Couch to 5K

New to fitness, but don’t know where to start? Want to give running ago, but not quite sure how to progress? If you answered yes to either of those questions you might be interested in the couch to 5K running programme from the NHS. Over a nine week period it will help you start a…

MIDWEEK: Blog and News Round Up

So its Wednesday again, time for the midweek blog and round up. What does inclusion mean to you? That is a question I’ve been thinking about lately. It is not necessarily something that can easily be measured on a large scale. I feel its often that comes down to the individual, how they act and…

Sleep and your heart rate

Have you ever wondered how sleep effects your heart rate. A smart watch can give you some insight if you wear one, but for many of us it will remain a mystery. I read a great article on the Harvard Medical School website on the topic. You can check out the full article here. Here…

Get Active Blog: I’m Resting Up

Today I’ve had to take an extra rest day, after weeks of higher intensity training, the muscle soreness has caught up with me… significantly.  I am not new to exercise, and therefore I plan workouts carefully to have higher and lower intensity days, whilst maintaining one full rest day per week.  But over time it…

Blue Monday

Today (Monday 18 January) is blue Monday.  It is the third Monday of the year, and is known by some (or many) to be the most depressing day of the year. This is supposedly due to a combination of bad weather, long nights and the lingering negatives of Christmas (over indulging and financial pressures etc)….

Midweek Blog + Round Up: 6 January 2021

The turning of the clock happens, it keeps happening.  Time is one of the few constants in the world.  Sadly, the change of one day to the next does not change the situation we are in.  The new year has started with us back in a lockdown, across the entire of the UK. Again we…

Blog: A time to reflect

Happy New Year! I hope 2021 brings good health and happiness to you all. Over the Christmas break, I was watching the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special from 2019 with my wife. It triggered a conversation as to how different “our world” was just 12 months ago when we had watched it previously. My initial…

Resolutions

Resolutions, love them or hate, many of us artifically try to change our life on the 1 January each year. They are rarely more than a statement of intent, there is no real planning or depth behind the idea. As we move through January, resolutions often fade from our memory or become a tool to…

End of the year

Hello Everyone I just wanted to take a moment out to thank you all for your support in 2020. We launched on 30 October and the pace of this site has been very fast since this date. I appreciate 2020 has been such a difficult year for so many of us. The ways in which…

Training Video: A year in review

We are now on YouTube. We are presenting a brand new training video that will give you a new activity to try. This activity prepares you to review the year ahead – starting now. This is a short activity that begins now, and end in December 2021. You start to review the year ahead, before…