Keep It Moving - Exercise Physiology

03/06/2026

DEADLIFT (aka lifting a motionless object off the floor)

Is a fantastic exercise that translates to making life easier doing activities of daily living (e.g moving furniture around the house)

Deadlift is a safe exercise. Like all exercises start light and gradual build up the weight (no more than a 10% increase at a time)

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01/06/2026

KNEE PAIN

The step up exercise (seen below) is therapeutic to knee pain- Particularly knee osteoarthritis.

If this exercise aggravates your knee pain, make a smaller step and scale back until the knee is comfortable with the movement 💪 😊

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26/05/2026

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Improving your cardiovascular fitness is key for long term heart health 😊

Short on time? Perform interval training.
This is where you:
- Work at a higher level of exercise intensity (e.g struggle to hold a conversation) for a brief period (20-30s)

- Followed by a period (30s-2 minutes) of lower exercise intensity (e.g easily be able to hold a conversation)

Interval training can take only 20 minutes yet give you the same benefits as 60 minutes of long slow continuous exercise.

Interval training can also be adjusted to de-load cranky joints!

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19/05/2026

CRANKY SHOULDERS

Having cranky shoulders can make upper body exercises harder. As some exercises can aggravate the shoulders (or shoulder)

However, doing upper body exercises where the arms are kept lower than shoulder height (e.g the exercise you see in this video) does not typically aggravate the shoulders and are great options to build upper body strength!

17/05/2026

Exercises that builds muscle mass is 🔑

Struggling to find ways to do resistance training, particularly with crank joints?

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13/05/2026

Resistance training to increase muscle mass is 🔑 at any stage

Even if you have cranky joints, there’s still ways to build muscle around that joint.

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07/05/2026

03/05/2026

CRANKY KNEE JOINTS & SQUATS

Cranky knees CAN become aggravated after squats or sit to stands.

That doesn’t mean this exercise is “bad or damaging” for the knees.

It just means the knees are SENSITIVE to this movement.

Sit to stands whilst pushing off the arm rest or using a suspension trainer (or kitchen bench) are great alternatives that can help de-load the knees whilst giving you a chance to improve lower limb strength 😊

27/04/2026

Muscle Mass Significantly Decreases After 60

This can lead to losing the ability to perform simple tasks, such as lifting overhead! 😮

However, you can combat this loss of muscle mass by performing simple resistance training exercises 💪😃

Example, the shoulder press (as seen in the video)👍

Two sets of 10 repetitions done three times a week would be plenty!

Make sure it’s a weight you could comfortably get the allotted repetitions out.

If your shoulder pain is limiting you from performing this exercise DM us to find other ways to improve shoulder strength

22/04/2026

EXPLOSIVE POWER TO DECREASE FALLS

* Power based exercise (ability to generate force quickly) are key to decreasing falls risk
* Lack of leg power can indicate an INCREASE risk of falls!
* Power based exercises don’t have to be complicated. Exercises like sit to stand or lunges will help improve lower limb power 💪 😊👍