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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Ally Head

As a Health Editor, I Regularly Ignore Viral Fitness Trends – but I’m Totally Sold on the Winter Arc Challenge

Senior Health Editor Ally Head trying the winter arc challenge.

I'll let you in on a little secret. Despite being a Health Editor with nearly ten years of experience under my belt, I have a bit of an aversion to fitness challenges. While some can be motivating and help you to reignite your passion for movement and wellbeing, I find the vast majority of them impossible to stick to, too generalised to see any legitimate results, or invented by a content creator without the relevant qualifications. That was, of course, until I stumbled across the trending "Winter Arc" challenge.

Brought to my attention by Team MC's savvy Social Media Editor, Dionne, the premise of the challenge is simple: to use the colder months from now until Christmas to prioritise your health and wellbeing, using the change of season as a catalyst for - yep, you guessed it - change.

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