After years of disordered eating habits, I appreciate the relaxed attitudes around food, and message of ‘Chill out and enjoy all the food’ this time of year, however, it is often under the condition: indulge ‘for a limited time only’…
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Because your body doesn’t care that you’ve had a week off, that it’s Monday and you planned to go back to training…
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I’ve rarely posted this year about numbers in terms of my training. They still happen. They still are what they are, but they don’t reflect how I want to measure my progress so I’ve chosen not to focus on them…
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So I just took a whole week off social media—man, that was hard! I’m almost ashamed to admit, but I haven’t had a week off since I started my business 6 years ago 🙈…
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So I was put under general anaesthetic for first time in my life today, something I was actually so so nervous about…
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Full-on funks like I experienced yesterday now drive me to take action to help myself…
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It’s easy to think that more training produces better results, and that doing less means we’re somehow going to lose all our gains. But I have been doing a lot less over the last few months…
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Our own opinions are inextricably shaped by our past experiences and influenced by the opinions of others— living in a society, there is no escaping that. But it doesn’t mean that we don’t get to revisit our beliefs and preferences when it comes to our appearance…
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Bodies change; they grow, they adapt, they stretch, they house babies, they fluctuate in hormones and composition. But you know what doesn’t change with it? Those f*cking shorts you keep pulling out every summer that fitted you back in 1996. Our bodies are constantly changing, so why do we expect to fit into the same shit year after year?
Read MoreWe run into problems when we attach all of our success or too much importance to one thing, like ‘I need to train x amount of times’ or even worse ‘I need to lose x amount of weight’, because failing to meet that one thing then means that we’ve ‘failed’ the week. So do yourself a favour and give yourself more things to win at, because there is a big picture, and winning feels great and keeps us moving forward.
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Thinking that the way to build muscle is to perform the craziest shit you can think of, with bands attached to every body part, swinging upside down from a cable machine with a chain dangling between your legs because it hits the bottom part of your left pec really well - when VOLUME will always be king when it comes to building muscle.
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“Needing a break isn’t weak. Taking some time to take care of yourself isn’t lazy and selfish.” - it’s fucking respecting the shit out of ourselves, is what it is 😉🙌
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Because she is a woman who is not interested in fitting into a box. She understands that her preferences and opinions have been shaped by her experiences in this world and influenced by others, but that she is free to explore them without attaching judgement; that choosing one thing over another does not make her a better or worse woman.
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Our life, our body, our choices. And as Erin Brown quite rightly says, “freedom from judgement is an inside job”. ❤️
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