health and happiness
This has been a tough year for everyone, some people can cope with change and disorder better than others but this has been a lot for for anyone. Some people, as you have probably seen on social media, have thrived in quarantine baking, exercising, starting projects and generally winning this pandemic.... on the surface. This…
It’s January! And that means there’s a whole lot of New Years Resolutions about....I personally don’t really give myself New Years resolutions because I’m rubbish at sticking to them...however I do line setting myself a proper goal (which is like the same, right?) The thing with goals and resolutions is that if not done properly…
I’m sure we can all agree with that, right? Today my workout started great, I was lifting heavy, enjoying myself and feeling great... one slightly wrong move with a dumbbell and I twig an old injury in my shoulder at the same time I receive an extremely irritating text cancelling an appointment. Well honestly, I…
Everyone has something going on, the stigma on mental health means that most people go with out diagnosis and without any kind of help or support. That can be as little as someone asking them how they really are and allowing them to speak freely. So I am continuing on this Mental Health Awareness Week…
The theme of this years Mental Health Awareness week is Stress. The Mental Health Foundation ran a study that showed around 74% of people at some point have felt unable to cope due to stress. Stress can lead to both physical mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, muscle pain and heart disease. That…
This workout is the third in my ‘back to basics’ mini series. This one however isn’t quite so basic. I wanted to show you how you can take the basic steps and develop them into more complex exercises, so this one is an example of the kind of exercises you can put together. You can…
This workout is to follow on from my Back to Basics workout where the aim is to develop our exercises from the basic technique to complex exercises incorporating more muscles. You can find the previous workout here. As I said in the last workout, these moves may be considered “basic” but they are staples of…
Continue reading ➞ Back to Basics Workout 2- Return of the Basics
My last blog post talked about goal setting and how you can use that to focus your resolutions (new years or otherwise) and keep on track rather than give up come February! So as promised here is a post about my goals and how I have used that to get myself out of the rut…
A saying people hear all too often around this time every year.
There is such a debate going on on social media about this one saying.
There is no pressure here. Not from anyone but yourself.
We all know that doing things in life- takes energy. However, how much energy these things require differ from person to person, it can also be affected by things such as mental health, current situations, sleep and nutrition. I didn’t really think about this until a social situation came up and in my head I…
