Happy New Year! We are now into January. It is typically a time of the year when goals are already made and broken. Have you set goals? How are you getting on? If you find it hard to set up your fitness goals, here are 3 of my top tips for setting them. Pick something [...]
Yes! Another race report. Second and final triathlon of the season was on the 25th of September at the Bosbaan here in Amsterdam. It was an Olympic distance (750m swim, 40km bike, 10km run). It is always fun to do a local race, but as we haven’t been racing for a while, this race also [...]
We tend to associate incontinence with being postnatal, but did you know that many women suffer from incontinence during perimenopause? And no, no one wants to talk about it. Firstly, let’s talk about what urinary incontinence is. Incontinence is when you are no longer able to control your bladder and there is leakage in urine. [...]
This blog isn’t about my challenge, but that of a new friend Jane. She is a client of a colleague, and we used to just say hi in the gym until a few weeks after lockdown when I got a message from her asking about whether open water swimming was possible because the pools were [...]
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 [...]
I am currently 45 and a couple of years ago I started experiencing some mild symptoms. After some reading, I realised I had started the perimenopause. This experience made me realise that this topic isn’t really spoken about much. I had heard of menopause - but that is when you are 50 or so, isn’t [...]
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 [...]
