Exercises That Support Better Balance
Feeling steadier starts with small, safe practice. Three simple balance exercises you can do at home, each with an easier option and a clear way to build on it.
Balance, Confidence and Staying Independent
Pulling on your trousers while standing on one leg, or reaching for a tin on the top shelf. Most of the time balance works quietly, until a small wobble makes you wonder how much you can still trust it.
Simple Ways to Build Strength Safely
Building strength at home is simpler than most people expect, but how hard you work and how slowly you lower matters more than you might think. Four exercises, and the principles that keep them safe.
Why Strength Matters More As We Age
The green man flashing when you are halfway across, the bus pulling off before you sit down. Why strength, and the speed behind it, matters more with every decade, and why the legs change first.
Five Daily Habits That Support Healthy Ageing
Carrying the shopping, getting down to the floor and back up, a proper conversation with a neighbour. Five everyday habits that help keep your capability topped up, and how to fit them into an ordinary day.
What Does Healthy Ageing Really Mean?
Your tests come back clear, yet getting out of a low chair feels harder than it did. Why healthy ageing is really about what you can do, and the reserve that quietly protects it.
The Complete Guide to Healthy Ageing Through Movement
Getting up from the floor, carrying the shopping in one trip, walking the coast path without planning around a bench. This guide brings together what we tell patients about keeping those everyday abilities as the years go on.
Five Desk Mobility Exercises You Can Do Anywhere
Stiffness through the neck and shoulders responds better to frequent small movements than to one long stretch at the end of the day. Here are five you can do at your desk, in a kitchen or on a train.
Five Simple Ways to Add More Movement Into Your Working Day
Six minutes, spread across the day, attached to things you already do. Five changes that fit inside a normal working day and the one most people get wrong when they try.
Why Sitting Less Is Not Enough: Understanding Modern Movement
You have cut your sitting time, bought the standing desk and reached your step count and you are still stiff by Friday. The missing idea is not less sitting. It is variety.
The Complete Guide to Desk Health: Moving More, Sitting Better and Protecting Your Body
By the end of a long working week, the stiffness across your neck and shoulders has stopped feeling like a one-off. This guide brings together everything we tell patients about desk work, movement and protecting your body.
Ten Articles Worth Reading Before Autumn
You are not meant to read all ten. Find the heading that describes your situation, read the two articles underneath it, and act on one thing before autumn arrives.
The Year Ahead in the Apollo Library: What We Will Be Covering and Why
From next week, every Monday explains why something matters and every Thursday shows you what to do about it. Here is the full twelve months of topics, and the thinking behind the order they arrive in
Weight-Bearing Movement: Simple Ways to Support Your Bones
Bone gets stronger when it is asked to carry weight. These five movements use nothing more than a chair, a wall and a step, and they fit into a day you are already having.
Bone Health After 50: What Keeps Your Skeleton Strong
Bone gets very little attention until something goes wrong with it. Yet it is living tissue, rebuilt continuously through life, and it responds to what you ask of it. Here is what that means after 50.
Strength and Movement Through the Menopause: Where to Start
Knowing that strength matters through the menopause is the easy part. Knowing what to actually do on a Tuesday evening at home is harder. Five exercises to begin with, no equipment needed, and a sensible way to build them up.
Menopause and Your Joints Muscles and Bones: What Changes and Why
Stiffer mornings, aches turning up in several places at once, and a niggle that once settled in three days now taking three weeks. What is actually changing in muscle, joint and tendon through the menopause, and why it all arrives together.
Why Small Daily Habits Matter More Than Big Health Resolutions
Small daily habits often have a greater impact on long-term health than dramatic changes that are difficult to maintain. Discover how consistent movement, strength and lifestyle choices can help support healthy ageing, confidence and independence.
Return to Exercise Series: How to Return to Exercise Safely After a Break
Returning to exercise after time away doesn't mean picking up where you left off. Discover simple, practical strategies to rebuild strength, improve confidence and reduce your risk of injury.
Why Foot Health Matters: How Your Feet Affect Your Whole Body
Discover why foot health matters and how your feet influence your posture, walking, balance and joint health.