He recently left London for a calmer life by the sea in Margate. We talk to TV presenter Ayo Akinwolere about breakfast preferences, how the French do mornings, music to listen to first thing and the dream weekend…
exercise
Family
After pregnancy and childbirth, your body needs to recover; not to be thrown into an intensive daily workout regime. The editor, Annie Ridout, learned the hard way. Here, she discusses her stop-start return to running after childbirth…
Wellbeing
In this moving excerpt from I Found my Tribe, debut author and mum-of-five Ruth Fitzmaurice describes the freedom she feels as she dives into the sea. It’s an escape from her restricting role as carer for her husband, who has motor neurone disease…
Wellbeing
Running a half marathon in the rain, on broken sleep – four months after giving birth – left Annie Ridout ill and exhausted. She realised that new mums, like her, need to listen to their bodies and slow down…
Wellbeing
Pregnant, keen to exercise, but no time for a class and not sure what’s safe? Erika is here to help, offering two pregnancy pilates exercises for each trimester – that you can do at home…
Mornings
Single mum-of-one and hula-hooper extraordinaire Rachel Conlisk tells The Early Hour about teaching hula-hooping, performing around the UK, desperately craving a lie-in (but choosing to get up early) and finding it hard to delegate…
Mornings
Deciding when to start exercising again can be one of many post-birth conundrums, so yoga teacher Leyla Rees gives her postnatal yoga advice, plus five exercises to try at home…
Mornings
In the second of three articles about finding ways to feel more energised when she’s woken early in the morning, Cordelia Fellowes asks a yoga teacher to share a morning yoga sequence (each pose is pictured)…