My Gym Essentials | Spring into Summer

Heya Everyone,

I'm starting a new series today, Spring into Summer; to help you get ready to have an awesome summer. Today I'm going to be helping you start on you're confidence for summer AKA you're summer body. Now you're probably thinking that it's just about getting slim and toned for the summer but it's actually mainly about building up your confidence. You can be any shape or size but if you're not confident then you won't be looking as fabulous as you could do. Personally for me being healthy and active really helps boosts my confidence so what I do is go to the gym, I tend to go just once a week for an hour to an hour and a half and then at home I do workout videos and little exercise routines on week days (let me know if you'd like to see a post on my workout routine). Anyway enough rambling let's get on with the post.

It is really important to stay hydrated when exercising so definitely take a water bottle with you, although most gyms have a water fountain it's much easier and more hygienic to take your own water bottle to drink from.

The next two go together but it's your phone/iPod and headphones. Music can really help you get into your workout and distract you from the fact you are doing exercise so it will be more enjoyable. You can also listen to revision, you can record yourself if you have a speaking exam in languages or a really good app is GCSEPod it has lots of different podcasts for most subjects for individual subjects so say if you have a biology test coming up you can listen to them so you get in some revision while doing some exercise so you're killing two birds with one stone!

For me to want to go and workout I need comfy trainers; there is nothing worse than having trainers that don't fit you properly and rub on your heels, so I think it's definitely worth forking out for a good pair (mine are Nike Free 5.0).

Now I know that it kind of goes without saying but you don't want to be smelling in the gym so definitely make sure you take deodorant with you and also so you can freshen up at the end.

Charlotte x

My New Camera

Hi Everyone, 
I recently purchased a new camera, I do have one but it's really old and doesn't really work any more but I've been really getting back into photography recently. the camera I got is a Nikon 1 J2.

These are a couple of photos I've taken:

Let me know if you'd like me to do a review of my camera. Most of the photos I take for my posts will be taken on my camera from now on so look forward to better quality photos,

Charlotte x

A Month of Memories

Heya,

So I thought I'd do a different kind of post, a month of memories. 
One of my favourite things to do lately is take photos especially when the sun's out; so I'll do either this post or a monthly favourites or both  at the end of each month so you can see what I've been up to and what I've been loving over the last month. anyway lets get on to today's post.

1. The first photo me and my friends took on the way to my friend Emily's party when we were waiting for the tram

2. This was also taken at Emily's party when we got to the ice hockey match

3. This one was taken when I woke up and was on my way down to get breakfast I opened up the blinds and thought the sky looked pretty so obviously I took a photo of it!

4. Photo four was taken in my brothers school play ground while I was waiting for him

5. This photo was taken before my brothers school play started

6. These were photos I took at my grandmas house while I was waiting for my laptop to start up so I could write my last post

7. I took this during the half term holiday while I was outside in my garden

8. Now I can't actually remember when or where I took this photo but I thought it looked quite good

9. I took these two photos at a pub, the sportsman when I was there with my mum

10. This photo was taken in half term, I was just sat in my living room watching TV and the sun was shining into the room in a really pretty way so of course I photographed it

11. I went to pottering around (a paint-a-pot shop) with my mum and friend, Julia

12. This is outside the royal armouries museum with my family at the end of half term 

13. I took this when I went on a Starbucks date with my mum

I hope you liked seeing a bit more about me and what I got up too,

Charlotte x

Healthy Motivation

Hello Everyone,
So today I thought I would right a post about motivation. Now there are lots of different types of motivation but I'm going to be talking about motivation to get healthy. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that you should all go out for a run and stop eating junk food because then I would just be a bit of a hypocrite because trust me I would never do that! I'm just going to tell you some of my favourite fitness apps and some of my top tips for living a healthier lifestyle.

Top Tips
1. Reward yourself - I have a little reward system so whenever I workout or do some exercise I put a pound in a little money box and then at the end of the month I take out the money from the month and spend it on something or put it towards something you want
2. Exercise - everybody likes to exercise differently some people like working out with friends, others like going for a run by themselves but just do whatever you like to do 
3. One is better than none - try and just workout when you can; working out once a week is better than not working out at all
4. Start out small - start out just working out say once a week and then up it too two when you can
5. Make small changes - just try and make suttle changes to your diet just switch out a few things for healthier equivalents 

Top Apps
Sleep Better - sleep better wakes you up within a half an hour time slot at a time when you are sleeping lightly so when your alarm goes off it's easier to wake up and you feel a lot more awake
Running - this is really good to keep track of how far you go when you go for a long walk or a run at the gym
Nike Training - this has a lot of different workouts and they last for a range of different times so you can pick one that's right for you 
Blogilates - Blogilates is an app by a youtuber so the workouts are videos so you can follow along with them really easily
now I must confess it may look like I workout a lot but I only use these about twice a week but I always think that one workout is better than one.

Lets all be honest who out of us wakes up or comes home thinking I'll go for a run now or I'll do a workout now...not many of us I imagine but just do what you can. Everything starts out small.

Also I just want to quickly share with you a relatively new blog that's written by one of my friends, Amelia. She's been through quite a lot and had a hard time so I'd really appreciate it if you went over and checked out her blog where she explains everything that she has been through and it might help you or someone you know as it's quite common what Millie went through so click here to go to her blog. I suggest you read it from the beginning so you can understand her story.

I hope this helped you out a bit,
Charlotte x

Things that are Big Right Now!

Heya everyone,
This year is going so quickly already! I can't belive that we are in February, the month of love. I'm going to share with you what we are loving in the fashion world.

Things that are big right now

Tartan-everyone is obsessed with tartan, especially tartan scarves. I can get why there is a big hype about them though because if any where else is like where I live then the temperature is in the minus numbers for most of the day! Tartan scarves are stylish and keep you warm at the same time. They are mainly in red tones but there are some bluey-green ones too.

Khaki-I don't think that you'll be unable to find anything you buy in khaki. The military khaki style was all over the catwalk and now it's all over the shops. I've seen it in River Island, New Look, Topshop and just about every other shop!

Denim-denim seems to be coming back. Well it never really went away but it appeared quite a lot at the Burberry show. There were a lot of denim jackets worn by their models, I think they are making a return.

Up and coming trends

Big bold flower patterns seem to be creeping onto the catwalk and into shops and I have spotted a few seventies inspired items too.

Charlotte x