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Struggling with summer running? Feel like you’re breathing through a straw? Don’t worry, there’s a reason.
Anyone else been struggling to run in the stifling morning humidity currently blanketing our region? Oh. My. Goodness. At first I thought I’d just eaten too many fruit mince pies and had too many morning sleep-ins. Perhaps I was just a little dusty after Christmas....
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Exercise: a form of torture or therapy?
What’s your view of exercise? Do you think of it as therapy or is it closer to torture? Or does the line waver and blur a little between the two? At what point does exercise go from being a form of therapy to a form of torture? We’ve all heard the phrase you can’t...
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My body after birth: how it’s going one year on
One year post-baby and how’s training going? Well, 13 months actually and I’m starting to make progress. Pregnancy was easy, birth was hard and getting back to fitness has come with a great deal of patience and frustration. I’m not as strong or as fit as I was but I’m...
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Some of what I’ve learned in 10 years….
The coming weeks are pretty significant for me. Not only am I preparing for a very new and exciting role in my life, I’m also taking my first real hiatus from work and my business after nearly 10 years in the industry. So today I look back and say “Hey, I created this...
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Why we need to compliment not compare
I love this. It's a beautifully written way of saying if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. But then I got thinking on this a little bit. And sometimes I think silence isn't necessarily good enough either. Keeping your negative thoughts or...
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Why discipline trumps motivation every time
I was reading an article this week that said we need to focus on making fitness fun if we’re ever going to combat our country’s obesity epidemic (15million Australians are overweight or obese and the condition is on the rise). Focus on adventure it said, choose...
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Why I love training during pregnancy
Pregnancy and exercise. Everyone has an opinion on it. Most of those opinions are based on varying levels of experience or knowledge on the topic. My parents visited for Christmas and wouldn't let me carry their bags upstairs. Bless them. I didn't tell them what I get...
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Why I love EMOM workouts and why it’s okay to steal from CrossFit
Every minute on the minute (EMOM) workouts basically add a running clock into any programmed set of work. Sounds simple enough but this can have a dramatic effect on work capacity, intensity and accountability. It’s a fantastic way of getting more work done in less...
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The call of competition: How a healthy dose of racing can fuel your passion for training
I’ll be honest with you. Exercise is very much my drug of choice, my religion, my guiding light. It’s what makes me happy, increases my confidence and is a part of life I cannot do without. That’s not to be confused with meaning it’s easy. It still takes a lot of...
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Why we must be prepared to push to the point of failure
This week I forced my Monday afternoon groupies to do a style of workout I don’t often deliver. Mainly because I want my clients to come back. But these groupies are a pretty hardy bunch and I knew they wouldn’t hate me for it (too much), even if they were less than...
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