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Reach your performance goals with Ten Health & Fitness Running MOT

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Have you started your Marathon training and realised that it is a little bit harder that you expected it to be? Not recovering as quickly as you would like after your run? Or maybe you want to maximise your training to beat that PB? Whatever your reason might be, a Running MOT is the perfect way to help you reach your goals. The high intensity nature of running can take its toll on our bodies, especially due to our 21st century lifestyle which is defined by negative daily activities including bad posture, inactiveness, deskbound jobs, phones, heavy handbags and high heels. Over time, all of us develop a number of compensatory movement patterns – it could be to get around areas of weakness, or the result of an injury, or in response to a lifestyle-related issue. So, if you think it’s worth spending an hour to have an expert physiotherapist assess your posture, movement patterns, range and quality of movement, to understand where you are now, what the issues ma
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There's nothing quite like a good night's sleep, but do we really know what this means?

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Is a good night's sleep a long sleep? A deep sleep? Can we ‘catch up’ with our sleep?  Modern day life is attacking our sleep like never before. Exposure to blue light, higher alcohol and caffeine consumption and stress are all guilty culprits in disrupting our daily rest, making it harder to not only fall to sleep, but achieve sleep of a decent quality.   Why is sleep important? As we sleep, our body repairs muscles, replenishes energy stores and releases hormones that regulate growth and appetite, while our minds organise and store the memories of the day before. It is important that we get enough sleep so that these functions can be completed. Sleep also needs to be uninterrupted and of a high enough quality. Without decent sleep, our bodies do not fully regenerate and repair.   Regular poor sleep puts you at risk of serious medical conditions, including obesity, heart disease and diabetes and above all can shorten your life expectancy. However, regular quality slee
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TenStretch – The UK’s first reformer-based stretch class

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Ten Health & Fitness have created the UK’s first reformer-based stretch class that will loosen up your whole body and help you enjoy a greater range of movement in shoulders, hips and spine. This is a very intelligent class created by master trainer Erica Foulds who believes that a reformer class will give you a deeper and more effective stretch than a traditional one.  During a class, the trainer will lead you through a progression of dynamic stretches to improve all-round flexibility and mobility. There will be a specific focus on the problem areas and muscles groups most adversely affected by the muscular imbalances and postural challenges of our 21 st  century living. This class will improve your range of motion around many of the joints in the body. You will enjoy a series of deep, yet controlled positions and movements, carefully aligning the body to produce isolated stretches to specific muscles. You will experience more flexibility and your posture w
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Presenting PRISM LIGHTS: Bring back your child-like blonde

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Having glossy, coloured hair is sometimes difficult to achieve. Luckily, the PRISM LIGHTS is an innovative technique which uplifts the face. Its ‘whisper-light’ application creates light-reflecting colour giving the gloss and shine which is often so hard to achieve with coloured hair. PRISM LIGHTS are ‘free painted’ onto the hair in fine strands, with lights concentrated around the mid-lengths and through the root. The ends of the hair are then also free-painted by layering two tones of subtly lighter shades resulting in a seamless look. The magic of PRISM LIGHTS lies in its special light reflecting abilities. The pioneer of this technique, Christel Lundqvist, is the three time winner of the Colour Technician of the Year Award. Her expertise is demonstrated beautifully in this technique with the prism method allowing the light to 'open up’ and stream through the hair, bouncing off the cuticle six times more than it normally would, giving your face a halo of radiance. In order
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