Lipstick, Lettuce & Lycra

Category: Fitness & Health

  • My 5 Favourite – Fitness Instagram Accounts

    My 5 Favourite – Fitness Instagram Accounts

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    Today I thought I would share a little love and bring you my 5 favourite Instagram accounts, particularly Instagram accounts with a bit of a fitness vibe. I was particularly pleased with the alliterative nature of the phrase “My 5 Favourite”. In my head I am planning to make “My 5 Favourite” one of those…

  • Women in Sport: Finding my Fit

    Women in Sport: Finding my Fit

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    Last week I shared a little bit of my early experiences with sport. There are a lot of people who ask why women and girls aren’t more active and how we can engage them more. So as someone who’s got into sport a little later in my life I want to look back on why…

  • Women in Sport: My Story, the Early Years.

    Women in Sport: My Story, the Early Years.

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    Why don’t Women play sport more? That’s a question that gets bandied around a fair bit. Every now and then someone like Helen Grant will pop up and suggest the answer is more money spent on sports that allow Girls to be “pretty”. Or introducing Zumba in schools rather than making them do all those…

  • Run Norwich 2017 #RN17

    Run Norwich 2017 #RN17

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    Not to spoil the end of a good story, but I totally made it round the hilly 10k course of Run Norwich yesterday without bursting into tears, walking, or suffering any major melt downs like last year. As seems to be a consistent story in my race reports, I absolutely meant to train REALLY well…

  • Training For Your First 10K

    Training For Your First 10K

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    This Sunday I have a 10k Race coming up. Running these days is an add on to my training, one that I enjoy, but it’s no longer my main focus. When I originally signed up I had lofty plans to train properly and aim for a PB, but my Roller Derby schedule and work got…

  • Starting Weight Lifting – Tips for Women

    Starting Weight Lifting – Tips for Women

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    Last week I promised some practical tips for beginners to weight lifting. And today, that’s what I’m bringing you. I’ve called this tips for women, because that’s primarily who I write for, but to be honest these tips apply to ANYONE venturing into the free weights area for the first time. Last year I wrote…

  • Starting Weight Lifting – Stronglifts 5×5

    Starting Weight Lifting – Stronglifts 5×5

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    Back at the end of last year I wrote a post about how to get over the fear of the free weight area and just get in there and start lifting the big weights (spoiler alert: Eventually you just have to fake it till you make it). But, once you’ve got the guts to go…

  • The Sub 2 Hour Half Marathon Project – The Results

    The Sub 2 Hour Half Marathon Project – The Results

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    Well, that was certainly an adventure! Some of you may remember that back in January, in a flurry of optimism, I offered to help my husband train for the Norwich Half Marathon. Well, this Sunday was the day of reckoning! This years Norwich Half Marathon was the fourth he had run, and the first since…

  • The Sub 2 Hour Half Marathon Project – The End of Phase 2

    The Sub 2 Hour Half Marathon Project – The End of Phase 2

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    Well, can you believe it’s March already? Mr Chicks Half Marathon that I promised to help him train for is just over 3 weeks away, and we are just moving into a speed building phase, with a lot less time left than I originally planned. We’ve since reviewed the goals for the Half Marathon as…