Pod Fitness

Food for thoughts 💭🍓🍰🥦

The answer to our question? Well there’s no right answer! What you should eat is what you ENJOY.

That being said, of course eating what you enjoy may need some consideration:

Depending on the results you desire, you may need to consider how much protein/ carbohydrates/ healthy fats are in your diet, however unless you’re training for a specific event or competition, a balanced meal is a good start.

Making healthy decisions when it comes to food can be a challenge, but we’re here to help- check out our other posts for recipe inspo! 😋

Here at Pod, we go by the fact that everyone deserves to live their life unrestricted. Food is for enjoyment, and we LOVEEE our food! Our coaches have a great deal of knowledge when it comes to nutrition and can guide you on the right steps to achieve your results, just ask!

Join our community of group personal training sessions and ask away your food questions to our trainers! 👌💪

Follow our link in bio to sign up now.

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Do you ever feel like there’s something holding you back from achieving your full potential? 😵‍💫💙

Well, we’ve all been there! There can be a lot of reasons for what is our “Why” or “How” and we want to share with you that it’s okay to feel lost/ unsure as to how to get started in living a healthier lifestyle.

Life can be overwhelming! And that’s why we’re here to support you. Here are our top tips to get started in living an active, happy and healthy lifestyle:

1️⃣ find your reason. List down why you want to start, how it will improve your life, what you’d like to change. Use this as your motivation.

2️⃣ Small steps. There’s no need to go all in and result in being overwhelmed. Start with small changes, increasing your daily activity, giving yourself time for you, setting yourself a goal of 1-2 weekly workouts

3️⃣ find out what you enjoy. We get to know our clients on every level through lifestyle and fitness, we have a range of fitness classes from Strength, Stretch, Kickboxing to Circuits. Find out what you enjoy doing and join us on those- at the end of the day whatever you spend your time doing it’s important that you enjoy it!

We hope these tips help you in finding your feet and reason to get started. We are opening up our books to more clients for our outdoor and online group personal training sessions- follow the link in bio to get started and let us help you support you 💪💙

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Can’t make one of your pod workouts? Don’t worry- we’ve got you still! 💪💙

As much as we love seeing you all show up to our group outdoor sessions, we understand that sometimes life can get in the way and there may be times you can’t make it! Here are our tips what to do if you’re away/ unable to make your weekly PT but still want to stay active: 👇

🏃 increase your daily activity by getting in a jog/ walk to get those endorphins going

💻 join us online instead! We offer a range of group PTs online, so you can join us from anywhere in the world whether it’s your home or on holiday

💤 take a rest- we all need rest at times! Sometimes busy lives can be stressful and we our bodies are itching for a little rest and recovery, and that’s okay! Take a day off and join us next time.

We hope these tips help and as always, love to see you all at our sessions as much as possible, so when you can make it- we’ll see you there! 💪

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Join our group personal training online or at Ravenscourt Park - follow the link in bio to sign up 💪💚

‘I need to get back into it, I’ve really let myself go on holiday’

Is this something you have said in the last few weeks? Or is it something you will be saying once you’re back from your well earned break?

We hear this a lot from clients and we see how hard they can be on themselves.

Of course we are so happy to see you all back in the park and online again. But you are also allowed to ‘let yourself go’ on holiday.

Think of it as recharging your batteries so you can take on the difficult tasks of daily life again.

You pick your exercise journey up where you left it but with a well rested mind and a nourished body with all the energy!

Feeling stressed is something we all can relate to at times 🧠🌿🤕 so we want to share our honest approach to how to deal with the sense of feeling stressed 😰 and how to bring ourselves back up to feeling in control and positive 🧘‍♀️✅

First things first, what’s important to remember is there are things that happen that we cannot control. We can only control situations through our actions and our words. Good things happen, but so do bad things and something we CAN control is how we act when something bad happens. If this is something you’re feeling currently, maybe ask yourself these questions:

🌿 can you change what has happened?
🌿 how has it made you feel?
🌿 is there anything you can learn from it?
🌿 what can you do going forward?

At the end of the day, if something is causing you stress that can be changed, whether it’s taking action, changing direction in the way you thought you were going, acting upon things differently… whatever it may be that could be in your control then TAKE CONTROL. You can have the power to bring yourself up and make your life easier by making a positive decision 💗

If the stress is coming from a place where it is impossible for you to have any control over the outcome, acceptance is all you can do. Learn from what has happened, accept that you cannot change the situation and stay smiling because you will be okay! Be grateful for everything you have and look on the bright side, there’s always a positive to a negative situation, find it and hold on to it 😌💗🌿

Hope this helps! We will always be here for our members what ever stressful situations may come into place, we will be your friend, support bubble and do everything we can to help bring you back to feeling happy and positive (including chasing those post workout endorphins! 💪) YOU’VE GOT THIS.

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Join our group PT sessions at Ravenscourt Park, follow the link in bio

Who watched the commonwealth games this week and thought “wow these athletes are on another level!!“ ? 🏃‍♀️🏋️‍♀️⛹️‍♂️🚴‍♀️

Well, let’s be real- the athletes were all brilliant! The power, strength, determination and dedication towards their sport was extremely inspirational! 👏

That being said, the great thing about being amazing at fitness isn’t down to performing the best in a race. Anyone can be amazing at fitness if they want to be! Here’s our tips how:

🏅 Show up
🏅 Be consistent
🏅 Give it your all
🏅 Stay disciplined
🏅 Challenge yourself
🏅 ENJOY THE JOURNEY

Now who’s ready to join us at being amazing?? 💪🙋🙋‍♀️

Join our team at Pod fitness and bring your amazing self to our small group personalised training sessions- follow the link in bio for more info ✨

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Mental health check in ✅☁️

We all need a break at times and that’s okay! We want you to know that all of our trainers are here to support you with anything when it comes down to your happiness and lifestyle.

Here are a few signs that may show you need to slow down/ take some time to rest:

☁️ you’re struggling to sleep
☁️ you’re feeling stressed/ anxious
☁️ you’re having difficulty in concentrating
☁️ your body feels worn out/ sore
☁️ your easy workouts feel hard
☁️ you don’t feel like yourself

As much as we want you all to join us in as many as our sessions as possible (As we love you all so much!) It’s incredibly important for us to have you all feeling your wonderful selves! If there is ANYTHING more important to us than working out with you all, it’s the fact that we want you to feel happy and the best version of yourselves.

Checking in with our mental health is just as important as staying active, and our Pod coaches are here for you as your friend as well as your Personal trainer 👫👭💪

Need support in living a healthy, happy lifestyle? Have a chat with us to join our Pod members! - drop us a DM or follow the link in bio 💛

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We don’t just exercise at Pod Fitness, we also catch up with friends and talk about important issues.

During this session, our trainer Sanne and two clients Sophie and Cassandre were talking all things female health.

We discussed how the menstrual cycle, hormones and the menopause all have an effect on how we exercise.

Talking through these issues and being open about how you might feel during a session is very important to us.

And it’s amazing how much you can learn from each other when you share your experiences!

Have your hormones ever held you back with exercise? Let us know in the comments ♥️

What is NEAT and how can it help us?

NEAT = Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis is the energy expenditure we use for daily activity, besides sleeping, sport related exercise and eating.

Examples of NEAT:

✨ walking the dog
✨ gardening
✨ carrying the food shopping
✨ walking to work
✨ walking upstairs
✨ washing the car

Benefits of NEAT:

✅ helps with muscle recovery
✅ can help relieve stress and improve mental health
✅ reduces risk of chronic disease
✅ improves cardiovascular health
✅ it’s a low impact form of movement
✅ it won’t interfere with any other activity/ exercise you are doing

There are many benefits of increasing your daily NEAT, and not is it only a skill-free way to increase your daily movement, it’s free and involves all of your day to day activities!

Whether you’re new to exercise or a regular pod team member- getting your NEAT in line can really help you to achieve your goals 💪

For more advice and support from our coaches - come and join our group personal training. Follow the link in bio 💻

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