It’s raining, it’s poring… but you still need to exercise! Learning the hard way apparently builds strength of character. The kind of character that’s less easily defeated by adversities. Let’s apply this theory to exercise: It’s cold, wet, windy so… Get some waterproof running gear and out of that door you go! Step It Up: Whenever you need to use the stairs in the house, go up and down them once, twice more just for exercise sake. Stepping calls upon your gluts, quads, calve

Legs usually takes more than an hour (for me) because I like to go heavy, and with heavy comes longer rest periods. Today my training buddy and I had 1 hour to do ourselves justice, so we went: High Reps + Light-Ish Weights + Minimal Rest Time + Supersets! We huffed and we puffed and we totally fell down at the end of it. Dreamy… BACK SQUATS *SS* DUMBBELL SQUAT JUMPS 4 X 12 SIDE STEP-UPS (EACH LEG) *SS* 10 KETTLEBELL SIDE LUNGES (EACH LEG SEP SEPARATELY) 3X10 SINGLE LEG STIFF

Its ability to keep you feeling fuller longer and eat less throughout the day, makes breakfast the most important meal of the day – if you’re giving two hoots about your diet that is. Sugary breakfasts like delicious granola, rich and warm chocolate croissant, or silken buttery-honey on toast…. IS BAD! ; ) It will give you a shot of energy then leave you hungry again much sooner – making you more susceptible to snacking – the devil for dieters! Protein helps you feel fuller

To get the best out of anything you need to approach it thoroughly, so instead of boring your backside to death with the 100000000 Squat Challenge, get stuck in to this 3 minute leg workout which hits the bottom, the thighs and the calves. I’m not suggesting you can achieve optimal health doing 3 minutes per day but all activity that gets your heart rate up counts towards your fitness efforts so a bit of this in the morning and evening, plus a quick 30 minute gym session on y