ELM Fitness

Personal Trainer

Bringing out the inner confidence in women

10/09/2026

Day 1 of my mini cutting series as a personal trainer and online coach ❤️

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09/09/2026

Your workout is only part of the process 💪🏼

If you’re training hard but constantly feeling exhausted, sore or like you’re not progressing, have a look at what you’re doing outside the gym too.

My biggest tips for better recovery 👇🏼

Eat enough – your body needs fuel to recover and build muscle.

Prioritise protein – aim to include a good protein source throughout your day.

Get your sleep – easier said than done sometimes 😂 but it makes such a difference.

Hydrate – especially after a sweaty session.

Take your rest days – more training isn’t always better. Your muscles need time to recover.

Keep moving – a walk or some gentle movement can be great on rest days.

Listen to your body – there’s a difference between pushing yourself and running yourself into the ground.

You don’t need to be doing more and more to get results. Sometimes you need to get better at recovering from what you’re already doing 🩷

Train hard. Recover well. Repeat.

Save this for the next time you’re tempted to feel guilty about taking a rest day 🫶🏼

05/09/2026

Maybe you've been watching my page for months thinking about starting.

Maybe you've told yourself you'll start when you're fitter.

When you've lost a bit of weight.

When you're less busy.

Or when you finally feel confident enough.

But you don't need to get yourself “ready” before coming to me.

That's literally what I'm here for.

You can walk into ELM Fitness having never lifted a weight before. You can be nervous. You can have absolutely no idea what you're doing 😂

We'll start where you are.

I currently offer:

🩷 1-1 Personal Training — personalised weight training with me in my private women-only studio.

🩷 Small Group Training — a more class-style session where you can come along with friends, train together and enjoy a more social atmosphere.

🩷 Online Coaching — personalised training, structure, accountability and support while you train independently.

🩷 Hybrid Coaching — online coaching with the option to add in-person sessions when you want that extra hands-on support.
Not sure which would suit you?

So if you've been quietly watching and thinking “I really need to do something.”
Maybe this is your sign to stop thinking about it.

DM me START and tell me a little about what you're looking for. I'll talk you through the options. 😂🩷

02/09/2026

You don't have to feel motivated to start.

I think sometimes we wait for this magical moment where we suddenly feel ready.

Ready to start training.
Ready to sort our food out.
Ready to put ourselves first.
Ready to finally make a change.

But most of the time, that feeling doesn't come first.

You start before you feel ready.

You show up when you can't really be bothered.

You do the first workout feeling completely out of your comfort zone.

And somewhere along the way, it starts becoming part of who you are.

You don't need to change everything overnight.

You just need to start. 🩷

And if you've been thinking about starting but don't know where to begin, send me START and I'll talk you through the options at ELM Fitness.

Unleash Your Fierce. 🩷

26/08/2026

Things I DON'T care about as your PT 👀

I don't care if you ate pizza at the weekend.

I don't care if you missed a workout because life got in the way.

I don't care what the scales say after you've been out for dinner.

I don't care if you can't lift what the woman before you lifted.

I don't care if you turn up feeling tired, bloated or just not quite yourself.

What I DO care about?

That you're honest with me.

That we keep showing up more often than we don't.

That you're getting stronger.

That you're learning.

That you're building habits you can actually live with.

And that when life inevitably gets messy, you don't throw everything away and decide you've “failed”.

I'm not here to coach perfection.

I'm here to coach real women with real lives. 💗

ELM Fitness | Unleash Your Fierce

25/08/2026

Don't be scared to take up space. 💪🙌

20/08/2026

Nobody really talks about this side of personal training.

It's literally in the name.

Personal training.

When you spend one, two, sometimes three hours every week with someone, it's very hard for it not to become personal.

You get to know them.

You hear about their good weeks and their awful ones. Their families. Their jobs. Their holidays. Their struggles. You celebrate the weight they've lifted, but also the things happening outside the gym that nobody else sees.

And somewhere along the way, especially when you really gel with someone, that line between client and friend can become a little blurry.

But there's a strange part of this job that I don't think many people talk about.

At the end of the day, they're still paying you for a service.

And sometimes they need to take a break.
Sometimes circumstances change.
Sometimes money gets tight.
Sometimes life gets in the way.
And sometimes they simply don't want to train anymore.

And professionally, you understand all of that.

But personally?
Sometimes it still hurts.

Because you're not just looking at an empty hour in your diary thinking, I've lost a client.

Sometimes you're thinking, I'm actually going to miss her.

And I think that's one of the hardest things about genuinely caring about the people you coach.

I've always said my clients often become more like friends. I care about their progress. I think about how they're getting on outside their sessions. I worry when they're struggling and I'm genuinely buzzing when something goes right for them.

Maybe that's not the most "business-like" way to be a PT.

But I don't think I'd want to do this job any other way.

Because for me, personal training was never just about counting reps.

It was always about the person doing them. 🩷

19/08/2026

A little reminder that the person coaching you is still working on herself too. 💗

I don't wake up motivated every day. I don't love every workout. I have days where I pick myself apart just like everyone else.
The difference after years of training is that I've learned I don't need to feel motivated to keep showing up.
Some days I train because I'm buzzing for it. Some days I train because I said I would.
Both count. 💪🏼
Consistency will take you places motivation never will.

18/08/2026

If I had to start all over again, here is what I would do.

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Newtownards

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https://elmfitnessni.co.uk/

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