I like it hard- Our obsession with exercise having to feel so hard

Hard. When did this become the ultimate characteristic that defines and describes a workout? The way we gauge if the movement completed was indeed that, a workout and the success of a said workout? Why does it have to feel so hard all the time? Was it the re-birth and popularity of HIIT (high intensity …

Bringing it Back to Basics

I don't know what it is, the air, the rain, but I think people have lost it. They have forgotten that good health comes down to 3 key things; what you eat (and at times, when... punny anyone), how you move and how you rest. I don't think anything stated in the sentence above is …

Do the numbers even matter?

Numbers. The love affair of my life since my primary school days when I found myself in the Blue group of our combined Year 7 class for Maths. The top group was Gold (of course). I was fixated on becoming a "Golden Girl". I slaved away in class and at home crunching numbers that turned …

#FITSPO is out, #REALSPO is in.

Scrolling my Instagram feed of late has left me wondering, where is the real #fitspo? Maybe it is who I am following or what I am looking at but there seems to be a lot of sunshine and rainbows in peoples' lives and not a lot of down days. It could be because I am …

When is too much TOO much?

Let me reveal to you a more than common story in the fitness arena.

GOALS… More than just being SMART.

GOALS. Insert a hashtag in front and you have a high trending word on social media. A catch-cry bandied about by some of the most seemingly high achieving bodies of work, of course with a photo to prove it. But what are these GOALS? Where are they? And most importantly, how do I get one?