Festival season is finally here, with the Reading and Leeds festival taking place this weekend. People are eager to set up camp and dance to some of their favourite artists including Blink 182, Lana Del Ray and Liam Gallagher. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Hartlepool Mail, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
However, attending a festival can be exhausting, with previous research revealing that even a single concert can take its toll. Add that with dancing all day and sleeping on a hard tent floor, you can start to develop some aches and pains and the dreaded “festival back”. Advertisement Advertisement To help keep us feeling our best, PureGym has spoken to Denzil Bentley, Personal Trainer at PureGym Ashford Warren and Ray Marshall, Assistant Personal Trainer and General Manager at PureGym London for the lowdown on the best workouts to get festival-ready, as well as some helpful exercises to reduce aches and pains.
Festival season is coming around quickly, but any preparation that can be done ahead of the big weekend is better than none - but as always, the more workouts you can complete, the more fitness you’ll have banked. Starting out six to 12 weeks beforehand is an the ideal timescale to use when training for any event as you’ll see noticeable improvements in this time, but the earlier you start the more you’ll progress. However, even two we.