Mind and Muscle Coaching

Say hello to your new favourite move — the DNS Star.

Three years ago I gave this to my clients and they nearly fired me.

Three years later, I still work with some of the same women, and they won’t start a session without it.

Niamh — my fifty-three-year-old legend who’s been calling herself “stiff” since, oh I dunno, 2009 — got out of the car last week without doing the noise.

You know the noise.

The oof.

The brace when you get out of a chair and your hips have a little meeting about whether they’re coming with you.

So let me tell you what this move is actually for:

– Getting up off the floor without using the coffee table as a winch

– Sitting cross-legged at a picnic without immediately regretting the picnic

– Picking up the shopping bag that fell behind the driver’s seat without having to get out of the car

– The second flight of stairs feeling like the first

Three rounds. Five reps each side. Slow enough that you’ll feel a bit ridiculous.

Before every other session or just when you wake up.

Then one day you’ll do something normal —

carry a toddler up a hill, kneel down to plant something, twist round in your seat to talk to someone in the back — and realise your body didn’t make a sound.

So tell me what makes you make the noise?

Save to remember — or DM me STAR and I’ll send you the full progression. Beginner version Niamh started with, advanced version that still humbles her three years in.

And remember the body you have at next year is built by the stuff you’re doing now.

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