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Have you ever considered aligning your training, nutrition and lifestyle with your menstrual cycle? 

Have you ever considered aligning your training, nutrition and lifestyle with your menstrual cycle? 

| November 7, 2019 | 0 comments
Have you ever considered aligning your training, nutrition and lifestyle with your menstrual cycle?  With our LiftOff lady legends in mind, this article gives some insight into the benefits of cycle syncing your weekly training sessions.  It also sheds light on how your energy levels fluctuate during each phase of your monthly flow and how
Bishops Stortford, Bishops Stortford Gym, Fitness, Health, Menstrual cycle, Training, Womens health
Aesthetics, bishops stortford, Cardio, Fat Loss, Fitness, Goals, Liftoff, Liftoff Crossfit, Training, Womens health
What is Free Play, and why is it so important? 

What is Free Play, and why is it so important? 

| October 31, 2019 | 0 comments
What is Free Play, and why is it so important?    Free Play is described by “Play England” as “children choosing what they want to do, how they want to do it and when to stop and try something else. Free play has no external goals set by adults and has no adult imposed curriculum.
Bishops Stortford, Children, Children fitness, Gym, Lift Off, Lift Off Crossfit
Kids fitness
Top 10 Tips for working out after having a baby

Top 10 Tips for working out after having a baby

| October 24, 2019 | 0 comments
Top 10 Tips for working out after having a baby   Exercising with intention and purpose after-baby is essential. Even with the most active pregnancy, smooth labour, and birth your body requires postpartum rehab and recovery to some extent. It has just taken 9 months to nuture and grow your baby, imagine the huge changes
Bishops Stortford, Bishops Stortford Gym, Fitness, Gym, Health, Lift Off, Post natal, Womens health
Post natal, Womens health
What is tempo?

What is tempo?

| October 18, 2019 | 0 comments
What is tempo?   What is ‘tempo’ and why should I use it? Doesn’t it slow me down? It stops me from using the heaviest weight possible, isn’t that what I need to get stronger?   These are common things I hear when tempo is prescribed in resistance training. We’ll keep the topic of discussion
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Tempo
Defining your goals

Defining your goals

| October 10, 2019 | 0 comments
Defining your goals   Before we step foot in the gym, we all have a reason to why we are making the first step in starting our fitness journey. If you don’t, find one. I believe setting ourselves up with a continuous goal to achieve helps create the mental/physical challenge our minds need on a
Bishops Stortford, Fitness, Goal setting, Gym, Health, Lift Off, Lift Off Crossfit, Weight loss
Goals
If you don’t snooze, you lose!! SLEEP!

If you don’t snooze, you lose!! SLEEP!

| September 12, 2019 | 0 comments
If you don’t Snooze, You Lose. SLEEP!    Taking a closer look at how our feminine bodies change throughout our cycle can be an incredibly powerful tool. When we understand what’s going on from the inside we can set ourselves up for success in reaching our health and fitness goals.   Your period health holds
Bishops Stortford, Crossfit, Gym, Lift Off Crossfit, Sleep, Weight loss, Womens health
Sleep
What goes into planning young kids classes? 

What goes into planning young kids classes? 

| August 22, 2019 | 0 comments
The planning of kids classes   When people see my board for younger kids classes, they see a bunch of drawings, some magnets, a few lines and a date at the top. They then spend at least 10 minutes deciphering it! However more thought goes into it than just selecting which animals I’m going to
Bishops Stortford, Children, Children fitness, Crossfit, Fitness, Kids classes, Lift Off, Lift Off Crossfit
Crossfit, Kids fitness
Back Pain During Pregnancy 

Back Pain During Pregnancy 

| August 15, 2019 | 0 comments
Back Pain During Pregnancy    The good news is your baby is growing! Thats exactly what should be happening although all this additional weight can often be tough on your body and in particular on the back.    Don’t worry you are not alone, lots of women will experience some degree of back pain during
Bishops Stortford, Gym, Post natal, Pregnancy, Womens health
Post natal
Should we move in a certain way?

Should we move in a certain way?

| August 15, 2019 | 0 comments
I’m trying to do what my coach says, but I can’t… Have you ever been told; ‘No don’t do it like that, you need to do it like this,’ but you still can’t quite get it the way you’re being told? In many circumstances, there are underlying principles that we aim to adhere to. However,
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Liftoff
Why is strength training important for children?

Why is strength training important for children?

| July 25, 2019 | 0 comments
Why is strength training important for children? We often hear of the 10 elements of fitness: Cardiovascular endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, coordination, balance and accuracy. These 10 elements are required in order to be truly ‘fit’ and being able to express these elements is also essential to optimal health. “I wished I’d know that
Bishops Stortford, Children, Children fitness, Crossfit, Fitness, Gym, Health, Lift Off, Lift Off Crossfit
Crossfit, Kids fitness