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 [...]
For many years I have thought I’d like to have an office in my home where I could work on administration, client programmes, marketing, etc. Once I added online training sessions to my schedule, I wanted this even more, as asking my husband to move out of the living room every Thursday evening to do [...]
We are heading out of winter and into spring when, in the Netherlands, we have a flurry of public holidays, start to head off for long weekends and look to book summer holidays. I am seeing clients doing more business travel again as well. So, how do you make sure you train when you are away? It [...]
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: [...]
I recently read that if the parent participates in sports or goes to training sessions with the kids, children are more likely to participate in sports themselves. I can’t remember where I read this anymore, so I hope I didn’t make it up. But it did make me look back and reflect on where my love of [...]
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 [...]
In the Netherlands right now we have a flurry of days off (for some reason they are all around the same time of year, and then nothing until Christmas). On these days/long weekends there are many reasons to avoid movement, eat more than usual and socialise. And while this is really good for us [...]
A lot of my posts are on serious topics and I thought that it was time to have a bit of fun. Of course, we like to have good workouts but it is also important to have a bit of fun alongside. So what do you think about these exercises with unusual names or renamed [...]
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 [...]
