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Blood pressure – why should we care?

Blood pressure is the pressure of blood in your arteries, you need some pressure in order to push the blood around the body when the heart pumps. Throughout the day, depending on what you are doing, your blood pressure will go up and down, however, if your blood pressure is consistently high (even when resting) […]

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Upper body stretch

You may have just started to become more physically active, or, you may be the fittest person around – either way you you need to be doing your stretches. Why do we need to stretch? If you are constantly using any muscle in your body, it will be going through phases of being shorter (when […]