Warming up: 6 pre-run essentials.
Do you warm up before you run? Is it really necessary to warm up, isn’t a slow first mile enough? Will adding a warm up to your run really make…
The Toxic Ten: What it is and how to get past it.
Do you find the first part of your run really hard? Does it take a while before you feel comfortable? That’s certainly the case for me. No matter what distance…
Run Well – my new book!
Today is the day! My second book Run Well: Essential health questions and answers for runners is finally published. When I handed in the manuscript in April last year, just…
Active Women – meet Lucy Thorpe
When it comes to exercising, we’re often told to ‘find something you love’. There’s no doubt that will help to keep you motivated. Some of us do find that one…
Pilates with a Stoma
What is a stoma? As stoma is when a small opening is made in the wall of your abdomen and either the bowel or urine tubes are brought to the…
Making Strength Work Fun
I know that doing strength work is important. I know that I need to do it regularly but if I’m completely honest, I’ve failed. I alway struggle to keep myself…
Quick Question – How can I get rid of visceral fat?
My last quick question looked at what visceral fat is, why it’s harmful and how you can tell how much visceral fat you have. Do read that first if you…
Quick Question – What is visceral fat?
When we think of fat we probably think of subcutaneous fat. That’s the squishy fat that sits just underneath our skin. With many people complaining about their ‘bingo wings’ and…
Do You Eat Breakfast?
‘Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper’. It’s impressed upon us from an early age that breakfast is the most important meal of the…
Project Allotment – an update
I blogged back in May about how we had taken a space on our village allotment during lockdown. It was a way to get us active, working together as a…