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There are roughly 13 million people who are currently peri or menopausal in the UK. This roughly works out to be a third of the entire UK female population.

Running is a fantastic form of exercise, it helps to boost your cardiovascular fitness, improves your strength and maintain your weight.

There can be a worry that you’ll pick up injuries when you run, but if you plan your training carefully and have a balance between running and strength exercises you can progress well.

Times have changed recently and the idea of training to be skinny is no longer the ‘in’ look. Fortunately this mind-set has enabled training to focus on lifting weights and getting strong, without the worry of people thinking you’re too muscular.

If you don’t have a fitness watch you need to work out what your maximum heart rate is manually. This will give you a good guide as to which zones you need to be working in to get the most benefit from your training.

Do you want to get a Personal Best at Parkrun?

Yes the title comes from one of my all time favourite movies Top Gun, but speed is also important for runners too. 

Once you’re able to run a set distance, most people’s next goal is to run it faster.

As you run longer or your body gets fatigued you’ll find your running form may start to falter which can lead to poor running mechanics and injuries.

The 5 areas to focus on are:

When do you choose to exercise?

There has been a big increase in recent years of the number of people following a vegan diet. The media may have had something to do with it, with documentaries like The Game Changers, the accessibility of vegan food in the super markets and restaurants and of course high performance athletes getting great results at an elite level that follow a plant based diet.

As with any diet there are healthy and unhealthy ways to follow a vegan diet.

In recent years periods have become less of a taboo subject as media coverage has started to increase with top athletes talking about their periods and more research being done into the physical and mental effects on periods, hormones and exercise.