The best way to correct bad habits and get fit at any age

THE human body is amazing. If you take care of it, it will support you and sustain you. We should treat it like a temple. but instead, most of us vandalise our bodies as we sit and move in all the wrong ways.

Sitting down all day in front of a computer — and later, the tV — causes you to have a bio-mechanical dysfunction: you’ll have tight hips, a weak core, tight pecs (the muscles in your upper chest), a tight neck and rounded shoulders. When you’re stressed, you hold tension in your neck or in your back.

Much of the decline that we think comes with ageing can actually be blamed on a sedentary, stressful lifestyle. I take a gentle approach, teaching clients that fixing a broken body need only take minutes per day. It’s not just about moving but moving in the right way.