Author: Becca Caddy
Becca is passionate about health, fitness and wellbeing. She’s particularly interested in wearable technology, how our mobiles can help us to get fitter and ways to introduce mindfulness and meditation into our busy working lives. As a northerner living in London, she loves exploring the city, going to the cinema at every possible opportunity and Instagramming everything that crosses her path.
Mio Fuse Review: fitness tracking and HR sensor for running and HIIT
I've reviewed plenty of activity trackers here at ShinyShiny, most recently the Misfit Flash and the Fitbit Charge, but over the next few months I'm going to be taking a closer look at wearable devices built solely with fitness and training in mind. First up: the Mio Fuse. So what's a Mio Fuse? Unlike general…
The top 5 Veeemotion videos to check out this week
This is a sponsored post written in collaboration with Veeemotion. When a new app bursts onto the scene it can be difficult to really get into it, get to know other users and find a reason to stay hooked. But if you're keen to start using Veeemotion (which we've written about a few times here…
How to practice gratitude and love life (and yourself) more #LoveWeek
If you've been reading any self development, productivity or psychology blogs recently, you'll have seen a lot of talk about the benefits of practising gratitude. So what's gratitude all about? Well, let's start by taking a look at what gratitude actually means before we learn how to be more grateful. According to Psychology Today: 'Gratitude is…
ShinyShiny speaks to The Hatchbackers: adventure video stars on Veeemotion
This is a sponsored post written in collaboration with Veeemotion. Over the past few weeks, we've been exploring some of the unusual and awesome ways that the Veeemotion app could change the way we share video for good in 2015. As part of our series we interviewed the inspirational adventure duo The Hatchbackers. Calling these…
12 Valentines gift ideas for the man in your life #LoveWeek
[nextpage title="Next"] Love it or hate it, Valentine's Day has come around quicker than you can say please-validate-my-existence-with-flowers this year. I've spent some time pulling together a gift guide that's more full of stuff your other half might actually want rather than solely cheap, cheesy Valentine's tat (but there is some in there, because what is Valentine's…
Fitbit releases Charge HR and Surge wearables in UK, Europe today
Fitbit announced the launch of its three new fitness trackers last year: the Charge, the Charge HR and the Spartan of wearables, the Surge. The Fitbit Charge has been available here in the UK for a few months (check out our review of the Fitbit Charge), but according to the Fitbit team this morning, the Charge…
Misfit Flash Review: Best-in-class activity tracking on a budget
So what's a Misfit Flash? A number of key players in the consumer-facing, wearable fitness market have emerged over the past few years. And, after developing their flagship devices, like the Fitbit Flex and Jawbone Up 24, the challenge now is to go bigger, better and more high-end with added functionality and improved design. But…
How to be productive, happy & reduce stress at work #HealthandFitnessWeek
So many people I've spoken to over the past few weeks are busy or stressed. That's their default, busy and/or stressed. Instead of talking about achievements or good things or focusing on themselves, it seems like we're all perpetuating this idea that busy = normal, busy = working hard, busy = being a good person.…
Are young people sick of Facebook and broadcasting their lives online?
This is a sponsored post written in collaboration with Veeemotion. Rewind to about five years ago and Facebook was (IMO at least) in its heyday. Everyone who was anyone was on it, teens and 20-somethings were obsessively uploading photos, updating all of their friends about the minutiae of their lives and frantically 'friending' everyone they came…
Sexuality, family & Jeffrey Tambor: Why you need to start watching Transparent
Despite what the media may tell you, the most important take away from Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony wasn't the risky sartorial choices, it wasn't the proliferation of asymmetrical 'LOBs' and it wasn't even Poehler and Fey's unstoppable comedy duo that's hell-bent on smashing the sexism out of Hollywood. For me it was that Amazon show…
