Fitness

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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Women's running tips preventing injuries.

Mar 23 2021

Fitness

Running alone outdoors

What is YOUR running routine? Where do you run? Do you run with your headphones? Do you run on your own and prefer it or prefer to run in a group? As I am sure you are aware that recently there have been many discussions on how women feel when ...

Holistic Core Restore® Fit to Run / Walk

Mar 2 2021

Fitness

Is your body Fit to Run?

Running is one of those wonderful sports where you can just leave your front door, run and then get home and get on with it. It offers freedom as you can go out for as long or short a run as you have time for. You will feel good, get ...

Vitamin D and the Immune System

Jan 16 2021

Fitness

Vitamin D and the Immune System

What is Vitamin D? Initially Vitamin D was prescribed to those who had rickets/more bone fractures and where it was found that these people were very low in Vitamin D. Over the years more and more research as gone into Vitamin D as they found we can't get much of ...

What are PCOS and Endometriosis?

Oct 26 2020

Fitness

What are PCOS and Endometriosis?

PCOS and Endometriosis are being talked about that bit more now, but how many of you actually know what they are and if your may potentially have them?? PCOS – Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome PCOS is actually a common hormonal condition which is characterised by excess male hormones in women. It ...

Why its good to progress gradually

May 10 2020

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 ...

Well-being and anxiety.

Apr 12 2020

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. ...

Fitness in Menopause.

Mar 29 2020

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 ...

An interesting take on non-dairy milks

Feb 1 2020

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 ...

Vicki Hill Women's Health and Fitness

Dec 15 2019

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 ...

End of a Decade & How are YOU?

Dec 8 2019

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 ...

The Impact of Stress on our Bodies

Nov 24 2019

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 ...

How Stress affects our bodies

Oct 17 2019

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 ...

Insta vs Reality!

Oct 13 2019

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 ...

Top Nutritional, Exercise & Health Tips

Oct 1 2019

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 ...

Top Nutritional, Exercise & Health Tips

Sep 29 2019

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 ...

Pregnancy fitness support and exercise.

Sep 16 2019

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 ...

Pregnancy exercises.

Sep 8 2019

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 ...

Lethargic? More tired than usual?

Aug 11 2019

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 ...

Specialist pregnancy pt fitness trainer.

Nov 10 2018

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

Moving in Pregnancy

Barmy summer evening outdoor class Many women don't know what exercise they can do during pregnancy, many may be a bit scared to do too much, many haven't a clue what they can or cant do with all the mixed messages and many actually get bad pelvic girdle pain and ...

Vicki Hill a Holistic Core Restore Coach Bristol

Oct 18 2018

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

Am I Peri-Menopausal? What is it exactly?

Many women don't think about the menopause when in their 30's or early 40's as they tend to think it is years away! However, what women don't realise is that we can start having peri-menopausal symptoms in our 30's & 40's and not realise our hormones are beginning to change. ...