How Charlie Grew to Love Hill Sprints
Once upon a time there was this mum called Charlie. We’d just started the Newland Corner sessions. Which as many of you know involve hills. And sprints. Or even hill sprints…
This one time, Charlie was in a bit of a grump.
“I hate sprints. I hate hills. It’s so hard. I hate it…”
Now, if any of you know Charlie you’d be thinking… What? Charlie? But she’s so strong. And so fast…
And you’d be right… She is!
Well here it is. The very first Melita Fitness Guest Blog. Chris thought it would be a good idea. We’ll see…
Hi, I’m Katie, the stereotypically loud American in the group. Mum to Carter and Sienna, married to Paul and part time worker in the world of tax. I signed up to Melita Fitness just shy of 18 months ago, first training with Chris 1:2:1 and then joining the fun of the group sessions.
My workout
I realise I’ve been writing a lot about mindset, nutrition and so on recently but not so much about training. So I thought I’d give you an insight to a week of my training programme.
Also, I often get asked (or taunted) about why I don’t join in the group training sessions. The answer, of course, is that if I did, I wouldn’t be able to keep my eyes on all of you. The second part of the answer is that my legs are generally battered after a session, or I’m trying to keep them fresh for the next session.
So here is a week of training that happened in mid-November. It is a real week. It was a perfect week. I need more of these kinds of weeks! With Christmas and house move out of the way, I really have no excuses! So anyway, back to my perfect week…
Resolution Revolution!
‘Tis the season, of course. Everyone is talking about Resolutions. I’m sure you’ve seen the blogs and the posts.
Should you make one or some?
How best to make them stick?
Whether we shouldn’t be making resolutions anyway…
Is it pointless? What % of resolutions will have been abandoned by when?
And on and on…
My view is that with any big “ending” like the end of a calendar year, the training year or the school year, it is helpful to take stock, think about how things went, where you were last year? Progress made or progress you had hoped for but not made…
So the recent news is that Katie Price has launched a new range of Nutrition supplements.
Great. Not. Just what we need, another celebrity pissing about in a micro crop top selling us “nutrition”
Without going into too much detail – they’re a pile of crap because:
They make claims that are not supported by science
They contain ingredients that sound fancy e.g. Satiereal suppresses appetite and enhances mood.
Q: Wtf is satiereal? A: you’ll get it at the end.…
They contain ingredients that are actually likely to be beneficial (like whey protein) but they are packaged up in ghastly pink and silver and grossly overpriced.
And, the most important to me, they are sold as ‘meal replacements’.I have a real problem with that term. Supplements should add to your food intake and not ever, ever replace it.
Christmas brings with it a complete change of routine. The kids are off school, social events are on the up, Christmas goodies are tempting you everywhere you turn and there’s a million things to buy, prepare and do!
With so much on, it’s no wonder that many of us put health and fitness on the back burner, promising to deal with it in the New Year. But it doesn’t have to be this way. I’m going to show you 7 little changes that will have you enjoying a fun, guilt-free Christmas.
Winter is really here now. And as it gets colder and darker we tend to want “winter warmers”, and “comfort food”. Which typically implies high stodge, high calories and general unhealthy. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Comfort food doesn’t have to mean unhealthy….
So I went to Amsterdam last weekend for a catch up and celebration with my girlfriends – we all turned 40 this year! It was a great experience, and let’s just say that we behaved in ways that wouldn’t normally fit in with the “mum life”. Like getting up at 11am, and having a 2 hour brunch. With waffles. So many waffles. But the biggest difference from being away was just the sheer amount of headspace.
So this week’s blog simply had to be about Sundays fab day out at the 5km Obstacle Course in Newbury. I am beyond proud of every single one of these wonderful women who signed up, turned up and aced this course. Many of them had never done a 5km before. Most had never done an obstacle course before. Many, when we first started talking about this, said “Nope, not for me”, but over the course of time, decided to push themselves out of their comfort zone and just do it! And they did. Some brought their families to support them but also to inspire them. And to show them: look this is what mum can do! And we all overcame the obstacles and made it out in one piece! The thing that makes me the most proud is that everyone worked hard, everyone cheered and encouraged the rest of the team, everyone found a buddy to run with. No one was left behind, the atmosphere was positive, encouraging and so brilliantly supportive. So, my dear #team.melitafitness… Hats off to you all. I am pleased as punch!
And one you should all be doing! If you’ve been training with me recently, you’ll have no doubt come across it in your sessions. I’m talking of course about the…
