Why The Strategies and Plans Your Personal Trainer is Giving You Won’t Work
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Lizzie Astin
- Feb 24
- 3 min
What Is The Most Effective Workout I Can Do?
Like you, sometimes I don’t want to have to think about my workouts, I just want to show up and be guided by someone else. So, last week...
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Lizzie Astin
- Feb 17
- 2 min
The Big Move
can’t tell you how many car journeys were spent musing ‘where are we going to live?’. Dan and I met in Bristol but I am from Conrwall and...
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Lizzie Astin
- Aug 19, 2022
- 4 min
Back To Fitness - Post C-Section
If you’re looking for a ‘how to’ guide on getting your body back after a c-section, this isn’t the blog for you. This is a hopefully...
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Lizzie Astin
- Aug 20, 2021
- 4 min
I had terrible health anxiety for years, I am 37 weeks pregnant and I have Covid-19.
When the pandemic was first declared in the UK I was deep into trauma counselling as I tried to recover from the health anxiety that...
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Lizzie Astin
- Oct 8, 2020
- 3 min
AM I CURED NOW?
Like many, I hoped for a switch. The ‘off’ button to the overwhelming anxiety that had turned itself ‘on’, I longed to be the person I...
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Lizzie Astin
- Apr 13, 2020
- 4 min
Am I Choosing To Be Anxious About My Health?
In The Middle Of A Health Anxiety Attack Health Anxiety always bubbles away. I find, generally speaking I will be worrying about a...
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Lizzie Astin
- Mar 29, 2020
- 3 min
This Isn't My First Lockdown
I am an only child and my parents split when I was a toddler. When it came to Mum’s end of life care it was all on me. I made the...
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Lizzie Astin
- Mar 25, 2020
- 3 min
The Wound Was Not Your Fault - But The Healing Is Your Responsibility. - ***SO MANY TRIGGERS***
THIS POST CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) TRIGGERS; - END OF LIFE CARE - CANCER - DEATH - GRIEF - HOSPITAL VISITS I’m going...
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Lizzie Astin
- Mar 22, 2020
- 3 min
Health Anxiety - The Solution and The Problem
When I first became ill, and by ill, I mean, I had headaches and my mental health was no longer ‘healthy’, the one thing I searched for...
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Lizzie Astin
- Mar 21, 2020
- 3 min
My Biggest Health Journey ***TRIGGER WARNING***
Please note that this post has loads of triggers including (but not limited to); - Anxiety - Fear of Death - Cancer - Death Please do not...
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Lizzie Astin
- Sep 19, 2017
- 3 min
The Key to a Transformational Result in Just 12 Weeks!
My most popular and most successful product is my 12 week transformation programme. Clients work with me twice a week one to one in the...
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Lizzie Astin
- Sep 12, 2017
- 2 min
How To Maximise Your Workout For Killer Abs
Great Abs are a focus for many (okay, ALL) of my clients. Genetics will play a role in whether or not you store fat around your...
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Lizzie Astin
- Sep 5, 2017
- 3 min
Falling Down and Falling Apart
I believe you get one major choice in life; you either accept what happens to you and become a product of your circumstances or you...
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Lizzie Astin
- Aug 10, 2017
- 4 min
How Much is Personal Training?
If I had met me 5 years ago when I was in the depths of despair after trying everything to lose weight and failing multiple times over, I...
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Lizzie Astin
- Aug 2, 2017
- 3 min
Are You Just Going Through The Motions?
There will be days when you are just going to have to go through the motions. I have spent a lot of time working on the ‘inner game’, the...
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Lizzie Astin
- Jul 27, 2017
- 3 min
How Pushing Yourself in Your Workout Helps in ALL Areas of Life...
My personal training session today was up there with horrific in so many ways. I had to run as fast as I could for 5 minutes without...
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Lizzie Astin
- Jul 24, 2017
- 3 min
Cardio VS Weights - What's The Real Difference?
When you have a weightloss goal, the bottom line is you will lose the pounds quicker if you are doing cardio regularly. Cardio has other...
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Lizzie Astin
- Jul 20, 2017
- 3 min
A Letter From My Hero
I know you’re going through a tough time right now, I know you feel sad, angry and alone, your Mum died, it isn’t fair and it will hurt...
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Lizzie Astin
- Jul 17, 2017
- 3 min
How My Struggle Became My Fight
My body is processing the grief because I don’t know how to rationalise it, a chest infection followed by a head cold, not devastating...
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