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Starting a Fitness Journey: Know Your ‘Why’

| February 23, 2020 | 0 comments

So, you’ve decided to join a gym with some vague fitness goals in mind. After some time you realise these goals are lacking focus and direction. You become confused about how you can work towards any specific objective. Your training sessions are unstructured and unfulfilling. With a lack of results or progress, you start to

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How to Eat to Fuel Muscle Growth

| February 10, 2020 | 0 comments

Of the people I coach and train with at LiftOff, a common goal is to change body shape, build strength and maximise lean muscle tissue. Muscle growth is a slow process, and like most things in fitness, requires consistency. There is no ‘quick fix’. It also requires a level of understanding behind the science of

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The Importance of Recovery

| February 3, 2020 | 0 comments

For many people, training can be enjoyable and addictive. However, clocking up 4, 5 or even 6 sessions a week, every week, will inevitably take its tole on your body and mind. This is where the importance of recovery comes in. There are a great number of motivators for spending hours of your week training

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Kids Lifting Weights: “When Can I Go Heavier?”

| January 27, 2020 | 0 comments

Frequent questions I get asked by the kids I coach at LiftOff Academy are “when can I go heavier” or “why can’t I add weight to this lift?”. To set the scene, we’ll be in class, working on a movement (perhaps a deadlift), and one of the children asks if they can go heavier. My

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My Post Partum Story

| January 20, 2020 | 0 comments

My post partum story is one filled with mistakes and consequences but one that has lead me to a new and exciting mission. As a woman and mum working in the fitness industry, I have experienced the lack of support, education and guidance during post partum life. I experienced first hand the negative effects of

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Resolutions or Anti-Resolutions?

| January 13, 2020 | 0 comments

What’s your New Year’s resolution? Well, for me, it’s to carry on as 2019 finished; enjoying my journey as a LiftOff coach, being coached by people who inspire me and my personal life continuing to flourish. That said, there are certainly things I do in my life which perhaps I should cut back on or

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What do Building Blocks and Fitness Classes have in Common?

| January 6, 2020 | 0 comments

Do you remember as a child (or perhaps even as an adult!) getting a box of building blocks and either making a specific design, or creating your own masterpiece? The blocks themselves weren’t very impressive. Some were bigger than others whilst some had sticky-outy bits. Some were green, others were blue. Some were smooth and

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New Year’s Resolutions – A Pathway to Success or Free Fall to Failure?

| December 27, 2019 | 0 comments

The beginning of a New Year brings moments of reflection for many. Regardless of whether you’re glad to see the back of 2019, or you have plenty of stand out moments, you’re probably starting to look ahead to what 2020 will bring. Maybe this involves setting a New Year’s resolution based around your health, fitness

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Sex after birth – how soon is too soon?

| December 19, 2019 | 0 comments

Pregnancy and childbirth can have a huge impact on the way you feel about your body, before, during and after. Sex in the last trimester can be a struggle for most and then there is the small task of actually giving birth. All that comes with the long process of physical and emotional recovery. Sex

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Winter Motivation

| December 9, 2019 | 0 comments

When the days turn to darkness earlier and the morning light takes longer to seep through the cracks in the curtains, it can be difficult to maintain your usual (summer) habits. Winter motivation isn’t easy. Waking up in the dark when your alarm goes off, leaving the warmth of the duvet and, then, toughest of

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