Fitness

“It’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.”

“It’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.”

It’s Roald Dahl Day!  Brilliant!  If you also want some motivation to kick off your #transformationtuesday, just heed the words of Danny the Champion of the World:

“It’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.” 

To help you to train, eat well and feel all twinkly today, here's a leg workout and yummy recipe to get you on the right track…

4 helpful tips for training in the first trimester: fitness in the face of prostration, puking and a persistent need to pee

4 helpful tips for training in the first trimester: fitness in the face of prostration, puking and a persistent need to pee

If you exercise regularly, it’s perfectly reasonable that you might scoff at the idea that something the size of a lime is going to change things. If you’re lucky, it may not.  

However, for the vast majority of us, the prospect of first trimester training is like asking a five-year old Benjamin Button to run a marathon after eating a bad prawn. Having just made it through the first 14 weeks with Number III, the tiredness, tummy troubles and umpteen toilet trips are recent enough that I feel qualified to talk about this (endlessly).