Yesterday we went to Vienna for a day trip with the kids. They love it: wandering around the old inner city, visiting palaces and dreaming of fairy-tale princesses… Towards the end of the day we also spent a couple of hours at the Natural History Museum, so by the time it came to returning to the car for the return trip home, we’d spent a good six hours on our feet. It was then that my elder daughter started complaining: ‘My back hurts! I’m going to have sore muscles tomorrow!’
Ah, ‘museum back.’ We all know it. That achy, knotted feeling in the lower back: the symptom of too much culture, of standing for too long looking at paintings, sculptures or dinosaurs. Continue reading Developing core and back strength through barefoot running