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What are probiotics and how can you add them to your diet?

Probiotics are foods that contain live bacteria. This might sound a bit odd, but the bacterial species in probiotic foods are all beneficial to our health. There are trillions of bacteria that reside in our guts and they are essential for our general health and well-being. They play important roles

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Don't ‘Set It And Forget It’

It’s easy to set a bunch of short- and long-term goals. You can write them all down in a fancy notepad and start taking action to achieve them all. But how often do you actually go back to this notepad and take a look at the goals you’ve

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Best Exercises to Perform in the Evening

If you struggle to find time to work out during the mornings and afternoons, you might have no other choice but to exercise after work in the evening. It’s recommended that you avoid high-intensity, vigorous exercise in the evenings, as this can raise your core temperature and make it

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Best Exercises for Early Morning

Whether you enjoy working out in the mornings or you prefer an evening session, the most important thing is to find the most effective exercises for you. For those of you who love early morning workouts, there are certain exercises that you should try to include in your routine. These

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Am I Working Out Too Much?

Regular exercise is essential to optimal physical and mental health. However, there is a point at which you end up exercising too much. But how do you know when you’re doing too much? How do you know when you are suffering from overtraining syndrome? There are a few tell-tale

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A Quick Tip For A Better Week

When life is getting monotonous, and you feel like you don’t have very much to look forward to, you can start to feel down. You’re spending everyday working, you come home, sleep, and repeat! You might start to wonder when something enjoyable is going to come around. But

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Great (and affordable) sources of protein

Eating adequate protein is important for health and wellbeing. Protein helps support a number of important body functions, including building and repairing tissue. Protein also helps us feel full after a meal, as it takes longer to digest, and may help with weight management. Some protein sources are more expensive

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Bored of Your Fitness Routine? Try One of These New Activities

It’s easy to get bored of your fitness routine. When you’ve been doing the same thing day in, day out for years, things become stale and you can start to get demotivated. When this happens, the best thing to do is switch things up. Changing your exercise regime

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Healthy Snacks For When I’m Hungry After Dinner

We’ve all been there. You just finished your dinner and you’re already thinking about what else you can eat. When this happens, we might find ourselves reaching into the snack cupboard for a cookie or bag of potato chips. Or maybe we grab a piece of cheesecake or

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How to Fail Successfully

There is a lot of truth in the quote: ‘failures are our greatest teachers’.  In fact, failure can play a key part in our ultimate successes.  It’s almost impossible to achieve something without having a few bumps along the road.   Learning to accept that our failures are part of

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How to Sneak More Veggies into Your Diet

It’s not always easy trying to eat more vegetables, especially if you’re not keen on the taste or texture of most veggies. Vegetables are an important part of your diet. They provide your body with a range of essential micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) as well as healthy fiber.

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How to start enjoying the benefits of the Mediterranean diet

The popular Mediterranean diet has numerous possible health benefits, including lowering the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. In this article you will learn more about the Mediterranean diet, and why it might be right for you. What is the Mediterranean diet?The Mediterranean diet consists of foods from countries that

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How to Stay Motivated When Working Out at Home

It’s not easy to stay motivated for your workouts all year round. And what makes it even more difficult is when you’re exercising from home. When you’re not going out to the gym, it can be tempting to skip your workout by telling yourself that you’ll

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Are Protein Bars Good For Me?

If you’re on a fitness journey and you want to gain muscle, you have probably looked into buying protein bars. There seems to be a new brand of protein bars available every month. It can easily get confusing trying to figure out which ones are the best for you

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5 Basic Cooking Skills That Everyone Should Know

You don’t have to be the best cook to make delicious and nutritious meals. Despite what many people first think, you don’t need to spend hours in the kitchen every evening either. No matter what age or skill level you are, you can enjoy cooking. With a little

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3 Low-Impact Exercise Options

Low impact exercise is suitable for everybody. It’s great for those of you who want a more laid-back workout or those of you who suffer from joint pain and find high-intensity exercise difficult. Low impact exercise is also beneficial if you are new to working out and you want

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3 Healthy Ways to Gain Weight

We hear about the best ways to lose weight all the time, but very few people talk about the top ways to gain weight. There are a number of reasons why you might need to put weight on. Maybe it’s for health reasons or for aesthetic goals. Whatever the

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Will exercising before bedtime impact my sleep?

You may have heard that you shouldn’t exercise right before going to bed. Instead, it is often recommended to work out during the day in order to relax in the evenings and wind down before going to sleep. But is there any merit to the well-known adage that avoiding

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Why Should I Exercise? Top 5 Benefits

Alongside nutrition, regular physical movement is key to a healthy lifestyle. Even if you don’t have a specific health or fitness goal, exercise is still essential. Regular exercise provides you with many benefits that are key to living a happy and healthy life. Here are the top five benefits

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Why Do 80% of People Give Up On New Year's Resolutions?

Did you know that 80% of people abandon their New Year’s resolutions within the first one or two months of the year? If you’ve ever been a regular attendee at the gym during January and February, you will have noticed how there seems to be a surge in

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Why are short-term goals effective?

Setting smaller goals is a great strategy for helping us reach long-term goals. Short-term goals act as small milestones along the journey to your long-term goals and help make long-term goals feel more accessible. They also allow you to measure your progress and act as a boost of confidence to

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What is The Mind-Body Connection?

You may have heard psychologists talking about how your thoughts can affect your physical being.  Or, if you have a personal trainer, they might have asked you to think closely about the muscles that you are trying to target as you lift your weights. In both of these scenarios, we’

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What Is a Mood Tracker?

Have you heard of bullet journaling? This type of journaling is unlike the usual diary that has pre-printed weekly templates. With bullet journaling you create your diary pages from a series of blank pages, giving you complete creative control over your journal. There are thousands of great bullet journaling tutorials

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Tips On How to Eat Better for Your Health and the Environment

You may never have considered the impacts of your food choices on the environment. However, people’s dietary choices are one of the leading causes of mortality and environmental degradation worldwide. Research shows that many of the processed foods we eat in the modern day are harmful to our health

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The power of daydreaming

Daydreaming used to be seen as a negative thing. It was thought of as a waste of time and something that caused people to get distracted from their work. Recently, however, psychologists have started to view daydreaming as a secret superpower. They notice how helpful daydreaming can be because it