Journal

Maintaining an active lifestyle while travelling can be tricky. We’ve put together some top tips to help you stay fit and productive wherever you are in the world.

As an all-over body workout, swimming has long been touted as the perfect exercise - but do the benefits of Swimming go even further when we break from our lanes and head to the outdoors?

To celebrate International Women's Day we meet Vicki Anstey,founder of London's original Barre studio, Barreworks, and SAS Who Dares Wins Finalist. Vicki shares her personal journey to fitness, her love of Barre and taking on the challenge of a lifetime.

The health and environmental benefits of a Vegan lifestyle persuaded record numbers of us to commit to a regime change this January. But what next, and how easy is it to make the change a permanent lifestyle choice?

Meet our very first ambassador. The London-based personal trainer and performance specialist with Workshop Gymnasium is also a leading UK Fascial Stretch Therapist as well as representing England as an athlete with England Touch.

We are busy. Time stretched. Lacking bandwidth. Whatever you call it, modern lives are hectic. So how do you make sure your workout counts?

Leading Mindfulness expert Terrence the Teacher tells us how with his first of its kind meditation app utilising ‘chatbot’ technology providing one-on-one meditation whilst promoting habitual meditation.

Whether through the food we eat, clothes we wear or how we choose to shop, we all strive nowadays to live in a more sustainable and environmentally responsible way - so why should going to the gym be any different?

Such good intentions – reusable bags when shopping, refusing plastic straws in our Negroni and whipping out our keep cups at every opportunity.

But what about our increasing obsession with activewear?

It’s more than a decade since security rules were introduced to limit the amount of liquid a passenger is permitted in their hand luggage on a commercial flight – so how do you not get caught out?

The La Pochette collection was designed as a force for sustainable good in everyday life.

Half of all plastics produced globally are destined for single use products – contributing to the eight million tonnes of plastics dumped in our oceans every year. At current rates, the amount of plastic in the world’s oceans is set to treble in the next decade - by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish unless we take action.

Whilst single use cups and straws are identified as the usual suspects, our mission was to create solution-led designs which offered you alternatives to often overlooked major sources of plastic pollution – changing rooms and airport security halls.

Current airport security regulations mean an estimated 5,000 tonnes of plastic waste is thrown away each year, single use liquids bags having an average usage of just minutes. The Vegan Anywhere Everywhere range is made from biodegradeable, solvent free TPU and includes a security and cabin approved size, re-usable on every flight you take.

Elsewhere, sweaty or wet kit is routinely stored in single use plastics in the UKs gyms, studios and swimming pools. The Sweat Bag and No Excuses Pouches signature fabric is made from recycled plastic bottles, antibacterial and deodorising to protect against kit deterioration and unwanted kit odour, stain repellent and washable for convenience. What’s not to love about that?

Adding to our sustainable practices approach, the La Pochette collection also aims to bring convenience and freedom your busy urban life with its highly functional design specifications.  The Sweat bag offers water resistance for damp kit whilst the No Excuses is fully waterproof and can hold wet kit safely within your bag next to personal tech, or hold luggage when travelling. Lightweight and compact, all our pouches are specifically designed to fit within your existing bag – after all, why carry two?