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27/04/2026

TSE online coaching slots are opening again soon, message me when you’re ready to secure your space so you don’t miss out.

21/04/2026

Beginners can do nearly anything in the gym and feel changes. Progression at *your* level comes from knowing what to remove, not add.

I can tell from our first call that already consistent, hard working gym girls who care about their numbers rarely need me to make them “do more”, they need me to remove the noise, and filter the fluff.

Which is why I called my online programming offer The Strength *Edit* btw😏

It’s where stuck lifters go when they realise effort and consistency alone isn’t enough to make their plateaued lifts move again, that relies on programming precision.

15/04/2026

I’ve felt a switch flick in me recently. It happened when I realised I had started to create my own limitations again. I thought I was being “realistic” about what I could manage, when I had actually fallen into an old pattern of trying to avoid failure, rather than being curious about what I could achieve.

I started asking what could happen if I simply believed I could do it, and then started taking actions designed to help reaffirm this belief over and over again even before proof started to emerge.

Even though it seems like it’s your schedule, your work or family responsibilities, your genetics, or past proof of failure, that’s capping your goals. In my experience and from observation, it’s not, it’s your belief that it is. Realising this is both confronting and freeing at the same time.

If you’ve followed me for a while you’ll know I don’t tell anyone how they should or shouldn’t want to look, but I also can’t deny there aren’t deeper patterns or pressures at work beneath surface that influence a clients “why” or “body goals”.

So often I meet women who think they’re setting “realistic” goals when what’s available to them with the right structure and guidance is so much bigger.

People might read this and think going to the gym isn’t that deep. But it is. Peoples training habits and their beliefs and barriers surrounding it are a big ol’ mirror to much deeper inner conflicts - nervous system regulation issues, self-concept struggles, and social pressures.

The gym is actually the perfect place to intentionally stretch yourself, to challenge the ideas you have about yourself, to craft a new identity, to evolve.

If you weren’t afraid of failing, or standing out, or losing social standing in circles you silently feel like you’re outgrowing anyway, what would your goals look like then?

07/04/2026

In pic one I was following random workouts I found on Pinterest and YouTube and chasing “the burn”.

To become the girl in pic 2, it would take a commitment to a structured, personalised program, and learning how to train with intent, not just “working out”…

Then I added in a degree to explain all the why’s behind it, so I could help people in the same position…

Women just like me in pic one who got to see and feel a few changes happening in the mirror, felt their strength increase and got hooked.

But they were never reverse engineering their results, their DIY programs were all guesswork and for a while they filled in the gaps with effort, patience and consistency.

Hard work and showing up is important, but if this effort isn’t funneled into the correct things it will eventually leave you feeling stagnated or have you setting goals you think are “realistic” when you’re actually just aiming low because you’ve never followed a plan with real structure or a repeatable system that made results predictable.

At what point will you realise that more time passing and more effort alone change your outcome?

When you’re ready to unlearn what you think you know, ready to let structure do its thing and to stop relying on discipline to make up for poor strategy, you know where to find me ❤️

30/03/2026

There’s a time to test, but it should be intentional not impulsive ✌️

If you don’t know when else to test it, your plan (or rather lack of one) means you’re winging it, or repeatedly testing for strength you haven’t earnt yet. Neither are getting you where you want.

If you want to see your lifts consistently climb, DM me STRUCTURE and I’ll show you how we do it.

28/03/2026

It’s not you, it’s your programming 💅

26/03/2026

Last week I forgot to eat before leaving the house. When this happens, I often go to the supermarket and get jerky and popcorn, or cheese and crackers, just aiming for some combo of protein and carbs or protein and fats or all 3, anyway -

This particular time I decided to get a hashbrown from McDonalds but it was after 11 🥲 so I got fries instead.

I was sitting eating them in the car when I remembered a question a coworker had asked me quite a few years now, while they were tracking calories in a fat loss phase…

It was so interesting to me the way I had misunderstood this question, because I viewed food so differently (swipe for the rest…)

25/03/2026

The bench press has quickly become one of my favourite lifts to coach, there’s so much technical detail to it and I’ve dived so much deeper into it in the last year and a bit.

Learning to treat it like a coordinated fullbody exercise was first a game changer for me, and then sharing this newfound knowledge with my clients became a game changer for them too.

Just a few targeted tweaks to their set up and positioning was all it took to make them feel more stable, coordinated and confident under the bar in a matter of minutes, allowing them to activate strength they already had, but didn’t know how to access.

If this has got you curious about how you might be leaking energy in your bench press, send me a video of your bench and I’ll share what I can see and how to improve it.

16/12/2025

BTS - My Lower Body/Squat Day ❤️

Warm Up:

Assault Bike - For the length of a song, raising core temp, getting blood flow circulating.
Foam Roll - Checking in with how my body's feeling, and temporarily improves range of motion.

Then into the ✨️Pilates Princess✨️ portion:

1.Roll Up (modified/bent knees) or Dead Bugs 2 x 10
2.Glute Bridge with Ball Between Knees or Swimmers 2 x 10

Then into:

3.Heel Elevated Counter Balance Squats for strength movement/squat pattern prep 2 x 10

Had to incorporate our new Smith Machine into this block more stability makes keeping tension on target muscles easy peasy

A glute bias with most of the exercise variations chosen.

✅️Squat
✅️Hinge
✅️Lunge/Single Leg
✅️Knee Flexion
✅️Hip extension/ a little abduction
✅️Calfs

09/12/2025

Here's how to build a full "day of eating" for health, strength, and satisfaction.

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In my world, we call this "mindful macros".

Dont forget to hit follow for more nutrition tips that help you feel strong, not starving.

04/12/2025

You need this 👇 (not more motivation)

You need a way of creating momentum.

When you're in a low motivational state it may be due to:

A high mental load
Stress
Feeling drained from a day full of decision-making

Of course, it's going to feel challenging, or "too much" to go to the gym, you're human, not a robot!

So, how do you show up anyway?

1. You assess your current level of motivation by rating it on a scale from 1 to 10
2. Acknowledge it without judgement - fluctuations in energy and motivation are NORMAL and then
3. Meet yourself where you're at by asking yourself what's the smallest micro action I can take right now?

You feel like you need 10/10 motivation to go to the gym, but you might only need your current level e.g., 1/10 to simply stand up of the couch.

You might need a "state shifter" like your Gym Playlist in order to elevate your motivational status to a 2 in order to put on your gym shoes.

If you get to the gym car park and you lose it again and get sucked into another scroll hole, tell yourself I can still scroll on the treadmill I just need to get out of the car.

Break down what you need to do into small steps to reduce the overwhelm, to remove the pressure, the expectations. Focus less on feeling motivated and more on creating momentum and watch your motivational state start to shift on its own.

Please like or share if you found this helpful ❤️

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