Postnatal Exercise
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Postnatal Exercise
Getting back to HITT post birth or injury?? Think again!
Do you watch any sports or and then feel inspired after the Olympics or Wimbledon?? Did you ever take up rowing or athletics after our 2012?? Do you suddenly feel right I'm getting up and out and going to start the Couch to 5K?? For me personally I have ALWAYS ...
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 ...
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. ...
Fitness, Menopause Advice, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Postnatal Exercise, Pregnancy Support
Awareness of Post Natal Depression
There has been so much lately in the press about Serena Williams or Adele and how they opened up about their traumatic births or post natal depression that I felt it was an area to be talked about. It is a big step for anyone to admit to having post-natal ...
Fitness, Menopause Advice, Pelvic Floor Health and Core Strength, Postnatal Exercise, Pregnancy Support
Are you doing the right class for your body?
The reason this is my blog this week is because at Buggyfit last week I had a lovely new lady who said she has been to the other Buggyfit class in South Bristol!! Alarm bells as there are no other official Buggyfit trainers in South Bristol and the one lady ...
Fitness, Postnatal Exercise, Self Care
Quick Fire Exercises to Do at Home with Baby
Do you really want to lose your post baby weight? Do you really want to strengthen the gap in your abs? Do you really want to get a stronger core? If so, you can't just think about exercises or think that by going to one class a week it will ...
Fitness, Nutrition, Postnatal Exercise, Self Care
Nutrition
Eat the healthy fats and plenty of them ladies! There is so much goodness in avocado, olive oil, different varieties of nuts (not salted or roasted though!!). Don’t avoid these essential fatty acids as they will help boost your energy levels rather than dull them like sugar does. I know ...

