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HEALTH


level of development and progress possible. Use as much variety as possible (swimming, jogging, weights, circuits), looking to train two to four times per week on a consistent basis. With golf, consistency is the key.


» Sound body strength and stability are very important in improving your golf. Resistance training, using body weight exercises or gym training with free weights is excellent for developing these abilities.


» It is important to continue playing while you improve your fitness. This will allow you to take the physical training improvements you have made and integrate them with the specific technical skills and tactical abilities required for overall golfing success.


» Make sure that when you get to the course you physically prepare yourself to play. Ideally perform some simple joint mobility movements followed by basic exercises to work major muscle groups, and then active stretches for the areas specific to the golf swing. Try to perform 10-15 minutes of pre-play preparation before you hit any balls.


» To get the maximum benefit from your golf conditioning efforts, seek out specialists to design your training. Having a qualified team assess your strengths and weaknesses allows your conditioning regime to be fine tuned specifically to you for the best results.


Exercise scientist and fitness coach Jon Denoris is the owner of the Club Fifty One personal training studio.


Club Fifty One 51 New Cavendish Street 020 7258 8456 clubfiftyone.co.uk


MIKI HILDEBRAND ON HOW BAKER STREET COUNSELLING CAN OFFER NEW PERSPECTIVES


It’s good to talk. This is certainly the professional experience of Miki Hildebrand MBAC Accredited Counsellor UKRC, the founder and practising therapist at Baker Street Counselling. Miki sees clients struggling to cope with a wide range of issues. “I deal a lot with relationships –


those coping with separation, divorce, bereavement or just having difficulties with their partner or a colleague for example,” she says. Others may be suffering from depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, facing problems surrounding sexual identity or may be aware of unresolved issues from the past which keep resurfacing. There can also be a great deal of stress caused by retirement – particularly for men. “Men often don’t realise the impact


that retirement will have on them,” says Miki. “Women can somehow diverse differently to men. Men almost feel their identity goes when their job goes, and I think that if they can plan for it then it helps them enormously.” So who are Miki’s clients? “Absolutely


anybody,” she says. “Anyone who feels they have a problem – no matter how small. People will often say: “‘I know it’s silly, but…’ But it isn’t silly if it bothers you. Talking things through and hearing yourself say the problem, and then working together to find a way of


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challenging it helps enormously.” At Baker Street Counselling sessions


are 50 minutes and can either be short or long term. Miki can see clients during the day or evening – even sometimes at weekends – which allows them to fit counselling around work and family commitments. During each one-to-one session Miki offers them a confidential, impartial space to explore their difficulties. This allows the client to see problems from a different perspective, to better understand themselves and others and to find strategies to cope and make positive changes. Miki Hildebrand has been a practising


therapist for 20 years. She was originally a volunteer for the Barnet Bereavement Society. “I worked for them at first on a voluntary basis and liked it so much that I just continued on to do it as a proper three-year course. The course was psychodynamic, initially, but they do teach all of the other methods and theories because not everyone fits one system and you have to work with what the client is bringing to you. And it might be just something like how to deal with the in-laws when they come at Christmas time. So they don’t want to go back to their childhood necessarily. They want the strategies for helping them to cope.” Miki has always worked closely with


the medical profession. “I’ve worked as a counsellor at four different surgeries in north west London,” she says. “Most surgeries have at least six doctors plus their locums, so whatever they send in you learn to deal with. It’s very front line, and it’s exciting and humbling as well.” Miki knows just how beneficial


counselling can be. “It’s very empowering to know where a problem has started from, how to deal with it, how to look forward and not always look in the past. People do need to know there is somewhere to go to when they need help.”


Baker Street Counselling Baker Street 020 7724 2191 07817 322 515 bakerstreetcounselling.co.uk


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