StrongMum Fitness Blog – Never underestimate the power of strong.

StrongMum Fitness Blog is written by UK developer, mum and all-round fitness enthusiast Jem Turner. Based in Shropshire in England with 2 kids, 5 cats and a super supportive husband. Jem runs a variety of distances, lifts lots of heavy things, is a taekwon-do red belt & regularly experiments with random sports for fun. The blog chronicles tales of mental and physical wellbeing, nutrition and general fitness geekery.

Latest Posts

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Having Fun at Shrewsbury Half Marathon 2019

Running
10th October 2019

General Training Update

Nutrition, Running, Weight Lifting
1st August 2019

Juneathon (Week 1)

Martial Arts, Other, Running, Weight Lifting
7th June 2019

I ran a marathon

Running
30th May 2019

Running Barefoot

Gadgets & Gear, Running
17th May 2019

Always Another Goal

Running, Weight Lifting
10th May 2019

Workout Log

Running Log

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The marvelous @gazchap giving his first talk tonight at WordPress Birmingham meetup. 👋 #wpbhamuk

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I'm currently eating for muscle gain. This shouldn't be a big deal, but as someone who spent most of their teenage years & early adulthood overweight or obese, and then spent years balancing the emotional rollercoaster of losing weight, gaining weight, stress eating, losing weight again, finding a new "set point"... to be deliberately eating more than my calorific needs dictate seems counterproductive & scary. Even though my weight fluctuates all the time, and I'm chill about it, the deliberate and intentional nature of this is bloody weird. I've never been shy about sharing my journey & I'm not going to stop now, so consider this my pre-MASSIVE CHONKY GAINZ start photo. (I'm actually already about 5-6lbs up in case you're interested.)

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That'll do. Gradient effect didn't work quite as well as I'd hoped but Izzy likes it so it's all good. (I don't know why the icing looks salmon coloured on here, it's definitely more pink IRL.)

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Izzy is 10 today and she wants a unicorn cake. She's not getting a unicorn cake because I am about 3 hours behind where I need to be, today. She is getting a cake of some sort though, and it's going to have pink bits. IF nothing goes wrong. 😬 And yes, that's my coffee in the microwave. I forgot about it. Again.