Exercise is great for your mental health, as well as your physical health. Remember: You do not need to be Athletic or a super active person to benefit. I personally love exercise. I love planning my workouts, trying new things and the muscle soreness after a great workout that tells me I’ve worked hard. I…
Category: exercise and sport
National Fitness Day
22 September is National Fitness Day in the UK. Exercise is a major passion for me, and is also how I manage my health (both physical and mental). There is a great website with lots of resources and training tips on the official website. Check it here
Blog: Perfect? Perfection? Erm, No Thanks!
Hello I hope all is well. I had a busy weekend making urgent changes to my garden fencing following an attempted break in recently. I’m grateful they failed, and my security cameras recorded everything. The new fence amendments are not perfect, but certainly are an improvement. Perfect – its quite a simple word isn’t it,…
Get Active Blog: Refresh
Hello World I hope everyone is doing well this week. I recently had a revamp of my exercise goals. I found my previous goals were impacting my enjoyment, and it was time for a refresh. I am now focusing purely on the goals of boosting and maintaining intensity and keeping the exercise enjoyable. I’ve added…
Blog: Find your awesome
I had a great conversation yesterday at work – and to basically sum it up I said: “you don’t need to compete against anyone else in life to be awesome.” We often compare ourselves to others. People are unique. All the complex factors that make up a life means we all have a unique existence….
Blog: Digital Wellbeing
I have been beta testing a new Wellbeing app recently, and I have learned a few things by doing so. I don’t very often use Wellbeing smart phone apps, but I love technology and have a long history of beta testing both at work and video games. What smart phone wellbeing apps do you use? Certainly…
Get Active Blog: Surviving
I am determined to focus on good and positive things now. Grief takes time, but now the funeral has happened I want to focus on the good in my life. I am focusing on exercise at the moment and have managed to return to running this week after taking a week and a half off…
Get Active Blog: Escapism
Hello All I returned from the first leg of my journey, and have been enjoying three days at home before the second part of my adventure. This was written on the afternoon of 3 June, Today I went for my first run in over a week. As much as I enjoy running, I took a…
My IDONTMIND Mental Health Run
I am back after my caravan holiday in North Yorkshire. During my stay I completed my 10K Mental Health Run. I will talk about how it went below, but I’d first like to share the video I produced about my mental health run. Share this journey with me, see the scenery and here why conversations…
Blog: We ALL have mental health
I am taking a long weekend, and will also be on holiday from tomorrow morning too. Its been a very busy week, after a full day delivering training yesterday my voice is struggling this morning. Definitely ready for some me time! Over the weekend I will be doing my IDONTMIND Mental Health run. I’ve been…
Better Days Wellbeing 