Trail riding
Feb0
If you are in an area where you can get up into the hills – GOOOOO! It’s so incredibly exhilarating to ride high over the ridges – even though the climb up to the ridge and the bit down again usually will take the most time and the easy riding on the top will only be a fragment of the journey 
To find great trails, first find your local bikestore, ... Read More
Building up your training
Aug1
It’s not always easy to know how to go about building up your training, rather then doing the same thing day-in-day-out, week-in-week-out. It’s hard enough to simply train at least 3-4 times each week.
Ofcourse, your training schedule depends on what you are training for. If you are aiming for a certain race – your goal is pretty fixed and you will need to make sure you get to your best performance around that time. But your goal could simply be to lose some weight, ... Read More
Measuring up…
Jul0
As I see yet another magazine proclaiming to get you that hot “beach body” within a week, I thought I might do a little overview of how best to measure whether you are getting anywhere near that ideal.. Mind you, never understood the overkill on getting to that Beach Body. To me a beautiful body is anyone who is looking healthy, with a zest for life and confidence in themselves!
However, even for health it is good to know where you are at, and benchmarking against ... Read More
Be creative!
Jun0
Ready for the weekend?? I am – weather is going to be great so I will be out there enjoying myself
When it gets to being summer, I always find myself disliking heading to the gym. Not because I don’t want to be working out, but simply because it is INSIDE, and I want to be out there in the gorgeous weather, feeling the sun on my skin (or rain more likely in ... Read More
And then it’s late….
Jun0
So these are the days that exercising can be so hard – it’s been a nice sunny day out there, you have been out with some friends straight from work and you are feeling exceedingly lazy and definitely not in the mood to even think about working out.
Well for one thing – if you have had a few drinks (alcoholic ones that is) – a hard exercise session is probably not a good idea in any case, but you could do a lot worse then just putting on those comfy shoes and ... Read More
Tips from a Pro – Diets
Jun0
Following my write-up yesterday, I am getting more and more feedback – thank you! It’s interesting to see that whilst we collectively know quite a lot about fitness, and looking after our health, we still get totally fazed by all the myths that are out there. So Nando, PT and Masseur at 1-2-1 Trainers pulled some myths out of his healthy hat and asked me to share them with you.
Here’s some of Nando’s thoughts on food/diets:
There is so much misinformation ... Read More
Quick sweet treat
Jun0
One great sweet treat that you can prepare v. easily is the following:
Grab a sheet of aluminium foil.
Half a ripe necatarine or peach – take the stone out and put both halves on the foil.
In the bowl where the stone was on one half – add a crumbed amaretti biscuit (italian), preferably the softer variety.
Sprinkle over a little Grand Marnier, Almond liqueur or almond essence – don’t worry – the alcohol will evaporate.
add a ... Read More
Heartrate monitoring
Jun0
When you are looking to improve your fitness, you will at some point need to invest in a heart rate monitor.
Many people train for years without them of course, they tend to be reasonably expensive if you want to get a good one and most of the recreational sports enthusiasts don’t really know what they offer. However, I absolutely think they are essential at almost any level – since they are a way of measuring WHAT you are actually doing and will help you gain more from the ... Read More
How to stay fit – whilst working like mad…. mini-workout!
Jun0
Everyone these days suffers from one of two things – or even a combination… You feel overworked and you are stressing about the state of the economy, be it on a micro (personal) level or on a macro (global) level. And then there’s me cheerfully telling you that you need to work out. I am sure over the past week, you may have read my posts and gone “yea, right – she’s probably not doing anything else so it’s OK for her to talk…”. Well ... Read More
Mid-Week Crisis?
Jun0
It’s like a mini mid-life crisis every single week – you have started out enthusiastically on Monday with the best intentions of working out every day, and suddenly it is Wednesday and you haven’t actually gotten out there yet so you feel miserable and a loser. Or something like that It’s called the mid-week crisis. And you are not alone.
I read a great ... Read More
