Fitness & Strength Fitness This Week

Fitness this week, #3 2025

Happy Sunday and for all my American readers, I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving with your friends and/or families! We don't celebrate Thanksgiving here but...
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Fitness & Strength Fitness This Week

Fitness this week, #2 2025

This week the first evil breath of winter came, with temperatures taking a nosedive into below zero numbers during the night. There was snow further north,...
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Fitness & Strength Fitness This Week

Fitness this week, #1 2025

I’ve been offline for a while, although I’ve been reading blogs and commented on some. I needed to be away from writing to refocus, and finally...
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Reflections

Let's kick off this new project

I have a new place on the internet. After 7 years of experimenting with different blog projects and concepts, when I found myself exhausted, on the...
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Walking & Hiking

Walking in Italy, the 2025 edition

I grew up in Sweden, in an area with vast forests, and some of my best childhood memories involve walking in the forest. So when I...
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Fitness & Strength

Staying strong and eating well during travel

Our trip to Italy is approaching, and I’m making plans. Not only how to pack my hand luggage, but also how to stay strong and feel...
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Hi there, I'm Susanne

After a mostly inactive life, I started strength training at 48 and started discovering how much it improves wellbeing, confidence and quality of life. Here I share my fitness journey, strategies to feel good and overcome self-doubt, and some of the other good things in life such as dipping my toes into hiking and our travels to Italy.

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If you think lifting is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous.

Bret Contreras