by SportsLab | Jun 21, 2020 | Massage Therapy
Lower back pain affects people young and old. It can disrupt quality of life but seeking quality care will improve the road to recovery. The most common type of low back pain is non-specific back pain. This is a term when no pathology can be linked to the pain. As...
by SportsLab | Jun 8, 2020 | Massage Therapy
Here at Sports Lab, our massage therapists Ray Gesta and Luke McCallum like to treat things a little differently. I’m sure most clinics would say something similar, but let’s dive in to what massage is and what a massage at Sports Lab can offer you. Treating The...
by SportsLab | Jun 2, 2020 | Bike Fit
It definitely feels like it’s been a while since I have felt the wind whistling across my TT helmet whizzing down the road at 40 plus Km/hr, but I know mine and many others time will come again, and racing will resume in the future. It would be fair to say cycling...
by SportsLab | May 26, 2020 | Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Nutrition, Physiology
In today’s blog, we are going to discuss what it means to be recovered. Our massage clients often seek to maintain an injury-free state during their training – or recover quickly to reach their goals. However, ‘recovery’ is not as black and white as it first appears,...
by SportsLab | Apr 23, 2020 | Multidisciplinary, Nutrition, Physiology
Photo Credit: Michael Dawson (RTB2020) Hippocrates: ‘A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings and learn how, by his own thought, to derive benefit from his illnesses’. Our greatest blessing is our health and our ability to learn and...
by SportsLab | Apr 20, 2020 | Multidisciplinary, Nutrition, Physiology
Here at the Lab, we believe in using science to inform our practice, which means we all love to embrace our inner nerd. A belief within our work community is to share information and upskill our clients, so that they have the guidance and the skills they need to...
by SportsLab | Apr 16, 2020 | Multidisciplinary, Nutrition, Physiology, Uncategorized
Last blog, we decided to set you and ourselves a challenge! If you have had a look at your Instagram feed lately, you will see that we are pretty much doing what everyone else is – we are setting you a health challenge, but we promise we won’t make you do 20 burpees...
by SportsLab | Apr 14, 2020 | Multidisciplinary, Nutrition, Physiology
Have you heard of the concept of the athlete biological passport? Well if you haven’t it is how the anti-doping agencies monitor athletes throughout their career and detect in their blood and urine if they are ‘clean’ or if they have used banned substances. The...
by SportsLab | Apr 3, 2020 | Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Uncategorized
We have all just had a sudden dump of fear, uncertainty and stress on our lives. Our day-to-day lives look remarkably different to just a short time ago, and we have all had to adjust to what this now means for us, as an individual and as a community. As we come into...
by SportsLab | Mar 30, 2020 | Multidisciplinary, Pilates
In part 1 we talked about what happens to our bodies as we get older and hopefully you weren’t left feeling totally depressed at the prospect, but empowered by how the actions you take can influence your experience of aging. We know that building regular...
by SportsLab | Mar 17, 2020 | Multidisciplinary, Pilates
Getting old. It’s a topic no one really likes to think or talk about, right? But, with a growing elderly population, more of us are starting to consider what “healthy ageing” looks like and what we can be doing now to enhance our life in years to come. If this is you...
by SportsLab | Mar 12, 2020 | Multidisciplinary, Nutrition, Uncategorized
Photo credit: https://www.witsup.com/ The supplement industry is booming. In 2016, the Council for Responsible Nutrition put the supplement industry at around $122 billion USD in America alone. The industry is always offering a wider range of products we perceive to...
