Complementary Fitness 23 June newsletter
Welcome to this week’s newsletter & updates: As you’ll see below, I’m always looking for articles, research etc that I think you’ll find interesting and thanks to KF (Wed/Fri classes) who gave me an article that was in The Times Sun 12/8) which was all about fitting in 5 minutes daily of muscle strength exercise […]
Complementary Fitness 9 June newsletter
Welcome to this week’s newsletter & updates: There are NO classes on this week but we’ll be back from Tue 17 June onwards. I’ll keep reminding you about the upcoming changes to our Tuesday classes but as a quick recap, we’ve got tomorrow (10/6) and 17 & 24 June at 7.30pm in Craiglockhart Church. Then […]
Complementary Fitness 21 April newsletter
Welcome to this week’s newsletter & updates: I hope that you’re having a lovely Easter weekend. Happy Easter Monday. Many people experience ‘brain fog’, especially during perimenopause and menopause (60% of women have reported symptoms). In an article by 2 neuroscientists, they suggest that countering brain fog starts with improving diet, exercise and rest. In […]
Complementary Fitness 31 March newsletter
Welcome to this week’s newsletter & updates: This week’s newsletter is all about the benefits of exercise for our overall health and brain health as well as the benefits of a healthy diet and lifestyle. Plus there seems to be theme here: 3’s – you’ll see what I mean below. I love listening to podcasts, […]
Complementary Fitness 17 March newsletter
Welcome to this week’s newsletter & updates: In last week’s newsletter, we talked about stress and how exercise can help in managing stress and I thought we’d talk more about it here: We all feel stresses in different ways and if we don’t manage our stress levels, we can become chronically stressed which is not […]
Complementary Fitness 10 March newsletter
Welcome to this week’s newsletter & updates: I’m so glad that the days are getting longer, that we’re enjoying some sunny days and it feels like Spring is on the way. I think the nicer, sunnier, warmer and longer days make us feel better and more positive too. When it’s nice, I like to ‘get […]
Complementary Fitness 24 February newsletter
Welcome to this week’s newsletter & updates: We’ve talked about doing several ‘exercise snacks’ or ‘bite-size snacks’ to increase our movement throughout the day with some examples being: doing a few knee lifts, squats, calf raises or even a few stretches while waiting for the kettle to boil etc. Maybe set an alarm to do […]
Complementary Fitness 17 Feb newsletter
Welcome to this week’s newsletter & updates: Last week’s newsletter was all about navigating peri-menopause and menopausal symptoms so this week, I thought the focus would be on how to fight fatigue and increase our energy levels – for everyone, not just us women. We live in a world where we get lots of conflicting […]
Complementary Fitness 10 February newsletter
Welcome to this week’s newsletter & updates: This week’s newsletter is really all about us women who’re going through/been through peri-menopause and navigating menopausal symptoms. It’s a fairly lengthy article here and a lot of the info is from the latest FitPro mag that I read and was from a fitness professionals’ point of view […]
Complementary Fitness 3 February newsletter
Welcome to this week’s newsletter & updates: I mentioned at the end of last week’s newsletter that M McL (Wed class) recently emailed me a Guardian article link about cancer research, fitness and muscle strength and I said that I’d share it with you this week for info. The findings were published in the British […]