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How Does Sleep Affect Your Exercise Performance

How Does Sleep Affect Your Exercise Performance

A few weeks ago I was asked to contribute to an Argos article about ‘How to Perfect the a Good Night’s Sleep’ and wrote about how fitness helps me sleep better – I always sleep deeply when my body is exhausted! However I try to avoid anything...
30 Minute Lunchbreak Treadmill Workouts

30 Minute Lunchbreak Treadmill Workouts

We’ve been seriously lucky with our Autumn so far in London, and although it’s been a little wet, it hasn’t got too cold yet. I haven’t trained over winter for a race for about 2 years, and although I don’t have any spring marathon plans,...
Gymtimidation

Gymtimidation

I remember the first fitness class I ever attended years ago, I went with a colleague to a gym round the corner from work (using a free day pass) to try a BodyPump class. I’d read lots about BodyPump on blogs that I read at the time and I was excited to give it...
Sport vs. Exercise

Sport vs. Exercise

Speaking with a friend recently about training, she told me that she ‘liked sport but not exercise’. To which I probably unhelpfully replied, ‘but you’re so much better at sport when you’re fit, and exercise makes you fitter’;...