This is a question/ statement I get quite a-bit! Now according to world of social media, essentially yes people would assume because of my size I am unable to be in the health and fitness industry!
However my response to a lot of people is: do you know where I was when I start my fitness journey.... and 90% of people respond with NO! So if you’re in that 90%, let me explain!
I left high school in 2015 weighting at about 26.5st, wearing a size 26/28! And honestly I never thought I’d become a gym person.... however I was extremely unhappy with my weight and how I looked to other people, but more importantly I hated what I saw when I looked in the mirror! Dancing was always something I loved, saying that I did dance in collage, I wasn’t inactivated! I just didn’t really care about what I ate or how much of it ate!
In May 2018, I signed up to do the race for life for the end of the year! I did they along with some of my friends, however I realised I couldn’t even run on a treadmill for 5 seconds without feeling like I was going to die! So I attended a fitness bootcamp which was held by an incredible personal trainer who now is one of my closest friends! After being at bootcamp for over a year! Here from June 2019! I was a fully qualified personal trainer with my own fitness story that inspires so many people!
And that is why I became a personal trainer! Because I can relate to so many people! I understand he struggles of walking into the gym for the first time, I know what it feels like to have set backs, bad days or times where the number on the scale isn’t going down! Which is why I work hard 7 days a week to help people who is where I was when I started! Change is possible, we all just need a little support! Curley weighing in at 16.4st! That’s 10stone lost in just over 4 years!
For me, at the moment my weight isn’t what worries me anymore! The thing that worries me is the imagine that gets created by social media on what personal trainers or anyone in the fitness business should look like! And it’s not a realistic picture to look at! I know this from my own personal experience! I’ve seen and followed some “fitness influencers” and then I looked at myself and thought “how do they achieve this in such a short period of time” and let’s be real! One working won’t give you a flat stomach! One set of squats won’t give you the bum of your dreams! These of physical changes that you have to work hard for and be consistent with to see the results! Nothing changes that fast over night! Don’t get my wrong some of the influencers out there are incredible, and they show their progress! And they inspire you as you see where they started!
Here’s quite a few people I’ve seen mainly on Instagram who give out all this false information about form, technique and even diet advice! And those kind of influencers aren’t actually qualified to give you that information! Yeah feel free to share what works for you, however everyone’s body is different so it won’t alway work for you!
My advice if you want help, find a personal trainer in a local gym, because we can’t work in the gym unless we have our qualifications to do so! So you’ll get the right advice and support from us! Or if a gym isn’t too local, find a personal trainer in your area and see if they do online coaching!
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