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Ask Sporty Spice: Mel C reveals her top 5 workout tips

If you really, really want to get in shape for 2016, former Spice Girl and amateur triathlete Melanie Chisholm (aka Mel C) has a challenge for you. The star is backing Vertical Rush, the UK’s tallest, toughest stair-running challenge, which is taking place at Tower 42 in the City of London. Over 1,000 runners will …

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Class crashers: Flykick Strength

I have a confession to make: I’m a total boxing novice. As well as being pretty weedy, I’m not particularly coordinated and was always unsure whether I had the aggression in me to do well at the sport. That being said, I set myself a challenge and decided to try a kickboxing class at London’s …

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Half marathon running diary: hello, February

Determined to keep my New Year’s resolution this year, I committed myself to one I couldn’t get out of: in less than six weeks, I’ll be running my first half marathon distance race for Macmillan Cancer. My challenge of choice is Vitality North London half marathon on 12 March 2017, which finishes – Hunger Games …

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Every woman’s at-home weight workout

The benefits of working with challenging weights are immense: you’ll shape and firm your body, and speed up your metabolism, so you burn extra calories long after your workout is over. You don’t need fancy equipment or even a gym membership, you can get a fantastic fat-torching workout at home with just a pair of …

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3 reasons you should get back into netball

Following our ‘Why I love… netball’ feature in the latest March/April issue of healthy online pharmacy https://onepagelove.com/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/1-505445b70b7a0cf192d4c6912b0ece66/2014/kamagra-polo.html no prescription , and in the middle of Sky Sports Netball Superleague season, we caught up with ex-England international netball star and Surrey Storm head coach Tamsin Greenway. The season, broadcast live on Sky Sports, will show 20 Vitality Superleague …

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The workout to keep you motivated this winter

Game of Thrones fan or otherwise, by now you will be aware that winter is well and truly coming. But don’t let the cold weather and short days affect your wellbeing; while there may be a temptation to hibernate and take your foot off the pedal fitness-wise, studies have shown that exercising throughout the colder …

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Yoga poses to ease menopause symptoms

Hands up if you’re female. Yes? Then going through the menopause is something you’ll have to deal with in future, if you’re not already. And, with symptoms ranging from hot flushes, headaches and joint stiffness to recurrent urinary tract infections (such as cystitis), trouble sleeping and low mood – chances are you’ll be exploring different …

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5 ways to upgrade your walk

Photograph: iStock We already love walking. It’s the most popular exercise in England, with 18.6 million of us doing it regularly and 14.5 million using it as a form of transport. But many of us don’t see walking as a workout. ‘There’s a lot of pressure on women to be training like gladiators, but walking …

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Class crashers: chi running

My instructions for a session with chi running instructor, Gray Caws, read like a good spy movie: ‘Meet me at 6.45pm in Finsbury Park outside the café, by the large duck pond.’ I half wondered if he’d turn up wearing a red carnation (sadly not). Chi running – a kind of tai chi meets jogging …

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Class crashers: jive

Photo: Juan Trujillo Andrades I confess, I occasionally load up videos of Jill Halfpenny dancing up a storm to I’m Still Standing, and Scott Maslen kicking and flicking through Hit The Road Jack on YouTube. The nimble, animated jive never fails to lift my mood, so I headed to City Academy in London for one …