Fitness

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.

Apr 6 2025

Fitness, Self Care, Women's Health

The benefits of nasal breathing

I know we all breathe every second, without thinking about it, but you know that I am ALWAYS harking on about breathwork - to help pelvic health due to the direct connection between the diaphragm and pelvic floor. Why nasal breath? However, If you want to enhance your endurance and ...

Hope, Positiveness & that niggling Anxiety

Nov 7 2024

Fitness

How much exercise should I be doing??

REALISTICALLY, HOW MUCH EXERCISE SHOULD I BE DOING? Do you feel overwhelmed when it comes to exercise? Do you read about how you 'should' be doing this or that, especially as you age? Do you want to start exercising, but always have something else that needs to be done which ...

Nov 1 2024

Fitness

How can I create a routine?

I am asked this a lot - how can I fit in sessions or make a routine. Basically - if you really WANT to do something & to get healthier only YOU can do it. You HAVE GOT TO make some time. We can all make every excuse under the ...

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 ...

Feb 29 2024

Fitness, mental health, Self Care, Women's Health

STRESS – why we need to know about it

I talk a lot about trying to get some ‘me time’ ie downtime, especially when you have a lot going on or are a bit stressed. Today, I thought I would clear a few things up about stress, so you don’t end up stressing about being stressed and know what ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apr 22 2023

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

The Benefits of my Online Membership

I am very excited to be branching out into the realm of online memberships for exercises / workouts. I have worked really hard at creating this and it has taken me FOREVER! Those who know me, know that websites & anything technical like IT, are just not my friend! With ...

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 ...

Apr 8 2023

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

HOW TO PROGRESS YOUR EXERCISE EFFECTIVELY

People often wonder why they are not getting fitter or stronger, or are just unsure how to. I hope this blog will help those of you who want to try to build up a good training plan. There are a few key rules to try and follow to improve your ...

Jan 28 2023

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

Quick fire movement exercises

Something is ALWAYS better than nothing!! Do you procrastinate, thinking about doing some exercise, weighing up whether there is time to fit it in- plus shower after. Do you then find more time has gone by and think "oh damn I haven't got time to do a 30 min run ...

Jan 1 2023

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

How to set realistic & long-lived goals

I think I write something every new year, about trying NOT to set too many New year resolutions!!! I say probably say, every year – THEY DON’T WORK!! IF you write to me to say, sorry but they do work as I have carried on with my new year resolution ...

Fitness

Fitness, Self Care, Women's Health

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

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

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

Fitness, mental health, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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