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Six Week Challenge: Week 4
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fitness-blog-week4.jpgAs I had hinted previously, the Friday night before our next Saturday session didn’t quite go as planned. Nat ended up traipsing around town till the early hours, hitting the local McDonalds on the way home (standard practise for a night out). My quiet night in, was indeed a night in, but was plagued with a few too many wines and some other temptations as well. A word from the now wise, it’s just not worth it!

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Pole Dance your Way to Fitness
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poledance_fitness_01.jpgAre you a little bit shy when it comes to pole dancing? While your first thought about pole dancing might be that it’s about being sexy and flirtatious, did you know that it is also a great way for women to keep fit, while having fun? The Gloss team caught up with professional pole dance instructor Deryn French and asked her to fill us in on everything we should know about pole dance!

   

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Six Week Challenge: Week 3
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body-fat-test.jpgAfter a successful private training session on Saturday morning, Natalie and I felt rather virtuous. So much so, that we decided to reward ourselves with fast food in copious amounts. I can only put it down to the fact that all of this exercise has put our bodies into shock, and we are now desperately craving all these extra calories, with our bodies doing anything they can to keep hold of the extra fat keeping our mid sections nice and ‘snuggy.’

 

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Alternative Treatments for Depression
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depression.jpgDepressed mood is a normal part of being human but can become abnormal when it is something that you can’t “snap out of”. It can make you feel as though life isn’t worth living, and severely affect your daily life. It is also usually associated with a number of other physical and psychological symptoms. In medicine, this is defined as the clinical disorder “depression”.

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Six Week Challenge: Week 2
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Week 2:  So, the day of our first training session arrives. Natalie and I spend most of the morning asking ourselves ‘Are we really doing this?’ Maybe I don’t want to anymore? Are we going to be the laughing stock of the gym?’ We finally decide that it’s too late to turn back now, it must be done, no excuse proves good enough. So, off we go.

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