This October, twenty ABEL Collective members will return to London's Olympia to take on the Battle Cancer endurance challenge - raising money this time for Cancer Research UK.

Being strong isn't only built by “going heavy” – in fact, some of the most effective strength work happens with almost nothing in your hands at all.

I’m often asked why FitnAbel feels the way it does, so I've been trying to figure out how to answer that. It feels like a lot to put out there, but I want people to understand where my drive to create this community comes from. I was adopted. It’s not a secret or a big drama. I've always known I was - my parents never hid it from me, it was just always part of who I am. But growing up, with dark hair and olive skin, I just didn’t look like anyone else in my family. People, close friends even,...