As a mum of two young children, she\u2019s swapped long, gruelling workouts for finding movement wherever she can \u2013 from increasing her NEAT<\/a> to squeezing in 20 minutes of daily physio.<\/p>\n ‘It’s about keeping moving and rebuilding,’ she tells WH. ‘The fitness doesn\u2019t disappear just because this particular chapter looks different.’<\/p>\n Overall, the aim is to extend her healthspan and independence for as long as possible.<\/p>\n ‘We all know now that we can live longer. Nobody wants to be in their hundreds and not physically capable of doing anything,’ she explains. ‘We want to be in our 90s and 100s and\u2026 doing yoga<\/a>, going for walks<\/a>. I want to make sure that for the rest of my life, I\u2019m strong, fit and healthy.’<\/p>\n She makes the most of NEAT exercise Amanda Byram\/\/Instagram<\/p>\n Since becoming a mum, the amount of time she has to herself ‘has shrunk enormously’, Amanda reveals.<\/p>\n ‘So my Monday to Sunday is less about scheduled workouts. [Instead], I find opportunities for movement wherever I can get it.’<\/p>\n She walks as much as possible and makes her incidental movement more demanding.<\/p>\n ‘I always use the opportunity of pushing a pram. I push it up hills that I don’t even have to, with a toddler inside! My almost five-year-old also gets in for fun, so there can be two children in there. That’s quite a workout,’ she says.<\/p>\n She also takes two stairs at a time.<\/p>\n ‘I’m also carrying the kids constantly and engaging my core when I’m lifting them,’ she adds.<\/p>\n This kind of incidental movement is known as Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, or NEAT<\/a>. It includes activities such as housework, walking, carrying shopping, gardening, taking the stairs instead of the lift and even fidgeting.<\/p>\n Even bedtime has become an opportunity for movement.<\/p>\n ‘Most nights at 2am when I’m settling my son, I’ve been squatting up and down,’ she says. ‘So I’ve gone into full squat mode at two o’clock in the morning!’<\/p>\n Small adjustments can therefore turn everyday tasks into an effective workout.<\/p>\n ‘I don’t have to go to the gym. You don’t need an hour. I’m always doing something every day,’ she says.<\/p>\n Years of throwing herself into workouts during her 20s and 30s \u2013 and, at times, overtraining \u2013 also mean she’s now following a targeted physio and strength programme to address niggles including a suspected labral tear and what she jokingly calls a ‘flappy meniscus’.<\/p>\n ‘I do glute bridges<\/a>, which are really important, side steps, controlled squats and lunges<\/a> \u2013 that’s about 20 minutes a day,’ she explains. ‘I’ll do three sets of 10, sometimes three sets of 15, though I can get bored, so I tend to watch something or listen to a podcast.’<\/p>\n As she’s constantly on the go, traditional rest days aren’t really part of the routine.<\/p>\n ‘I don’t really take a day off in terms of movement because I can’t [and] I don’t do as much as I’d like to,’ she says. ‘But when the baby’s sleeping I’ll lie down for a bit, and that’s my break.’<\/p>\n Want to train like Liz Earle<\/a>? Get the plan<\/a><\/p>\n How Amanda’s relationship with exercise has evolved<\/p>\n ‘My relationship with fitness has been through so many different phases. When I was younger, my relationship with exercise wasn’t particularly healthy,’ she recalls.<\/p>\n Reflecting on a period when exercise became obsessive, she says: ‘There were times when I overexercised and under-ate, and exercise became so wrapped up in how I looked and how I felt about my body. I was modelling at the time, and how you looked mattered so much.<\/p>\n ‘I’ve spoken about that before and written a book called The Switch<\/a>. Looking fit on the outside didn’t mean you were healthy on the inside. That’s such an important distinction for me now,’ she says.<\/p>\n The years that followed marked a shift towards training for function rather than appearance.<\/p>\n ‘Then I became a PT, in my mid to late 30s, and that’s when my relationship with exercise really evolved,’ she explains. ‘Strength and feeling physically capable became really important. Exercise made me feel powerful rather than being something I used to control my body with.’<\/p>\n Having children signalled another turning point.<\/p>\n ‘Motherhood blew the whole thing apart. My body went through two pregnancies and births, and this body that I’d spent decades focusing on and analysing suddenly had this whole other job. My priorities changed, my time changed and my ability to put myself first changed,’ she says.<\/p>\n The moves she always comes back to Phillip Massey\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Currently, Amanda says ‘it’s very much about raising my heart rate, getting my form correct and doing some rehab’.<\/p>\n She’s prioritising bodyweight movements.<\/p>\n ‘Definitely squats and lunges. Glute bridges are key, not just for my physio and rehab but also for my posterior chain generally,’ she says.<\/p>\n![\"amanda](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8d557f1e-dc37-44f0-90ed-a65ef36fb26e.jpg\" "\\"amanda")
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