The Nutritionista goes to Bodyism

The Bodyism Gym

Tegan Haining- Director of Communications

Last week I was lucky enough to go along to the Bodyism Gym in the Bulgari hotel in Knightsbridge. I got to meet the lovely Tegan Haining who is director of communications at Bodyism, she put me through my paces in the gym and showed me a selection of the famous Bodyism moves including disco lunges.

First let me give you a quick background as to what Bodyism is. Bodyism was created by James Duigan who has a hot client list including Elle MacPherson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Lara Stone and Mollie King who all love the Bodyism workouts. But James and Bodyism are so much more than a A list client list, James is the creator of the Clean & Lean lifestyle which has the best selling Clean & Lean books. The Clean & Lean lifestyle promotes clean eating, cutting out processed food, refined sugar and eating as organically as possible. Also very importantly these books focus on your relationship with food, the books promote having a healthy happy relationship with food and learning to enjoy and appreciate food. I have followed James on instagram for many years now and I can tell you now that this man loves his food, he even instagrams his cheat meals!

I would say that the Clean & Lean books have been a crucial part of my journey into health and fitness, they have helped me understand food better and I know if I want to feel amazing and look at my best I need to follow the Clean & Lean diet, cutting out processed sugar makes such a difference to your skin, body and generally makes you feel so much better.

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So I think you get the picture that I have been a huge fan of James, Bodyism and the Clean & Lean team for a while now. So you can imagine how I felt when I was given the opportunity to go along to the Bodyism gym and meet Tegan Haining (who often appears in the Bodyism videos and wearing the Bodyism gymwear). The Bodyism gym is located in the Bulgari hotel in Knightsbridge, the gym itself is situated on the floor with the Bugari spa. I meet Tegan at the reception and she took me on a little tour, the swimming pool was one of the most amazing swimming pools I have come across, and I don’t even like swimming!

Now for the actual workout, we spent the first section warming up and stretching out my muscles, Tegan explained as I warmed up the importance of stretching and waking your body up, which is true because many of us who are regular gym goers often don’t warm up enough, I know that I am guilty of this. The workout itself consisted of a variety of different moves focusing on my legs using these amazing little bands (I need to get myself some!) and core with high intensity cardio bursts through out. The use of small sharp burst of cardio often known as HIT training helps to target fat loss much quicker. Tegan explained that many people spend hours running at the same speed on running machines or exercise bikes yet the most effective way to mould your body is to shock it with short sharp bursts of cardio.

These cardio bursts were never more than a few minutes, I have found myself rethinking my workouts since this training session, I have never been a fan of sitting on an exercise bike for hours on end and I don’t understand how people can go to the gym and spend 45 minutes on a running machine, I get so bored? So HIT training seems to be the logical alternative to me, also I am obviously going to take Tegans advice- she has an incredible body, the perfect example of the lean bodyism physique so if it works for her I will give it a go!

Once the workout had finished and I had fully stretched out Tegan showed me the full range of Clean & Lean supplements and books, she also made me a serenity shake which is an all natural vegan chocolate shake, with calming calcium, chamomile and hops to help promote a relaxing and restful sleep. It was so delicious, I have a sweet tooth so I loved it and I am not sure whether it was the shake or the workout but I slept so well that evening.

So all in all I had the most amazing Bodyism experience, it was so interesting to see their approach to workouts and I really felt stretched out and taller by the end, I can see why the Bodyism workout claims to give you a long, lean healthy body if you fully immerse yourself in the Clean & Lean lifestyle. I would love to see the difference in my body if I went to their recommended 3-5 workouts a week for 3 months! I could really tell Tegan was passionate about what she did, and I have never seen such a bunch of healthy, glowing personal trainers in one gym, they were Bodyisms best advert.

So thank you Bodyism and Tegan for having me, I loved the Bodyism experience and will hopefully be back again soon.

Love the nutritionista x