HQ Body - Barton Massage & Personal Training

Whether it’s pre event preparation, post event recovery or sports maintenance massages, there are huge benefits to be had from a sports massage. Increase your mobility, reduce pain, break down and smooth scar tissue, prevent knots and trigger points from forming, fix imbalances, release tightness, increase blood flow and stimulate lymphatic drainage, release feel good hormones and and sleep better. Book in - £30 for 1hr trainee rate (this will be £50 after trainee period ends)

Muscle Pain: It May Actually Be Your Fascia

You might attribute a painful neck or a backache to tired muscles or stiff joints. But these symptoms can also be caused by a part of your body you probably haven’t heard of: the fascia. Until recently, this network of tissue throughout the body received very little attention despite its major role in every move you make.

What is fascia?

Fascia is a thin casing of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber and muscle in place. The tissue does more than provide internal structure; fascia has nerves that make it almost as sensitive as skin. When stressed, it tightens up.

Although fascia looks like one sheet of tissue, it’s actually made up of multiple layers with liquid in between called hyaluronan. It’s designed to stretch as you move. But there are certain things that cause fascia to thicken and become sticky. When it dries up and tightens around muscles, it can limit mobility and cause painful knots to develop.

Ways to Relieve Fascia Pain

There are various strategies that work to loosen up painful knots, such as:

Heat therapy: Apply a heating pad to the affected area or take a warm shower or bath.

Yoga therapy: See a highly trained yoga therapist to get a regimen of yoga poses targeted to treat your area of pain. (Yoga therapy works in the same manner as physical therapy — the therapist creates a routine and you practice it at home between visits.)

Foam rolling: Try a foam roller, a cylinder of hard foam that you roll your body over to release tension. It’s a form of self-massage. You can also do this with a lacrosse ball.

Massage therapy: Schedule multiple therapeutic massage sessions with an experienced therapist who can find and apply pressure to release knots.

Acupuncture: The insertion of acupuncture needles into trigger points can cause tense tissue fibers to relax.

Treating fascia pain often requires using more than one therapy. A patient’s treatment plan may include a combination of things such as heat therapy, an anti-inflammatory diet, yoga therapy and massage therapy.

Stress Awareness:
Looking at research into soft tissue therapy and relaxation. A meta study in 2014 showed some very interesting results.

"When moderate and light pressure massage have been compared in laboratory studies, moderate pressure massage reduced depression, anxiety and heart rate, and it altered EEG patterns, as in a relaxation response.
Moderate pressure massage has also led to increased vagal activity and decreased cortisol levels".

Number To Remember: 11 pounds

That's how much weight people lost — without making any other changes — when they increased the protein in their diets from 15 percent to 30 percent of their total calories. If you have trouble eating enough protein, this recipe can help...

Recipe: Protein Ice Cream
Great If you’re ever craving something sweet but don’t want to reach for something loaded with sugar —

Ingredients:

1 scoop protein powder of choice
1 tablespoon of almond butter or peanut butter
A few splashes of the dairy or non-dairy milk of choice. The more milk you add, the more watery/less thick it becomes.
How to make it: Stir the three ingredients together, place in the freezer for 30 minutes, and that’s it. You can toss it in the fridge for a more pudding-like experience. It'll be less than 300 calories and about 25-35 grams of protein.

10 good reasons to Book in for a Swedish Massage:

💆‍♀️Release natural endorphins - feel happier!
💆Relieve tension & pain
💆‍♂️Reduce your stress levels
💆‍♀️Feel less anxious
💆Lower your blood pressure
💆‍♂️Boost your immune system
💆‍♀️Loosen tight painful muscles
💆Release toxins in your body
💆‍♂️Stimulate and speed up your lymphatic system so it works more effectively
💆‍♀️Improve your flexibility and range of motion

New tips for summer ☀️👗🍉🕶

Taking bookings for Mother’s Day
Coconut oil has many health & beauty benefits
Come and enjoy a relaxing coconut oil massage
Perfect gift for mums xx

✨~*✨💆‍♂️*~ Benefits of massage ~*💆‍♀️✨*~✨

New year is nearly here!
Here’s some little tips from HQBody to help make 2022 a good one x

Nutrition!
What does ‘Light’ mean on food packaging?

When a food label uses the term "light" or "lite" it indicates that a food has one third fewer calories or 50% less fat, or 50% less sodium than a comparable product.

So be careful, if it has 50% less fat they usually add more sugar and salt and thickening agents to make it taste good. If it’s just lower in salt it could still be loaded with fat and carbs. Check your labels carefully ❤️

Why sleep is SO IMPORTANT for having a good body!

It’s definitely something a lot of people struggle with and it seems to be the first thing we forget to prioritise
Ever wondered why your not losing weight or building muscle even after working so hard in the gym?….it may well be because of lack of sleep

Have a read of this article, it explains how sleep regulates your stress hormones, insulin production, growth hormone production and even your decision making brain functions!

Why Sleep Is More Important Than We Ever Thought Want to change your body? Even with the best diet and fitness routine, if sleep is off, you're wrecked. Here's why.

New pastel range at just strong look warm and cosy and would make great Christmas presents

10% off with code SUZROB10

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