Lose weight or Lift weights to get muscle tone for women over 40?

Do you need to lose weight or lift weights to get muscle tone? So you want to get some definition in your muscles and you’re a woman in your 40s or your 50s. Here’s the killer question: Do you need to lift weights or do you need to lose weight,…

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Is it too late to get in shape if you’re a women in your late 50s?

Is it too late to get in shape if you’re a women in your late 50s? A question we often get asked by our local clients in Epping is: it ever too late to get in shape? More specifically: Is it too late to get in shape if you are…

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Why is it important to lift weights as you get older?

Fit School, Epping, Pilates, Fitness, Running,Women, Mid Life, over 40 , Fat Loss, Strength, Diet Why is it so important for you to lift weights, what we’d call resistance training, as you get older? We know exercise is ‘good for us’ as we get older but what is so important…

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Taking the fun out of fitness

Personal training. Spinning. Bootcamps. HITT training. Weights or no weights. Running vs. jogging. Pilates vs. yoga. Zumba. Walking the dog. Nordic walking … the list is endless. As someone who is immersed the fitness industry on a daily basis, both as a service provider and a writer, I’m forever bemused…

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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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