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Why High Intensity Efforts are Harder in the Luteal Phase - And How to Train Smarter
If you’ve ever felt like your high-intensity workouts are harder during certain times of the month, you’re not imagining it. The luteal...
The Truth About Sports Massage: Understanding Its Real Benefits Without the Myths
Sports massage is widely used by athletes, active individuals and even inactive individuals in pain to help with pain relief, recovery,...
Why Skipping Breakfast is a Mistake for Perimenopausal Women and Beyond
Many women, especially those in perimenopause and post-menopause, wake up without an appetite and skip breakfast . While this might seem...
The Most Common Mistakes Women Make When Trying to Lose Weight or Change Their Body Composition
Are You Making These Common Mistakes? Losing weight and changing body composition aren’t just about eating less and moving more. Many...
Understanding What Increases Cortisol Levels in Women and How It Impacts Your Health
Cortisol is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands that plays a critical role in managing stress, regulating metabolism, and...
Understanding the Impact of HIIT on Mood and PMS Symptoms in Perimenopausal Women: An Evidence-Based Comparison with Moderate-Intensity Exercise
Perimenopause, the transitional phase before menopause, often brings a host of psychological and physical symptoms that can significantly...
Optimising your hormone health and fertility.
There are many factors that can affect female fertility from ovulation disorders such as PCOS, hormone dysfunction, ovarian...
Pregnancy Exercise. What you really should be doing during pregnancy and why?
You’ve heard it before right? Exercise is good for you and your baby during pregnancy. But sadly still only 15% of pregnant women meet...
Creating Calm in the Pelvic Floor
The pelvic floor muscles are a very undermentioned and underserved area of women's health and fitness. Many women (and men) only become...
Mindful Strength Training for Women
On average, people after 30 years of age, lose muscle mass at a rate of half a pound a year impacting on future disease including...
The Third Trimester: What's happening in your body?
You are in your third trimester between weeks 27 and 40+ of your pregnancy and as you progress closer to your due date, you will start to...
How Your Body Can Benefit From Myofascial Release?
Myofascial Release (MFR) is a hands-on therapy where the therapist applies slow pressure with the hands, onto the clients body to unwind...
Considerations for Tailbone (Coccyx) Pain
Tailbone pain, or coccyx pain is sometimes labelled Coccydynia and it can be incredibly painful and debilitating. The coccyx is part of...
Does exercise leave you fatigued, in pain or discomfort?
"I can't do this anymore!" Firstly, workouts do need to be challenging in order for your body to adapt, HOWEVER experiencing exhaustion...
Pelvic Floor Considerations in Covid-19
Source: Sircusa and Gray, 2020 (Journal of Women's Health Physiotherapy) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7641036/ Pelvic...
Releasing tension with restorative movement and massage therapy for prolapse.
Prolapse is present in 50% of women and 1 in 10 women will need at least 1 surgical procedure (NICE, 2019). I know, these figures are big...
Achieving a flatter tummy.....
Why training the core, achieving a flatter tummy and/or healing Diastasis Recti is not as straight forward as the Internet sometimes...
Giving birth via a VBAC? The benefits and risks.
A VBAC is a "vaginal birth after caesarean section". The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Royal College of...
Exercising during the First Trimester
Your fitness trainer or therapist will likely be one of the first people you tell when you become pregnant (even if you haven't gone...
When can I return to sport after having my baby?
If you took part in a sport, regularly competed in events, or participated in intense programmes such as crossfit, bootcamps etc. before...
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