Kia ora! It’s been a while, huh.
Let me explain.

I’m getting in touch with you after like a whole year to say Sweaty Pals is coming back and has evolved!

What was once a somewhat niche publication where people could learn to exercise and eat well to live better etc, is now more a mixed bag of those things, but life and other nonsense as well. Sweaty Pals was about getting sweaty in the gym, but as I’ve gotten older and wiser, it’s now going to be about some other things. Work things? Yep. This new body that now operates as an unwanted perimenopausal furnace (WTF, y’all too?) Definitely. I also have a special place in my heart for my dog, my air fryer, my tennis club, and I’ll probably talk about them, too. About the absence of heels from my life because hips and lower back say no? I mean, maybe?

Why the change?

Boredom, mainly. I honestly got so fed up of writing the same old dross to entice people into exercise, that I just couldn’t do it anymore. I love writing, and I know some of you liked what I wrote, too. But as a person with ADHD, dipping my hands into a vat of boiling hot oil would be more enticing to me than writing a newsletter about a topic I just didn’t love a lot anymore. I still exercise a few times a week, but no where near the intensity as I did while working on the gym floor, which I’m not anymore.

I haven’t deleted anything. It still has the same name. It’ll still have some fitness stuff. Some food stuff. A lot more other stuff. Wherever the breeze blows, that’s what it’ll be.

You can totally unsubscribe. I know the extra stuff isn’t what you originally signed up for and so totally fine if you skip out for now. Pretty sure the link to do that is at the end of this email. I’ll be sending the first of the new emails soon after this one, so you can see for sure that it’s not your vibe.

How it’ll work. Probably.

My wonderful paid subscribers - I put you all on pause when I decided to take a break and as of now, your sub is a standard one. I am figuring out how to unlock the previously paid for posts in the archive if you want them. You can decide later if you want to financially support this publication again later. There’s no pressure to do that, I’m enormously grateful for your support thus far!

I’ll write to you when I feel I have something marginally interesting to say that I think you might be interested in. Not much changes there, it really is just a content switch.

As a subscriber you will get my emails straight to your inbox. If you don’t want to subscribe, you can just bookmark the link sweatypals.nz and and check back whenever you feel the urge. But I’m hoping getting an email about a subject matter you might be mildly interested in might be ok? Give it a go and see.

Getting in touch

I’d love to hear from you. I’ve switched on the chat function for this page which I’m not wholly sure about, but it’s there. Or you can reach me easily via email lou@sweatypals.nz or by replying to this email.

I do hope you enjoy this new direction. Perhaps give it a try and see if it fits. But again, no sweat if it’s not your vibe or jam or whatever. Cool.

Lou xx