FITVINE MAG - ISSUE 1 - JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019
Top fitness brands, coaches and retailers gear up for FitFest Oxford 2019. This issue of inspiring FitVine Magazine will give you an insight into wellbeing, fitness and healthy food.
Top fitness brands, coaches and retailers gear up for FitFest Oxford 2019. This issue of inspiring FitVine Magazine will give you an insight into wellbeing, fitness and healthy food.
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Leave Town Life<br />
Behind and Get<br />
Fit with Fitness<br />
at the Farm<br />
Meet Leah Maclean, the lady behind<br />
Fitness at the Farm. She’s 31 and<br />
lives on a tree farm with her husband<br />
who runs a Tree Surgery business.<br />
Upon moving to Oxfordshire, Leah<br />
worked in marketing for about eight<br />
years but, in 2015, she decided to<br />
change career course and get a MSc<br />
in Nutrition, Physical Activity & Public<br />
Health at Bristol, then qualified as a<br />
personal trainer.<br />
Outdoor workouts<br />
Leah began hosting Saturday<br />
morning fitness classes on the farm<br />
in 2017. “I had used the farm to train<br />
on for years, running around the<br />
fields and playing with tyres for my<br />
strength training. So I thought I’d see<br />
if others would like to give it a go.<br />
That Saturday class became the best<br />
part of my week. I soon realised this<br />
is what I wanted to do full time, so<br />
started taking on personal training<br />
clients at the farm and grew my class<br />
schedule. Things have continued to<br />
grow from there!”<br />
Being outside makes it easy to get<br />
your daily dose of Vitamin D, boosts<br />
your mood and can help reduce<br />
stress. What’s more, the differing<br />
terrain and environmental elements<br />
mean that your body works harder<br />
when exercising outdoors.<br />
Schedule your first<br />
outdoor workout session<br />
with Leah at the Farm.<br />
Anyone who wants to give it a go<br />
can join the classes. You’ll work out<br />
alongside super-fit marathon runners<br />
and complete beginners. The thing<br />
everyone has in common is that they<br />
aren’t keen on a gym environment;<br />
they enjoy being out in the fresh air<br />
with no mirrors and no judgement.<br />
Leah will be speaking about<br />
Intuitive Eating at FitFest<br />
Oxford in June.<br />
Intuitive Eating is a way of learning<br />
to listen to your body; you eat as and<br />
when you want according to your<br />
body’s hunger and satiety cues. This<br />
isn’t an easy thing to achieve<br />
because it is difficult to dismiss<br />
external influences over what you<br />
can and can’t eat, as well as your<br />
ingrained internal voice which is<br />
often full of false notions about body<br />
image and weight in relation to<br />
health.<br />
What’s coming up in <strong>2019</strong><br />
for Fitness at the Farm?<br />
Keep an eye out for more events.<br />
Leah will be hosting a number of<br />
Fitness and Nutrition Retreats<br />
throughout the year. From April<br />
onwards, Leah will start doing<br />
monthly Nutrition Evenings in the<br />
farm’s new Tipi Kitchen. Don’t miss<br />
your chance to meet Leah at FitFest.<br />
Once you achieve this, you<br />
are able to live life without<br />
determining your value<br />
based on what you’ve eaten,<br />
how much you’ve moved, or<br />
a number on the scale. You<br />
can start to ignore the<br />
constant messages you’ve<br />
received about your body<br />
not being good enough that<br />
lead to body dissatisfaction<br />
and help you slowly and<br />
gently develop gratitude and<br />
body satisfaction.<br />
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