BowFlex are specialists in home fitness. They have a range of machines and products that make working out at home like having your own personal gym. As I am keen to get back into strength training after having my second baby, their adjustable BowFlex dumbells sounded like something that could take my workouts up a […]
TRIED & TESTED: Fight City Gym
Healthy Living London’s Hannah Cox has recently discovered Fight City Gym, in Moorgate, London. With summer quickly approaching, Hannah was looking for a gym, a P.T. and classes that would help her with her health and fitness goals. Whilst dance classes, such as POPfit, are still one of Hannah’s favourite classes to go to, she […]
TRIED & TESTED // Disco Barre
Disco Barre, the lovechild of disco and barre, is a concept founded by Sophie Ritchie, a pilates and barre teacher with a love of dance. I went along to the new Disco Barre studio at The Factory in Dalston, to try it out. Disco Barre, it turns out, doesn’t involve cheesy music or legwarmers. […]
TRIED & TESTED // Peak Performance Helium Printed Jacket
Peak Performance, a Swedish brand founded by a group of skiers in 1986 who questioned why was no one making clothes that they wanted to wear? Fast forward over 30 years, and the brand has expanded beyond ski wear, with clothing ranges from training to golf. Growing from, quote, a “garage-size company to a market-leading […]
WE WENT // JOCKEY FIT
Launched to coincide with the weekend of the Grand National (Saturday, 6 April), Jockey Fit is a fun but intensive workout, designed to showcase the elite levels of fitness required by jockeys.
TRIED & TESTED: POPfit
Healthy Living London’s Hannah Cox, recently discovered POPfit; a boutique fitness studio by London Fields that specialises in dance classes. Stephanie Burrows, the co-founder, creates routines to music that gets you sweaty, smiling and, in my case, singing along! POPfit hosts a range of classes; Dance Cardio, Dance HIIT, Barre, POWER HIIT, POWER Form, Yoga […]
We Went: Orangetheory Wandsworth
The event was the launch of American fitness brand, Orangetheory Fitness. The event was hosted at their now flagship studio in Wandsworth. Orangetheory Fitness has been described as a premium workout that guarantees continuous calories burn even up to 36 hours post workout. In addition to this, they use state of the art wearable technology […]
TRIED & TESTED // NRG-Barrebody
It is Fearless February at Healthy Living London so when better to try something new…. When I was three, I was whisked off to Saturday morning ballet class; the only daughter with two older brothers, it was a nice reprieve from the side line of the rugby pitch for my Mum! It was only when […]
TRIED AND TESTED // 28 by Sam Wood
On Wednesday morning, 23rd January, we were excited to be invited to the UK launch of 28 by Sam Wood. The 28 minute workout and wellbeing programme designed and run by Australian personal trainer of 17 years (and star of the Australian reality TV show ‘The Bachelor’!), Sam Wood. As a new mum, fitting in […]
TRIED & TESTED // Lift + Row at Core Collective
Situated in Knightsbridge, tucked on a road just off Harvey Nichols, is the new studio from Core Collective. Mara headed down there to see the studio and try out the main offering: the Lift + Row class. Core Collective has been around for a few years in London, with its first studio located in Kensington. […]