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Is Online Personal Training really personal?
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Online Personal Training has been steadily growing in popularity over the last few years, boosted by a spike in fitness bloggers.  The promise of support and professional guidance, cost efficiency, fancy apps with A.I. algorithms and semi-naked pictures of both client results and the trainers’ own honed bodies can make it a seriously appealing option.  But how personal is it…

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Online Chats – Physiotherapy
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It’s always a pleasure to connect with like minded professionals that question the status quo and base their approach on scientific evidence instead of trends. With that in mind, our quest to learn and understand more continues in this chat with physiotherapist Sangi Patel. Sangi has a masters in Sports Physiotherapy and has a ton of experience working with Premier…

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Ideas and workouts to keep fit during social distancing
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These are unprecedented times – strange and eerie – lived amidst the Corona virus epidemic. The British PM has announced a country-wide lockdown, affecting even our unstoppable capital, London. The outside world is just behind our front doors but beyond our reach. Being inside the majority of the time can take its toll on our physical and mental health but…

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Are you sleeping well?
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Many high achievers and successful people state that they only sleep a very small amount of time. Time is money! When it comes to health is this something we should take as a good example? How does sleep affect our health? Until very recent years we knew very little about sleep. Due to the location of our personal training studios…

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Goal Setting for the New Year
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We all know we set those New Year goals and by February we fall off the wagon. Join us at South Place on the 1st February in the Secret Garden for an afternoon of wellness and goal setting. Start with a movement class and an innovative talk “From Injury to Fitness” with OITOO founder Rui Reis. Coach Adrian Klemens will host…

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The Importance of Body Sensory Optimisation for Training and Rehabilitation
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How many times did you do an exercise and later found out that its purpose was totally different from how you performed it? Have you asked yourself if there is a faster way to reach your goals? In this short article I will explore how sensory perception can help you on these occasions. When we go to the gym, although…

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Quick guide to recover from sciatica pain
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Sciatica is a symptom rather than a specific diagnosis. Available evidence from basic science and clinical research indicates that both inflammation and compression are important in order for the nerve root to be symptomatic. Although the term sciatica is simple and easy to use, it is, in fact, an archaic and confusing term. For most researchers and clinicians, it refers…

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The common fallacy of fatigue & exercise
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Exercise is a tool for optimization. There is no one single way to accomplish this, there are many avenues!  However, If this one big thing is misjudged you could be headed for disaster; the amount of fatigue in your workouts. If you notice that you barely get what you put into exercise, you might be falling for this huge fallacy in…

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Priming the Body’s Attention – Podcast Out Now
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This episode is a stunning example of how simplicity and science can harmonize for effective exercise.  This harmony isn’t possible without a deep understanding of movement and neural pathways, but don’t worry we make this lesson fun and interesting!   Join Jenn Schwartz and Rui Reis for a conversation about a novel way of injury rehab, exercise and re-wiring the…

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Personal Training & Injury Rehab – Clients Rated Us
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We believe that a happy client is key to a healthy business. Therefore we are always looking to improve and for that it’s important to understand clients needs and thoughts. We did anonymous surveys to active clients some months ago and below you will find the questions, the answers and what we did about it.   Have you ever used…

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