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 [...]
Probably hot flashes is the most associated symptom with the perimenopause. I am sure growing up we all had an older female relative who suffered badly from this. Photo by Joel Muniz on Unsplash Associated with the hot flashes, women can also suffer from night sweats and cold flashes. I’ve experienced becoming hot [...]
While following a course on post natal training by Burrell Education I was made aware, via their marketing, of the fact that later in life women will hit perimenopause before their menopause, but I hadn’t realised at that point I might experience this already. I was 43 when I was suddenly experiencing wakeful nights. It [...]
A big revelation happened after watching this Ted Talk by Stacy Sims. She explains how research around sports performance is done on men because “women are an anomaly”. This means that the fact that women menstruate has led to us women being ignored by sports research. Luckily she has taken this up and done her own [...]
On my new bike trainer It is more than 10 months since the first lockdown in the Netherlands took place. We now have a curfew and it is really tough for many people. My number one way to keep my spirits up over this period is to always be grateful for what I [...]
As I write this we are just beyond the second week of the energy boost challenge. What have been the takeaways so far? This is the first time I have held a fitness challenge and I have to say the uptake and enthusiasm for it has surpassed my expectations! I wanted to take a few [...]
Due to lockdown, I threw myself into finding solutions to keeping both my business going as well as my clients fit. Because of the unusual nature of my working from home I was featured in the Het Parool newspaper last week. Here is the photo and if you want to read it you can scroll [...]
Given the current rules around social distancing, I quickly moved my business online. This has become my new normal for the last 4 weeks. It isn’t the first time I have done online training sessions, but they have been on occasion, for clients on business trips in hotels, or I had one client who went [...]
One of the important aspects of training which helps with making progress is being consistent. If you train once every couple of weeks you won't make progress, however, if you can commit to two or three sessions a week it is definitely possible to make gains in strength, condition and your health. I have had [...]
