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Two years in the making, and my imposter syndrome has clocked just as many hours. It shows up at 2am, plants a boot on my admittedly rather peachy, rather Bulgarian-split-squatted backside, and demands to know who exactl...

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Six Weeks, No Questions Asked: The Fitness Industry Will Take Literally Anyone, and Dubai Has Finally Noticed

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What Two Years of Actual Graft Taught Me

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Somewhere in your late thirties, if you're paying any kind of attention, you start to notice that your friendship group is quietly contracting and your first instinct, particularly if you've spent the better part of your...

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Today I turn forty-eight and I have to be honest with you - I’m genuinely, unreservedly delighted about it.

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They just need a wave or a football

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One of the funniest things about changing careers from construction into fitness has been watching just how comfortable people were with me posting photographs beside half-built developments worth hundreds of millions of...

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If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes

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Coffee shops have ears, ears have loyal friends. Coffee shop analysis - enjoy!

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There are moments in life where you realise you’re not changing direction because something went wrong, but because something new has become possible. That distinction matters, because it reframes the narrative from retr...

","url":"https://alisonkilgour.com/the-ak-blogs/f/hanging-up-the-hard-hat-and-stepping-into-a-new-era","title":"Hanging Up the Hard Hat and Stepping Into a New Era","summary":"There are moments in life where you realise you’re not changing direction because something went wrong, but because something new has become possible. That distinction matters, because it reframes the narrative from retr...","date_modified":"2026-02-08T08:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://alisonkilgour.com/the-ak-blogs/f/blue-monday-the-rise-of-reformer-pilates","html_content":"

Blue Monday & the Rise of Reformer Pilates: Or, How to Survive January Without Throwing Your Laptop Into the Clyde

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Perimenopause & Menopause: Why “Journal It Out” Isn’t a Strategy for Your Waistline, Your Bones, or Your (Non-Pancake) Glutes

","url":"https://alisonkilgour.com/the-ak-blogs/f/perimenopause-menopause-why-%E2%80%9Cjournal-it-out%E2%80%9D-isn%E2%80%99t-a-strategy","title":"Perimenopause & Menopause: Why “Journal It Out” Isn’t a Strategy ","summary":"Perimenopause & Menopause: Why “Journal It Out” Isn’t a Strategy for Your Waistline, Your Bones, or Your (Non-Pancake) Glutes","date_modified":"2026-01-11T12:40:42Z"},{"id":"https://alisonkilgour.com/the-ak-blogs/f/twixmas-when-your-leggings-start-sliding-mid-plank","html_content":"

Twixmas: When Your Leggings Start Sliding Mid-Plank and You Still Try to Negotiate With January

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Why We Make Them, Why They Break, and Why I Still Fall for Them Every Single Time

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A festive masterclass in accountability, self-deception, and why coaching is sometimes tough love

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I’ve genuinely got two online coaching spaces left for a January start, so let’s speak plainly: if you think you’re going to sort your entire body, mindset and habits in a six-week panic before summer, the only thing get...

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Last week was officially a “holiday”, but anyone who knows me knows I don’t do lying-on-a-sunlounger-switching-my-brain-off. I’m not really built for all-inclusive inertia. It was a working holiday, a scouting mission fo...

","url":"https://alisonkilgour.com/the-ak-blogs/f/five-things-abu-dhabi-knocked-back-into-place-for-me","title":"Five Things Abu Dhabi Knocked Back Into Place For Me","summary":"Last week was officially a “holiday”, but anyone who knows me knows I don’t do lying-on-a-sunlounger-switching-my-brain-off. I’m not really built for all-inclusive inertia. It was a working holiday, a scouting mission fo...","date_modified":"2025-12-03T08:22:48Z"},{"id":"https://alisonkilgour.com/the-ak-blogs/f/december-is-not-a-write-off-month","html_content":"

For years, the first tin of Roses and the first work night out might as well have been my starter pistol for self-sabotage. The calendar flips to December, Christmas party email lands, somebody dumps biscuits in the offi...

","url":"https://alisonkilgour.com/the-ak-blogs/f/december-is-not-a-write-off-month","title":"December Is Not a Write-Off Month","summary":"For years, the first tin of Roses and the first work night out might as well have been my starter pistol for self-sabotage. The calendar flips to December, Christmas party email lands, somebody dumps biscuits in the offi...","date_modified":"2025-11-23T09:18:53Z"},{"id":"https://alisonkilgour.com/the-ak-blogs/f/making-yourself-small-is-one-hell-of-a-weight-loss-strategy","html_content":"

Making yourself small is one hell of a weight-loss strategy – shame the only thing you lose is self-respect.

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How high-performing women hide behind “I’ll start on Monday” – and what actually changes when you start on Thursday at 4pm instead.*

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Data-Driven Intelligent Coaching: Where My Intuition Meets Your Inbox

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This week started with my brain dragging a piano up a staircase. School failings have been squatting in my head rent-free and, frankly, it’s bothering me. I’m trying not to let it, but my primary job is to protect my kid...

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Fruit Bowls Don’t Fix Hormones, or Burnout: Why Corporate Wellness is Failing Working Adults

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I said what I said: your GLP-1 ego weighs more than your muscles

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It's 1 year on since I had major surgery. Here's what it did to me:

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Someone posted this week celebrating a “BMI drop- yay!” and I swear, I rolled my eyes so far back I nearly found my tiny girl brain having a Victorian meltdown.

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You’ll happily doom-scroll for twenty minutes without blinking, but five honest minutes with a pen is “too hippy” for you?\nSure. And I definitely “don’t have time” all the while somehow finding time to overthink the same...

","url":"https://alisonkilgour.com/the-ak-blogs/f/the-journal-that-talks-back","title":"The Journal That Talks Back","summary":"You’ll happily doom-scroll for twenty minutes without blinking, but five honest minutes with a pen is “too hippy” for you?\nSure. And I definitely “don’t have time” all the while somehow finding time to overthink the same...","date_modified":"2025-10-19T08:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://alisonkilgour.com/the-ak-blogs/f/if-you-ran-your-body-like-your-business-would-it-be-profitable","html_content":"

Let me say it straight: if you ran your body like your business, most of you would be bankrupt.

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Wake Surfing Changed My Brain

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Balance is a myth, and that’s okay.

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Why Fitness Isn’t a Nice-to-Have. It’s a Lifeline.

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