Anna-Louise Coaching

15/11/2025

Let’s talk about MENOPAUSE and bone health for a moment – something you definitely want to think about when looking after your body to ease some of those menopausal aches and pains.
Bone breakdown accelerates as we move through the menopause due to oestrogen levels dropping which can result in osteoporosis among other symptoms.
We’ve spoken many times here about the menopause not being something that we dread and we can in fact manage many of the downsides that tend to come with it.
So, what can we do to help combat that bone breakdown?
🏋🏻‍♀️ Resistance exercise – body weight or heavy lifting, it doesn’t matter but I will go to my grave shouting about the benefits of resistance exercise for us all, especially women at this stage of our lives.
🐟 Protein – try for a serving at least at each meal
🌞 Vitamin D – most of us in the UK, especially at this time of year, are deficient. A simple over the counter supplement can help with that.
🥛 Calcium – 3 healthy servings of calcium each day is the aim here.

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14/11/2025

I’ve written a blog sharing more about how me and Dan are working together, what we’re focusing on early in training, and why having a great coach matters so much.

Update time… 🎉As you may know by now, I’m gearing up for my biggest challenge yet — 900 miles, 10 days, and 3 disciplines — all to celebrate MOVE Against Cancer’s 10th anniversary.It’s a long old journey from Edinburgh to London, of course not a direct route, connecting major teenage ...

13/11/2025

Can we just take a moment to remember that weight is NOT the only measure of good health – be it ‘overweight’ or ‘underweight’?

Can we just allow others to move their bodies without making assumptions or comments?

You really have no idea what’s going on with anyone else, what unseen things they’re managing or have managed to overcome and even if that is insignificant with reference to the way that their body looks, you still have no place dishing out unwanted opinions.

The world needs more love, for every BODY. ✌🏼🌻🖤

12/11/2025

I’ve shared a bit more here about my new coaching setup, early training and what’s coming next for the MOVE challenge.

I’ve written a blog sharing more about how me and Dan are working together, what we’re focusing on early in training, and why having a great coach matters so much. ✌🏼🌻🖤

Update time… 🎉As you may know by now, I’m gearing up for my biggest challenge yet — 900 miles, 10 days, and 3 disciplines — all to celebrate MOVE Against Cancer’s 10th anniversary.It’s a long old journey from Edinburgh to London, of course not a direct route, connecting major teenage ...

11/11/2025

The good days don’t really matter, the days when we are obstacle free for our health and wellbeing, they’re few and far between, what matters the most is how we respond when life puts things in the way. That’s almost every day, the majority of the time, what forms the largest part of our health and wellbeing ultimately.

So, what happens when work forces a late night so you don’t feel like getting up in the morning? What happens when you leave your nutritious prepared lunch in the fridge? What happens when it’s raining and you have an outdoor training session planned?

We can all do it when things are exactly as we want them to be. What about when things aren’t optimal?

It’s hard to begin with but keep working on those habits, on those routines, it then just becomes something that you do without excuse. ✌🏼🌻🖤

10/11/2025

Update time… 🎉

As I take on my biggest challenge yet, 900 miles, 10 days, and 3 disciplines for MOVE Against Cancer, I needed someone in my corner to help guide me through the chaos and keep me on the straight and narrow!

So, I’m beyond excited to be working with who’ll be coaching me through this journey 🙌

Dan brings SO much knowledge and kindness and I’m so happy to be working together — he’s already dealing with me being annoying and exercising great patience when I’m a technology dinosaur and can’t get the training apps to work - I have promised that I won’t be this high maintenance all along!

This partnership feels really cool for me — it’s collaboration, learning, and hopefully being part of something bigger than a single event moving forward. I’m so grateful for the generosity, time, and energy Dan is giving to help make this challenge possible.

It goes without saying that I am very grateful for those that have helped me build some endurance foundations up to now, as always.

I can’t wait to share more about what we’re working on, the training behind the scenes, and how Dan is helping me prepare for 900 miles of movement for an incredible cause.

It takes a team 💪

08/11/2025

Appear somehow to have developed some kind of mental block with swimming – not ideal as someone who loves triathlon and has a big old challenge next year, involving open water swimming.

Open water, pool, nothing has happened just my brain has decided that a swimming session means absolute DREAD.

Quite unsure if it’s the cold (yep, I’m even cold in a heated pool indoors and have quite a legitimate fear of being cold), the drama and violence that comes from fellow swimmers, being slow as hell and feeling bad about myself because of that – who knows.

BUT the wild thing is, I sit in the car with dread beforehand and it’s almost always fine and actually enjoyable!

So, if anyone has any ideas about how the brain can get over this I’m all out!!

AND this is your sign to go get whatever is troubling you – it’s barely ever as bad as you think.
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06/11/2025

Do you know what baffles me?

When people pay to go and see a physio or sports therapist and don’t do the prescribed exercises like having someone’s eyes on the injury or telling someone about it is magic?

Do the work gang and come back stronger! ✌🏼🌻🖤

04/11/2025

Why I’m Taking You Behind the Scenes…

You might have seen that I’m taking on something big next year:

🚴‍♀️ Around 900 miles, 🏊‍♀️ swimming, cycling and running, 🏃‍♀️ in 10 days, to celebrate MOVE Against Cancer’s 10th anniversary and raise awareness for our incredible work supporting young people to rebuild life through movement.
BUT I don’t just want to share the shiny challenge moments.

I want to take you on the journey with me – you can be sure that not all of the moments are going to be shiny, in the run up and during the event itself. Early mornings, wobbles, the things you might not ordinarily see.

🩵Every week in my emails, I’ll be sharing the very real journey: training updates, lessons and what I’m learning along the way, nutrition, and hopefully also how movement connects us all.

👉 If you want to follow along, I’d love for you to join my email list - http://eepurl.com/hwbHrP

The link is also in my bio.

This one’s going to be a big old one for me, and I’m so grateful you’re here with me.

01/11/2025

I have wanted to bring back the blog for SO long - life just takes over, as you well know, so I'm super happy to be back and what better time, because this is the start of something BIG and I want to take you along with me. Some of you may know that I have been working in cancer rehabilitation for q...

01/11/2025

I was feeling pretty low in beans this week one day after work and I had a double training session on the programme. I know, in reality, it was all in my head, it wasn’t my body that needed a rest (it’s important to be able to distinguish between the two) so I just had to get on with it.

When I found myself complaining, someone said to me - ‘but what if it’s great?’ - THAT was all I needed to take into my session. And let me tell you, it was great! So, perhaps, if you aren’t feeling it this week, just that simple question to yourself could make all of the difference to your motivation?
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30/10/2025

Have written my first blog in a jolly long time, all about my upcoming wild adventure! ✌🏼🌻🖤

I have wanted to bring back the blog for SO long - life just takes over, as you well know, so I'm super happy to be back and what better time, because this is the start of something BIG and I want to take you along with me. Some of you may know that I have been working in cancer rehabilitation for q...