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The Benefits Of Resistance Training

3.05.2023

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First up, if you haven’t already, please come and join my new Facebook Group – it’s full of practical advice and ideas to think about when working on your health and fitness.

There are so many benefits to using resistance training. If you keep generally active as much as you can, and have time to fit in one kind of structured workout, then resistance training has to be it – it has the most broad spectrum benefits… In fact, when we lay out the benefits of resistance work, it really shows how true this is.

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How Does Aerobic Exercise Fit In?

19.04.2023

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Fitness, Health, Weight Loss

I’m often talking about the importance of resistance training for fitness, health and weight loss, and that is absolutely the best place to focus your exercise efforts.

Resistance training should be your priority.

But there is some benefit to adding in aerobic exercise too.

Make sure you choose something you enjoy though – don’t look only at the calorie burn and instead also consider what you’ll be able to maintain long term.

If you love a nice long walk on the flat, that’s great. If you prefer to do something that feels a bit more like exercise […]

Getting Back On Track

12.04.2023

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Health, Mindset, Weight Loss

You have to love the Easter come down.

We’ve all enjoyed some chocolate this weekend, or at least, I hope you have.

There’s nothing wrong with a bit of chocolate here and there – it’s not going to affect anything in the long term, and actually, it’s hard to gain actual fat over a day or two because our bodies have some wonderful ways of dealing with the extra calories for a short while. You’ll probably see some extra weight on the scales, but only a very small amount of it will be fat, and it […]

Inflammation… Is It Really All Bad?

3.03.2023

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Last week, I heard a sales pitch for a product which has stuck in my mind ever since.

It used fear to sell the harm of inflammation and the apparent fact that if you want to be healthy you have to totally eliminate it. And of course, you should buy the product to save yourself.

These kinds of absolutes raise my eyebrows – I find they are rarely helpful.

And, this suggestion that we need to totally eliminate inflammation seems to be a common theme in a lot of things we hear. Inflammation = bad. Always, no exceptions.

But actually, it CAN […]

Upgrading Your Fertility – and Balancing Your Hormones

22.02.2023

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First up, if you haven’t already, please come and join my new Facebook Group – it’s full of practical advice and ideas to think about when working on your health and fitness.

A few weeks ago, I recorded an interview with a fabulous Naturopath, Inna Duckworth, who specialises in fertility.

We discussed how you can use exercise to optimise and improve fertility as well as speaking about specifics like PCOS. We also looked at how to make a start on what feels like a huge, overwhelming journey.

Of course, the interview is all angled towards ways to improve your […]

Don’t Throw In The Towel Until You’ve Read This!

15.02.2023

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Fitness, Health, Mindset

First up, if you haven’t already, please come and join my new Facebook Group – it’s full of practical advice and ideas to think about when working on your health and fitness.

We often hold ourselves to very high standards when it comes to our diet and exercise routines.

If we’re not seeing what we want to see – or if we’re not seeing it as quickly as we would like – we often throw in the towel and quit.

We end up with a bit of an ‘all or nothing’ approach, which can look a bit like yo […]

Countering The Most Miserable Day Of The Year

11.01.2023

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Fitness, Health, Mindset

Monday is apparently the most miserable day of the year – the third Monday in January has been marked out by science as the most rubbish day of the year, every year.

Whether you go with this particular date or not, we do seem to universally agree that January and February are the least fun months of the year. The days are short, the weather is cold and miserable and the long days and warm weather seem a long way away.

Which brings me onto the positive impacts of exercise for mental health.

Have you ever really thought about how much […]

New Year’s Resolutions – Are You Over Committing?

4.01.2023

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Fitness, Health, Mindset

Happy New Year!

I hope you’ve all enjoyed a Christmas break.

Have you made any New Year’s resolutions?

Aren’t they FUN! We feel like we’ve already achieved something by writing them down!

Remember though that we’re making these grand plans for the year ahead off the back of two weeks of doing not a lot, having eaten in a different way to usual and having been in a different routine to usual.

This different perspective means it’s easy to forget that that ‘urgh I need to eat better’ feeling goes very quickly, as well […]

Let Good Enough be Good Enough

19.12.2022

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Health, Mindset

Do you feel like you’re either ‘being good’ or ‘eating badly’ with very little in between?

Please take this as your annual reminder that sometimes good enough is, well, good enough!

Many people feel a sense of dread when they think about the food and drink around at Christmas. Some even go as far as avoiding certain events so they don’t lose control over what they’re eating. I think this is a real shame, I’d really like to help you avoid that feeling this year.

I’d like you to remember that we eat for lots […]

The Minimum Effective Dose

7.12.2022

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Health, Mindset

First up, have you joined the new Facebook group yet? If not, please do – this week I’ve written about calorie counting and whether it is important, and how to deal with mid-afternoon tiredness.

Now, for today, let’s talk about the importance of the minimum effective dose.

Sometimes, when we use the phrase ‘minimum effective dose’ it sounds a bit like a bad thing, but actually, I think it might be the only correct answer, especially when it comes to nutrition and exercise.

Imagine you want to lose a few pounds. You know that at its most simple […]

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