Nicole Wright Personal Training - Your Fitness Effectively

Getting to a 10jm race when you've plateaued at 5-6km. It's all about the walking!

I should give some context that I didn't give in the video. This was a lady in her late 40s, getting back into running after many years of not doing it. She has some aches and pains and isn't aiming for a specific time with the 10km, rather she wants to complete it feeling strong and uninjured and enjoy it.

Anyone else build in walking intervals?

Let's stop battling against our body and nature and let's try for a supportive partnership instead.

It's still going to be hard but when we are standing in front of the mirror silently berating our body for changing, let's remember that nature is just taking its course and we can choose to fight against it (spoiler alert mother nature tends to win), or support it.

Let's go on this ride together!

Nicole x

Don't Hit Pause on your fitness and sanity this summer!

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Nicole

'Don't Hit Pause' - my free Summer Challenge is here!

I love summer! That feeling of freedom and excitement that the light, warmer holidays days can bring. But it’s also a funny time of the year to keep up with our fitness and nutrition. I find it's a time when our usual routine goes out of the window and along with it so do our usual habits. So come and join me this August with my "Don't Hit Pause!" Challenge.

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P.s. if you wait until the end of the video there's an epic (and very painful) face plant into the water from me.

Today I did my workout in my M&S beach shorts and why not?! It would have meant changing and frankly I couldn't be bothered and it made a tiny part of me still feel on holiday...

Honestly it does not matter what you wear for your workout. What matters is turning up and doing the work and doing it consistently.

No f*cks given for what we wear while doing all of that!* Who's with me?

*Unless of course your livelihood hinges on being an aesthetically pleasing athleisure fitness influencer and then you are exempt from this 😂.

**The flip side is at an event I do like to feel good in what I am wearing and I don't think my M&S shorts would make the cut.

I hadn't realised we cared so much about belly fat but I'll hold my hands up and admit that was stupid of me to think that. Especially stupid as I know how much I care about my changing body composition.

But I want to get to the bottom of why we care so much about those extra kilos we put on during perimenopause. I am aware there are many potential different reasons but I want to try and understand if it's because we think those extras kgs and that little bit of extra softness is something that's not acceptable, not nice, not how we should be looking or maybe you feel it impacts your training performance, or something else?

I'll go first...mentally I find the weight gain and softness hard to deal with. I've always looked a certain way and don't like that it's changing. If I am being honest it's because I want to look a certain way, which is probably linked to decades of conditioning about female body composition.

I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'll be diving into why we often put on weight around our middle and also what we can do about it (if we want to do anything about it!).