AdvancingFitness Womens Coaching

There are no 'quick fixes' or 'magic bullets' for achieving your goals, despite what the adverts, and some of those awful 'ab machine' adverts say. Success comes from hard work and determination. With the right diet and the right amount of exercise, anyone can achieve the body beautiful. Diet and exercise go hand-in-hand if you want to transform your body shape. Even if you just want to become a fitter and healthier you, it takes time, effort and real motivation towards realistic goals.
I can help you formulate those goals so that they are achievable and right for YOU.

I passionately believe in health and wellbeing for everyone! I want to share this passion so that more and more people can enjoy the increase in strength, functionality and mental fitness. The joy of success and achievements is very empowering and uplifting. I know this from personal experience, having previously struggled with weight problems, and I love seeing that look on the faces of others, sharing in those successes and feeling that I have been partly instrumental in that person's achievements.
Imagine the joy of finding yourself able to do something you haven't been able to do for a long time (or even ever) - the amazing effect that exercise can have on your mental health too! Fitting into your favourite clothes after keeping them in the wardrobe 'just in case'. Completing the obstacle race you never even dreamed you'd enter. Feeling fitter and healthier than you've ever been before!
This is my favourite part of being a personal trainer - watching those goals being achieved and surpassed and sharing in the pride that comes from success.

Before I retired from full time work, I was a primary school teacher. I saw a number of seriously obese children with parents who didn't know what to do about it. I also had an elderly mother who gave up because everything started going wrong. And, in between all that, a lot of people who were just plain unhealthy. I decided that I really wanted to do something about it and, as I was heading for retirement, set my plan into action. I began studying towards the end of my school teaching career so that I would have the qualifications in place to begin a personal training business when the time was right.
One of my first 'practice' subjects was my husband who was recovering from a heart attack due to high cholesterol and obesity. With my help he improved his diet, lost weight and increased his fitness levels significantly. His blood pressure is now almost normal and no longer has a cholesterol problem.
To use a seriously corny misquote - The proof of the pudding is in NOT eating it!!

For anyone who wants to train either in their own home or outside, perhaps in a local park, I have the motivational skills, firm but friendly approach (with a somewhat quirky sense of humour), wide knowledge of a range of training methods, which I continually update alongside developments in the fitness industry, and the passion to help you achieve your goals.
While it is helpful for clients to have some small equipment of their own (for use in between training sessions) I bring with me a range of portable equipment to add variety and challenge to fitness workouts.
Although I am not a qualified Nutritionist, I have the knowledge and experience to help you make healthy dietary modifications on a long term, life-style, basis, if that is what you require.
For each client who chooses me as their trainer, I will bring my own personal experience and passion and share in your journey to health, fitness and happiness.