Sticky chicken thighs with roasted veggies and cherry tomatoes

I’ve always been a fan of the humble chicken thigh. They’re full of flavour which lends them perfectly to curries and strong flavours; they’re great in the slow cooker; they’re deliciously juicy simply roasted – and to my mind far superior to the humble drumstick which can be a bit…

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Move over men, the weights room is for girlies

According to Sabi Phagura, writing in the Huffington Post yesterday, entering the weights room (TWR) is like entering the lion’s den, full of testosterone fuelled men grunting and staring at totty? Whilst this preconception might be the case in some gyms, times have changed.  In my experience,TWR is far more…

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Is exercise making you infertile?

I’m busy preparing for a meeting tomorrow with natural fertility expert Andrew Loosely www.naturalfertilityexpert.com. We’re exploring a potential partnership, since women’s health, fertility and exercise are very much, my thing. In the midst of my research I’ve been collecting published articles. This one, published in BodyFit magazine last year  (www.bodyfitmagazine.co.uk) is…

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HELP! I’ve had the baby, why am I still fat?

So you’ve had the baby, got through the first few months of new baby craziness and now it’s time to salvage something of your former glory. But the belly fat won’t shift, none of your clothes fit, you’re stuck in clippy bras and easy access tops, you’re suffering from super…

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Zzz … could sleep deprivation be making you fat?

In a recent BBC interview, performance director for GB cycling Dave Brailsford said that perfect pillows (as well as extra round wheels) were responsible for British domination in cycling. The ‘sleep kits’, designed by leading sport sleep coach Nick Littlehales, can be transported from home, to training camps to the athlete’s…

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Why women need to get intimate with themselves

It’s estimated that a third of all women will suffer with some kind of pelvic floor disorder in their lifetime.  And that’s just medically reported cases of conditions like pelvic organ prolapse, bladder or faecal incontinence. These are life changing problems, often accompanied by depression and fear.  It’s not easy…

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How to train your pelvic floor muscles

If you think I’m slightly obsessive about spreading the pelvic floor message to all of womankind (ambitious … me?) you’d be right.  If you’ve already done your exercises today then please tell me to give it up. Still here? I thought so. So I’ve just been asked to write a…

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Finding your core without pushing through your floor

If you know you’ve got pelvic floor issues, it can be a bit daunting to start training your tummy muscles again, or indeed to start exercising at all.  Good abdominal tone goes hand in hand with pelvic floor muscle tone so it’s vital to find your core again after pregnancy or…

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