Louise Appel Personal Training

14/02/2021

Healthy(ish) home-made chocolate recipe 😋 Surprisingly easy to make!
If you’re going to choose one day to make chocolate, when better than today ❤️
Cacao is cocoa in its purest form so packed full of heart healthy antioxidants and minerals 🤸‍♀️

7 tbsp cacao (or cocoa) butter, grated.
5 tbsp cacao (or cocoa) powder.
2 tbsp honey, maple syrup or agave syrup.
1/2 tsp vanilla essence.

• Start by grating the cacao butter to make it easier to melt.
• Then boil water in a pan, put a Perspex/glass bowl into the pan and turn off heat. Make sure water doesn’t get into the bowl.
• Melt cacao butter in the bowl then add syrup and allow to melt too.
• Stir in vanilla and then cacao powder.
• Taste and add more syrup/vanilla if preferable.
• Pour into moulds and allow to set at room temp or in fridge.

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(This is dark chocolate, for milk choc add whole milk powder with cacao powder.)

If you want to fill the chocs pour melted chocolate into mould and then tip out excess to create a shell for filling. Freeze for 15 mins then fill and pour chocolate over the filling before setting..

Filling ideas:
• For a cream filling mix icing sugar with a bit of egg white and add a few drops of flavouring (I used peppermint and strawberry)
• Mix some double cream into some of melted chocolate to make a soft ganache filling. (I added a bit of instant coffee to the ganache 😋)
• Add chopped nuts/dried fruit and mix in with the choc.
• Can also fill with caramel, peanut butter... the possibilities are endless!

30/01/2021

These are not just pyjamas... these are M&S pyjamas

06/11/2020

This calls for some serious filtering... 👵🏻🧚‍♀️👩🏼‍🦱
#45

04/11/2020

No gym, no equipment, no problem 😉 here’s a condensed version of some moves from tonight’s HIIT session with Laurie 👩‍💻🤸‍♀️

03/11/2020

Lockdown essentials for 🐶🧘🏻‍♀️ Dogs and children always welcome to join in 🤗

13/10/2020

Today’s upper body session with including successful weigh-in and comparing new items bought in sale 💪🛍 💁‍♀️💁🏽‍♀️

11/09/2020

At last our first out-of-gym experience together!
Gym or no gym this girl works her socks off 👩‍💻🤸‍♀️💪

05/09/2020

Nothing brings me joy like brand spanking new pjs

21/08/2020

LEARN HOW TO USE WEIGHTS:
1-2-1 workshops available 🤓
Firstly, a few simple reasons why resistance training can be beneficial as part of a health & fitness prog.
✅ Muscle plays an important part in determining the number of calories your body burns. Therefore increasing muscle can help when trying to lose body fat 🏃🏼‍♀️🔥
✅ Muscle gives the body shape, and helps to defy gravity! 👇😅
✅ Experiencing increased strength makes you feel physically capable which boosts confidence, resilience and self-belief 💁‍♀️🥰
✅ As we age the rate in which we lose muscle increases. Weight training can combat this, boosting metabolism, strengthening bones and generally optimising how we function as we age 👵🏻🤸‍♀️

To book a 1-2-1 ‘using weights’ session follow link in bio 👍

NOTE: Image taken before

17/08/2020

https://www.louiseappel.co.uk/workshops

NEW SERVICE: TECHNIQUE WORKSHOPS

These are 1-2-1 sessions which focus purely on teaching exercise technique, with a view to setting you up in your chosen area of training in one session.

Suitable for all ages and abilities, the sessions offer the opportunity to master good technique, learn new exercises and build confidence in your ability to train in the gym, at home or in a class environment.

Workshops currently available:
- The big lifts
- Using weights
- Total body training
- Pilates & the core

Technique workshops are 1-2-1 sessions which focus purely on learning how to perform exercises with good technique. Each workshop is designed to set you up in your chosen area of training in one session.