PTPX

PTPX Certified Personal Trainer
Southampton
Get fit, get healthy and get confident My name is Portia, you can call me Porsh.

I'm a certified Personal Trainer with a passion to help transform the lives of others through health, fitness and a positive mindset. I want to help you achieve those goals, create those healthy habits and change the way you view exercise. Everyone can lead a healthy, active and happy lifestyle but not everyone knows how. That's where I come in... My mission is to educate you, give you the knowledge, tools and experience that you need to pursue a life full of health, happiness and fulfillment.

30 weeks 4 days preggers & just “ran” 3km🤰🏽 WITH MY TODDLER IN THE PRAM😅😅I’ve been trying to get out the house the last ...
17/09/2026

30 weeks 4 days preggers & just “ran” 3km🤰🏽 WITH MY TODDLER IN THE PRAM😅😅

I’ve been trying to get out the house the last 4 days… but somehow other responsibilities have just taken priority

But today I literally cried because I woke up just feeling so demotivated by doing the same chores over and over again every single morning. Which is tidying up the mess from the night before, making breakfast, washing etc

I work into the evenings so dinner & bedtime is always SO chaotic and I leave a mess behind in the process

So today I just forced myself out the house. Jordan was crying and being wingey. The house is a mess. I’m tired.

But I knew that my mental health needed us to just get up and go. Because if I didn’t, another day would of passed of me being stuck in the house again

And sometimes that’s what makes you feel tired. Not that you’re actually too tired to do anything. But because your in a place that makes you feel relaxed and tired

So I got up and went out

First I started off walking & then challenged myself to just run 1km

Then 2km

Then 3km

And honestly… I feel amazing for it

My well being advice for the day!?

Just get out the house and move your body. Get up, get dressed and go get some fresh air.

Now I feel motivated to go home, blitz the house & get things organized again…. (After a quick nap)😅😅😅

Before I could of easily just got back into bed

Sometimes you just have to take that action you know you need too, even when you don’t feel like it 🫶🏻

HERE’S HOW 👇🏼👇🏼1) Set our intentions by setting goals & getting our mindset right. This provides direction, purpose & mo...
16/09/2026

HERE’S HOW 👇🏼👇🏼

1) Set our intentions by setting goals & getting our mindset right. This provides direction, purpose & motivation

2) the most important part : perfecting form & understanding the movements, the muscles & the joints used.

3) Structured programming. 12 weeks blocks designed specifically to build strength. 3 4 week blocks:
- week 1: foundation
- week 2: progression
- week 3: PEAK (max lift)
- week 4: essential deload week to allow recovery & adoption
Repeat this structure for 12 weeks with a ultimate peak week at the end of the 12 weeks 💪🏼

4) nutrition that fuels their workouts & helps with recovery & growth

5) CONSISTENCY! Showing up and trying their best

If you want to unlock your strength, you need to train with purpose and with a structured plan of action designed to reach that specific outcome

It doesn’t just happen by luck 🙅🏼‍♀️

I already cannot wait to get off maternity leave to help more women realize their strength & full potential 🥹

When I’m on calls with people & they start saying “8 weeks” I straight away set their expectations in line with reality ...
15/09/2026

When I’m on calls with people & they start saying “8 weeks” I straight away set their expectations in line with reality

& lot of the time I see looks of disappointment when I tell them to drop that expectation

They can’t seem to see themselves sticking to it past 8 weeks. Or just feel so overwhelmed with the thought of having do it for a year😕

& I’m not saying that you won’t see a difference before the year mark because you will…

But most of the time, their aspiring body goals are of women who have been training & eating right for years & have perfected their craft

Because it’s not just about fat loss.

It’s about building muscle to speed up your metabolism so you can keep your results

Building muscle so you can eat more & not always have to be restricted all the time

Building muscle adds shape, definition & “tones” the body

Building muscle takes time! It takes time to learn how to strength train PROPERLY & build up your weights

It takes time to sort out your diet, to learn about nutrition & then cement those habits into your lifestyle

Loosing body fat really fast isn’t always a good thing. Because when it’s fast & unsustainable, it’s very likely that you’ll put the weight back on (especially when you haven’t taken the time to build muscle)

A year might feel like a long time when you’re at the start line… but I don’t make the girls hyper focus on the time line.

Or even the outcome.

I get them to focus on daily improvements. I focus on helping them build one healthier habit at a time. I focus on helping them learn how to actually enjoy training & learning about nutrition. I get them to stop doing extreme unsustainable things & take the pressure off themselves.

Instead we focus on progression, not perfection. On consistency that they can maintain and stick too.

before they know it, they’re seeing improvements. Their body starts to change. They actually feel good. They actually feel healthy, strong & capable for the first time in years. They no longer care about the time

Before they know it, we’re doing their yearly transformation photos & they don’t even recognize themselves. They only wished they had this approach sooner🙅🏼‍♀️

14/09/2026

AFTER YOU SWORE YOU WASNT GOING OVER YOUR CALORIES EVERY WEEKEND!?🤣🤥

Celebrating our second baby boy🥹👶🏽💙Only 10 weeks to go… we cannot wait to meet you baby boy 🫶🏻All the ladies made it ext...
13/09/2026

Celebrating our second baby boy🥹👶🏽💙

Only 10 weeks to go… we cannot wait to meet you baby boy 🫶🏻

All the ladies made it extra special (and the babies) 🥹💛💙

12/09/2026

No clients were hurt in the making of this video 🤣

It took me a whole 45 minutes longer than it would if didn’t have to bring Jordan along What would have taken me literal...
11/09/2026

It took me a whole 45 minutes longer than it would if didn’t have to bring Jordan along

What would have taken me literally 10-15 minutes before to get ready to go to the gym & train, now takes me an hour😅

That’s because we get up, he needs his bum changed. Then we both need break fast. Then he ALWAYS had his morning poo shortly after. So I change him again🤣

Then I get us both changed & we’re ready to go

It sounds like it’s not a lot, but it just takes TIMEE🤣 because he’ll be getting up to know good inbetween me trying to make breakfast & getting myself changed

He hates getting his bum changed so he always puts up a little fight 🤣

And then I got to hope that he’s in a good mood & doesn’t mind being in the gym with me (a lot of the time he loves exploring the gym & playing along side me as I train)

But sometimes he has none of it and we have to try again tomorrow

Luckily today was a good day🥳 I managed to get a full body in without any winging

We actually do have so much fun in the gym together and I love having him as my little shadow🥹

I’m never alone because he’s always right by my side & I wouldn’t have it any other way

But I’d be lying if I said that it doesn’t make everything a little harder & long winded. So I have to tap into that discipline a lot of the time 💪🏼

Anywayyyy! Happy Friday people. We hope you have an amazing weekend

Love me and Jo Jo 😝👶🏽

I HATED this photo when I saw it and it ALMOST ruined my day…. I asked my partner to get a “cute” photo of me and Jo Jo ...
10/09/2026

I HATED this photo when I saw it and it ALMOST ruined my day….

I asked my partner to get a “cute” photo of me and Jo Jo at the zoo

When I looked at it, I literally felt disgusted with what I looked like

I felt big, I felt swollen, I felt so unattractive at the moment because I felt sleep deprived, low mood, hormonal, fat and just sluggish

I haven’t been keeping up with my self care in terms of skin care, making an effort with my hair. I don’t have any nice maternity cloths (cause I didn’t want to buy a whole new wardrobe just for a few months)

I then felt like I had really let myself go since becoming a mum. Wondering if my partner thinks the same

But then I just said stop to myself

Stop making a family day out about what you look like. No body else cares, you’re literally at the zoo.

These photos don’t reflect what you look like all the time

And they certainly don’t reflect your self worth

And so I thought id break up your feed with realistic photos in just normal settings that we actually find ourselves in everyday

We compare ourselves to best versions of people on instagram. And with photo editing & AI being used by SO many people right now, I want to remind you that it’s not real

And we can loose touch of reality & day to day life when we look at everyone else’s highlight real on instagram

Where everything has to be aesthetically pleasing & perfect

The perfect home, the perfect routines, the perfect parenting, the perfect body, the perfect skin, the perfect outfit etc etc

Instead of tearing myself down & calling myself horrible things. I rationalized with myself, reminded myself I’m pregnant, I have a 1 year old, I’m TIRED AF!🤣 and that this is just a stage of my life

Then I stopped staring at the photo & all my imperfections & focused on living in the present moment. Which was to spend quality time creating memories with the family

And I didn’t want to create a negative memory just because of one photo

However… this will be used as motivation when I get back to it postpartum 😬🤣😋

We’ve all been there…We’ve all believed a myth to be true when it isn’t We’ve all wanted the easy option to be true We’v...
09/09/2026

We’ve all been there…

We’ve all believed a myth to be true when it isn’t

We’ve all wanted the easy option to be true

We’ve all been naive & gullible

We’ve all had the dream sold to us and did think it was too good to be true, but brought it anyway

We’ve all been given the wrong information in the past

So I’m not judging you! I’ve been there more than once in desperation

But this is my face trying to figure out how to tell you that your beliefs and expectations are not aligned with reality🤣

Because sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth

They want that new shinny object

They don’t want the boring but effective method

Because they perceive the boring basics as too long, not glamorous, too obvious?

When really, it’s the thing that’s going to get them where they want to be

They just first have to accept it and drop those other misconceptions they have believed in for so long

A 💩 product can be wrapped in beautiful, shinny, inviting packaging and people will think it’s great. When really they are buying an elusion. They are buying the hype, not the actual reality. Then convince themselves it’s amazing because they don’t want to be disappointed, when they realize it doesn’t actually do what it says it does on the cover

And that’s what happens when it comes to your health and fitness journey too

You end up wasting your precious time, energy and motivations that just don’t work

The most effective method?

1) stop expecting it to take 8-12 weeks and treating it as a means to end end

2) mentally prepare yourself to do this for a life time (its a lifestyle) not a quick fix. A year is a GREAT time frame to really see great transformative results! But you then have to continue to keep them

3) to improve your diet, knowledge & understanding, you need to track your personal intake. To see how many nutrients you’re getting & what you need to add or take away from your diet to hit your personal targets. Just trying to eat as little as possible is the worst thing you can do for your long term health & results

4) strength train to build muscle. It will speed up your metabolism, build shape, “tone” you up & give you that defined look

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