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Last weeks challenge! 1 Minute on the Spin Bike for Distance🚴🚴‍♀️

Simple ways to eat more anti-inflammatory
You don't need to completely overhaul your diet overnight. Small, consistent changes make the biggest difference.

Try to:

• Add vegetables to every lunch and dinner.
• Eat oily fish two or more times per week.
• Swap butter for extra virgin olive oil.
• Snack on a handful of nuts instead of processed snacks.
• Include berries or colourful fruit daily.
• Choose whole grains over refined grains where possible.
• Limit highly processed foods and sugary drinks.

Congratulations to Rhae for being our client of the week! Rhae is a dedicated and enthusiastic trainer who always brings a positive attitude to the gym. She recently achieved new PBs on the trap bar deadlift and chest press, and has shown remarkable improvements over the last few months.

POV: The FIFA World Cup is on and suddenly everyone's in "active recovery." ⚽😂🏋️

Huge congratulations to our Client of the Week, Justine Kinch, for her amazing progress and effort she has been putting in! Getting a new PB on the trap bar deadlift with 40kg × 5 reps and increasing her box jump heights, showing improvements in both strength and power. Her consistency, hard work, and commitment to training are really paying off, and it’s been great to see her confidence and performance continue to grow. Keep up the great work!

The Importance Of Sleep For Recovery After Exercise
Exercise places intentional stress on the body to stimulate adaptation, improve performance, and promote long-term health. However, the physiological benefits of training occur not during the exercise session itself but during recovery. Among the many recovery strategies available, sleep is consistently recognised as one of the most important and effective tools for optimising exercise adaptation and overall recovery.

Sleep as the Foundation of Recovery
Recovery after exercise involves restoring physiological balance, replenishing energy stores, repairing damaged tissue, and preparing the body for future training demands. Exercise creates microscopic damage to muscle fibres, alters hormonal responses, depletes glycogen stores, and places stress on the nervous system. Sleep supports the body’s ability to restore these systems efficiently and is therefore considered a key component of the training-recovery cycle.

Research has demonstrated that insufficient sleep can impair muscle recovery, reduce athletic performance, increase fatigue, and negatively influence adaptation to exercise.

Muscle Repair and Growth
One of the most significant functions of sleep is facilitating tissue repair and muscle regeneration. During sleep, particularly deep sleep, the body increases anabolic processes that support recovery from exercise.

Growth hormone secretion rises during sleep and contributes to:

Muscle tissue repair
Protein synthesis
Cellular regeneration
Recovery from exercise-induced muscle damage
Evidence suggests that extending sleep duration may improve anabolic hormone responses and reduce pain sensitivity following exercise, potentially accelerating muscle recovery and reducing injury risk.

Additionally, sleep appears to interact with nutrition and training to support muscle protein synthesis, which is essential for building strength and promoting muscular adaptations.

Strong Bones, Strong Life: Protect Your Skeleton
Bone health often flies under the radar until something goes wrong. According to musculoskeletal expert Richard Abel of Imperial College London, it should be a top priority long before that happens. Fragility fractures, particularly in older adults, can have life-changing consequences, yet many of them are preventable with the right habits.

Why bone health matters more than you think...
Bones aren’t static structures, they’re living tissue that constantly rebuilds and repairs itself. As we age, this system becomes less efficient, especially with declining levels of oestrogen and testosterone. This is why conditions like osteoporosis become more common later in life, particularly after menopause in women and the gradual hormonal decline in men.

The impact can be severe. Hip fractures, for example, are associated with a high risk of loss of independence and increased mortality within a year. Osteoporosis affects millions globally, with women over 50 and men over 60 particularly at risk of low-trauma fractures.

The three pillars of strong bones: DIET, MOVEMENT, BALANCE.

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Webbo's Weekly Challenge: How fast can you do 200m on the Ski Erg?
Top places so far is Kurt at 35.9 seconds and Tess at 37 seconds!!

At the end of this month we say goodbye to Coralie as she moves on to her next chapter. We want to thank her for all of her hard work, dedication, and the positive impact she has had on our team and clients. Her contribution has been greatly appreciated, and she will certainly be missed.

On Tuesday we farewelled Coralie, were Sarah said some words for her...

"Thank you all for coming tonight as we celebrate Coralie and wish her well.

Coralie joined Vision approximately 7 years ago and throughout the years has used her knowledge, experience and desire to learn to deliver exceptional sessions for her clients. She quickly earned herself the title of the smiling assassin and over the years we have all secretly loved watching her impact on unsuspecting clients!

It is no surprise to any of us that Coralie has channeled her efforts into further study and no surprise that she has excelled at it. Congratulations to Coralie on completing her studies in Exercise Physiology. We know how hard she worked and it was no easy task especially while continuing to do early mornings in the gym.

As you would all know, Coralie cares deeply about people whether that is clients (her own and everyone else's) or the team. She will remember your cats name, where you went for dinner two weeks ago and that person you're trying to avoid! Joe and I have always been grateful for her 'can do' attitude, her warmth and kindness and support she has brought to her job.

She has been a great support and friend to me especially in the last year for which I am grateful for. She has such a positive outlook and sees the best of every situation - even those wet Monday run clubs I sent her on!

I am so sad for me and the team and so very happy for Coralie. We wish her all the very best for her future career."