The gym can be quite at first ... you feel like a new girl at school
SHE regularly hits the gym to ensure her physique is always in tip-top condition, so it’s no surprise that Christine McGuinness has become a fitness influencer in her own right. Here, the busy mum-of-three and wife to TV presenter Paddy McGuinness gives us the lowdown on her health and wellbeing routine... different gyms. When we finish doing up our house we’ll have our own gym though and I don’t know how that’s going to work! Whether we’ll have to take it in turns.
I try and do around four to five days a week in the gym, but Paddy’s so busy filming Top Gear at the moment that he only gets into the gym once a week.
He goes to a very macho gym that I probably wouldn’t feel comfortable in.
I just go to the one around the corner that’s light, airy and very local.
TO BE patient and stick at it. It takes time to see a difference with your body and for you to get into the routine of making it a part of your lifestyle.
The gym is a completely normal part of my day now and it’s unusual for me not to go.
I’m always surprised that it’s not more of a regular thing in people’s day, because it’s so important for your health.
That hour in the gym is completely for me.
I get a lot of mums messaging me saying they haven’t got time or can’t afford a gym membership – which I totally understand and respect – but when I had the twins I worked out at home.
They didn’t start school until they were five so for all of those years I worked out in the living room when they were asleep.
So stick at it and don’t make excuses, because that time is for you and it’s worth it in the end.
Christine McGuinness is working with wellness brand Eve Sleep, as part of its Right to Sleep campaign, to lobby the UK Government to recognise sleep as a fundamental human right. Sign the petition by heading online to change.org
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