Every year in the week leading up to Christmas, I do a fun workout for my group classes called "12 Exercises of Christmas" Basically, you use the song “The twelve days of Christmas”, do you know it? If not here is someone singing it better than I could 😉 To summarise, the first few lines go: 🎶 On [...]
I am launching a new class, and you are the first ones to learn about it! My new Strength and Movement class is focused on strength and movement (as the title implies 😀 ) for mainly women over 35. We will focus on strength exercises using minimal equipment. There will be two types of classes: one will be a live [...]
As I mentioned here, we moved into a new house earlier this year. With it came the much dreamed chance to have a new office. I put a call out to you guys to help me come up with ideas on how I could design the room, with specific emphasis on the background for zoom classes and [...]
Perimenopause is the time around menopause when your ovaries gradually stop working. This is a natural process that can cause physical and emotional symptoms, but in the years that lead up to menopause (and beyond), there are many things we can do to help the transition. Every woman will experience this transition differently. Some [...]
How do you feel about new year’s resolutions? Do you make any? Do you follow through with them? Do you make them about your health and/or fitness? Or maybe work related? Personally I don’t make new year’s resolutions. I like to make good decisions about my health throughout the year and slowly work on habits [...]
Every year in the week leading up to Christmas, I have a tradition of doing a workout called "12 Exercises of Christmas". If you are familiar with the song the 12 Days of Christmas, you will soon get an idea of how this works. "On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave me: [...]
Winter is coming! ❄️ Going for a run or a workout when it’s cold outside may not seem like the easiest thing to do. Even if you want to do it, you may lack motivation. A winter workout can give you the chills, literally! The right mindset and preparation can make a big difference between continuing to [...]
By Sandra de Gelder I have been exercising in one way or another for most of my life. As a child, I was taught and shown the importance of training for my physical body and tried many different forms of sports, from tennis to jazz ballet, windsurfing and basketball. My parents made me always do [...]
I recently had to take a forced break from the volume of training I am used to doing. I had about 8 weeks of one thing after another happening to me. It started with covid, which took about a month to clear. Slightly worried I wouldn’t be ready to train hard, I still [...]
What does this mean to you? Can anyone wear a bikini? Is it an unusual statement? I am curious to know what you think. Every year around this time we are bombarded by messages like “get in shape for the summer”, “get into bikini body shape”, “how to make your body summer-ready”, and “get a bikini body [...]
