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Tips to Snooze By…
Want a good sleep? Try some of these tips to help increase your quality of sleep, which in turn, will improve your health and energy. Take a hot bath or shower an hour and a half before bedtime. The heat of the shower will stimulate you, but the sudden drop in temperature afterwards, leaves you ...
Energy and Sleep
Let’s keep this simple: if you’ve ever gone without sleep, had very little sleep or had sleep of poor quality, how did you feel? Not very bright, right? That’s why you need sleep. Here are a few other reasons you might want to head off for a decent snooze: sleep allows the body to heal ...
Energy and Nutrition
If you put sugar in the tank of your car, you’re not going to get very far. The same goes for you and your body. You get about 20 minutes of high-octane energy release, then that’s it. The headaches start, you get cranky and all you really want to do is curl up and have ...
New Year, New You!
New Year, New You? This Line is Getting a Little Old, Don’t You Think? Hello and Happy New Year! With the New Year, comes the obligatory ‘New Year’s Resolutions’. Personally, I’m not a fan of this. It limits us to one day a year where we set expectations for ourselves just because another year is ...
Little changes that make the difference
2 months ago, I suggested that setting aside time for yourself might be a good idea. So, how are you all going? Have you managed to find that space in your day wherein you can sit and eat lunch rather than cram down a burger, or worse still, skip it? Have you been able to ...
The right balance of exercise
Finding the right balance of exercise for the human body really is a science. There are so many factors to take into account when training for a goal, be it sport specific, increasing fitness or weight loss. So, let’s look at a very commonly neglected area of sports and training: rest and recovery. Firstly, what ...
Oh Sugar!!!
The dangers of sugar in the diet. This is something we’re all aware of, right? Too much sugar and we gain weight, risk obesity, run the gauntlet that is diabetes? There is a load of information, medical journals, blogs, diet books, nutritional advice columns and naysayers out there that yelp the evils of sugar, but ...
Feel good – Feel better
In my role as massage therapist & trainer, after asking the question, “Why are you here?” or “What do you want?” all of you at some point have responded with “I want to feel good about myself” or “I want to feel better”. The problem however, is what does this mean? What do the words ...
Top 10 things to change to get healthier
So, it’s 14 days since my last post, the post suggesting you try adding a little something different, fun, happy or healthy to your daily “stuff”. Have you succeeded? Have you found your sunny spot in the garden that helps you unwind and feel a little less overwhelmed? Did you take your lunch break every ...
New Year and Positive Attitude
New Year? You Don’t Need Resolutions, Just a Positive Attitude! It can be incredibly de-motivating when, every year, people around you are proclaiming New Year’s Resolutions only to fall off the wagon. Why bother making a New Year’s Resolution? What makes January 1st so special that you feel you need to change your life every ...
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