Going for Goal: The Women's Health Podcast

Hi there! On Going For Goal next week we’re giving you a refresher on HIIT - high intensity interval training. We’ll discuss how the popular workout you’ve long loved, which has become a living room staple during the pandemic, may actually be sabotaging your fitness goals. Plus, how to dial it back so those short, sweaty workouts really do work for you, in both body and mind. Ahead of the full thing dropping on Tuesday, here are our guests - top trainers Luke Worthington and Alice Liveing (also a three-time Women's Health cover star) on why quality, not quantity, is key when it comes to doing HIIT well.

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Welcome to Mission Confidence, a special edition of the Going For Goal podcast sponsored by Philips, designed to help you on your body confidence journey. This podcast has been created as part of our Project Body Love initiative, which is all about challenging the way we think, feel and speak about our bodies, embracing what makes us unique and putting an end to negative self-talk and embarrassment. Philips believe that hair removal should be a choice, and that it looks different for everyone. If you do choose to remove your body hair - whether you prefer to take it all off or to tackle your legs, armpits or bikini line only - Philips has a range of hair removal tools to suit your needs.

On Mission Confidence, over four episodes and with the help of some very wise women, we’re going to be exploring confidence in its various facets and forms – with the goal of helping you tap into yours. Today we’re exploring the topic of body confidence in summer with Callie Thorpe. And confidence? It’s kind of her thing. As founder of The Confidence Corner, she speaks to hundreds of thousands of women spreading kindness, celebrating the beauty of different body types and sharing the message that in life, you make your own rules. Today she shares how far she’s come from being the insecure teenager who was so ashamed of her body that she covered up in knitwear on the beach; why her confidence journey is ongoing; the reason she loves having silky smooth legs – and how using the Philips Lumea IPL device is helping her get there. At home – and faff-free.

Join Callie on Instagram: @CallieThorpe

Join Roisín on Instagram: @roisin.dervishokane

 

If you enjoyed the episode, sign up for the Project Body Love event, in association with Philips, which is taking place online on the 15 & 16 May. Sessions are free to attend. Register now to reserve your place and receive the full two-day schedule here.

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What’s it like to be counted down and know that, in seconds, you’re going to be speaking live to millions of people across the UK? Nerve-wracking, according to Claudia Winkleman, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. Whether she’s dazzling presenting Strictly or chatting into the mic for her Radio 2 show, the broadcaster, mother-of-three and Head & Shoulders ambassador still gets a real buzz of excitement. As at-home as she appears, she tells our editor-in-chief Claire Sanderson in today’s episode, that she might not do it perfectly, but that that’s okay. Because – according to Claudia – perfection is overrated and ‘failure is excellent’. It’s the approach she brings not only to her job, but also to parenting – and maintaining her health – and in today’s episode, she breaks it down. Claudia is a real joy to listen to - listen on for her number one energy hack; her skin and hair care essentials; and her strategies for raising a confident teenage daughter.

Join Claudia Winkleman on Instagram: @claudiawinkle

Join Claire Sanderson on Instagram: @clairesanderson

Join Women's Health UK on Instagram: @womenshealthuk

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Got a goal in mind? Shoot us a message on Instagram putting ‘Going for Goal’ at the start of your message and our experts could be helping you achieve your health goal in an upcoming episode. Alternatively, you can email us: [email protected]

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Hello there - on Going For Goal next week we've got the one and only Claudia Winkleman. The TV and radio presenter, who is also a Head & Shoulders ambassador, opens up to us about her love of growing older, the nerve-wracking experience of taking over from Graham Norton on Radio 2, and her favourite beauty products. Ahead of the full thing dropping on Tuesday, here's the simple - and entirely free - way the mother-of-three keeps her productivity up throughout the day. We'll definitely be giving this one a try!

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What things can you do to cope mentally and recover physiologically after injuring yourself while exercising? It’s a question that our acting digital editor Francesca Menato has sought answers to over the last year. She was training for her fourth - and hopefully fastest - marathon when she caught Covid-19, and the long-term effects on her lungs meant she wasn’t able to run for 12 weeks. Then, when she laced up her trainers once more and built up her fitness over six weeks for a 31-hour ultra relay, she found herself struck down again - this time with ITB syndrome and bursitis, and out of action for four months. She’s doing better now, and returned to shorter runs in early March, but dealing with that injury was tough. And she’s not alone - tonnes of you have got in touch to share your own experience of lockdown fitness set-backs. In today’s episode, we call on Dr Josie Perry, sports psychologist and founder of Performance In Mind, and Emmanuel Ovola, physiotherapist and Nike run coach. They discuss why so many people have become injured during training during the pandemic, the importance of dealing with the emotional fallout of not being able to stay active, as well as tips and tricks to get you actually doing those all-important rehab exercises.  

Join Dr Josie Perry on Twitter: @Josephineperry

Join Emmanuel Ovola on Twitter: @Manni_O

Join Francesca Menato on Instagram: @ces_menato

Join Women's Health UK on Instagram: @womenshealthuk

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Hello! On Going for Goal next week, we’re tackling the topic of recovering after a sports injury. Ahead of the full thing dropping on Tuesday here’s one of the experts featured on the episode, leading sports psychologist Dr Josie Perry, on her top technique for how you can cope, psychologically, while your body gets better.

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In the decade that she’s been on our screens, whether that’s watching her on TV or reading about her on your smartphone, we’ve seen a few sides to Millie Mackintosh. There’s been the party girl, the businesswoman, the wellness enthusiast, and the WH cover star a whopping four times over. And now, almost a year on from the birth of her daughter, Sienna, it’s time to get to know another: Millie the doting mum, which has given her a whole new perspective on what healthy means to her. In this episode, she tells us what becoming a mother for the first time in a year like no other really felt like, her nerves about her post-baby body before our photoshoot, and what she’s booking in for the great British ‘unlocked’ summer of 2021. She is super open - discussing her and husband Hugo Taylor’s lockdown bickering, as well as the unfiltered realities of C-section recovery and how this has affected her journey back to fitness.

Join Millie Mackintosh on Instagram: @milliemackintosh

Join Roisin Dervish-O'Kane on Instagram: @roisin.dervishokane

Join Women's Health UK on Instagram: @womenshealthuk

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Got a goal in mind? Shoot us a message on Instagram putting ‘Going for Goal’ at the start of your message and our experts could be helping you achieve your health goal in an upcoming episode. Alternatively, you can email us: [email protected]

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Hi! We’ve got this month's cover star Millie Mackintosh on the pod next week sharing the lessons she’s learned from becoming a mother for the first time in 2020, all the things she’ll be booking in to make the most of the great unlocked summer (fingers crossed) of 2021 and, of course, what her approach to wellness looks like now. Ahead of the full thing dropping into your podcast app of choice on Tuesday, here’s Millie sharing why it’s important to her to be open and honest about her postpartum body image journey.

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Have you been struggling, of late, to tick something - anything - off your to-do list? We’re right there with you - in the procrastination zone. A mental state we promise ourselves time and time again that we won’t slip back into. But, for many of us, changes to usual routines and motivations have been disrupted during the pandemic - with productivity taking a goal-busting nose-dive. Which is why, in this episode, rather than avoid the problem and hope it will go away, we’re tackling the issue of procrastination head-on – discussing the tools and techniques you can use to encourage yourself to be more productive and, ultimately, create more space for the good stuff. As you’ll learn, you’re not a procrastinator. You simply procrastinate - and we’re here to help you climb out of that habit so you can build more positive ones. Our guests this week are Dr Grace Lordan, associate professor in behavioural science at the London School of Economics and author of Think Big, and also Grace Beverley, founder of apparel brand TALA as well as workout app Shreddy, and author of Working Hard, Hardly Working. We discuss the most common triggers for procrastination, and how it can take different forms with different people. There’s also great points made about the counterproductive cult of busyness, and why comparing yourself to others in a similar professional space is a disaster for productivity – let alone happiness. Plus, there’s chat about finding your own hype man - or woman - why showing up for yourself in small increments is key and how to have respect for all those other elements of life the matter to you while still flourishing at work. Enjoy!

 

Join Grace Beverley on Instagram: @gracebeverley

Join Dr Grace Lordan on Instagram: @g.lordan

Join Roisin Dervish-O'Kane on Instagram: @roisin.dervishokane

Join Women's Health UK on Instagram: @womenshealthuk

 

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Got a goal in mind? Shoot us a message on Instagram putting ‘Going for Goal’ at the start of your message and our experts could be helping you achieve your health goal in an upcoming episode. Alternatively, you can email us: [email protected]

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Hello! On Going for Goal next week we’re helping you become more productive. We’ll discuss why you might be struggling to get things done and how to get yourself out of that headspace with some stellar tools and techniques from our expert panel. Ahead of the full thing dropping on Tuesday, here’s one of our guests - entrepreneur Grace Beverley, author of new book Working Hard, Hardly Working: How To Achieve More, Stress Less and Feel Fulfilled - on how she batches tasks to squeeze out procrastination and maximise productivity.

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