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The Day I Considered Working From the Gym

Struggling to stick to your wellness routine? Discover how a simple movement menu helped turn disruption into consistency. Build habits that help you stay active and focused with a system built for real life, not ideal conditions.

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No, My Goal Isn’t to Lose Weight

Shifting your focus from weight loss can lead to better health, sustainable fitness habits, more energy, and improved wellbeing after 40.

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I Didn’t Mean to Build a Burnout Machine

How back-to-back meetings, endless sitting, and working through lunch triggered burnout. A personal story about sitting, stress, and learning to reclaim wellbeing.

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The Healthy Ageing Doctor, Dr Vonda Wright on Diary of a CEO

Discover Dr Vonda Wright’s science-backed approach to ageing well, building muscle, and reversing the effects of a sedentary lifestyle. Learn why sitting is a silent killer, how strength training can future-proof your health, and why your 40s–60s are a crucial window for change.

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Eat Move Sleep by Tom Rath

Discover how small daily choices around food, movement, and sleep can transform your health. This review of Eat Move Sleep by Tom Rath explores practical, science-backed tips to improve energy, mood, focus, and long-term wellbeing, one manageable habit at a time.

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The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Discover how The Power of Habit can help you build better workday routines, integrate movement, and make lasting change, without relying on willpower. In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg reveals how much of our daily behaviour runs on autopilot, and how understanding habit loops can help us create meaningful, lasting change.

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Walk Yourself Happy by Julia Bradbury

Walk Yourself Happy by Julia Bradbury is a refreshing read, part science, part story, part gentle nudge to step outside and pay attention. At its heart, the book is about how walking (especially in green spaces) can rewire not just our health, but our whole outlook.

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Create your Own Active Break Movement Menu

Discover how to build a personalised Movement Menu, your go-to list of 5-minute active break strategies to break up sedentary workdays, boost energy, and improve focus. Simple, science-backed, and designed for real life.

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Meeting Formats That Move You: 25+ Ways to Build Movement Into Your Meetings

What if meetings didn’t just drain your energy but gave it back? This guide offers 25+ creative ways to integrate movement into meetings, from walking 1:1s to stretch breaks and standing bingo. Designed for real teams (and real calendars), these formats energise without adding friction. Whether you’re leading, hosting, or barely surviving back-to-back Zooms, there’s a smarter, more dynamic way to meet.

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How Much Exercise Do I Need to Do?

You don’t need the gym, gruelling spin classes, or endless hours to meet the physical activity guidelines for good health. Find out what counts as exercise and how you can turn your workday into a workout, without making it weird.

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How Long Should a Meeting Be?

Are your meetings dragging on longer than they need to?  Dive into the strategy behind smarter, shorter meetings. Learn why most sessions don’t need a full hour, how to match meeting length to purpose, and what five extra minutes can do for your brain, body, and to-do list. Start strong, end early, and take your time back.

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Do You Really Need Another Meeting?

Back-to-back calls. Vague agendas. Calendar clutter that eats your day before you’ve even started. In a world full of Zoom fatigue, we don’t just need fewer meetings, we need better ones. Let’s rethink when to meet, saying no, and reclaim your schedule for the things that matter: deep work, meaningful movement, and decisions that don’t require another “quick catch-up.”

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42 Top Tips to Keep Your Meetings Short and Productive

Back-to-back meetings. Vague agendas. Too many people, not enough decisions. Sound familiar? This practical guide helps you rethink your meetings, from purpose to follow-through, to reclaim time, protect focus, and make space for real work (and movement). Whether you're a team lead, calendar-weary remote worker, or someone just trying to stand up between Zoom calls, these tips will help you run meetings that energise instead of exhaust.

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Movement by Design: Managing Meetings for Focus, Energy and Flow

Back-to-back Zoom calls. No time to move. Sound familiar? In today’s meeting-heavy world, we’ve traded our five-minute sprints across the office for digital fatigue. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Making sessions shorter, more focused, and better structured can free up time for movement, reduce cognitive strain, and boost your team’s energy. With science-backed benefits and practical tips, this isn’t just a guide to better meetings, it’s a movement strategy in disguise. 

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Turn Your Chores Into Cardio: 31 Domestic Tasks That Count towards your Fitness Goals (Yes, Really)

Think scrubbing the floor doesn’t count as exercise? Think again. From vacuum lunges to compost cardio, this science-backed guide shows how housework can boost your health, break up sedentary time, and actually count as fitness. With 31 chore-based activities, expert insight, and playful tips, you’ll see your to-do list in a whole new (more active) light.

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Reimagining Exercise: Movement That Fits Your Life

Feeling stuck when it comes to exercise? You’re not alone. For many women in their 40s, fitness feels like a never-ending to-do list or something we “should” be doing. But what if movement wasn’t a chore but a choice? Let’s rethink what fitness really means and explore how to build everyday, flexible habits that fit your real life so you can do everything you want.

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