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Friday with Heidi: It’s not about the food …
What a wonderful week for getting outside!The weather has been stunning and, after a day at the coast last Saturday I felt quite renewed from being outside all day. Top that with a really successful in-person and on-zoom Sunday Wake Up! I’ve had a very chipper week, feeling like there’s a little bit of normality in […]
Friday with Heidi: Transformers…
Hello to you! It’s been an interesting week. I’ve had my elder daughter here for her first trip out of Leeds since lockdown. I’ve experienced the uncertainty of a broadband connection in a world that now depends on it. And I’ve been gifted rhubarb. And I do rather love the pink stripeyness of this tangy […]
Friday with Heidi: Virtual Reality…
Anyone else thinking that time has sped up so quickly this week? My word, I don’t suppose I am alone either in saying that I have never known a week like the last 7 days. The announcement on Monday has been the starting gun for a revolution in FastTrack Fit Camp’s business that, if you’d […]
Friday with Heidi: In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity…
Whether Einstein said this or not is largely irrelevant. I love the concept.This has been the most quickly changing week I’ve experienced in business. In the early 90s I worked in a Building Society when interest rates rocketed to 15%. We had people coming in and handing us the keys to a house they could no […]
Friday with Heidi: Business as usual…
Hello Friday!How has your week been?As an avid news-avoider mine has been quite a calm and pleasant place. I’ve gone about my days and week doing what I normally do, in a manner that I consider to be socially acceptable and good for both me and the greater community.However, I do sense and see and […]
Friday with Heidi: The IKEA effect…
For the last 35 odd years I’ve lived in the very happy and smug place of being able to say that I’d never been to IKEA. I had it in a list alongside, and including, never eating a Krispy Kreme doughnut or watching The Goonies. But, within the last 7 days I have not only been to […]
Blog: Marvellous muscle …
When searching for how to change shape, I don’t think I’d be out of order to say that most people, and women especially, think about the fat they have, and how to lose it. Men, and probably younger ones, are more inclined to think about muscle and how to build it. Yes we need both, […]
Blog: Beautiful burpees…and why they’re good for you.
It’s well known within FastTrack Fit Camp circles that I love a burpee. Over the last 10 years of FastTrack Fit Camp we’ve done a fair few. To my mind, if I only had to chose one exercise I would chose the burpee. Here’s some interesting facts about the Marmite of the exercise world. […]
Friday with Heidi: Maybe not invincible, but you are bounce-backable…
Hello November! And there, in the blink of an eye October has vanished. What did you accomplish last month? Are you on track with your goals and targets? This month we’re celebrating being in business for 10 years. 10 years ago there were no goals and targets. The main aim was to find somewhere to […]
Friday with Heidi: What the TATT is TOFI?
I am back from another deep and meaningful weekend of self development. I said last week that I may do a Facebook live if I felt brave. Failing that I’d leave it until this week to share more. Truth be told there were no blinding revelations that I wasn’t expecting! There are somethings in life that […]
Friday with Heidi: Learnings from our Fitness Weekender…
How’s your week been? I’ve met an extraordinary number of people who’ve had a crappy week. It’s been a bit of a roller-coaster for me too, so maybe like attracts like, but I have been surprised with quite how many people have rolled their eyes when I’ve asked them how they are. Have you noticed […]
Friday with Heidi: Quick like a bunny…
This week’s Friday with Heidi is not a new topic to my blog-feed. However, it’s something that triggers a response in me every time I encounter it and last night was one of those moments. I’d been asked to speak at the Greener Wokingham Live event at the Town Hall and had the […]
Getting Fit at 40 | Nic’s Flexible Fit Camp
Nic is the deputy head of a primary school and juggles the challenges of governors meetings, parents evenings, staff meetings and two teenage boys and their hobbies to attend Fit Camp three times a week. At all other times you’ll find her in the garden growing and cutting flowers. Find out why someone who didn’t […]
Getting Fit at 40 | Jill’s move from gym to Fit Camp…
We like helping clients in their forties at FastTrack Fit Camp. We find that their challenges are usually time (I don’t have enough!) and mindset (I’m not fit enough!) Jill is no exception and has overcome both brilliantly to her benefit. Why did you join FastTrack Fit Camp? I need to have accountability when it […]
Fit Camp at 40 | Vicky’s Tough Mudder training
Getting fit in your forties won’t be the same as it was in your twenties. For Vicky getting fit had a very definite goal – read more to find out what it was and why she trains with us at the Warfield Fit Camp. Why did you join FastTrack Fit Camp? After having two children […]
Blog: The great outdoors – how to have mental resilience at 60 and beyond…
Mental health is the catchphrase of the decade. The rise in it’s use in the press and media is significant and there’s much more awareness about ‘mental health’ generally. But what does this mean for each of us as we move through the different life stages? I know for sure that my mental health requirements […]
Waste Not Wednesday | Using up…onion chutney
Our Waste Not Wednesday posts are derived from our own experience. From having one of those days when you create a masterpiece of a meal from the odds and ends of the cupboards knowing that it’s a one hit wonder, never to be tasted again. This week I thought I’d share how you can avoid […]
Blog: Getting Fit at 60
Getting fit at 60 isn’t what it used to be. When I was a newly qualified aerobics instructor in 2002 the very first regular class I was offered was the ‘Nifty Fifties‘ aerobics at my local community gym. I turned up nervously and saw a sea of ladies, who were definitely older than 50, and […]
Friday with Heidi: The Sandwich Generation…
This month I’ve been thinking about the three key decade age groups that we help at FastTrack Fit Camp. We’re broadly helping people through the 40 to 60 age groups. And, despite the age gap, many are in the same predicament. They are part of the Sandwich Generation. Many of our campers have children who […]
Waste Not Wednesday | What do I do with half empty bags of leaves?
With food waste being the third largest contributor to global warming it seems appropriate to manage our food use and consumption as wisely as possible. Not only will we do our bit, but it will also save you some money and provide the family with something to talk about…”you did what with the spinach??!”This week […]
Friday with Heidi: Holidays and habits…
Shall we talk about the heat? I know, you know it’s been hot and so I’ll just refer to the fact that we’ve been working on keeping habits in place this week, not breaking records. One of my favourite sayings is about consistency over perfection. If we can remember this then the wheels of health, […]
Waste Not Wednesday | Pesto
This is a fabulously quick and easy way to use up half bags of spinach leaves or rocket, fresh herbs and kale leaves or any green leafy stalks that you may not use ordinarily (think cauliflower, broccoli or kale). When using the stalks, quickly blanch them in boiling water for about 3 minutes before plunging […]
Friday with Heidi: But I’m doing all this, why can’t I lose weight…?
It’s one of those weeks when Friday with Heidi is a big fat lie. It’s Tuesday and I am starting the process now because, after Wednesday night, I am not here for a few days. So less of a week’s view, more of of snapshot of the week. Last night I (should have) arrived in […]
Friday with Heidi: What 100km can teach you part 2…
What a flurry of a week. Since we last spoke our daughter has returned from Australia for good as she heads off into 4 years of education to be a midwife. This has been all very quickly decided and acted upon, so we now have a house guest! I also seem to have had a […]
Friday with Heidi: What 100km can teach you…
How quickly one forgets. As I crossed the finish line in Bridport last week at the Jurassic Coast Challenge, I said to my trusty supporters, “I don’t need to do that again”. It’s not one week on and I am already thinking that it wasn’t really so bad and that maybe I would do it […]
Clean Green Fit Camp: How to BeeBomb like a pro…
We love our BeeBombs here at FastTrack Fit Camp!We love that they are fully British, completely green and damn easy to use!However there are a bunch of less than environmentally friendly BeeBomb products on the market that may appear to be cheaper but are of great concern to our fragile environment. Heather Lake is a Plant […]
Clean, Green Fit Camp: How to litter pick like a pro…
The spaces we commute, play and commune in are as important for our mental health and well-being as our homes. If we get irritated by a messy living room or bedroom, chances are we are going to be frustrated and irritated by piles of litter, broken road signs and fly tipping in our community. At […]
Friday with Heidi: Back to basics…
Happy Friday to you! I hope the short week has served you well? As you read this I’ll be in my final throes of prepping and loading my car for our first FastTrack Fit Camp Weekender of the year. Today I am off to Combe Martin in North Devon for a second year running. Debbie, […]
Good Friday with Heidi: Keep up the good work…
This week’s Friday with Heidi comes to you with lots of hope that you will have the weekend you desire. Many of you will have the 4 days off, and I hope you use them in a way that allows you to skip back to work well rested on Tuesday. If you are working (me […]
Friday with Heidi: The impact of your surroundings…
This week has been filled with many lovely things. From a taster for a new community project idea that landed in my brain a few weeks ago, to a meeting on the back of this event to bring it to reality, to making cakes for friends, choosing bespoke yoga pants fabric that is just lush […]
Friday with Heidi: How to be happy (tips from our campers)
Ten tips from Wokingham Boot Campers I hope you’ve had a good week, acclimatised to the new temperature and are ready to take the final month of the year by storm? No? Don’t worry, you’re not the only one! How many times do we put pressure on ourselves to do things that we think will […]
The Activity Ambassador (how to keep active without working out)
Last Friday I attended a meeting at Bisham Abbey that was hosted by Get Berkshire Active. This is a sports partnership working on promoting