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September 21, 2022 HealthcareTherapy

We’ve been wanting to discuss the importance of sleep, and how it effects our overall health. Generally speaking, if you’re not sleeping well, you’re most likely experiencing high-levels of stress. This often impacts our health negatively and has downward spiral effect. More stress, less sleep, invokes lack of exercise and craving carbs. And that in turn, repeats itself and exacerbates the situation.

Going to the experts, we found this great article that explains all of that. From the Sleep Doctor, a great resource discussing all of these issues and interviewing experts on the issue of sleep. Written by Dr. Michael Breus, here is the link – https://thesleepdoctor.com/mental-health/stress-and-sleep/

“Not getting enough sleep has a significant impact on stress levels and overall mood. Research suggests that people who have slept better also experience less negative emotions and can recover faster from a stressful event.

On a biological level, poor sleep quality and sleep deprivation are thought to influence stress-related parameters including cortisol levels and systemic inflammation. Fragmented sleep or long-term sleep deprivation appear to contribute to higher cortisol levels. Going to sleep at times that are not concordant with natural sleep-wake rhythms can also disrupt cortisol patterns.”

The relationship between stress and sleep can also bring on digestive issues, muscle tension and pain and an elevated heart rate. However, you can get out of this cycle by first understanding how the relationship between the two work. How it affects your hormones, how you can improve the situation by actively being aware of it and managing it. It goes without saying that exercise helps balance the sleep-wake cycle, as well as what you eat and drink. Avoiding caffeine and alcohol. Things we tend to increase during periods of stress.

Our advice is always, eat right, exercise often and the rest will follow. Ensure you start healthy habits that encourage sleep,  i.e remove technological devices which inhibit sleep. All of this and more is discussed in the above mentioned article, so it’s a must read!

Written by Dr. Michael Breus, here is the link – https://thesleepdoctor.com/mental-health/stress-and-sleep/


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A Health Coach can help you reach your health and fitness goals—from getting your cravings under control, to feeling better, dropping fat, gaining strength, and anything in between.
 
But it also means going deeper than these physical results.
Our coaches care. Our coaches are qualified to really care. We can help…
 
– Improve your physical, mental, and emotional health
– Bolster your immunity so you can more effectively ward off infections
– Build resilience so you can better handle a stressful day, week, or month
– Improve the quality of your sleep and rest—so you can feel and function at your best
 
Do you want to achieve lasting, intentional, meaningful and sustainable results? Get in touch now. We are at the Market Square Shopping Centre.
 
E: info@plettsportsclinic.com
C: 044 533 0155
www.plettsportsclinic.com

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September 1, 2022 TherapyUncategorized

If you’re looking after your body, exercising on a regular basis and perhaps even your athletic performance (or not!), there are some major benefits to help your body recover and repair, as well as improve your overall performance.

 

If administered correctly, sports massage has been proven to show positive results for athletes having problems with muscle pain, recovery after an injury, prevention of injuries, and much more.

 

Sports Massage Benefits

Many sports massage benefits have been reported on the basis of experience and observation alone. These include:

  • Increased joint range of motion (ROM)
  • Increased flexibility
  • Decreased muscle tension
  • Decreased neurological excitability (nerves more relaxed)
  • Decreased muscle spasms
  • Increased sense of well-being
  • Decreased anxiety and improved mood
  • Better sleep

Purported benefits for which there is limited research evidence include:

  • Increased blood flow
  • Increased elimination of exercise waste products (lactic acid)
  • Decreased chance of injury
  • Decreased recovery time between workouts

 

We have several massage therapists trained specifically in sports massage. Get in touch today, should you wish to book one.

E: info@plettsportsclinic.com


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You want to get fitter, stronger, live life with more vigour, but you may not be someone who likes training in groups.

In fact, it is so overwhelming that the very thought of it creates a physical reaction in you.

Or maybe you just like to be focussed, without the distraction of others. An environment where you have someone 100% focussed on you, is far more appealing to ensure you maximise your results!

Not everyone likes to be in a group, especially when it comes to exercising. That’s where personal training comes in. In particular, 1-on-1 exercise, where your coach can focus 100% on you, your goals, where you are being taken care of.

Every day we meet people who wish they were just that little bit lighter, fitter or stronger. Our aim is to accomplish that by improving balance, movement, strength, speed, agility, mobility, flexibility and overall performance throughout the body.

Plett Sports Clinic offers a holistic and comprehensive form of training for every person at every age and level of fitness.

Our trainers live and breathe health & fitness in their own lives and their mission is to encourage, support and motivate you, to live the type of lifestyle you want, because your health and fitness enables you to.

So if having a personal trainer who can design a workout program especially for you appeals to you, to help reach your personal goals, then get in touch with our team now!

The first step is picking up the phone or sending us an email, we’ll take care of the rest.

 

Email info@plettsportsclinic.com or call us on 044 533 0155.


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December 28, 2020 AnnouncementsExercisesNews

Update on Training at Plett Sports Clinic
The good news is, as an essential healthcare service we remain open and for the most part continue as normal. There are a few slight changes detailed below. Please have a read…

 

Exercise
“All indoor and outdoor gatherings will be prohibited for 14 days from the date hereof, except for funerals and other limited exceptions as detailed in the regulations, such as restaurants, museums, gyms and casinos,” explained Ramaphosa.

 

How does this affect us?
We are continuing business as usual with current Covid protocols in place.
– Sanitising
– Mask wearing
– Distance when training
– Limited group classes (need to book in advance)
– Maintaining strict Hygiene protocols

This will be reviewed continually, if changed we will be in communication with you.

 

Masks
“From now on it is compulsory for every person to wear a mask in a public space,” said Ramaphosa. “A person who does not wear a cloth mask covering over the nose and mouth in a public place will be committing an offence.”

Previously, only businesses and building owners faced sanction if someone on their premises didn’t wear a mask.

 

2A) The prohibition in subregulation (2)(c) shall not apply to a person who undertakes vigorous exercise in a public place, provided that the person maintains a distance of at least three metres from any other person, and subject to directions on what is considered to be vigorous, issued by the Cabinet member responsible for health. (Copied from level 3 regulations)

 

How does this affect us? 
– You’ll need your mask when entering the facility and signing in.
– You may remove your mask when you are in your training area.
– Masks to be worn again before leaving your training zone.

 

Curfew
“Across the whole country, the new curfew will be between 21:00 and 06:00.”

 

How does this affect us?
Our 6am group class and personal training sessions will commence at 6:15am. (be ready to leave you house at 6am to get to the gym on time!👍🏻. If you live further out, please consider the 7.20am class!👍🏻😎

 

7:15am class is now moved to 7:20am start.

 

All other classes remain the same, please check our class schedule.

 

Please wait for the floor to clear before entering your class.

 

See you in the morning!!😎👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻💪🏻
We can do this! 🙏🏻💪🏻☝🏻



November 25, 2020 EventsFundraising

I, Sandra du Plessis, work in conservation development and community based natural resource management. In 2012 I was in Rwanda conducting community based natural resource management training at a Rwandan college. I met a young boy called Peter at the bus station in Musanze, on my way from the Volcanoes National Park to Kigali.

Peter although only twelve years old at the time was not attending school but working as a bus usher in Musanze. Bus ushers help attract customers who they help onto the bus with their bags and to find a seat. The local buses businesses pay young boys “pocket money” to “usher” because of the big competition between bus businesses, and a population who is highly dependent on local transport.

Peter ushered me onto my bus, and then went to the Spaza shop at the bus station to buy me water and food for my journey on my behalf. We exchanged contact details through the window of the bus, and I returned to South Africa the next day. When back home in South Africa Peter contacted me by email and we started communicating. My husband and I soon realized how important it was for Peter’s future that he attend school. Only primary school is state funded. Peter’s parents, peasants who were subsistence farmers and lived off the land in the rural areas on the outskirts of the Volcano National Park, had no money to send Peter to high school.

My husband and I decided to sponsor Peter to go to school. We were fortunate that I had Rwandan colleagues from the college where I trained in Rwanda, who could ensure the funds were allocated to Peter’s schooling (and other essentials) and who could check up on Peter on a regular basis. We continued to sponsor Peter’s full high school career. Once he graduated from high school we continued sponsoring him to study a tourism degree at the University of Kigali. Tourism is the highest contributor to Rwanda’s GDP. This is because Rwanda is one of the top tourism destinations for viewing the endangered Mountain Gorilla. Peter plans to become a Nature Guide once his degree is complete. Nature guiding is considered a good job in Rwanda. Peter is currently studying his last semester of the degree (2020), and will graduate early 2021.

We want to provide his three younger brothers the same opportunity to have a bright future.

Peter’s father died a couple years ago, and his mother was forced to move to Uganda to survive. She now lives off the land, as a peasant, in a rural area not far from the Rwandan border. Prince, Peter’s brother who is 19 years old is staying with Peter in Rwanda. Although Prince is already 19 years old, he wants to go to high school to complete high school.

Peter’s two younger brothers, Masengesho (16 years old) and Manirakiza (14 years old) who live with their mom in Uganda, also want to do the same.

We want to find a few people who are keen to help give these three children a second chance to go back to school. The support given will directly help secure their future and the future of their future children.

First prize if you can commit to paying a proportion of a termly fee (each term is roughly three months). Providing long term support ensures this family never have to leave school again, and that each child is guaranteed the opportunity to eventually earn a school qualification. The funds contribute towards their termly school fees, their boarding school costs, and school uniform and materials.

The cost to help Prince go to high school, including their uniforms, materials and boarding school for Prince is roughly R5000 per term. We are so thankful that he has been able to start his school term in November, but require the strength of community to come behind this boy, and are putting this out to you.

If you feel led to support this endeavour then please contact Sandra Du Plessis, or Gaylene Ravenscroft.


Sandra du Plessis

Cell: 0649074728 // E: treesofgoodnes@gmail.com

Gaylene Ravenscroft

Cell: 0610071183 // E: gaylene@ravenscroft.co.za


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August 19, 2019 AnnouncementsEvents

Starting Saturday, 31st August 2019!

Join Donald, and find out how to live a life you live with more freedom and ease around your lifestyle habits.

The Lean & Clean Challenge is NOT another diet and is NOT a new fitness fad. It is also not a one size fits all program. The Lean & Clean Challenge focuses on you as an individual, transforming your relationship to food and how you fuel yourself.

To find out more, click here and don’t lose out as limited spaces are available.

 



July 25, 2019 Sporting

Plettenberg Bay Physiotherapist and Ultra Distance Runner Andrew Jansen Van Rensburg, accompanied by Rhys Foster (Ultra Distance athlete and legend of the paddling world having completed 20 non stop Duzi’s) will be running the entire length of the Wild Coast. We would like to undertake this challenge of 330km and try help out the community along the way…..

The Wild Coast Crossing – we are super excited about this massive challenge that will hopefully uplift the Pondoland community in association with Pillars of Hope, Wild Child Africa and The Pondo Trail.

What: we will be running from Port Edward to the Great Kei – the Transkei, over 4.5 days and covering approximately 330km of the most amazing coastline.

When: we start our run midday on the 1st August 2019 and plan to finish 5 August 2019

Why: we love this area, it’s people, the coastline and the culture. We would like to not only leave our footprints along the coastline,  but to also leave it a better place by:
0.      refurbishing and equipping 2 local schools / crèches in Msikaba and Manteku (educating = empowering )
0.      Empowering locals to do the work (employment)
0.      Creating awareness of this amazing trail and area we love, so that it can be protected from some of the crazy planned roads and mining that would make this area into just another developed coast at the long term detriment of the locals, the environment and the sustainability of area. (Environment and Sustainability)

How can you help: we are raising funds through Pillars of Hope to start delivering on the above. All money raised goes directly to the work and material needed. All contributions will receive a Section18A tax certificate.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world “ – Nelson Mandela

Contact us should you want to make a contribution

rhys.foster@psg.co.za

www.pillarsofhope.co.za

Andrew Jansen Van Rensburg has a Physiotherapy practice inside the Plett Sports Clinic.

www.plettsportsclinic.com

www.avrphysiotherapy.co.za


+27 (0) 44 533 0155
0722649118
info@plettsportsclinic.com

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