In the first of our ‘Yoga Pose of the Week’ series. InstructorLive yoga Instructor Beth Win shows us how to perform trikonasana (or ‘tricky triangle’) as it’s also known. (more…)
In the second of our ‘Yoga Pose of the Week’ series. InstructorLive yoga Instructor Beth Win shows us how to perform Arda-Chandrasana (or ‘Half-Moon’ Pose) as it’s also known. (more…)
Juggling a baby and exercise can be very difficult, so why not combine both (we wouldn’t advise literally juggling your baby). We recently wrote a post: ‘Exercise and a New and Exhausted Mum’that discussed the fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle of a new mum. We wanted to expand on this topic a bit and give you some exercises to do with your baby when you deem them old enough – we recommend your baby being six months or older. (more…)
Do you want a way to burn more calories, lose more fat, and improve your cardio fitness level while spending less time actually working out? Here it is! (more…)
Finding time to even shower as a new mum is often hard, never mind fitting exercise into your day. It is often difficult to know where and when to start. It sometimes appears that celebrity mums are blessed with amazing weight loss powers and are already back in their bikinis within one week of giving birth. However, experts agree that we shouldn’t put that kind of pressure on ourselves. (And let’s remember; they probably have a nanny, personal trainer, cook, and airbrushing experts to help them!). (more…)
The 30 Day Squat Challenge is an extremely popular exercise craze at the moment and has been whizzing all round the internet. Did we want to do some further research to find out if, after all that work, is it worth it? (more…)
Recently, we asked our Facebook community (here) whether they were also fed up with hearing that Yoga and Pilates are ‘easy’ and not a ‘proper workout’. (more…)
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a circus performer? Wonder no more! We asked professional ‘flag-monster’ aerial acrobat, actor and pole performer Dickon Savage to shed some light on what lies beneath the life of an acrobatic act. (more…)
We’ve come along way since the Jane Fonda workout videos of the 80’s and then Cindy Crawford in the 90’s. But the latter half of the 2000’s has really seen an explosion in the number of digital and virtual exercises programmes available to us. Of course there’s the huge global success ofWii Fit and more recently this year, the Nike+Kinect on Xbox. So we thought we’d give you an overview and test if they are just as good as the more traditional approaches to exercise and fitness. (more…)