Making Health Easy, Fun – and Just a Little Bit Surprising
Did you know that we have two types of muscle fibre in our muscles – fast and slow – and that targetting the right type for the sports you love to do could improve your performance? Neither did I until I read about it the other day… So there I…
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The Pilates Reformer is a brilliant piece of exercise equipment. It lets you carry out a number of different Pilates moves on the whole body and uses springs, pulleys and cables to increase the resistance – this means it can work the body more intensely than just doing Pilates moves…
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I’ve always been a big fan of working out at home. Time is the thing I’m generally shortest of and, sometimes, the extra half an hour it takes for me to get to the gym and back can mean a workout takes more time than I have and so, I’m…
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When you first start going to the gym, it can be a bit intimidating. You’re there trying to lift the smallest dumbell or pushing the machine with just one or two weights on it, surrounded by people grunting and throwing around items that weigh the same amount as a small…
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The other day a personal trainer I know was confused. She had signed up a new client, but they had asked if they could just put their sessions on hold for a few weeks as they were having her eyebrows microbladed. This confused said trainer as she couldn’t work out…
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In days gone by, I used to run purely with a set of keys tied to my shoes with my shoelace – but as distances went on, I decided I might also need some money or a travelcard for the bus home, if it was cold I might need my…
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Are you about to try your first Pilates class and a bit nervous about what to expect or what’s going to happen? Yep, I’ve been there – which is why I’ve put together this Pilates 101 post. It’s basically a beginner’s guide to Pilates answering all the questions I had…
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I’m in the middle of a park in Sydney handing a sample of my blood to a man covered in tattoos – admittedly this is normally how crime novels start, not fitness blogs, but hey, this blog isn’t named Not Your Normal Health Blog for nothing and the man covered…
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If you’re off to the pub for lunch while on a diet or trying to watch your calories, two things can happen – you can think all bets are off and just order whatever sounds good, or, you can try and work out what the lowest calorie dish is on…
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Here’s a fascinating statistic, over 100,000 people have visited this blog looking for the calorie counts of the chain restaurants in the UK. It’s been updated a few times, calorie counts have come and gone, new restaurants have appeared and others have vanished off the face of the earth but…
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