In this episode, we hear from physio and PT, Tim Blakey, creator of PRIME BODY, the affordable personal fitness training app that helps you progress and learn as you go.  Born from his own health and fitness challenges and overcoming training injuries, Tim combines corrective work with strength training to optimise body composition and combat body betrayal. 

Tim shares his perspective on why founder mobility is so important to incorporate from the beginning, why to prioritise resistance training over cardio and why it can actually be a great investment in your overall business to look after your mobility.

Tim’s advice: 

• Physical health helps not only mental health, but  business health too - if you are well you will be more productive
• Posture is important, affects how you look, feel and can prevent injury; but more important than posture is movement
• If you are deskbound, make sure you build movement in all through the day
• A meeting between two people can take place on a walk
• Movement can produce ideas
• Even five minutes’ movement is better than none
• Mobilisation before a walk or a run will help
• Fitness is not vanity - it is good for stress management
• Even if your day is unstructured, find time for exercise - it doesn’t really matter when
• Put strength before cardio: muscular-skeletal strength is the most important thing
• Sleep is important, and caffeine will affect the quality of that sleep
• When travelling, don’t make it an excuse not to exercise; therabands can be helpful
• Encourage your team to use a gym/order nutritious takeaway meals/try cold water daily dips
• Exercising can be a good way of networking with different groups of people
• Celebrate the small wins when exercising
• Take an interest in your own body!  Learn about it, examine the mind/muscle connection

Follow this link for a video on tips and tricks.  If you’d like to contact Tim, you can reach him at [email protected]

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Edited by Milun Haggipavlou. Recorded, edited & published by Juliet Fallowfield, 2023 MD & Founder of PR & Communications consultancy for startups Fallow, Field & Mason.  Email us at [email protected] or DM us on instagram @fallowfieldmason. 

FF&M recommends: 

• LastPass the password-keeping site that syncs between devices.
• Google Workspace is brilliant for small businesses
• Buzzsprout podcast 'how to' & hosting directory
• Canva has proved invaluable for creating all the social media assets and audio bites.
• For contracts check out Law Depot.

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