I've had some great replies on the below topic on the post I made on the forum, and people have given some really great advice. I was a PT so I know what I need to do to get myself back into shape Read More
Uninspired, unmotivated and struggling
I wrote this post on groupfitness.org but I thought I'd also include it here. Some of you may know that over a year ago I fell pregnant with my now 7 month old son. At that point I was at the peak of Read More
Les Mills in The Netherlands
I keep getting asked online if I'm going to the upcoming workshops in The Netherlands, but unfortunately the answer is no. I was proud in the past I never missed a single workshop, not until the one Read More
EUROMAD III Website
EUROMAD III is a charity event which began in 2004 with members of the forum meeting up for Les Mills classes and raising money. This event is held in Malvern and organised mainly by Shirl (forum Read More
Pump/Combat
Since I've done a few pump classes now and some of the tracks were starting to get easier, I decided it was time to take my weights up a little bit. I'm still way off my old pre-pregnancy weights, but Read More
Training
Well haven't really lost much weight in the last month, but I have been getting fitter though. It is difficult, because I can't exercise at the intensity I would like to due to back pain and hip Read More
First BODYATTACK
Tonight I finally did my first bodyattack back from having my baby and I managed to survive! I did a mix of high and low impact, mainly cuz I didn't want to go too hard the first time back and find Read More
BODYCOMBAT
Tonight Alexander and I asked his sister to mind Connor for us so that we could both go to the gym to do BODYCOMBAT. It was a great class and it was nice to be combatting next to my husband again Read More
Pilates
Tonight it was Alexanders turn to do classes and do step in the evening, so as soon as he got home I went to the gym ealier to try out the pilates class. The class reminded me of why I love Les Read More
RPM replaces BODYATTACK
Well tonight I decided to try out attack, even thought I think it might be a bit much for my hips at the moment (running and bodypump seem to aggravate me), but there wasn't really any other classes I Read More
Training program
So this weekend I weighed myself and I've managed a great start with a drop in 1.5kg in the first week. I haven't been calorie cutting at all, just replacing my diet with plenty of fresh fruit and Read More
Cross trainer and Balance
Back at the gym again and this time I headed to the gym a bit before balance to get in 20 mins on the cross trainer before doing balance. It was interesting trying to use the cross trainer, since Read More
BODYSTEP
Alexander helped me sign up at the gym yesterday, but we didn't actually do any classes, however tonight I went in on my own to do BODYSTEP (while Alexander fixed the washing machine which wasn't Read More
First weigh in
As promised it's Monday morning and I did my first weigh in on the scales. Weight: 88.5kg I would also like to take measurements with the tape measure aswell, but this will have to be post-poned Read More
Training schedule to return to fitness
Since giving birth to Connor I've discovered I've put on a lot more weight than I would have liked, and I haven't managed to lose much in the 2 months since then. With lots of stress going on, it was Read More