No Food Till Saturday – 4 day juice detox live blog
When I told people I was going on a four day juice only detox, their responses ranged from Noooooo! to Noooooooooooooo! Generally though, they were […]
fitness & wellbeing
The good, the bad and the meh of health and fitness apps
Use of health and fitness apps is on the up, and nowhere more so than on my phone. It’s all part of the Quantified Self […]
Keeping fit in the summer
Welcome to summer. I think I must be the only person in the world to have done Couch to 5K and not fallen in love […]
Be careful what you wish for…
I often say that the main reason I keep fit is to be able to outrun the beasts in the event of a zombie apocalypse. I am […]
Runwhining Season: like Christmas but with more running, less gifts, same amount of whining
Now that it is March, the season of runwhining is upon us. Traditionally this is the time when all the people who took up […]
C25K – Who invented this monstrosity?
C25K – My story Physically, for me, 2012 was where it all went wrong. I wish now that I had known when I was […]
Anti-fashion: 5 great looks for women
I was thinking about personal style yesterday when I went to my BodyCombat class at the gym. There were two women in the front row […]
Review: Pretty bargainous sports shoes
I recently wrote about my gym challenge over here on Spikes & Heels. I’ve done over 600 gym sessions now and my enthusiasm is […]
Tried and tested: How to really go to the gym 3 times a week
As this was year four of my gym challenge (in which I aim to go to the gym 150 times a year AKA 3ish times […]
Fitness for life, that’s the theory
So Charlie Brooker has come out. As a runner. From the tone of his confession, I think he would have been less embarrassed to […]