GREG EDELSTON
LSSM, MISRM, ARA, YMCAfit
About Greg
Greg offers a bespoke massage and sports remedial service designed specifically for you whether at your home, private gym or at Greg's private room in SW13. Greg will tailor your training, nutrition or massage to suit you.
Greg is fully qualified: PT (YMCA-PTA L3),
Sports Masseur (LSSM L4) and Rowing Coach (ARA L3);
and fully insured through REPS, ISRM and the ARA.
Greg has been sports enthusiast since the age of 9 when he was introduced to the local swimming team. He progressed to a successful provincial South African swimmer, cross-county runner and tri-athlete, and is now mastering the art of rowing here in London having qualified for Great Britain rowing trials in 2004. Greg worked with GB Rowing in 2008 lading up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Testimonials
Matt Wells
"Olympian and current member of GB rowing squad in Men's Double (2x)
I have been an international athlete since 1999, in that time I have had numerous severe injuries. The worst of which was a back injury which required me to be away from the sport for four months. During my rehabilitation I received massage combined with physiotherapy which was the key in my rapid and successful recovery, enabling me to compete at the World Championships in Japan , 2005.
One thing I learned during this period of my athletic career was how important maintenance of my body is. In my opinion the better you look after yourself the more adaptable and successful you are to the training programme.
Now I am in a healthy state I have been using Greg along side my training activities and since this time I have been injury free. Both my tolerance to high volume training such as 230km a week and my recovery from racing and training has increased.
I consider Greg's treatments world class an essential part of my training regime, this enabling me to perform at a world class level."
Mahe Drysdale
New Zealand Single Scull World Champion 2005
"In 2001 I was constantly visiting the Physio to treat various niggles I was getting from training. In 2002 I started having weekly massage and have found it has almost replaced the Physio as it aids recovery and treats and prevents the injuries I used to constantly suffer from. The New Zealand Rowing team all have regular massage and we travel with a masseuse helping us recover from training and racing.
After the World championships I didn't have a massage for 2 months and found my training was affected through tightness and niggles. I was very pleased to find Greg who I have worked with since and have found to be very professional and been a huge help in getting me through my training more comfortably and effectively."
Articles
Health & Fitness in the Winter
by Greg Edelston, Personal Trainer, Sports Masseur & Rowing Coach
Here comes another piece of journalism to make you feel bad about all the excesses of the festive season. It is my job to make you feel guilty about the mince pies, puddings and gluttony (which is a cardinal sin).
The psychic in me tells me that your New Year's Resolution is a diet and the cruel PT in me tells me to tell you that you will have to go on that diet forever! No I am not crazy nor cruel, just the deliverer of hard fact.
You want to be slim for a couple of weeks – go on a crash diet. If you want to be slim forever – you will have to change what you eat forever. And make friends with exercise. Yes that unpleasant activity.
Sadly when more and more people are not just chubby, not just fat, but clinically obese, this article, and others like it, are all the more important. We get confusing messages, from magazines with unhealthily thin models, with bodies next to impossible to attain, and then all this food, delicious food, around us we are being pulled two ways. And without wanting to sound like a Blairite spin doctor – the middle way is the better way and also the achievable way.
Realism is what is needed. Find a couple of rules that work for you individually and a couple of rules that work generally. We are all individual and one-rule-suits-all does not work. If, like me, you need chocolate every day, have it before 11 o'clock, then you will have a day's activity to burn it off. Whatever you do. don't have it at night. It goes to the stomach and stays there, typically forever.
Another rule that I have found to work, although it takes a while to get into the habit of, is not eating after 7pm at night. Here comes the biology. You go to bed lighter having digested most of what you have eaten resulting in a better nights sleep, less likely to suffer from heart burn, you wake up easier as you are a little hungry, you start the day with a breakfast (now I have got you eating that next to impossible breakfast), your digestive system has a ‘shunt' and you dispose of waste products, about 500g. You will now feel lighter for the day, not be carrying what is essentially a toxin, have more energy to burn. When you go to bed you may well have eaten the same amount of calories but will have burnt off extra calories and slowly get lighter. Combine this simple rule with a bit of exercise, 3x 40 min Cardio sessions a week and you are guaranteed to get slimmer an easier way.
Most people will join a health club this month and start going for a while. The sad thing this is a false economy. And a cynical ploy by most the health clubs to exploit your guilt. You can waste in excess of a £1000 a year. Is it not far better to pay for a course of PT sessions, have exercise tailored to suit your needs and achievable goals and after that course you can have a few top-up sessions to keep you going and motivated? You may end up paying a bit more, but you will get the exercise done, you will get the results you want, you will have somebody to giggle with, rather than perpetuating that cycle of feeling bad because no matter what you will probably not get on the cover of that magazine.
So I wish you good luck, be realistic, and may you all have a healthy 2007.
Service Categories
Connective Tissue Massage, Corporate Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, Holistic Massage, Lymphatic Drainage, Mobile Service Massage, Remedial Massage, Remedial Therapies, Sports Injury Therapy, Sports Massage, Swedish Relaxation Massage
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