Tag: Exercises

Discover effective chiropractic exercises designed to improve your posture, reduce pain, and enhance overall mobility. Our expert tips and step-by-step guides make it easy to incorporate these exercises into your daily routine, helping you achieve optimal spinal health and prevent future discomfort.

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Weight Loss: The Ultimate Eating and Exercise Guide I

I may not be that knowledgeable in most things but when it comes to losing weight, I have a story to tell. Being obese since most of my childhood, I was no stranger to the relentless teasing at school. "Eh Kaiwen, how come you eating double of mine sia?” To a large extent, I hear [...]
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Beginner’s Guide To Personal Training in Singapore

Searching for a fitness trainer, can be a daunting task. With so many choices and even more broscience to sift through, it comes as no surprise that you may be feeling overwhelmed. Don’t fret just yet. This guide to personal training will cover everything from what services fitness coaches provide, to the cost of hiring [...]
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The Truth Behind Functional Training: Is CrossFit Bad for You?

CrossFit has a bad rep because the look of people throwing weights around just simply doesn't look safe. However, is there any truth to such beliefs? What is CrossFit? CrossFit is a high intensity fitness programme that involves both strength and functional training. It is build on the foundation of constant variation, functional movements, and [...]
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McKenzie Exercises: Are they the best?

This study was published two days ago in Journal of Physiotherapy and its misleading title 100% offends me. To give a little of a background, the study looked at 262 participants. Out of which 133 of them saw a physiotherapist twice for McKenzie-based self-management exercise and education programme. The researchers then conducted follow ups with [...]
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Exercise may PREVENT degeneration of your lumbar spine

Even though majority of Singaporeans would understand that regular exercise is good for them, there is still a common misunderstanding that exercise could potentially lead to degeneration. Most of us would know some one with back pain, neck pain, or even knee pain who has been told that they have degeneration in their joints. This [...]
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Understanding Coaching: What If Exercising Hurts

I spend more time with some clients because they are heavily invested. They have paid their fees, did their homework, but the results were subpar or maybe took longer than expected. That happens. I'll be lying if I said it didn't. It's humbling to be a chiropractor. When I work with clients and they don't [...]
Comparison of twenty student brain activity scans after sitting quitely and after twenty minute walk. The brain activity after 20 minute walk is significantly higher comparing to sitting. Research/scan compliments of Dr. Chuck Hillman, University of Illinois.
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Understanding Exercise: The Ultimate Cure To All Ailments

When it comes to pain management, more and more chronic pain patients are starting to see the value of exercise in their long-term pain solution. Exercise is amazing because it kills so many birds with one stone. Exercise can: • Improve your sense of well-being therefore decrease your susceptibility to pain • Increase your confident [...]
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Sports Massage: Does it improve performance and recovery?

If you are a social media user, you'd have seen lots of ads promoting sports massage. Specifically, that it reduces injury risk, improves recovery, or boost sports performance. These claims are made by physiotherapists and massage therapists alike. However, what does research say? What is sports massage? Sports massage is a general term used to [...]
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Understanding Load Management: Exercise vs Rest

The emphasis is always on keeping active and avoiding complete rest even in times of chronic pain or injury. Retrospectively, I now realise that that is not enough for you to make sense of what to do. We'll look at load management today to give you an idea of how keeping active in spite of [...]
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Strength Training For Running (or any other endurance sports)

When it comes to endurance sports such as running or triathlon training, most athletes in Singapore know the value of strength training. Yet at the same time, weight training is poorly prioritise in endurance sports. For most parts, endurance athletes focus largely on their discipline. Marathon runners would almost exclusively run while triathletes would swim, [...]
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ActiveSG gym is still open, social distancing applies

With gyms such as Fitness First and Virgin Active are closing for the coming month due to the COVID-19 situation, you may be wondering what are the current guideline recommendations and which gyms are still open business. Here is the good news: you can still train at ActiveSG gyms for as little as $2.50 for [...]
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ActiveSG: How I Am Getting My Parents To Exercise

I know of ActiveSG. They are in the gyms that are found all over Singapore. What I don't know is that they are more than just public gyms. Over the weekend, my mother complained of back pain and I made a passing comment that she doesn't exercise enough. She probably thinks she does but our [...]