe that especially children should practice a variety of other sports in the long term in addition to their main one.

I used to work as a massage therapist in a physical therapy institute where I worked in collaboration with the sports teams in the area. In addition to tests done by physiotherapists, many young future athletes used physiotherapy and massage to treat the areas that were causing them problems. I used to always ask and map how the youngsters who came to have a massage were training.
I can tell you the workload was high; generally, there was training once a day, sometimes even...

The truth about sitting

Sitting and its harmful effects have been a hot topic in the last few years; sitting has even been called the new tobacco. The claim might seem like an overstatement, but when we look deeper into the marks sitting leaves into our body, we’ll understand it better.

Over 80% of people suffer from some degree of back pain during their life. You might have
sometimes noticed how sitting for a long time has made a pain in the lower back worse or increased aches in the shoulders and neck. These are very common problems that can be caused by sitting for long times. Maintaining an ergonomic posture while sitting takes a lot of work from our stabiliser muscles, so our body doesn’t sink forward into a slumped sitting position.

A Norwegian study from the year 2017, on the other hand, showed that the risk for getting type 2 diabetes is 17% higher for those who sit for more than 8 hours a day compared to those who sit for less...