Fitness Tip: By sliding your shoulder blades down and back before an exercise, you can improve your results and protect yourself from injury.

Fitness Tip: Trade your machine exercises for dumbbells, barbells and medicine balls in order to build strength in ways more specific to your body.

Fitness Tip: Packing your two-piece away for winter means that you won’t think about how you’ll look in it until about April.

Fitness Tip: Pay attention to what you are eating. Ask yourself if you really are hungry, or if something else is going on that’s causing you to turn to food.

Fitness Tip: Yoga can help you feel centred. It stretches and strengthens your body, improves your breathing and awareness, and empowers your mind.

Fitness Tip: Be warned – buying foods labelled ‘low-fat’, ‘non-fat’, or ‘fat-free’ may encourage you to eat up to 50 per cent more calories.