Namita Nayyar:
Introduce us to your latest music album? The song that relates closest to your
Lucy Spraggan:
My new album ‘Choices’ is all about my journey over the last year or so. It’s about the choices I needed to make in order to get my life back on track and become the person I wanted to be. All of the songs on this record are deeply personal, I wrote the song ‘Sober’ around a week after deciding to quit drinking. ‘Roots’ is about the breakdown of my marriage, and ‘Run’ is about discovering my love for the open road and a pair of trainers.
I’d say all of the songs represent different parts of my personality – collectively it has an openness and attitude I haven’t expressed before. It’s a very different record to my earlier five albums.
Namita Nayyar:
Your meal before and after a workout? The secret to that killer abs.
Lucy Spraggan:
I like to work out around midday, so I have a mixture of carbs and protein in the morning. Around 8am I’ll have a bowl of cereal (normally Weetabix or Cornflakes with honey) or a bowl of porridge with fruit (either with a protein shake!) and some toast around 9.30 am. For lunch, if I’m at home, I try to have a nice, balanced, colorful salad. My favorite salad is beetroot, courgette, spring onion, rocket, cucumber, feta and tuna with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar, lemon juice and chilli flakes. Homemade oil-free dressings are a great way to remove unwanted calories from your meal without really noticing.
When I first started losing weight I wasn’t eating enough, I was consuming about 1200/1300 calories a day and burning 500/600kcal in one workout. I was constantly exhausted and fatigued during training. The secret to abs is eating enough of the right stuff and exercising the right muscle groups, not starving you!
Namita Nayyar:
Favorite meal of the day? What does it contain?
Lucy Spraggan:
My favorite meal of the day is dinner time. It’s my biggest meal of the day and I love feeling full. I just love food! My favorite meal is steak and homemade chips with lots of lovely salad or veggies on the side.
Namita Nayyar:
Top 3 healthy snack options? One diet secret you would like to share now?
Lucy Spraggan:
I love a Fiber One bar. They’re 90kcal but absolutely delicious, they come in a few different flavors and they’re a great sweet treat. Pancakes! I’m lactose intolerant so I make vegan ones with coconut milk, flour, vanilla and baking powder. They’re good for a low calorie meal or a small portioned snack. Sliced apple and cinnamon. Simple but so tasty.
Namita Nayyar:
Define Women Fitness for WF viewers.
Lucy Spraggan:
To me Women’s Fitness means focusing on you. Being beautiful and confident in your skin, or striving to achieve that feeling. The most important aspect of women’s fitness, for me, is mental fitness. It’s the most effective method of keeping positive mental health that I’ve ever used.
Namita Nayyar:
Share your workout in a week now during a lockdown?
Lucy Spraggan:
At the beginning of lockdown I was running 6 times a week but as I’ve extended my distances I’ve relaxed the frequency of my runs. I run 4 days a week and do weight training 3 times a week. I really enjoy body weight interval training, so sometimes swap running or weights for that. Do 15-30 mins of skipping before I work out! I’m a sucker for cardio.
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