Our Bondspo winner Shayelle shares her tips to help you achieve fitness and vitality. Looks like she's a good one to listen to! 1. Prepare yourself. The night before a workout, plan what is ahead. If you have a workout buddy, arrange a meeting time and place. Have your breakfast planned and ready to go. Assemble your comfy Bonds workout gear and underwear alongside your socks, joggers and gym bag. Set your alarm. And, if you're anything like me, set a second alarm. By doing this, you wake up knowing you're most of the way there, its just about kicking those toes out of bed and into your trainers. 2. Mix it up. Tired of squats? Sick of the treadmill? Struggling to find motivation during what feels like the millionth sit up? Try mixing up your workout. Confuse your body and your heart rate, get it burning more calories while you enjoy yourself. Add some fun and challenges into your workout through the use of props, weights and other objects. Here is an example of an old VS new workout: OLD - 20 sit ups, 20 squats, treadmill sprint for 1 min, hold plank for 1 min, 10 push ups. Repeat x2 NEW- 10 russian twists with a medicine ball, 10 leap frog squats over an object, 10 box jumps, walking lunges on the treadmill at a low speed, treadmill sprint for 1 min, twisting plank for 1 min using 5kg dumbells and finish off with 15 push ups on a bosu ball (curvy side on the ground). Repeat x2 I find that if whatever I am doing feels boring or not challenging enough, getting creative helps me break a sweat. Here are some examples of what I apply to an instance as such:\

• Do it one-legged
• Do it jumping
• Do it faster
• Do it slower
• Add weights
• Add a step up
• Try it on an uneven surface
• Add a squat

3. Take advantage of this technological world we live in. With technology these days it seems we have the world at our fingertips. So take advantage of that! Get online and find out how to get creative with your workouts just as I mentioned above. If you feel stuck, it takes a smartphone about 4 seconds to provide you with a link to a motivational YouTube clip, active blog, "gymspiration" Instagram page, so on and so forth. If you are an artsy person, take to making a motivational wall at home with magazine cut-outs, healthy food shots and snapshots of workout ideas. Seeing this will provide an extra kick to get yourself to the gym when you're feeling low. 4. Learn to find peace at the end of your workout. At the end of every workout take a small moment to listen to your heart pumping, learn to appreciate that puffing, sweaty, hot shaky feeling at the end of a workout. Learn to enjoy the feeling that it gives you - mentally knowing you've done yourself something good for the day. Wake up the next day craving that end-of-the-workout feeling. Practising this gives me that last little kick of motivation I need to get myself to the gym! If Shayelle has inspired you to get fit and do it in style and comfort with Bonds, you can shop the Bonds active range in store or online here.