"Fifty & Fierce" series, by Emma Isichei, Personal Trainer You can eat the right food and show up to the gym three times a week — and still struggle. If sleep and stress aren't addressed, nothing else works as well as it should. I've been a personal trainer long enough to know the pattern. A client does everything right for weeks. The programme is good, the nutrition is improving, the effort is there. And then the results plateau — or don't come as fast as they should — and w

"Fifty & Fierce" series, by Emma Isichei, Personal Trainer Your body is different at 50. That's not failure — that's biology. But biology doesn't mean helpless. Here's what protein, collagen and a barbell can do for you now. The first thing I had to make peace with — and I'll be honest, it took longer than I'd like to admit — is that my body at 50 plus is not a broken version of my body at 38. It's a different body. Different rules. Different needs. Different strengths, actua

"Fifty & Fierce" series, by Emma Isichei, Personal Trainer, Empower You A personal trainer's honest account of what happens when the body you've worked for decades to build starts quietly changing the rules on you. I need to be honest with you. Not trainer-honest, where I reassure you that "every body is different" and leave it at that. Actually honest. The kind of honest I haven't quite managed to say out loud until now. I am over 50 years old. I have been training hard for