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Lacking Gym Motivation? Here's 8 Ways To Motivate Yourself To Hit The Gym After Work

Struggling to motivate yourself to go to the gym after work instead of rolling home to watch Netflix and lie on the sofa? Don't worry - we know exactly how to help you to find your passion and motivate yourself to meet your fitness goals.

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Our Three Favourite Recipes For Easter Weekend

With Easter weekend fast approaching, if you’re hosting a celebration, family gathering or just fancy getting involved with some Easter baking, you’re probably wondering what to make for Easter, and researching some delicious Easter recipes. That's where we come in!

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Our Top 4 Delicious Detox Recipes For The Detox Booster

The Detox Booster is our vegan superfood blend, packed with 10 of nature’s most powerful ingredients. We’ve got a few quick and easy recipes that you can use to give yourself a health boost during your day. Did someone say, delicious detox smoothie recipe? Check it out.

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Why Is Sugar Bad For You? We Discuss Sugar Alternatives And More

Ah, sugar. That really sweet stuff that sweetens so many of our foods. Scientifically, sugar is a natural ingredient found in the sugar cane plant, but did you know too much sugar can be really, really detrimental to your health? Now you do.

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The Top Skin Boosting Ingredients To Look Out For, Revealed

With the latest skincare trends, it seems like you need 547 different products to make up the perfect skin routine. The good news is that some of the best ingredients for skin are naturally occurring. Here's what they are...

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Want To Target Lower Belly Fat? Check Out Our 3 Favourite Lower Ab Exercises

It’s true what they say, everyone has abs. You just might have to work for them. Whether you’re a gym bunny or just starting out, these ab finisher exercises are perfect for pretty much everyone.

Research Into Hormetic Stress Shows How You Can Improve Your Exercise Routine

Hormesis is a state that describes the bodies natural reaction or response following exposure to a product, with examples including supplementations and heat or pressure. It has some pretty neat benefits when it comes to recovery, too.

Finding Balance and Inner Peace with Brin McKinnon

This month, we sat down with Innermost Insider Brin McKinnon to discuss inner peace, managing conflict and maintaining balance. Representing us in Australia, Brin is a true Innermost Insider, having loved our products since she was a London native. Funny, thoughtful and eloquent, even with the 11 hour time difference making the interview 1am for her; this one's definitely worth the read. Hey Brin! Tell us about yourself! Hi, my name is Brin, and I am currently studying a Bachelor of International Relations at the Australian National University, whilst also working as a management consultant and freelancing. I've been using Innermost products since 2018 when I used to live in London, and since then they’ve been my favourite products, specifically in terms of vegan products. I then became an ambassador this year, because I wanted to share my love of Innermost products with other people. My favourite platform at the moment is my YouTube channel where I actually recently spoke about Innermost and the products I’ve been loving. View this post on Instagram A post shared by B r i n 🌱 (@brindarcey) Our theme this month is peace. So, the first question I want to ask is, what does peace mean for you, in your own life? A lot of the time in the health and wellness industry, the focus is on the physical and specifically on aesthetics, but I think that it’s really important to understand our health as something that's part of a bigger whole. It’s not just physical - it’s mental too, and that’s why, personally, peace is such a big thing for me, mental-health wise. Mental health is such an important part of our overall wellbeing and I think finding peace is really central to looking after your mental health. I wouldn't say I'm naturally a peaceful person but it’s a process to find that sense of inner-peace and maintain it. What process do you undertake to cultivate your inner peace? What steps have you taken? Over the last few years, I've definitely been taking steps to improve my relationship with myself and I suppose, in a way, to relax a little. As I mentioned, I think that it's definitely a process, and how you cultivate inner peace depends a lot on the individual. For me, a lot of that is spending time in nature, taking walks and exercising outside. I also think that meditating can also be useful, but I think that something that can dissuade people from meditation a bit and definitely dissuaded me was the idea that there’s only one way to meditate. But I think that just finding something that's meditative to you can be really useful in cultivating inner peace and it doesn’t have to be sitting down with your eyes closed. It can be spending time outside with your family or your friends, or even just watching a television show that makes your mind switch off for a bit. The first step to cultivating inner peace is finding what brings you peace. How do you make peace with your mistakes or regrets? I think that I'm quite lucky because I'm naturally quite good at letting things go and I don't necessarily regret things. So unfortunately, that's not going to be helpful for everyone. But I think that, for anyone, letting yourself come to terms with your emotions and letting yourself feel those emotions, is the most important step in making peace with them. However, I also think it’s then important to not hold on to those negative thoughts and feelings for too long. Once you’ve let yourself feel those emotions, you then need to accept them. A lot of the time your ego can get in the way of this step, but you need to be humble and say “okay, I've made a mistake”, perhaps get advice from friends or family and then just take time to reflect on yourself. In the end, the most important step is letting go; it's so important to accept and then move forward, otherwise we let things that we've done in the past continue to hold us back in the future. Is there anything that disrupts your peace and how do you manage it? I’m a person who doesn't necessarily enjoy change. So any small thing that happens in my day could completely derail how I'm feeling and that's something I'm definitely working on. But as I mentioned, it's a process. It's not going to happen overnight. The way I deal with this is not over-committing, organising, scheduling and planning things, but also respecting that things change and that's okay. In addition to this, I've also been going to therapy for a few years and I think that's been really important for me as well. Therapy is typically seen as something just for people who are deeply suffering with their mental health but, I think that therapy can be for everyone. It's just a really useful tool to break down the way that you think and the way that you approach situations that can derail your inner peace. And its been really important for me in my journey to protecting my peace from those day-to-day disruptions. How do you manage conflict with other people? I think that these last few years have been particularly emotionally challenging for everyone. So I think that an increase in interpersonal conflict is something that's inevitable. I'm definitely naturally quite a combative person and I'm anxious-avoidant in my relationships, so I have felt this in my life too. Whilst I do think that it's important to stand up for yourself and for what you believe in, I also think that approaching people with respect, openness and honesty is the best way forward when you're having a conflict with someone. Of course, not all interpersonal conflict is going to be fixable but that's okay. Sometimes we need to let relationships go as well. Beautiful you’ve been open and honest with people then you can move forward knowing you don’t regret how you’ve handled the situation. View this post on Instagram A post shared by B r i n 🌱 (@brindarcey) Do you feel like your nutrition is important in being in that good headspace? Absolutely. I think that nutrition is incredibly important. There’s a massive connection between your physical and mental health so eating a balanced diet is really important. I don't believe in restricting certain food groups, because I think this can actually disrupt your peace. However, I think by listening to your body and viewing nutrition as fuel rather than something to be labelled good or bad, you can make nutrition benefit your peace. For example, for me eating protein is really important because I'm vegetarian. I find it easiest to do this by using a vegan protein, so it’s about finding ways to make nutrition work for you. I actually think that finding balance in our lives is probably the best way to cultivate inner peace, across the board. We can't always strive for perfectionism but I don't think we should be happy with mediocrity either. We need to be somewhere in the middle; striving to do the best for ourselves in the moment that we're in. That’s where you find peace. To keep up with Brin, check out her Instagram!

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Social Shout Out: March 2022

Whether you're a protein smoothie connoisseur or you can't live without your daily nootropic capsules, we feel the love every time you share some Innermost on your Instagram. Here's a few of our favourite posts this month.Be sure to tag @liveinnermost with the hashtag #innermost on your Instagram posts and stories for the chance to get a shoutout in next month's roundup.

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Innermost Ingredients: Casein Protein

Casein is a dairy protein that slowly releases amino acids into the body. Interestingly, casein is actually the property in milk that gives milk its characteristic white colour. It's also in The Strong Protein, and casein has some really great benefits.

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PLAYLISTS

Playlist / Team Picks: Jasmine

Here Jasmine's compilation of favourite workout songs live and direct for your next workout, drive, chill session, walk home...

Playlist / Halloween Hits

Get yourself in the mood for spooky season with this playlist of Halloween hits, curated just for you by Team Innermost.

Playlist / Home Workout

Working out from home has never been easier, and we've got just the playlist to power you through any session.

Playlist / Ultimate Chill

Sometimes we all need a little chill in our lives. These are our top picks of songs that help us relax and unwind.

Playlist / Entering Autumn

Check out our curated playlist of our favourite autumnal songs to get us in the mood for September. We hope you love it as much as we do.

Playlist / August Anthems

These are our favourite August anthems, curated into one playlist just for you by Team Innermost.

Playlist / Lo-Fi Beats

There's nothing like a good chill playlist, and this curated collection of lo-fi beats is perfect for any situation.

Playlist / #WFH Anthems

Music has been the thing that's kept us going over the past few months. This is our playlist of the perfect Working From Home anthems that we hope inspires you.

Playlist / My Valentine

The only thing better than a great workout is a great workout with someone you really fancy. Hit play and get ready to work it with this Valentine's Day special - then cool off ...

Nik Naidoo Workout Playlist

Here's Nik's selection of head-nodding and ground-shaking tunes to get your next sweat on to. For the love of God just don't play this before heading to bed. We can not be held ...

Adam Husler Workout Playlist

Adam is one of the leading yoga teachers in London. When we asked him to create a workout playlist, he came up with a deeply soulful mix of tracks that won't fail to get a smile...