Bend It Like Bunny ; Turn Your Garden Into an Outdoor Gym, Says Garden Designer Bunny Guinness. Pattie Barron Goes to Watch a Workout

Evening Standard - London › October 29, 2008

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GARDENING soothes the soul and lifts the spirits. It burns calories and builds muscle tone. It can also give you an aching back, a sore neck and serious strains from all that repetitive bending, kneeling, lifting and twisting.

"The good news," says awardwinning garden designer Bunny Guinness, "is that garden-related pain and injury is, to some degree, preventable; often, the solution lies in how we treat our bodies when we garden." Guinness believes we should tend our bodies as carefully as we tend our landscapes, and in her new book Garden Your Way to Health and Fitness (Timber Press), with physiotherapist and Pilates expert Jacqueline Knox, Guinness takes the body- balancing techniques of the Pilates studio out into the garden.

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Bend It Like Bunny ; Turn Your Garden Into an Outdoor Gym, Says Garden Designer Bunny Guinness. Pattie Barron Goes to Watch a Workout

Knox recommends taking a few minutes to balance, centre and strengthen our bodies before gardening, just as you might warm up your muscles before embarking on strenuous exercise. After a workout, too, you should a...

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