This is a brilliant long-form interview with Professor Stuart McGill — a world-leading spine expert whose work underpins so much of how I now assess and support clients with back pain. It’s an honest, unfiltered conversation between McGill and powerlifter Chris Duffin, who used the McGill Method to come back from a serious spinal injury and go on to break the all-time squat world record.

Adam and Stuart M. McGill delve into the complexities of back pain, emphasising the importance of individual assessment and understanding the unique stories behind each person's pain.

You might be thinking, “7 minutes? That can’t really make a difference to my strength.”
I get it — but I see the impact every day.
A client said to me last week “those 7 minutes have been transformative for me”
“Why?” I asked
“Because I now have that torso baseline strength that’s allowing me to run stronger, swim better and not have any back pain episodes.

At 57 my goal is to look after my health and wellbeing as well as  possible. As a younger person my training emphasise cardiovascular exercise.  I would describe my old self as a ‘cardio junkie’.

Not all of us want to go to the gym 5 times a week. But what if there was a way to do quick, high-intensity, 20-second exercises and still reap benefits — or does that sound too good to be true?

Dr. Peter Attia doesn’t want a slow death. He doesn’t want his final years to be defined by poor mental and physical faculties that only worsen as the years roll by. But, by making changes to his lifestyle today, he’s taking control of his health tomorrow.

Do you feel like your muscles are shrinking or getting weaker? Many people gradually lose muscle mass as they get older.

Heather Massey of the Extreme Environments Laboratory, School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science at the University of Portsmouth, takes the heat out of recovery and talks us through the latest science behind recovery cooling.

Four out of five Britons will suffer from back pain at some point and many will spend a small fortune trying to fix it, buying into the promise that practices such as yoga or Pilates will develop their spines to withstand everyday stresses.

I read the article below, brought to my attention by one of my gorgeous clients, with great interest. I would definitely agree with Dr Philippa Kaye – do not ignore pain and definitely numbness or discomfort in your pelvis region during or after cycling is not right.

The importance of the invisible exercise: Looking after your Pelvic Floor muscles. How do you train your pelvic floor muscles (PFM) and transversus abdominis (TA) effectively?

A new pioneering approach looks to help cancer patients prepare for and respond to treatment by offering them a combination of exercise, nutrition and psychological support.

The importance of regular physical activity has never been more evident, and yet the pandemic has forced us to become more sedentary than at any other time in the past 50 years.

It’s heartening to see that ‘Scientists are questioning whether stretching is as essential as we think”. Since studying Professor Stuart Mc Gill’s work on Low Back Disorders, I have changed my approach to exercise. I used to be a fan of yoga for all.

How slow can you go? It’s a question that Matt Little, a renowned trainer who worked with athletes and sports champions including the tennis player Andy Murray for 12 years, says we should all ask ourselves.

Strong glutes help prevent back pain and injury. Experts warn that a side-effect of too much sitting and inactivity, is that one of the biggest muscles (gluteals) in our body are becoming weak and deconditioned.

A ‘level of consistency’ is the key. You don’t have to be perfect all the time, that’s unrealistic. Things crop up and life often puts challenges in our way of routines such as injury or other demands on our time and attention.

My approach to helping clients become pain free has been revolutionised by the research of Professor Stuart McGill (www.backfitpro.com) – the world’s leading authority on low back pathologies and head of Spinal Biomechanics at the University of Waterloo in Canada.