You took some time off your fitness routine and somehow, that one-week break stretched into a month-long holiday. Before you know it, it’s been months since you last laced up your trainers. Reviving an abandoned habit is not easy but it can be done and especially for women, there’s no better time to get back into gear than now as 8 March is International Women’s Day (IWD). This year’s IWD theme #ChoosetoChallenge invites you to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness against bias, and take action for equality. And it all starts with you. Employ these few tricks to hop back on board your fitness journey.

What if you could eat your way to better cognitive function? Enter the MIND diet. In a study, participants slowed their rate of cognitive decline by 7.5 years through the MIND diet, a combination of Mediterranean and DASH (Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay), that nourishes and protects the brain.

As Aristotle once said, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. Well, a study by Duke University agrees, revealing that over 40% of what we do each day are not decisions but habits. Practising good daily habits is thus the key to attaining and sustaining a life less ordinary.