Warning!!! Approach your New Years fitness resolution with care…

Written by Dr. Alison Gault B. App. Sci. (clinical sci) B. Osteo. Sci.  from Vale Osteopathy Clinic located in Ascot Vale and Pascoe Vale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

As the year turns over to 2010, you may have decided to lose some kilos and get fit.  So you join a gym (or start using your membership), take on a personal trainer or start jogging.  In the first week all goes well, you get up early, sweat, run, jump and lift.  Just as you start to think that this year will finally be the year that you stick to your resolution, it all goes pear shaped and your body lets you down.  Any number of things could happen….. your knees start to hurt, your Achilles tendon is burning, under your feet is a tight stretching feeling or you throw your back out.  This results in you stopping the exercise and all that great momentum you had is gone.   So what has happened?? (more…)