How Bad Health Is Driving Me Towards the Health & Fitness Industry
Posted by David WhitehouseComing out of university in 2004 I started working on my first business, an ecommerce site which I wrote from scratch. Looking back on it, it was terrible – but I managed to make a few sales (at a loss) and then unfortunately I had to stop due to health reasons.
Ever since then I have become obsessed with trying to regain my health, sadly with very little progress. I found after many years of the NHS being great, that when something serious comes along and that they can’t figure out exactly what is wrong, instead of persevering, they tend to just give up and even go as far as accusing you of making it up!
So I tried other things, over the years I’ve seen a number of physiotherapists (certainly more than 10), tried doing various sports including karate, swimming, running, biking & basketball as well as weights, pilates, yoga and stretching. I’ve also seen numerous chiropractors, including an upper cervical chiropractor in London and a cranial chiropractor in Headingley, as well as the local chiropractors and osteopaths in Ripon and Thirsk, I’ve also tried bowen therapy, Thai massage, acupuncture.
I’ve spent thousands on health professionals, and probably hundreds or thousands on exercise equipment and gadgets – my family joke about me almost having a home gym. I’ve bought ebooks on various different conditions including carpal tunnel syndrome and thoracic outlet syndrome and done stretching programs online. If you are looking for some decent things to try, I highly recommend selfcare4rsi.com for diagnosed RSI conditions and BodyMindResources.com for general improvement of aches and pains (especially back pain) – both of these sites have produced excellent results for me, the first fixed my condition for a week and the second improved a lot of my aches and pains.
I’ve become obsessed with posture, reading up about all the different muscles in the body and how they work to improve or worsen your posture and what actions they do. I’ve probably isolated and stretched nearly every muscle in my body (sadly not all needed stretching and not all of them needed strengthening). If you are interested in finding out more about specific muscles and how to exercise them, plus details about common postural problems, weaknesses and inflexibilities then I highly recommend exrx.net.
I’ve also tried resting, for months.
Overall the most success I have had is from stretching and from very painful massages.
Since working in SEO I often get chatting with the various health professionals, they usually ask what I do for a living – some know what SEO is, some don’t. In the past few months I’ve worked on AVA Physiotherapy with Andy, working at helping him target the local area, through SEO, AdWords and some copywriting skills. I’ve also been helping Zach Clark setup Perth Life Fitness, although it is going slowly as he’s in Australia – it isn’t finished yet. And now I am helping out Madeleine Harvey with her site (not that I am complaining, I’m getting a free massage)!
Anyways, all this has inspired me to do a little guide for health and fitness professionals so they can improve their web presence and get more leads through their website! Guide to follow soon (if I’m not too distracted or in too much pain).
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