The Different Types of Yoga and Where to Start
It’s easy to get confused when starting to look into yoga. You may find yourself worrying about whether you’re ‘right’ for it, or whether you’ll ever reach the skill level shown by some of the more well-known yoga enthusiasts on social media. Or you may have heard about ‘hot yoga’, ‘Ashtanga yoga’ or ‘Vinyasa’ and […]
Feel No More Anxiety with Essential Oils
Anxiety can inflict its horrible symptoms on people of any age. Anxiety comes in all different forms including social, panic attacks, or simply an inability to cope with the stress and hectic schedule of a busy work day. Anxiety raising the heart rate, causes mental fatigue, and it is overall dangerous to one’s physical health. […]
5 Ways to Reduce Bloating
Bloating is a major inconvenience; if it’s not permanent (itself a real happiness killer) then it can come on, present itself at the most inconvenient time and give no indication of how long it’ll stay for. It’s horrible for any female’s confidence, and means we feel uncomfortable, unable to fit into certain clothes, and without […]
Demotivation: 5 Reasons Why and How to Get Out of This Cycle
Demotivation is one of those walls that can feel impossible to break through. For whatever reason, once that blanket comes sweeping across, it can be an absolute nightmare to try and work through. It can come in many forms; from not having the energy to finish a piece of work we’re almost at the end […]
Facts About Food Safety
Food safety is of utmost importance as there are many things that can go wrong. There are also a lot of incorrect facts floating around about food safety, so it is important to know the truth. Here are a few important things to be aware of. 1. Some People Have More Risk of Food-Borne Illness […]
Injuries: Most Common Injuries for Women
With training comes a unique set of pitfalls depending on what the routine is. Weightlifting, running, aerobics and even yoga all come with injuries that can be sustained if you’re not doing it properly or are doing too much. To compound the problem, women, being built differently to men, need to be aware of the […]
One Dozen Warm and Cozy Winter Treats
There is nothing more enjoyable in the winter than sitting around the fire and enjoying cozy winter treats. Here are some wonderful treats you can enjoy sitting by the fire with the ones that you love. 1. Peppermint punch: Peppermint ice cream, ginger ale, and Baily’s mixed together with a peppermint stick. Add a little […]
Post-Injury: How to Start Again After a Long Break
Generally, if we suffer some sort of exercise or training related injury, it goes one of two ways. Either it rocks our confidence and we never really get it back, opting instead to head back to the gym and actively avoid anything resembling the scenario when we sustained the injury. Alternatively, we resolve to get […]
Body Flaws: The Most Common Imperfections That Really Aren’t
With all of the pressures from society on how females should look, it is easy to get wrapped up in a cycle of self-criticism, looking at parts of our bodies and most of the time just finding something we don’t like and see as an imperfection. The truth is that most women have something about […]
How A Caloric Surplus Can Help You Gain Muscle
If you’ve ever heard of the term ‘bulking’, it’s something that essentially means one of two things; either they are ‘dirty bulking’, whereby they eat anything and everything in order to build up a massive caloric surplus (and thereby give themselves an absolute ton of carbs to work with and quickly gain mass) or they […]
