
Maintaining an active lifestyle with health and fitness professional Elle Linton #8
09/21/20 • 41 min
From shop floor to management, Elle Linton has experienced every part of the health and fitness industry, all the way up to founding one of the UK’s top fitness and exercise blogs, ‘keep it simpElle’.
Elle joins Simone Thomas for episode 8 of Living Life Well to share her journey from an athletic adolescent to a fitness professional. We learn how Elle rediscovered her love of sport after a particularly tricky school career, her use of vision boards for defining and achieving life goals, and the power of the word ‘No’.
This episode of Living Life Well covers:
- Re-assessing life goals and measuring that progress
- The importance of supportive figures at school age
- Sources of motivation
- Embracing change
- The positive impact of training
- Taking time to work on yourself
From shop floor to management, Elle Linton has experienced every part of the health and fitness industry, all the way up to founding one of the UK’s top fitness and exercise blogs, ‘keep it simpElle’.
Elle joins Simone Thomas for episode 8 of Living Life Well to share her journey from an athletic adolescent to a fitness professional. We learn how Elle rediscovered her love of sport after a particularly tricky school career, her use of vision boards for defining and achieving life goals, and the power of the word ‘No’.
This episode of Living Life Well covers:
- Re-assessing life goals and measuring that progress
- The importance of supportive figures at school age
- Sources of motivation
- Embracing change
- The positive impact of training
- Taking time to work on yourself
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Making small changes towards an organic diet with nutrition coach and corporate wellness expert Barbara Cox #7
Barbara Cox has embarked on a decades-long journey to master the art of nutrition. As someone whose career as a champion skater was cut short by hyperglycemia, she has learned the best ways to monitor what goes into and onto the body, now sharing that knowledge through her courses and books.
Since September is Organic Month, Simone Thomas and Barbara Cox discuss some of the ways you can shift your food habits towards more organic alternatives to better take care yourself, and how to introduce new habits without the threat of rebellion from your kids!
We also cover the importance of taking time out for self-care, some of the difficulties with long-form meditation, and how a bathtub can help you identify unhealthy food habits...
This episode of Living Life Well covers:
- How to shift towards a healthier diet
- The difficulty in long-form meditation
- Reviewing your food intake
- Making time for self-care
- Identifying ingredients to avoid
- Similarities between sports and corporate nutrition
Learn more at https://simonethomaswellness.com/ and reach out on instagram https://www.instagram.com/simonethomaswellness/
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- Amanda’s 3 pillars of health and wellness
- Importance of switching off
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