Mel C shows off gruelling fitness

English singer and songwriter Mel C shows off her gruelling fitness routine as the singer celebrated her 52nd birthday.

She rose to fame in the mid-1990s as a member of the pop group the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Sporty Spice.

In a carousel of images and videos posted to Instagram on Monday (12 January), Sporty Spice can be seen doing a challenging workout which involves her performing a plank with a 20kg plate on her back.

Living up to her on-stage moniker, in another image the singer can be seen performing a side plank with a dumbbell .

The star received an array of birthday well wishes as she turned 52, including from all of her former Spice Girls bandmates.

Mel C began a solo career in late 1998 on the single "When You're Gone" with Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams. She signed with Virgin Records to release her debut solo album Northern Star (1999).

The Independent