What my clients say

I have had the pleasure of training many people over the years, here is what a few of them have to say about fitness  and what healthy living means to them and why its never too late to get started.

Ann Sargent is 58 lives in Wickham Market in the UK.

She has her own business working full time and has grown up children.

She started to think about exercise when she turned 50 and I worked with her for 5 years up until the end of 2011.

I asked Ann what made her think about taking up exercise in the first place. Her answer was quite simple

“to hopefully improve not only the length of my life but also the quality”

In answer to how she had felt before she took up exercise to now she said

“before I began exercising regularly I felt very sluggish and unfit but now I find I have lots more energy”

In reference to her diet Ann admitted

“that her choices weren’t always healthy but that she thought a lot more about what she was eating now than she had in the past”

And lastly, I asked Ann what she had got out of our time working together

” a realisation that all it takes is a lot of commitment and practice to be fitter and healthier – thank you!”

Dee Brown lives near Ipswich in Suffolk and is 60. Dee also works full time and has a teenage son, cats and assortment of chickens, geese and animals she regularly rescues!

I worked with Dee for a few years from 2006 onwards. Dee had some health issues to contend with but during our time working together saw big improvements in her health and fitness levels.

Asking her when and why she took up exercise she answered

“I took up exercise in my mid 50′s in order to avoid feeling sluggish all the time”

I wanted to know what benefits she felt and what being healthy meant to her

“being healthy is not being breathless all the time, not having a pot belly and being able to run up and down the stairs” she said that “she just felt much better when she exercised”

Had her diet changed as she got older and if so how

“my diet is now much more varied and I include a lot of fruit and vegetables in it nowadays”

When asked what the most important thing that she had got out of working with me she said

“a sense of well-being, more toned and looking 100 times better!”

Gerry Pells (aka Dad) is 77 years old this year. Although I have never ‘trained’ him I thought it useful to include him as his healthy attitude to exercise and eating have obviously rubbed off on me and so it is a testament to the fact that if we want our children to grow up healthy and fit then it is important to set the example.

Gerry has been a club runner all his life from a young child. His father was one of the founders of the club he still runs for.

I asked Dad what being healthy and exercise meant to him and he said

“Exercise has always been  second nature or one should say first nature. In ones earlier years as a child the instinctive thing is to run everywhere indoors and out, children are always scampering.”

When asked what did he feel exercise gave him answered

“an increased sense of alertness, attunement to the world around me and spiritual wellbeing”

Although we always ate well as children Dad said that his diet had changed in later years and that he was now

“more inclined to a mediteranean style of eating”

Asked how he would sum up health he said simply

“”Health is Wealth”, in other words being healthy is of paramont importance.”

Thanks Dad.