Fitbiz Training Newsletter

Hi everyone,

 I thought I would post a copy of my newsletter - it has a recipe suggestion to use up the insides of your pumpkin lantern; plus an exercise tip to help you get the all-important 30 minutes of heart-rate raising activity every day.

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Best wishes,

 Heather

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Welcome to October's edition of the monthly newsletter from Fitbiz Training. This month features the usual, along with a special competition:

News from Fitbiz Training
Exercise Tip: Cold Dark Nights
Seasonal Foods
Recipe: Pumpkin Roast with Salmon
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News from Fitbiz Training 
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Exercise Tip: Cold Dark Nights; Exercise Inside! 
At the start of the summer, the Exercise Tip was about what exercise you could do outside in the nice sunny evenings - now it's time for some suggestions of what you can do indoors. It is still possible to get the all important 30 minutes of heart rate raising activity every day, even when it's cold and miserable outside.
It's ideal to do all 30 minutes at once, but you can spread the time across the day.

Stepping:
Find yourself a step (the bottom stair is great) and ensure that the surrounding area is clear of things you can fall over, and has a reasonable amount of space around it. Keep your back straight and core engaged throughout, and make sure your shoulders are back.
Start off with forwards and backwards step - fairly obviously, just step up and down. You can make this more interesting by training in an interval style - do 10 slow steps, concentrating on your posture, then 20 quick steps... You can do as many intervals as you like but always make sure the slow steps are the same speed, and the quick steps are the same speed too.
Also try some sideways steps. Stand with the step to the side of you, step directly sideways on to it and lift the knee of your "following leg" to level with your hip, then return to the start. Your shoulders should stay square and forward and your feet should always be pointing forwards; take care not to twist your body towards the step. You'll feel this working the outside of your legs. These steps need to be done in a steady way, and I'd suggest doing about 15 each side, taking a 30 second rest then repeating.

Go Crazy!!:
While you're waiting for dinner to cook, or at any other time you have 10 minutes to kill, start gently jogging on the spot. As you start to loosen up, you can pick up the pace and bounce a little higher. Do this for 5 minutes or until you feel out of breath (not gasping, but a feeling of having worked), take a minutes rest (or even later on in the day) then do some star jumps. You start with your feet together then jump and land with your feet about hip width. At the same time, take your arms out to the side and point your hands to 11pm and 1pm; then jump your feet together, bring your arms back and go back to the start. Again, get yourself just out of breath. While everyone might think you've gone a little crazy, this will get your heart rate up and get you closer to those 30 minutes.

Do the Housework:
When vacuuming try to use your arm, back and stomach muscles to push the vacuum. When loading the dishwasher, concentrate on your posture and squat down to the dishwasher instead of bending over
 
Seasonal Foods 
There are still plenty of fruits and vegetables in season at the moment, so make sure you fill up whilst keeping CO2 emissions down!

October's vegetables of choice are:
Artichoke, aubergine, beetroot, brocolli, butternut squash, carrots, celeriac, celery, courgettes, fennel, garlic, kale, leeks, marrow, mushrooms, onions, peppers, pumpkin, radishes, rocket, sweetcorn, turnips and watercress

And representing the fruits are:
Apples, blackberries, elderberries, figs, grapes, pears and tomatoes
 
Recipe: Pumpkin, Sage & Shalott Roast with Salmon and Jacket Potato 
It's Halloween at the end of the month, so I thought a recipe using the "waste" from your pumpkin lantern would be a good idea! If you haven't tried pumpkin before, this month is the time to dive in!
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 60 minutes (30 minutes without jacket potato)
Serves 4
flesh of 1 medium side pumpkin
12 small/medium shallots
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 handful fresh sage leaves

Method
Pre-heat the oven to 180 C

Put your jacket potato in the oven for about 30 minutes before putting the Roast in

Cut the pumpkin flesh into bite-size chunks

Peel the shallots, and then place the shallots, pumpkin and oil in an oven-proof dish and stir to coat with oil

Roast in the oven for 30 minutes

About 15 minutes later, cook the salmon under the grill and steam some broccoli

When you take the roast out of the oven, mix in the roughly chopped sage
 
Until next time, enjoy staying healthy!

Best wishes,

Heather