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A New Chapter for Female Fitness | ‘Brain Day’

If I asked you what one of the biggest muscles in your body was, what would your answer be? My answer would have been Glutes. It would never have occured to me to answer the brain. I mean how many of you have a ‘brain training day‘ where you focus solely on exercising your brain? …

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Journey to the Stage | UKBFF Nationals | Competition Tips

In March or April, I do abound, A certain Bunny leaves me on the ground. What am I? Fun little riddle to end the long Easter weekend, the only time it’s deemed socially acceptable to eat chocolate for breakfast! Admit it, how many of you took advantage of this? (I did!) Aside from being a …

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International Chest Day

I don’t want square boobs so let’s not work on chest – another misguided cracker straight from yours truly. Yeah, as The Body Coach would say ‘GUILTY‘. Up until very recently, chest day wasn’t even a thing in my fitness regime. Why would I want to work chest. I’m flat chested enough as it is …

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Fallen off the wagon | Get back up.

“Don’t confuse one defeat with total defeat”. Every moment is a new opportunity but if you aren’t looking for them then you’re going to miss them. Hey lovlies, Hope you have all had a fabulous week! I wish I could say I had. Unfortunately, it seems I have fallen off the wagon a little bit …

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Absolutely fabulous | Ab exercises that dont suck

There is no such thing as a ‘bad day’. Only a ‘bad moment that lingers’. THIS moment is an opportunity to turn it all around. Have you ever had ‘one of them days‘ where literally everything, literally everrrrything you had planned just unfolds before your eyes and it all just seems like its spiraling out …

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Going For It | Journey to the stage

If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough! OK. This is kind of a huge step for me. I have finally decided to stop running scared, you know from that dream that is so big it sometimes feels as though it is your worst nightmare. For around 2 years now I have allowed …

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End of Month Check In | A New Milestone

Only look back to see how far you’ve come. Is it me or has January absolutely flown by! I’m going to take that as a good thing though, given the saying time flies when your having fun! It’s been a month of fun so far. At the beginning of the month I started a …

Travel

Fit Girl Guide | Trafford, Manchester

MCR It may seem slightly bizarre to you that Trafford has made the cut for the ‘Fit Girl Guide’ series, given that it is literally a 30 minute drive from my house but there is good reason for it. Not only is it home to one of my favorite places to go have some fun …

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Gym Lingo

One of the very first things I struggled with at the beginning of this journey was the terminology. Reading programs and getting advice from people just seemed like I was being spoken to in a foreign language. Even today there are still terms I come across which require a quick google define. Rather than having …

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Physique Update

This is my current physique. A short while ago, this would have been a depressing picture to me because it demonstrates how hard this journey is and that there is still a long way to go before goals that have been set are achieved. Now however, this picture makes me proud. Now it demonstrates to …