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🎯 Helping athletes train hard & recover smarter
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“I haven’t got time to commit to appointments right now”😫
I hear this a lot! And life is busy I’m not going to pretend otherwise.
Most people come in wishing they’d been in for an appointment sooner.
Because they realised the cost of waiting was higher than the cost of an hour out of their week.
Looking after your body isn’t luxury you fit in when things calm down.
📲Send me a message and let’s find something that works around you
Don’t do this if you want to avoid a hamstring injury 💪🏽
Stop skipping your warm up because you’re short on time!
I know how it goes.
You’re rushing to training, you’re already late, five minutes of dynamic work feels like five minutes you don’t have.
So you crack straight on.
And it’s fine.
Until it isn’t🥲
The hamstring is one of the most commonly injured muscle groups in sport and one of the most commonly reinjured.
Because people rush back, skip the prep work, and wonder why it keeps happening🫣
Here’s what your hamstring actually needs before you load it👇🏼
🌡️Gradually increase the temperature.
Cold tissue is less pliable and less forgiving under load. A proper warm up isn’t just psychological it physically changes how the muscle responds.
🤸🏻♀️Take it through its full range.
The hamstring works hardest at end range - sprinting, kicking, change of direction.
If you never warm it up through that range, you’re loading it cold at the most vulnerable point.
🚫Don’t static stretch before activity.
Holding a stretch for 30 seconds before training reduces the muscle’s ability to produce force.
Save the long holds for afterwards.
Dynamic movement before. Static after.
📈Progressive loading matters.
Don’t go from zero to sprinting.
Build the intensity.
Give the tissue time to wake up and respond.
The warm up isn’t the boring bit before training.
It’s part of training.
Save this and share it with someone who always skips the warm up 👀
30/06/2026
✨ June Recap ✨
New house.
New milestone.
A busy stretch full of good people and good memories. Thank you for being part of it 🙏🏻
23/06/2026
If you’ve ever struggled to know whether you need a sports massage or a full assessment, this will help!
Because they’re not the same thing.
And booking the wrong one can mean you end up back at square one!
Here’s a rough guide:
You probably need a sports massage if…
💪🏽You’re training hard and your muscles are fatigued and tight.
🏋🏻♀️You’re preparing for or recovering from an event.
😫Everything feels heavy and you just need to reset. 😬Nothing is acutely wrong, you’re just running hot.
You probably need an assessment if…
🤕Something specific hurts and you don’t know why. 💥The pain keeps coming back in the same spot.
💊It’s affecting how you move or train.
🚫You’ve had massage and it helps temporarily but never fully fixes it.
📉You’ve been injured and you don’t have a clear plan.
You might need both if…
‼️You’ve got an ongoing issue that needs treating but your body also needs hands-on work to manage the training load around it.
That’s actually really common, and it’s exactly what rehab sessions are built for.
The honest truth?
If you’re not sure, start with an assessment.
Understanding what’s going on is always the right first step.
Massage without assessment is symptom management. Assessment first means you’re actually treating something.
Which one do you usually go for? Drop a comment below👇🏼
“I don’t even know if this is what I need.”
Sound familiar?
No jargon. No gatekeeping.
Just an honest breakdown of what actually happens when you come and see me ☺️
13/06/2026
I’m studying shiatsu at the moment.
Second year of a three year qualification. One weekend a month in Sheffield, fitting it around clinic, swimming, everything else.
And honestly, it’s one of the best things I’ve done🥰
Someone suggested shiatsu to me.
Another string to the bow and it made sense!
And I’ve done it because it genuinely fascinated me.
Shiatsu works completely differently to anything else in my toolkit.
It’s slower.
More considered.
It looks at the body through a different lens entirely - one that takes in the whole person, not just the structure that’s complaining.
Coming from a sports therapy background where everything is assessment-led and evidence-based, it’s pushed me to think in ways I wasn’t expecting.
And I think that’s important!
I never want to be the kind of practitioner who stops learning.
Who decides they know enough.
Who treats every client the same way because it’s what they’ve always done.
The moment you think you’ve got it all figured out is probably the moment you stop being really good at it.
So here I am. Still a student. Still figuring things out.
Every single week 🙌🏻
09/06/2026
Myth busting #1
“Treatment has to hurt to work. No pain, no gain, right?”🤔
I get why people think this, but treatment isn’t training with a need to push through pain barriers.
And rehab shouldn’t have you wearing pain like a badge of honour either!
If the fear of it hurting has been putting you off booking,
📲message me INFO and we’ll talk it through ☺️
06/06/2026
⭐️ CLIENT REVIEW ⭐️
He came in knowing something wasn’t right.
He just didn’t know what to do about it.
So we started there:
What did he actually want?
What did his training look like?
Where were the gaps between what his body could handle and what he was asking it to do?
We built a plan together -
📊Strength, technique, recovery
All of it mapped around his goals, not a generic programme pulled off a shelf.
And now?
He knows his body.
He knows the difference between the kind of discomfort that’s part of training and the kind that means stop.
That’s not a small thing.
That’s the difference between an athlete who keeps breaking down and one who keeps showing up.
He’s still coming in regularly. Still working the plan. Still moving forward.
This is exactly what I mean when I say I’m not here to fix you and send you on your way.
I’m here to give you the tools to understand your own body, so you’re not dependent on anyone to tell you what it’s doing.
Knowledge is power. Always 💪🏽
If you want a plan that actually works around your life, your training and your goals…
📲message me “INFO” and let’s build it.
Googling your symptoms at midnight isn’t a recovery plan 😬
If you’ve ever struggled to get back to full training after injury, this will help👇🏼
Because “you’re discharged, off you go” is not the same as being ready.
And the gap between those two things is where most reinjuries happen.
Here’s what a proper return to sport actually looks like:
Step1️⃣- Pain free at rest isn’t enough.
The tissue needs to be pain free under load too. Walking without pain is not the same as running without pain.
Running without pain is not the same as sprinting, changing direction, competing 🏃🏼♀️➡️
Step2️⃣- Strength needs to be rebuilt symmetrically.
If one side is compensating for the other, and it usually is, that imbalance needs addressing before full training resumes.
Asymmetry under load is how the same injury comes back in a different spot
Step3️⃣- Movement patterns need retraining.
Your body learned to protect the injury.
Those compensation patterns don’t just disappear when the pain does.
They need to be actively worked on 🏋🏻♀️
Step4️⃣- Sport specific loading has to be gradual.
Not just general exercise.
The actual demands of your sport - impact, speed, direction changes, contact.
Each one reintroduced progressively 📈
Step5️⃣- Confidence has to come back too.
The fear of reinjury is real and it affects performance. Return to sport isn’t complete until your head is back as well as your body 🤩
Cleared to train doesn’t mean ready to perform.
There’s a difference.
Which of these steps have you skipped in the past? Drop it in the comments.
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