Fitness Friday

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Its Friday and I’m feeling inspired today, so in light of my previous series of ‘Feel Good Friday’ posts, I thought I would share with you what has led to my spark of inspiration. This week I’ve been on a total health buzz, I’ve joined a gym (for the first time without stopping by a Chinese takeaway, KFC or some other fat laden food joint on the way home and then being filled with food guilt as well as fried loveliness – oh dear). I’ve also started eating healthily, I’m not on a weight loss diet, I just want to fill my body with actual fuel rather than empty calories, which means a lot of fruit, veg, fish and basically any food that comes without a label – my logic is that if it has an ingredients list, it most likely isn’t natural and therefore my body has no need for it. Whole foods are the way forward for me now.

My main motivation for starting the gym is to get fit, at the tender age of twenty five I find that years of not being into my fitness are starting to take their toll, I get breathless easily and find that my body just isn’t responding quite as quickly as it used to when put under pressure (eg. running to catch a cab or hurrying up a flight of stairs, that’s right – pressure! Haha). My thoughts are, if I feel like this at twenty five, what on earth will I feel like at fifty five?! That was motivation enough to get my act together and to get my heart healthy.

So far this week I’ve been to the gym three times, I’ve run and done a few weights etc, of course with a proper warm up and cool down. My boyfriend is a qualified sports scientist with lots of experience under his belt so he fills me in on what I need to be doing and helps to motivate me. My other source of motivation has been my best friend Kate who is also on a fitness kick at the moment, so we’ve been going to the gym together and helping each other along too. My main aim is to be able to run for longer than 5 minutes without feeling like I’m going to pass out or have a heart attack, of course it will be nice if I see myself toning up along the way (which I better, the amount of pain I’m currently in! Haha). But in all seriousness, my heart health is what matters most to me and to raise my level of overall fitness is what I’m aiming for, a lifestyle change if you will, as opposed to a phase that will pass after the Summer when I no longer have any need to get my pins out, as has been my experience in previous years.

Wow, that was more than I ever thought I would have to say on the topic of exercise! Are any of you watching your health and fitness at the moment too? Any tips would be appreciated, as you’ve most likely gathered I’m a total fitness newby! Do let me know if you’d like me to make this into a weekly feature, I’d be more than happy to share my progress with you, as long as you want to hear it!

Hope you’re enjoying your week and have a lovely weekend!

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Feel Good Friday #14



(I reblogged this pretty quote on my tumblr this week)
Okay, so not everything in life goes to plan. I think I’ve come to learn that’s all part of the fun. Mistakes are where events take you by surprise, sometimes you even catch yourself by surprise. Making mistakes is all part of learning who you are, how to cope with different situations, they teach you about life. Everybody makes them! How else do you learn if not through your own mistakes. So many people are so worried about doing something wrong that they don’t take a chance to begin with, parents worry about their children making mistakes and so try to mollycoddle them. Well I’m a firm believer that mistakes are a good thing, they teach you how to do better next time and as this week’s quote goes, if you’ve made a mistake, hey at least you’ve done something! You’re living your life and that is a sign of courage, so don’t despair when something doesn’t turn out quite as you had hoped, take whatever lesson is to be learned from that situation and move on knowing that you can use the experience to better yourself.

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My New Obsession!

I love looking at pictures and quotes on tumblr in my spare time, so yesterday I decided to start a  tumblr blog of my own to share the things that inspire me and well - I’m now addicted!

You can have a look at my page at katesbeautystation.tumblr.com and if you happen to like it, feel free to follow me! Also if you have your own tumblr page do let me know about it as I love looking at new blogs.

Loves <3

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