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Menopause Advice 

I regularly post with useful tips to help you with your fitness and nutrition. If you are just getting back to exercise after the birth of your baby or regularly attend my classes you'll find some useful information here.

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Our Monthly Cycle & Our Hormones

Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise

Our Monthly Cycle & Our Hormones

How our hormones affect us during the monthly cycle Have you ever really followed your monthly cycle?? Many women don't.  They don't think of it except for maybe knowing they are coming on as they are eating more or getting very irritable or getting very bloated.  However, have you ever ...
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What is a Pelvic Organ Prolapse?

Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise

What is a Pelvic Organ Prolapse?

June is Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) Awareness month ..... Do you know what a pelvic organ prolapse/POP is?? Basically it is when the fascia and ligaments in your pelvic floor muscles relax and your pelvic organs move out of place.  It feels like your pelvic organs are bulging into each ...
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In Vicki Hill's PT studio

Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

Where are you now?

Isn't it odd, we are now nearly 1/2 way through the year!! Sorry, maybe you didn't want to be reminded of that, having spent nearly 3 months of the year house bound.  Looking back at the start of the year and all your good intentions for the year 2020 - ...
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Why its good to progress gradually

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

Why its good to progress gradually

Progress safely I am definitely from the school of slow and steady progression.  Many a time I have heard about someone coming back from an injury too soon, pushed it too much and wham bam - back to where they started with their injury!! I know most of us are ...
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Well-being and anxiety.

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

Hope, Positiveness & that niggling Anxiety

How are you all doing?? How have YOU been coping with the change in your life? It has been so interesting reading about and hearing from different friends at this time - a common theme has been about their not sleeping well or this general feeling of anxiety they have. ...
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Fitness in Menopause.

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

Are you Exercising ‘right’ for your body?

Are you doing the right exercise to suit your body? This is something I really wanted to put out there at this very unique time of our lives.  It is unique in so many ways - we are stuck at home, home teaching, allowed to go outdoors 1x a day ...
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Evening fitness classes are fun and get you working on your strength and fitness.

Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

Online & Live classes are going well. Do join me, if you can!

How are YOU 6 weeks in? Updated 18 March 2020 Hi Everyone, A very quick hello to see how everyone is getting on. For those who have joined me for classes I hope you are enjoying them and thank you. They are going really well, apart from a few hiccups ...
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Fitness in Menopause.

Menopause Advice

Fitness Series Part One – Fitness in Menopause

How can I get fitter?  What can I do to improve my fitness?  I've hit a plateau - what can I do? These are many of the questions I get from all ladies I work with from all the different fields of women's health.  So I have decided to take ...
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An interesting take on non-dairy milks

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

An interesting take on non-dairy milks

This is a topic everyone is talking about going into 2020. Importantly, it is about looking at alternatives to save our planet.  It is amazing how many people are now turning to Veganism or have done Veganary – if you are one, I would love to know how you got ...
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Vicki Hill Women's Health and Fitness

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

How is your back or Pelvic Floor pressure when lifting?

I have had a few questions sent to me by Imogen, one of my Buggyfit Mum's, who has asked advise with lifting - especially when in a difficult position. This applies to EVERYONE, not just new mum's. How do you lift?? Do you bend from the tummy?  Do you know ...
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End of a Decade & How are YOU?

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

End of a Decade & How are YOU?

Wow can you believe we are coming to an end of this decade! Into the 2020's next month. Are you the type to spend time thinking about what you have done these last few years?  Or do you look ahead at new horizons and think about what you would like ...
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The Impact of Stress on our Bodies

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

The Impact of Stress on our Bodies

This year has been a bit of an emotionally stressful one for me and I have definitely felt it in my body.  I don't think we realise how much pressure our body takes and how hard it has to work when stressed. In the work I do, I spend so ...
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Menopause Fitness

Menopause Advice

New – Menopause Fitness

I'm very excited to be in the process of introducing a course which I believe is totally new to Bristol, new to many women & not just an exercise class.  I am creating a course for women who are peri-menopausal, going through the menopause or post menopause.  It will be ...
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How Stress affects our bodies

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

How Stress affects our bodies

A quick post this week as I have now had a few clients who have been under a lot of pressure of late.  Without initially realising, their poor bodies have gone into over-drive and they have found themselves with either low energy, poor bowel habits, back pain or other such ...
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Insta vs Reality!

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

Insta vs Reality & Guest writer

Hello all, Vicki is getting some much needed R&R! I am Harriet, Vicki's PA and the guest writer this week...hope you don't mind... I have been working for Vicki for a year now so most of you will have spoken to me on email and I just wanted to let you ...
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Top Nutritional, Exercise & Health Tips

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

Top Tips part 2- Health, Exercise & Nutrition

How did you get on with the Top Tips last week? Anyone change your snack? Anyone try the easy whole body exercises?? Did you try the Mississippi's - I forgot to mention the ideal number is between 6 - 12 or 13. I said I would do another week of little Tips ...
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Top Nutritional, Exercise & Health Tips

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

Top Nutritional, Exercise & Health Tips pt 1

Rightio,  thank you to Clare from Buggyfit who said how she really likes reading my weekly newsletter & asked me if I could do more 'Tips' - nutritional tips especially. So yes, of course I always love to be asked to write about something, so much easier than me thinking ...
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Pregnancy fitness support and exercise.

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

PREGNANCY & THE 4th TRIMESTER

Hi I hope you have had a good weekend & are enjoying the late summer sunshine today!  We've had a real 'get the house & garden sorted day' - how about you?  Do you ever get that real get up and go on a lovely morning and feel great when so ...
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Pregnancy exercises.

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

Pregnancy truths and myths 1

I often have ladies come to my pregnancy class as they want to carry on exercising but are unsure what they can do or what they should avoid. Generally, YES do carry on exercising but change it a little from what you had been doing, stay hydrated & try and ...
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Lethargic? More tired than usual?

Fitness,  Menopause Advice,  Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength,  Postnatal Exercise,  Pregnancy Support

Lethargic? More tired than usual?

  You know when you are tired after a few late nights or very busy days or just not having good sleep.  However, then there is another tiredness which you know is just not the same. Do you sometimes go through weeks of just not feeling like you have caught ...
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