Getting fit for your mind body and soul.

Follow me https//instagram.com/iluvmymadras For my latest progress on my pull ups This year I want to be able to do dead ringer in Tough Mudder. So they only way is to train. I've started from the bottom on this one and hopefully by July I'll be strong enough to get even 1/4 of the way across that obstacle.

I know the thought of working out can be daunting especially if like me you'd never been inside a gym and your perception of the gym was tank top, muscles, gorgeous confident people everywhere. My other half worked in a gym for 10 years and was always trying get me over to train with him. The tought of it made me sweat. 🙈    After been at home with children you lose your confidence and the ability to strick  up conversation with adults. So any where there's not kids you try to avoid. I know there's so many of you nodding your heads now in agreement with me.   So when the opportunity came up to join a small morning class while the kids were in school, I swallowed my fears, I told myself you won't do it at home moaning about your flabby bits. It was nerve wrecking to say the least. But you know what it didn't kill me, it was the start of my baby steps. SMALL PROGRESS.  The confidence started to build and I could feel myself becoming a happier person.  ...

  In my first blog I mentioned the health benefits of keeping fit. Before I began working out and my overall healthier lifestyle I was always sluggish, bloated and tired, the thought of leaving the house after 7pm was crazy that was pj time soaps and a cup of tea and the biscuit tin!! But as I started to get fitter I noticed my attitude to  food and life changing. I was working hard in my training and felt I was undoing my hard work tucking into a giant pizza every Friday night. I started to change a few small things, I don't believe in dieting, just change things up a bit for the better. •I swapped my 4 slices of white toast in the morning for porridge. •Instead of sandwiches for lunch piled with cheese I started having a salad/ smoothie/ wrap. •We changed white pasta/rice to brown. •White sugar to brown. But now no one uses sugar. •Nearly every meal is home made. (I can't take credit for this BasefitnessIreland is the cook) •We started discovering healthier version...