WELLNESS

Your lower body workout doesn’t need to be hard or complex in order to be effective. Here we share our favourite lower body exercises that you can perform at home or in the gym as part of your leg day...

At 31, I felt old. Not in the ‘I wish I was 20 again’ or ‘life’s passing me by’ type of way; quite the contrary. But within my fitness levels, or more accurately lack of them. I would make an ‘ooooff!’ noise while getting up off the sofa, or be out of breath after a last-minute dash for the train. To put this in perspective, I am a size 8 and eat a very healthy diet. But recently when I forced myself to think about exactly how much exercise I do, the answer was a big, fat zero. I run my business from my office at home, so I don’t even walk to and from work. Tragic.

Nutrition is a multi-faceted topic which has many intricacies you need to both understand and apply in order to get the best possible results. Having worked as a nutritionist for over 20 years with some of the world’s best athletes...

Today I want to address your pre-workout meal and how that can potentially have a massive effect on performance, recovery and your general feeling during the workout.

Neil Bryant, the UK's top ultrarunner recently ran the South Downs Way (as you do!) on just fat (using Udos Choice Ultimate Oil Blend) and protein.

Most people who begin a diet fail for a number of different reasons. This is obviously something which I want to help you avoid. Here are 7 of the main reasons why 95% of the diets people start fail.