Carbs Are Your Performance Currency for Women Who Train Hard
If your training feels flat, your legs feel heavy, and you cannot stop thinking about toast, that is not a character flaw. It is information. Carbs are often the first thing women cut when they want to feel “in control” of food. Yet they are also the main fuel for hard training. Lifting, intervals, hill runs, CrossFit, Hyrox, team sport, long rides, big gym sessions, they all ask a lot from the body. Carbs help you answer that ask. This is general nutrition education, not ind
Poppy Hawe
7 min read
The November Reset: Why Hibernating Is Your Smartest Move This Month
November is sneaky. It looks like a normal month. No Christmas parties yet. No “new year, new me” chaos. No big dramatic deadline. But this is where a lot of January depletion starts. Not in December. Not on Boxing Day when you realise you have eaten beige food for a week and forgotten what a vegetable looks like. It starts now. When you ignore the fact that you are tired. When you keep saying yes. When you try to train hard, work hard, socialise hard, and still expect your b
Poppy Hawe
8 min read
Why Your Week Falls Apart and How to Build One That Works
The Monday reset is one of the most misleading ideas in fitness. I see it all the time at Nutrifit. Someone gets to the end of a messy weekend and thinks, “Right, Monday. Back on it.” But the body does not wipe the slate clean because the calendar has moved from Sunday to Monday. A client recently came to me after a full weekend of training. They had not properly rested since Wednesday. Friday was busy, Saturday was hard, Sunday was hard again, and by the time they tried to p
Poppy Hawe
8 min read
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