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Welcome to the Move Blog

Find fitness tips and tricks, expert advice from our instructors, beginner guides for cool activities, nutrition and more!

Laura

After 3 years of excess at uni took a serious toll on my waistline and wellbeing, I found that a love for strength training, HIIT and spin classes were key to keeping me healthy and happy. I'm at the forefront of finding out and creating awesome stuff about health, fitness and happiness and when I'm not at work I love nothing more than pizza and prosecco in the sun with friends. What motivates me? Knowing that life is short...
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Recent Posts

4 Food Prep Hacks For Healthy Eating

Posted by Laura

Food prep is an essential part of any healthy lifestyle, it can help us make good, nutritional choices (instead of reaching for the takeaway menu!), reduce waste and can also help us control what we are spending on food.

5 Motivational Tips From Professional Athletes: Part 2

Posted by Laura

Motivation is essential to maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle - it's the thing that keeps pushing us on even when we don't feel like it! So who better to get motivational tips from than professional athletes? In part 2 of our motivation series, GB Active speak to triple jumper Michael Puplampu to get his top tips on how to stay motivated.

What You Can Do For An Hour, To Keep You Living Longer

Posted by Laura

Bad news for office workers and gym dodgers, we've all been told how bad inactivity is, but it turns out the prognosis is worse than we first thought. 

4 Motivational Tips From Professional Athletes: Part 1

Posted by Laura

Motivation is absolutely priceless when it comes to sustaining a healthy lifestyle and sticking to an exercise routine but it can elude a lot of us. We reached out to one of our awesome partners, GB Active to speak to some of the most motivated people in the fitness industry, professional athletes to get their top tips on how to stay motivated.

Bake Off Is Back: Here's 5 Healthy Baking Recipes

Posted by Laura

The Olympics is great and I for one will be very sad when they are over. But there's something on the horizon to help soften the blow - Great British Bake Off!

Easy Park Bench Workout!

Posted by Laura

We don’t get to see a lot of the sun in this country, so on the rare occasions that we do, it seems a shame to waste hours away in a dark gym.

MoveGB’s Most Popular Summer Workouts

Posted by Laura

Yay - it seems like summer has finally arrived here in the UK!

We’ve got a cool new feature which allows you to see which workouts are trending in your area, so we’ve had a look across all our Move cities to see what are the most popular exercise trends people are sweating out to this summer!

Full Body Vs Split Workouts

Posted by Laura

When it comes to working out, there's a lot of questions to consider; should I be doing cardio or strength training? How many reps should I be doing? How much rest should I be taking?

How To Do An Upper Body & Core Workout With Just Your Bodyweight

Posted by Laura

No gym? No problem. You can get a super effective upper body and core workout using just your body (and some household items!) Bodyweight exercises can improve strength and flexibility and can get you fit - fast. We've given you some easy bodyweight exercises for you to create your own workout, check them out below!