Nutrition & Mindfulness
Information for healthy eating during challenging times, and five-minute meditations to help you slow down and quieten the mind.Back Release Flow with Julie
Join Julie for a gentle flow combination of reclined twists with outer hip-openers, to assist with releasing tension in your back.
Legs up the wall with Julie
Take a few minutes to relax with the 'legs up the wall' pose. Let Julie guide you through this simple technique for easing muscular pain in your legs and feet, relieving headaches and helping calm the mind.
Neck Stretches with Julie
Spending too much time hunched over your computer? Take five minutes to relieve the tension in your neck and shoulders.
Alternate Nostril Breathing with Julie
Ever tried this? Great technique for lowering your heart rate and feeling the benefits of simply slowing down.
Maintain a robust immune system
Resident nutritionist Simone talks us through how to build a robust immune system. Follow her simple tips, adopt them into your diet and this will help you to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Simone talks blood sugar
Simone isn't against pasta, crisps and biscuits, but she recommends them in moderation and with an awareness of blood sugar levels! Let her talk you through it, giving you advice on how to create an optimum diet whilst we're staying at home.
Snacking with Simone
Simone talks us through a few ideas of how to improve our diet during this more sedentary time. With suggestions for healthy snacks and suggested food groups, let her give you some of her top tips.
Guided Meditation 1
Join Kim, our resident Mindfulness coach, as she asks you to sit or lie quietly. Simply focus on your natural breathing and she will talk you through a five-minute guided meditation to help you bring some positive change into your day.
Guided Meditation 2
Join Kim as she leads you through a bespoke five-minute meditation, with the aim of helping regulate emotions and encourage some self-compassion during this difficult and unprecedented time.
PMR Guided Meditation
Are you familiar with PMR? Join Tracylee for ten minutes of Progressive Muscle Relaxation, a technique based upon the simple practice of tensing and tightening muscles. Tracylee will guide you through this relaxing process for helping to reduce stress and anxiety.
Garden Yoga
Julie has put together a yoga routine that helps with relaxation, improves flexibility, and gives you a break from the daily grind.
Sun Salutations
Sun Salutations are a series of postures that warm, strengthen and align the entire body. Join Calum for this short sequence, a great way to start off your day on the right foot!
Flow with Tracylee
Tracylee has put together a short routine to follow, to help offer you some consistency in your practice – basic yoga moves that can be repeated throughout the week to enjoy flexibility and relaxation.
Yoga with Julie & Tracylee
Yoga can help with flexibility, stress reliefmand general health and physical fitness. Join the team as they lead you through an easy routine that can be completed at home.
Flow Yoga
Join Tracylee and Julie in a multilevel Flow yoga workout. Follow Julie for some advanced moves, and Tracylee has the basics covered. Go with whatever is most comfortable for you during your workout.
Desk to 3K
The UofG Sport Desk to 3K is a programme which will help efficiently move you from minimal exercise to running 3km with ease, in just eight weeks!
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Disclaimer
You should be in good physical condition and be able to participate in the exercise. If you have any reason to believe that you may have health/medical issues which may affect your ability to exercise, then you must seek medical advice before participating in any of UofG Sport's suggested exercises. Never rely on information on this website in place of seeking professional medical advice. You should understand that when participating in any exercise there is the possibility of physical injury. If you engage in this exercise, you agree that you do so at your own risk, are voluntarily participating in these activities and assume all risk of injury to yourself.