Bridging The Gap

From Injury To Your Optimal Performance  It is not uncommon when recovering from an injury or surgery, to have a loss of confidence in your ability, after your physiotherapist tells you that you are ready to return to sport, especially when that sport was the main culprit. There is a difference between being able to run, and being able to run 90km in one go. There is a difference between being able to go skiing, and being able to manage a 5 hour ski tour Continue reading →

Mental Wellbeing – A Podcast

  Mental health is just as important as physical health, they go hand in hand in creating an overall good state of well being. During this lockdown we took the time to have a chat with Hester Viney, a councillor and trainee psychotherapist. We pick her brains on what she believes we can be doing to look after our own mental health during these uncertain times. Could this global pandemic actually benefit some of us? Is there things we can learn perhaps and are we Continue reading →

Life As An International Mountain Leader (Podcast)

A Chat with Emily Geldard We had the opportunity to catch up with the busy bee that is Emily Geldard to find out more about life as an International Mountain Leader. We discover more about Emily, what brought her to the mountains, we discuss her top tips for trail running and favourite destinations to visit. We hope you enjoy the podcast and it helps the motivation in planning your next adventure whilst the lockdown continues. Below are some of Emilys’ top tips if you’re planning Continue reading →

Time to get ‘Sit Fit’

For a lot of us, if not all of us, our daily routines have had a big impact and an inevitable change, and so have our bodies. We may have gone from working on our feet from 9-5 to being limited to our 1 hour of exercise a day (French restrictions), or have gone from our usual desk working space to our less ergonomically designed sofa office. Ultimately the majority of us are spending more time on the sofa and less time on our feet. Continue reading →

Be Fit Apps’ Top 10 Lockdown Recommendations

It seems as if this lockdown has gone one of two ways for most people. Those with children may now be in the situation where they are having to juggle home schooling, child care and working from home, struggling to find time in the day to perform simple daily tasks like a making a cup of tea or doing their daily 15 minute yoga routine. Whereas others are on the total other end of the spectrum and are unable to work or play, with no Continue reading →

Bike Training, Why it’s not all about the bike!

  It is the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and we are in lockdown, and depending on where you are, the majority of us are limited to the amount of sport and the type of sport we can do. Here in France we are currently limited to running as a form of exercise and can travel no further that 1km from our house while training. In the UK at the time of writing this, as I understand it, you are able to cycle and run Continue reading →

What is my core and where can I find It?

Is this you? You may have heard us discuss our ‘core’ a number of times in many of our articles and fitness apps. Perhaps with your physiotherapist, in Pilates, your Yoga class, or at your local running club. It is a hot topic, with good reason. But what is it? We all know that it is good for our balance and stability but what actually is it? Classically in the past when people used to refer to your ‘core’ they were referring to your rectus Continue reading →

Pilates Vs Yoga

Pilates Vs Yoga …or should we be doing both?   Yoga is fantastic, it helps build core stability and improves balance while improving and maintaining your range of movement. Pilates, you could argue does exactly that, with a slightly different manner. Okay, so Pilates hasn’t quite got the popularity and media attention perhaps as yoga does these days, but it definitely shouldn’t be shelved, and here’s why. Yoga and Pilates are two different forms of exercise and training, yet share strong similarities at the same Continue reading →

The spring transition from ski boots to trainers

What do we need to be thinking about and doing to stay injury free this summer? Well what an unusual time this is! It has to be said, we did not expect to be writing this article so early in the year, but here we are. While a lot of us are stuck at home and are limited to running as our means of exercise, it seems to be the perfect time. Personally, here at BeFit Apps, we are still hopeful for some late spring Continue reading →

Leaving your Ski Fitness to the last minute!

No matter whether you’re a hard core off piste powder hound, a piste plougher, or you’ve just signed up for the vin chaud and apero hour, we all know that we should get fit for skiing!  Maybe we’ll even manage a few of the exercises that we see in the magazines, a wall squat here and there or some single leg dips and hops, but is all lost if you don’t get around to it until 2 weeks before? We asked Neil Maclean-Martin, the sports Continue reading →