Fab Female Fitness

Before becoming a Personal Trainer in 2009, my working background has been in NHS healthcare, working with people in the area of mental health. For this client group, motivation is often a massive hurdle due to the nature of many mental health problems. My role, in part, as a healthcare professional was to help aid a person's 'internal' motivation - to increase an individuals' self-efficacy - so each person believes they CAN and WANT to do something for themselves! My experience with this client group has been invaluable to my ability to be able to increase a person's belief in themselves and therefore, increase a person's 'internal' motivation to exercise. In this way, I believe I can help you, as a PT, with your own fitness goals and motivation.

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My sport and exercise background started off with Kickboxing in my mid-twenties. Before that I was pretty much a 'couch potatoe'! Well, occassionally I went swimming and in those days, we're talking a decade ago now, I did a lot of walking. I had no car so walked everywhere! I trained in a variety of clubs around the country as a Kickboxer eventually reaching my brown belt after about 6 years. Due to personal circumstances, however, I had to leave Kickboxing and so to this day never reached my black belt. That was nearly 2 years ago. I hope one day, that I will go back and re-train to get my black belt - maintaining that goal in the back of my mind feels empowering - having goals no matter how big or small are a must for personal achievement! Without goals we are alot less likely to achieve the things we want in life!

For the last 18 months I have become a runner! Running feels absolutely fantastic. Once I had trained as a Personal Trainer, I knew exactly how to train my body avoiding (mostly) all the common pitfalls of fitness 'plateaus', overtraining, muscle stiffness and strains and so on. I found once I knew why my body felt the way it did in training and how I could correct any uncomfortableness and most importantly add variety to my runs, that I found my runs became part of the most enjoyable aspect of my week. Understanding fitness and HOW to train and more importantly, HOW to motivate yourself, are the most important two things you can do to start enjoying any exercise session.

Now, I mainly run solo and add resistance and core based exercises into my programme using my own bodyweight or resistance bands. Exercise is really very simple once you know how, anyone can achieve participation and just like me, we all need some help along the way!