A KILLER WORKOUT WITH TEAM ‘BAR’
During my blog trip to Bermuda last month, I trained with the elite sailors from Team Land Rover BAR, the Great British hope for the 35th America’s
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Travels
FitnessOnToast has taken me to some awesome places. This page collects them all together to make it easier for you to explore them.
Bermuda
10 BEAUTIES OF BERMUDA…
The Bermuda Rectangle. Is what I thought it was called, but it turns out that doesn’t exist either. Apart from a superstitious fiction of vanishing vessels and
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Germany
WIN YOUR OWN WESTIN WELLNESS WEEKEND !!!
As part of my Wellbeing Ambassadorial duties for Westin Hotels & Resorts, I recently had the awesome opportunity to attend the opening of The Westin Hotel Hamburg,
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England
WELLNESS CITY BREAK TO BATH!
Last weekend, I voyaged westward to Bath for a distinctly British wellness escape. For years, I’d sampled the Instagram candy that was geotagged from this beautiful Georgian
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5 POST-RUN STRETCHES!
Stretching your lower body after a run isn’t just ‘nice-to-do’, it’s essential. You claim an array of benefits including the reduction of tightness in your largest muscle
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France
MONREAL IN EZE
A quick little post featuring the new ‘Queens Collection‘ from one of my all time favourite Fitness Fashion houses, Monreal London. I live in fitness clothes (mostly because
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REALLY WARMING UP!
I’ve written extensively about post-workout stretching, but not specifically on the importance of pre-workout stretching. Warming up is the key weapon in your anti-injury arsenal, as it maximises joint flexibility and blood flow to
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Greece
ACTIVE ESCAPE: SANTORINI !
There are those iconic postcard images we’ve all glanced at one time or another, formed of opalescent skies, gentle haze and crystal seas, which are conjured in the
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10 KEY BENEFITS OF REFLEXOLOGY!
I recently wrote a post on the multiple benefits of Sports Massage; it’s a topic about which I still receive regular emails, so I thought I’d extend the series into this post looking
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Italy
ACTIVE ESCAPE: MONASTERO SANTA ROSA
When pondering life in a monastery, images of stoic monks engaged in the pursuit of tireless abstinence come to mind; perhaps you conjure their unfulfilled passions, heavy
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ACTIVE WEEKEND BREAK WITH WESTIN!
A couple of weeks ago, I went on an exceptional Active Weekend Break with Westin Hotels & Resorts, for whom I’m a Wellbeing Movement ambassador. The trip’s destinations were the Italian cities
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Maldives
TOP TRX TRICKS !
I’ve been intending to post this for a while now, but better late than never! The TRX is one of my favourite pieces of ‘fit kit’– not
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THE BENEFITS OF MUAY THAI!
Whilst I’m a bit of a pacifist at heart and wouldn’t want to tread on an ant, I had an energising session of punching, kicking, elbowing and kneeing some pads
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Morocco
YOU FEELING THE STRETCH ???
This is a short post to revisit the importance of stretching. Why? People are training harder than usual this time of year to whip their bodies into ‘beach
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YOGA FOR DUMMIES !!!
This post documents my own little ‘Moon Salutation’ sequence beside the Kasbah Tamadot’s pool on my trip to Morocco; a cooling and quieting session of nocturnal Yoga.
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Portugal
ACTIVE TRIP TO LISBON WITH O2 TRAVEL !!!
As you may have seen from my Twitter and Instagram feeds, last weekend I was in Lisbon for a fabulous blog trip in partnership with O2 Travel, and
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MY HEALTHY HOLIDAY ESSENTIALS !!!
I’m delighted to announce that I’ve partnered with O2 Travel for a really exciting project which is currently taking me to the beautiful city of Lisbon, Portugal (Europe’s #1 city break destination!). I’ll
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Spain
WORLD SLEEP DAY WITH WESTIN!
As part of the festivities for last Friday’s World Sleep Day (it’s March 17th – perhaps mark it in your calendar for 2018 and maybe grab a
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8 KEY BENEFITS OF HEADSTANDS !
These days, Instagram is awash with mega-flexible Yogis dispatching pin-like headstands in all manners of exquisite locations. On my recent active escape to Ibiza I re-learned this liberating
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Sweden
WELLNESS ESCAPE TO SWEDEN!
Whilst on a trip back home to Sweden, I spent some time at a truly unique spa hotel. ‘Yasuragi‘ as it’s named in Japanese, is nestled on the
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TOP 5 ‘ACTIVE ESCAPES’ WISHLIST !!!
As regular readers may have noticed, I love to feature my active escapes on the blog; the series of posts grew as a reaction to an observation that clients, friends and
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USA
ACTIVE ESCAPE: POST RANCH INN
Soaring 1200 feet above a gentle stretch of the sweeping North Pacific ocean lies the ultimate meeting of man and mountain. A steel skeleton is fused with
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WATCH THIS!
18 months has raced by since the very first Apple Watch appeared on hipster wrists the world over, and now Series 2 has hit the company’s long, wooden sales tables.
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UAE
ABU DHABI TENNIS TOURNAMENT !!!
I’ve literally had some emails asking about my trip to Abu Dhabi which recently featured on my Instagram, so thought I’d pop a quick post up about it!
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