Menopause Advice

I regularly post with useful tips to help you with your fitness and nutrition. If you are just getting back to exercise after the birth of your baby or regularly attend my classes you'll find some useful information here.

May 30 2025

Fitness, Menopause Advice, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Women's Health

Quick tips on the ‘whys’ of exercising in the menopause

Why trying to breathe into the ribs can help you when doing exercise Essentially, you just want to avoid the 'bearing down' of pressure which is done when you tense everything too much, hold your breath or push the tummy out hard. Please don't stress about not being able to ...

Apr 18 2025

Menopause Advice, Self Care, Women's Health

Fibroids: what are they & what can you do?

FIBROIDS I met up with an old friend recently after she had contacted me about what she had been going through with what she initially thought was peri menopausal symptoms – very heavy bleeding. However, it ended up that she had fibroids. The thing was, she was going through a ...

Dec 7 2024

Menopause Advice, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Women's Health

Urge Incontinence

Understanding Urge Incontinence in Women Urge incontinence, also known as overactive bladder (OAB), is a common condition that affects many women. It is characterized by a sudden, urgent need to urinate, often leading to involuntary leakage of urine before reaching the loo. Any form of incontinence can have a big ...

Nov 23 2024

Menopause Advice, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Women's Health

Urinary Stress Incontinence

What is Urinary Incontinence? There are several different types of urinary incontinence, with different causes. 1. Stress incontinence refers to leakage that occurs due to excessive intra-abdominal pressure and the stress it puts on the pelvic floor. This leakage usually happens during activities like running, jumping, sneezing, coughing, laughing, lifting ...

Oct 26 2024

Fitness, Menopause Advice, mental health, movement & stiffness, Online membership, Self Care, Women's Health

I Don’t have TIME

How many times have you said - "I just don't have time to exercise"? TIME SCARCE I totally get it, many of you have really full on lives - work, family, parents, pets - full on commitments which means you get very little time to yourself and when you do ...

Aug 30 2024

Fitness, Menopause Advice, Postnatal Exercise, Self Care, Women's Health

Stress & Cortisol

How much time do you give to trying to de-stress or really focus on how you are feeling?? It's a question I ask my clients, especially those who come to me 6 months+ after having kids, or menopausal clients. I look at stress as one of the top things women ...

May 26 2024

Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Online membership, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Postnatal Exercise, Women's Health

How can I stay fitter & stronger as I age??

I know I have talked about these subjects a lot, but a few ladies fed back to me when I asked what they wanted to see in my newsletters. So I thought I would take a new approach to talking about fitness & strength as we age. In the ideal ...

Bones of the pelvis, for help understanding if your pelvic floor needs help.

Feb 15 2024

Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Self Care, Women's Health

Bone Health

Do you ever think about how important your skeleton is or how much you need strong bones? Probably not as it isn't something we think about as much as maybe our weight. Stop & think about it. Our bones are essential to our health and survival. Remarkably, paying attention to ...

Feb 3 2024

Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Women's Health

Heart Health in Women

What do you think if I told you that exercise/movement is like a wonder drug? Evidence shows that physical activity can help with the following: improves wellbeing improves mood helps with weight management helps reduce chronic stress strengthens muscles strengthens bones helps regulate blood pressure & cholesterol helps reduce heart ...

Nov 15 2023

Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Online membership, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Postnatal Exercise, Self Care, Women's Health

How to get a ‘Bang for your Buck’

Most of us are short of time. There never seems to be enough hours in the day – or I certainly find that. I am sure the older we get time seems to zoom by even faster. You may be someone who enjoys doing cardio exercise but feels they want ...

Nov 12 2023

Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Postnatal Exercise, Women's Health

A little is better than nothing

Small habits may become bigger habits! A few years ago I listened to Chatterjee podcast with BJ Fog, a behavioural scientist, called 'The Secret to making new habits stick'. I then bought his book 'Tiny Habits'. I'm telling you this as the one thing I took note of and thought ...

Oct 6 2023

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Are you menopausal & do you have breast cancer?

Do you have cancer? Are you experiencing induced or premature menopause due to treatment? I wanted to focus on both breast cancer and menopause as it is a month dedicated to the awareness of both. However, I think it is an area where women can feel neglected or they feel ...

Aug 25 2023

Fitness, Menopause Advice, Nutrition, Postnatal Exercise, Pregnancy Support, Women's Health

Why we all need fat!

I thought I would offer a completely different look at fat and how it affects how we look at our bodies. Are you one of the millions who 'hates' her lumps & bumps or is always trying to lose weight?? Have you ever actually thought about WHY we have fat ...

Aug 23 2023

Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Women's Health

Strength work for runners or sports women

Do you do a sport or are you a runner?? Do you just turn up to training or a game or just go and run? If so, do you want to know how to improve your game or run? For Runners Many of you are runners, so I will look ...

Aug 11 2023

Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Self Care, Women's Health

Why do I ache so much? What can I do about it?

If you’re like me, you wake up every morning with a slightly achy hip or shoulder or lower back. It is an age thing but it is also very much a menopause symptom. Obviously, there are lots of reasons we become more stiff or achy as we age, it is ...

Vicki Hill Women's fitness classes for postnatal mums.

Jul 26 2023

Fitness, Menopause Advice, Menstrual Advice, movement & stiffness, Postnatal Exercise, Self Care, Women's Health

SO, WHAT CAN I DO? Part 2

Part 2 of the What Can I do? Series. As I said in the last blog, it is frustrating as there can be so much out there and you just don’t know what is right or which you should try. Here are a few more pieces of advice. These are ...

Jul 15 2023

Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Nutrition, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Postnatal Exercise, Self Care, Women's Health

What can I do?

SO, WHAT CAN I DO? It can be really frustrating; you are told so many different things on how to do this or how to do that. However, have you found that often you read blogs or emails to draw you in, but they don’t answer your question? I follow ...

Jun 18 2023

Menopause Advice, mental health, Nutrition, Self Care, Women's Health

The wonders of blueberries!

Blueberries & the health benefits Amazing how these little fruits can be so beneficial for the body. The latest research from Kings College London & Reading Uni has been published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. It has found that eating just a handful of blueberries daily for 3 ...

May 20 2023

Menopause Advice, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Postnatal Exercise, Women's Health

All about Hypopressives

You may have seen that I trained in Hypopressives last year. You also may still be wondering – well what on earth are hypopressives & how can they help with a pelvic organ prolapse or dysfunctional pelvic floor?? You may be reading this as you do have a prolapse or ...

Apr 20 2023

Fitness, Menopause Advice, Menstrual Advice, Postnatal Exercise, Self Care, Women's Health

The hormones Explained

How often do you feel really tired or angry or want to eat crap food just before you have your period? How often do you actually think about your energy levels and your monthly cycle? If you do still have periods, the most useful tool you can get - is ...

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Menopause Advice, Self Care, Women's Health

Menopause Advice, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Women's Health

Menopause Advice, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Women's Health

Fitness, Menopause Advice, mental health, movement & stiffness, Online membership, Self Care, Women's Health

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Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Online membership, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Postnatal Exercise, Women's Health

Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Self Care, Women's Health

Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Women's Health

Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Online membership, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Postnatal Exercise, Self Care, Women's Health

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Fitness, Menopause Advice, movement & stiffness, Nutrition, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Postnatal Exercise, Self Care, Women's Health

Menopause Advice, mental health, Nutrition, Self Care, Women's Health

Menopause Advice, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Postnatal Exercise, Women's Health

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