Ella Bevis Coaching

Ella Bevis Coaching • Personal Trainer at Absolute Fitness Peterborough • Boxing Coach at Brent’s Boxing Peterborough

5 reminders from a coach who’s spent 5+ years helping people build strength, and is sick to death of the misleading crap...
09/09/2026

5 reminders from a coach who’s spent 5+ years helping people build strength, and is sick to death of the misleading crap on this app.

1. Your bodyweight means f**k all without the rest of the data. Sleep, stress, strength progress, how your clothes fit, how you feel walking into a room. A number on a scale can’t tell you any of that.

2. Carbs are not the enemy. They’re your main fuel source. Cut them hard enough and you’ll wonder why you’re tired, foggy, and can’t push in the gym. I’ve lost count of how many clients have come to me half starving themselves of carbs, wondering why they’re wrecked by 3pm and dreading every session.

3. “Consistency” doesn’t mean never missing a session. It means you keep coming back after the weeks you do. That’s it. That’s the whole skill.

4. If a plan only works when life is calm, it’s not a plan, it’s a countdown to failing it. The goal is something that survives a bad week, not one that needs a perfect one.

5. You don’t need to earn food, punish a rest day, or be smaller to be strong. Strength isn’t a body size. It’s what your body can actually do.

6. Feeling wrecked after a session isn’t proof it worked. Some of the best training you’ll ever do won’t leave you sore at all.

I’m not sick of people wanting results. I’m sick of the people selling them results built on rules that fall apart the second real life happens. Every single one of these came from watching that exact thing happen to a real person in front of me, not from a theory.

Which is exactly why I coach the way I do now, helping people make progress without restriction, obsession or trying to shrink themselves 💪

So maybe follow along if that sounds like your kinda vibe 😌

WTF is nobody telling us this sooner.We were taught to fear the weights section, chase small instead of strong, and put ...
07/09/2026

WTF is nobody telling us this sooner.

We were taught to fear the weights section, chase small instead of strong, and put ourselves dead last on a list we made for everyone else. Nobody mentioned bone density until it was already a problem. Nobody mentioned that eat less, move more was never going to fix a relationship with food that was already broken.

I’m a two time World Champion and I still spent years believing my body was only worth something if it looked a certain way, not what it could actually do. Boxing changed that for me before I even realised it needed changing. Now I coach people to get there without needing an injury or a lot of therapy. 🫠

Strength isnt a phase or a trend. Its the difference between surviving your life and actually being capable in it. Its bones that hold you up at 60. Its finally being on your own list instead of last on it.

You dont need to earn rest, hate your body into changing, or wait for something to go wrong before this matters. You just need to start.

DM me “STRONG” and lets see where you’re at 🫶

“Skinny’s trending again. Cool. We’re not doing that here.Your body isn’t a decoration, it’s the thing that gets you thr...
05/09/2026

“Skinny’s trending again. Cool. We’re not doing that here.

Your body isn’t a decoration, it’s the thing that gets you through your actual life. The version of “”healthy”” that leaves you exhausted, obsessed with food and scared of carbs was never the goal. Strong, fuelled and able to function like a normal person is.

Follow for more reminders that you don’t have to shrink yourself for anyone. 💅💃

04/09/2026

We lost Dolly Parton this week, and I know I’ve already done a post on her and her legacy but I stumbled across this audio and I couldn’t not share it with you.

“Don’t you ever forget who you are and where you came from, and don’t you ever let anyone tell you you can’t do this or you can’t do that. You can do whatever you think you can do.”

That’s a woman who built an entire empire out of a childhood with nothing in the Smoky Mountains, and never once let anyone talk her out of who she was on the way there. Rhinestones, big hair, bigger heart, she didn’t shrink any of it down to be taken seriously.

So while Dolly wasn’t a coach, she definitely can teach us to stop waiting for permission to take up space. Most people don’t fail in training because their body actually can’t do something. They fail because somewhere along the way, a teacher, an ex, a comment on a photo, convinced them there was a ceiling on what they were capable of. Half of coaching isn’t programming, it’s proving to someone that the ceiling was never real.

Rest easy, Dolly. Thank you for showing up as exactly yourself for eighty years.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what actually made Dolly Dolly, and it wasn’t just the voice or the rhinestones. It was t...
03/09/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about what actually made Dolly Dolly, and it wasn’t just the voice or the rhinestones. It was that she built a whole career on being fully, unapologetically herself, in an industry that spent decades trying to tell women exactly who to be.

I went and saw her 9 to 5 musical a couple of months ago and couldn’t stop thinking about it after. Same energy running through the whole thing, women who’d been overlooked, underestimated and talked over, deciding they were done playing small and taking their power back anyway. Sat in that audience with goosebumps throughout (yes I am a musical theatre nerd 🫠😂)

That’s the same thing I want this page to be. Nobody has to shrink themselves, hide who they are, or wait to be picked before they’re allowed to take up space here.

Feels fitting to say that in her honour this week.
Rest easy Dolly Parton ❤️

I used to think being smaller was the only version of me worth being proud of.For a long time I had anorexia. I won’t ge...
02/09/2026

I used to think being smaller was the only version of me worth being proud of.

For a long time I had anorexia. I won’t get into specifics because that’s not the point of this post and it’s not helpful to anyone reading it, but I will say my relationship with food and my body was built entirely on control, restriction and punishment. My worth lived on how little space I took up.

Recovery wasn’t a straight line and it definitely wasn’t pretty. But somewhere in it, training became less about shrinking and more about what I could actually do. Lifting something heavier than last week. Feeling capable instead of controlled. Realising my body could be a teammate instead of something I was constantly at war with.

I’m not “fixed.” I don’t think anyone fully is. But I went from a body I was trying to disappear from, to one I train, fuel and genuinely respect.

People think it’s self-absorbed to say you’re proud of yourself. It’s not. I’m f**king proud of my recovery. Proud that I went from shrinking myself and hiding away, to rebuilding myself from one of the deadliest mental illnesses there is. I’m proud of what I’ve created from it. Proud that I get to help people heal their relationship with their bodies. Proud that I get to help people feel strong, capable and confident instead of shrinking themselves. And I’m proud of who I’ve become in the process. Not perfect, I’m far from that, but proud of the becoming.

That’s exactly why I don’t coach people to get smaller. I coach people to get strong, because I know first hand which one actually gives you your life back. And I want to help you feel proud of your own journey too. Helping as many people as I can get there, that’s pretty much the root of my coaching.

If any part of this is you right now, you’re not broken and you’re not alone in it. Recovery isn’t linear and it doesn’t have to be perfect to count.

So if you’re sat there reading this thinking “I want that feeling too,” follow along. I promise you can get there.

If any of this feels close to home and you need to talk to someone, Beat helpline is free and confidential: 0808 801 0677, open 3pm t

This message is basically the whole reason I do this job.She couldn’t get to the food shop this week and had to improvis...
01/09/2026

This message is basically the whole reason I do this job.

She couldn’t get to the food shop this week and had to improvise a couple of days of meals. And she still landed nutrition consistency at 8 out of 10. Not luck, not her getting away with something. That’s what happens when someone’s built real skills instead of a plan that only works when everything goes exactly right.

I’ll be honest, past me would have spiralled over a missed food shop. Written the whole week off over it. I built my coaching for this exact reason, to help people build actual strength and capability, not just push their way through a meal plan. Watching a client do the thing I had to fight so hard to learn myself never gets old.

That’s the actual goal. Not someone who needs a perfect week to stay on track, someone who’s getting stronger, lifting heavier, and can adapt when life doesn’t cooperate without losing their sense of control.

Most people come to me thinking they need more discipline. What they actually need is proof they can handle a normal, unpredictable week and still come out the other side feeling like themselves, and capable in their own body.

Swipe through to see her full check-in. If you’re ready to build that kind of strength and consistency for yourself, DM me “STRONG” and I’ll talk you through how coaching works 💅🫶

Every person on this list had a perfectly good reason to wait. No proof it’d work, no plan, no permission, no powers in ...
31/08/2026

Every person on this list had a perfectly good reason to wait. No proof it’d work, no plan, no permission, no powers in some cases. None of them waited anyway.

That’s basically the only trick to any of this, in the gym or out of it. You don’t get to feel ready first. You just start being the version of you that does the thing, and the confidence catches up later.

I clearly spend too much time thinking about superheroes and dinosaurs, but here we are 🫠

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