Juno Fitness - Strength Training

Juno Fitness - Strength Training Strength and movement teacher. Body image crusader. Diet hater. Cat lover. Kettlebell Collector.

Me and my girl are similar in that we are pretty feral in our approach to personal appearance. ⁣⁣Comfort and ready-at-al...
28/04/2026

Me and my girl are similar in that we are pretty feral in our approach to personal appearance. ⁣
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Comfort and ready-at-all-times for fun stuff is how we roll.⁣
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We have chipped nail varnish and messy hair and worn-in trainers. ⁣
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What we do appreciate though, is the chance to dress up in a costume. Today Bean is playing Titania, off of Midsummer Night’s Dream fame 🧝‍♀️ and has been leaving rooms with the command, “fairies, away!” for weeks now. ⁣
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She has an emerald green dress and actually took great care to get ready this morning. As part of that, I was tasked with doing her hair in some sort of fairy Queen bohemian crown sort of thing…⁣
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See above: we are messy and feral. She barely even lets me brush her hair. This was a big ask for both of us!⁣
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But LOOK! Look what despite my clumsy fingers and her flinching every 3 seconds managed to achieve.⁣
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We were even later for school than usual. ⁣
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Worth it though. Fairies, skip hence! ⁣
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Then I helped myself to a chocolate but it turned out it was a hard chocolate so I had to let it melt in my mouth before...
10/02/2026

Then I helped myself to a chocolate but it turned out it was a hard chocolate so I had to let it melt in my mouth before I could eat it.

03/02/2026

I thought this little montage (is it?) of me coaching my own Swings during a rehab stage of my training would be interesting to watch. ⁣
Can you see what I’m noticing when I point it out? ⁣
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What else can you notice that I might have missed? ⁣
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I’m grateful for my training that I can notice these details and respond to them. ⁣
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I’ve been teaching a lot of beginners recently and one thing that comes up a lot when people first start learning to use kettlebells is frustration they they’re not “getting it right”⁣
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This is unsurprising, as humans it’s not fun to feel incapable. Especially when someone is watching us and trying to support us in acquiring a skill. ⁣
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And especially when that skill is exercise-based. It’s easy to assume based on consuming media the only barrier to exercise is motivation, when sometimes it’s ability. That’s can be frustrating realisation, when you’ve managed to get yourself to a gym.⁣
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(I mean there are bigger barriers to exercise of course - financial, safety, health, family support etc but we’ll assume they’ve overcome those if they’re in front of us in a gym)⁣
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ANYWAY what I’m saying is I can teach kettlebell Swings in a pretty deep level of detail. ⁣
And yet, I still need to check my body and technique regularly to keep my own Swings sharp. Physical and emotional states are reflected in movement expression. Entropy looms over us. ⁣
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Or maybe what I’m saying is that it’s best to always consider yourself a beginner if you want to stay good at something. ⁣
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If this has whetted your geeky appetite for kettlebells, we have a workshop on 21-22nd March that you’ll love. We also have a dedicated Swing workshop where we can totally get deep into your Swings. Check the page for info.

26/11/2025

With custard or without?

Her sister responded with shock and horror;⁣⁣“Powerful? That’s a horrible way to feel! You don’t want to feel powerful”⁣...
14/11/2025

Her sister responded with shock and horror;⁣
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“Powerful? That’s a horrible way to feel! You don’t want to feel powerful”⁣ ⁣
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Interesting story: a new-ish client, 70+ years old, f’ing LOVING her training, let’s call her Mary because that’s her name, told her sister that she’s started feeling amazing - the word she used was “powerful”⁣
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I think Mary’s sister interpreted “power” to mean anger, or violence. ⁣
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Mary rolled her eyes and said that was typical of her sister, never being on the same wavelength as her for their whole lives. ⁣
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And I thought that was an interesting way to consider the impact of words you use and how people receive them. ⁣
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It came up again when she continued talking about all the little things in her life that have been fundamentally changed in the 4 weeks she’s started strength training. She said “I know it all sounds small and silly” and I said “see how hard it is to sell to someone? and then you might say something like ‘powerful’ and scare them off!” ⁣
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I joke, but seriously. ⁣
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When it comes to talking to other women about strength training, as a coach and/or enthusiast, the secret is to listen to what strength means to them first. Then you can meet them there - because whatever they say they want to feel, we know being physically stronger will do it. ⁣
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As a prolific attention seeker working on listening more and talking less, this is the post I needed to read today 🙃 ⁣
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Image: nice isn’t it? Nothing to do with the post don’t take Instagram tips from me.

good things bad things ⁣⁣1. Thank you for the lovely bouquet 2. And all the soul food from 3. And the book loan from ...
14/10/2025

good things bad things ⁣
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1. Thank you for the lovely bouquet
2. And all the soul food from
3. And the book loan from
3. Hospital drama 0/10 do not recommend⁣
4. Hospital food 8/10 needed cheese ⁣
5. Showgirls 🧡 ⁣
3. Workshop things (the depth we got into this time 👌🏻)⁣
4. Hot Husband geeking out on damper settings + stroke rates ⁣
5. By the time I crossed this field the sky had turned bright pink but my battery died⁣ so you’ll just have to believe ⁣
10. Class classing without me ⁣like the elite athletes they are ⁣
11. Thankful for my ability to do pretty much anything with this body so that when a piece of it doesn’t work, the rest of it backs me up ❤️

So we had this planning meeting for Saturday’s Erg Workshop. The Mr would just turn up and teach, knowing that it’s all ...
02/10/2025

So we had this planning meeting for Saturday’s Erg Workshop. The Mr would just turn up and teach, knowing that it’s all in his head but I just CANNOT. ⁣
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This is what I need:⁣
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I need a list. Many lists, in fact. ⁣
I need a schedule, detailed to the half hour. ⁣
I need to know who’s doing what and when. ⁣
I need to know how concepts are going to be communicated and whether we need to plan that to happen on the ergs or from a whiteboard diagram. ⁣
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This is not because I am an organised person. I am not. At all. ⁣
The opposite, actually. ⁣
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But I do NOT trust my brain to just teach what it knows. ⁣
Imagine? ⁣
Our kind of brain let loose when it’s liable to melt in the face of something complicated like “remembering how to speak English in front of people”⁣
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The Erg Workshop isn’t just to teach form and technique but it’ll also teach you what kinds of training challenges and quests you can achieve on an erg and how not to suck at them. ⁣
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One place left due to a cancellation. Message me if you want to come and get so good on ergs people are watching you out the corner of their eyes wondering why you move so powerfully and smooth while they move all clumpy and knackered.

25/09/2025

Can’t stop watching how happy I am the more of these I do ❤️⁣
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I wrote a new blog post about why it’s important to remember that you’re NOT domesticated. You’re wild. ⁣
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Feed yourself and let yourself play accordingly. ⁣
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It’s on my website and you can go find it if you’re curious. You’ve had enough Instagram for now anyway xx⁣
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1) Heard a line in a song “Yesterday I lifted your bodyweight” and decided to lift . Almost fainted. Did it though. ⁣2)...
19/09/2025

1) Heard a line in a song “Yesterday I lifted your bodyweight” and decided to lift . Almost fainted. Did it though. ⁣
2) Took myself for lunch.⁣
3) Got papped⁣
4) vs (team Busted 👊🏻)⁣
5) chin to chest flight ⁣
6) Friday night team 🔥 ⁣
7) never not writing ⁣
8) Dad “K Pop what?” ⁣
9) The week the washing and tent got wetter and wetter every day and I just watched it ⁣
10) Flat pack assistant ⁣
11) Ginge in my camera roll
12) Paths Unwritten planning
13) pull-ups are stupid 🙄 (but I’m a show off so have to make sure I can always do them)⁣

19/09/2025

We’re running a workshop on Concept 2 Rowers and Skiergs. Same words 👆🏻 apply on a Skierg 🤓 Do you know what they mean on both machines? ⁣
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When you do, you get to move smoother, faster and with less burnout. ⁣
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You look cooler doing it too, like I do 😎😆⁣
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4th October KBHQ Coventry⁣
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10am-3pm⁣
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£125 - (unless you come to Velocity on Friday nights in which case you get to pay £99) ⁣
DM me or to book. Probably him because I’m on Instagram for about 5 minutes a day 😅⁣
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Coventry UK, 22nd-24th August. ⁣⁣⁣DM , or with any questions, for a link to all the details, and to sign up 🙌🏻
30/07/2025

Coventry UK, 22nd-24th August. ⁣
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DM , or with any questions, for a link to all the details, and to sign up 🙌🏻

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