Happy new year everyone! It’s that time again when we have a spritely spark in our step with motivation and willpower often at its peak. For some this is a regular, yearly occurrence and for others, well, it may not even be a thing. I got to thinking the other day...
Protein is something we need as a vital macronutrient throughout life. Proteins are the building blocks of life and every cell in the human body contains protein. The basic structure of protein is a chain of amino acids. As we age, in particular from 40 onwards,...
You start to wind down and then boom, your brain fires up, you start thinking and it’s all on for a long haul evening when you should be enjoying rest. In fact, if you are over thinking or stressed about something, your body has likely awakened the sympathetic...
The feeling of ‘meh’ for health and fitness happens to most people at some point. Decreased motivation, lowered or no interest and the feeling of you just can’t be bothered can drag you down. We often hear the solution to this being to ‘connect to your why’ to bring...
The belly area is often a target when you are looking to reshape your body. It is important to remember one key point though, there is no spot reduction. (No need for hundreds of reps of an exercise that will exhaust your body, good news!) Taking the approach of total...
Burnout is the unfortunate buzzword that so many are going through or may be lucky to have emerged fairly unscathed at the other end. In overcoming burnout as a whole, you must consider your overall lifestyle and how you can reduce energy output to reboot your...
Self care is a common phrase these days and it applies to many areas of life. Taking time to care for yourself can get tricky when you are juggling it all like most people are, but in doing so, you achieve more on the back end. We often think of self care to include...
It was going on two years of feeling flat, demotivated and needing to sleep from extreme tiredness after teaching my gym classes. My clients were always bubbly and energised afterwards, but here I was, desperately wanting to go home, escape the busy gym and just lay...
Often we associate boredom with not having an interest in something, or not being challenged in life. Remember being ‘bored’ in school holidays? Luckily we had the good old 1990’s computer with Ski or Die and Duke Nukem (tell me you remember these games!) and of...
It’s 3am. The baby has started making noise again. It’s not too bad yet, maybe, hopefully he will go back to sleep! Ahhh...sleep. Remember the days where you got like 8 hours straight sleep (and still sometimes woke up tired !?) That was some time ago. Darn it. Bub...
