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Stop press! Flex co-founder and director Heather Thomas Shalabi has opened her refrigerator door, so we can see how this health and fitness guru – often touted as Hong Kong’s hardest working trainer and studio owner – ensures she and her family stay healthy and energized.

Here, Pilates trainer and scuba diving extraordinaire, Juliana Lopez, explains TWO tiny tricks to ensure you keep your spine in check at all times.

Want to finally deal with those pesky aches and pains? Unsure what kind of practitioner is best for your needs?

Here, we let you in on the finer details of two of the most common healing modalities utilized today.

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Q: Hi Raul Bravo. You’re a Pilates and Fitness Trainer at Flex. Is my muscle strength imbalance common?

A: It’s a normal psychological issue. Human beings tend to overwork one side of the body; the side that they write with, hold a utensil with and so on. BUT, unhealthy muscles and incorrect body alignment will be formed.

This research was undertaken to see how prescribed exercise could improve the affects of chemotherapy. Anecdotally, all the patients on the program seemed to be getting less of the expected side effects of chemo – particularly less nausea and fatigue.

And in the 38 patients who went through the exercise program, muscle wastage was almost completely blocked. Some even gained muscle.

In charge of the study was Professor Robert Newton, reported as saying at the time that: “We now have a growing number of research studies showing that if people hit a certain level of physical activity – which is relatively modest, to be honest – then they’ll more than double their chances of surviving their cancer. In other words, they halve their risk of dying”.

Opening someone else’s refrigerator is culinary voyeurism. But it’s even better when that fridge belongs to a health and fitness professional.

We’ve peeked inside the icebox door of Pilates trainer and pre and post-natal body whisperer, Nicole Serje, to see what she always keeps chilled and ready for energy, health and super fresh taste.

If you love Pilates and want some serious inspiration, look no further than Andrea Maida. US-based Andrea – coming to Flex soon – describes herself as “a 40-something devotee of the original Pilates method of exercise, living in beautiful Solana Beach, just north of San Diego in Southern California”. A highly respected member of the

How to get bored with exercise 101: do the same workout at the same pace, over and over again. But there’s also another reason why we can lose our mojo – those moments where half way through a class, you’re sick of the streeeetch and feel like sweating it out a bit. Or a weights