by Jenny Day | Oct 17, 2023 | Fitness For Life, Personal Fitness Trainer, Strength and Conditioning
Top 5 Tips to Balance Hormones for Peri-Menopausal Women: Exercise, Sleep, and Nutrition As we approach that transformative stage in life known as perimenopause, our bodies go through a multitude of changes, and our hormones can often feel like they’re on a...
by Body Happy | Dec 11, 2017 | Fitness For Life
Temptation, it’s everywhere at Christmas time: to go for drinks with everyone and anyone, to snack on a mince pie or three and eat everything in sight at the work ‘do’ as, after all, it’s Christmas. However, before you completely over-indulge,...
by Body Happy | Dec 3, 2017 | Running
Training for an endurance event is a challenging endeavor. It demands time, determination, and sometimes a bit of selfishness to navigate those 16-odd weeks leading up to a marathon or another long-distance race. But here’s the deal – no matter how...
by Body Happy | Nov 24, 2017 | Running
Seven Tips to Survive Winter Marathon Training Because, like many of you reading this, I am a little unhinged and have decided to run a marathon in the spring, I have also decided to run through the worst months of the year. There’s no getting round it: it’s dark,...
by Body Happy | Nov 18, 2017 | Strength and Conditioning
What is muscle hypertrophy? Hypertrophy is an increase in the size of tissue or organ due to growth of individuals cells, without an increase in the number of cells (Kent, 2006). The following are different forms of hypertrophy: First of all you will have...
