9 health experts share their best tips for all-day energy

By Chloe Gray, 8th May 2025 9 health experts share their best tips for all-day energy

How are you feeling? The answer is likely tired. If the constant conversations among your friends about how knackered you're all feeling isn't enough evidence of that, know that 44% of women often wake up feeling tired, according to an IKEA survey, and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine found that sleepiness affects the daily activities of 81% of women.

There are plenty of reasons why we're so exhausted, which makes finding the solution hard. Is it in what you eat or how you sleep, for instance? That's why we asked the experts what works for them when it comes to beating fatigue and feeling fresh all day long. While there are some tirednesses that can't be solved with a simple lifestyle shift, like parenting babies who wake up multiple times in the night, the below might just work for you.

3/ Change your schedule

Nancy Best, PT and founder of Ladies Who Crunch

Managing your diary around your daily energy's peaks and troughs is a game changer. Your rhythm is unique to you. So often, people are on autopilot, booking meetings or calls from 9-5 pm without any consideration of when they feel most energised.If you know you're a morning person, block time to do focused tasks that require maximum brain power and then try to do the easiest things on your to-do list in the afternoon. Conversely, if you feel pretty sluggish in the mornings, start the day with tasks that don't require your 'best' and leave the really important bits to the afternoon and evening, when you're alert and in the zone. When you're not forcing your output, your energy is far more stable.

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