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Pilates & strength training | face to face & online
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Mentorship for fitness professionals 🦋

EXERCISE & NUTRITION are the cornerstone to any fitness programme, but the path YOU choose to reach your goals is individual to YOU. I do not believe in a ‘one size fits all’ solution to health and fitness. Each individual needs to experiment with what works best for them. Following an initial consultation, I work closely together with each client to find the UNIQUE FITNESS PLAN that works for him or her. In order to design an effective programme, I exploit the foundations of ‘correct’ exercise & nutrition, whilst taking into account the client as an individual. The first step is to look at current nutritional habits and fitness levels, but there are also many other factors to consider:
* unique physical ‘make up’
* lifestyle & time commitments
* medical history & past injuries
* stress levels
* coping strategies
* sleep patterns…

…& lastly likes & dislikes: those factors that will MOTIVATE rather than ALIENATE...
...so why not give me a call & give it a go!

26/10/2026

The number of women who tell me they are “too unfit” to start is the thing that gets me most.

It is almost always the people who would benefit the most, talking themselves out of the thing that would help. You do not need to get fit before you come. That is backwards. For many people, the whole point of starting is that you are not fit yet: so we build from wherever you actually are, not from where you think you should be.

Nobody here is judging your starting point. I have seen every version of it, and the only one that matters is the one where you begin.

23/10/2026

If a muscle is always tight, stretching might not fix it. Often tightness is the body protecting a weak or unstable area, so the muscle works overtime to guard it. Stretching gives short-term relief but does not address the cause. The real fix is often building strength there, not stretching more.🦋

21/10/2026

Still practising what I teach, several times a week.

This is leg work in the straps, and it is all control. The straps will let you swing and heave if you let them, so the whole point is not to. Slow, precise, drawn from the centre, with the lower back staying quiet against the carriage. It looks calm. It is a lot of work.

I train my own body partly to stay honest about what I ask of people, and partly because after all these years the precision still has more to give. That never really finishes, which is one of the things I love about it.

18/10/2026

This is where the strength work happens.

Not a crowded commercial gym with music thumping and nowhere to think. A small, private space where it is just you and me, the right equipment, and enough room to focus on what your body is actually doing. The anatomy charts on the wall are not decoration. I use them.

A lot of women tell me they would never set foot in a big gym, and I understand why. This is the alternative. Quiet, private, and built around you rather than the other way round.

11/10/2026

People often assume yoga and Pilates are basically the same thing. They are not, though they are easy to confuse.

Both are low-impact, both work on the mind-body connection, and both value breath and control, so the overlap is real. But the emphasis is different. Yoga leans towards flexibility, held postures and breath, with roots in a much older spiritual practice. Pilates was built around core strength, spinal articulation and controlled, precise movement, often with resistance.

Neither is better. They do different jobs, and plenty of people benefit from both. But if your goal is strength, control and how your body moves day to day, that is Pilates territory.🦋

10/10/2026

Today is World Mental Health Day, so here is something I see constantly but rarely say out loud.

Movement is not a cure for anything, and I would never pretend it is. But for a lot of the women I work with, the session is where their head quietens down. Partly it is the physiology, exercise genuinely affects mood and stress at a chemical level. Partly it is having one hour where the only thing you have to think about is your own body. And partly it is the slow, steady proof that you can do hard things, which has a way of spilling over into the rest of life.

As a mental health first aider as well as a coach, I am careful not to overclaim. If you are struggling, movement sits alongside proper support, it does not replace it. But if today is a day for small helpful things, a walk, a stretch, a bit of strength work all count. Start there.🦋

09/10/2026

Not every session starts with movement. Some start with looking.
Before loading anything or adding a single exercise, I want to see how someone actually sits, stands and holds themselves. Where one side is doing more than the other. Where an old injury has quietly changed how everything else moves. You cannot fix what you have not properly looked at.
This is the part that gets skipped in a busy class, and it is often where the real answers are. Especially for anyone carrying pain, stiffness, or a body that has started to feel unfamiliar. We start by understanding it, then we work.🦋

06/10/2026

There is no good time to start. That is worth knowing, because most people are waiting for one.

When work calms down. After the holidays. Once the kids are back at school. When they feel a bit fitter first. The trouble is the quiet, ready moment rarely arrives, and the waiting becomes its own habit. The people who get going are not the ones who found the perfect time. They are the ones who started in an imperfect one.

If you have been waiting for the right moment, this is your reminder that it does not really exist. You just begin.🦋

06/10/2026

Not every session starts with movement. Some start with looking.

Before loading anything or adding a single exercise, I want to see how someone actually sits, stands and holds themselves. Where one side is doing more than the other. Where an old injury has quietly changed how everything else moves. You cannot fix what you have not properly looked at.

This is the part that gets skipped in a busy class, and it is often where the real answers are. Especially for anyone carrying pain, stiffness, or a body that has started to feel unfamiliar. We start by understanding it, then we work.🦋

01/10/2026

You do not need to lift heavy to get results. Strength comes from progressive load, asking a little more over time, and that can start with bodyweight or the lightest weights. Start where you are, add a little as you go.🦋

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