A few weeks ago l learnt that the term ‘Frenemy’ was real and not something in the movies. I seriously thought that the term was made up, and surely not real in real life. Guess what, l am not happy to say that l was wrong. I was chatting with a friend about the actions of a person because l wasn’t understanding where that person was coming from. My friend’s response was ‘oh they are frenemies!’ I had no idea what she was talking about. Then my dear friend went on to explain

How can you help someone when you don’t have anything to give? You, yourself are running on empty, and all you read on the socials today is that you should be filling your cup first. How are meant to give to someone else when you really can’t be bothered with anything in your own life. So many people were affected through lockdown 4.0 and still being affected. It has hit some people really hard, while others, well their lives haven’t really changed. There are so many differ

How do you get people excited about making a healthy change in their lives? That’s the 64million dollar question! There are so many fitness challenges, wellbeing challenges, tablets to take, and quick fixes that the marketers of the products make you believe will solve all your problems. When really they won’t. There are many books that have been written, many podcasts that have been made with simple solutions on how to help others make healthy changes in their lives. While

Coaching. What is Coaching? Defined on the google machine as my mum would say; ‘Put simply, coaching is a process that aims to improve performance and focuses on the 'here and now rather than on the distant past or future. ... Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.’ https://www.skillsyouneed.com/learn/coaching.html I have been working in the Fitness Industry for just about 20years an

Goal Setting How do you set goals? Do you set the big goals and hope for the best? Do you write your goals down and that’s enough? Or do you set little goals on the way to reaching the big ones? Recently CHPT started The Accountability Project. What is this? And why? The Accountability Project is a weekly check-in with our clients (who chose to take it on) to see how they are traveling with reaching their goals. I have been training clients and working within the fitness i

Making a decision can be the easiest or the hardest thing that you need to do in a moment. So decisions can be made easier by knowing what is right for you and what you want to achieve. Others well are harder due to fear. Fear of what? Fear of the unknown, fear of not knowing what is around the corner, and fear that it may be the wrong decision to make. Change can be a super scary thing to face head-on. We get so comfortable in what we know, what we do, and how we do it -

Comp prep, how do you prepare for something that you don’t know the outcome to? Being a competitive Weightlifter, you need to be comp ready, when you need to be comp ready. There are no second chances on the day so how do l prep for this? I work every day on my Mindset. I find if l miss a day l go backwards, mentally. Mental preparation needs to be done daily, without putting the work in daily, it is like turning up to run a marathon without any practice kms on your legs.

There has been so much excitement going on in our house lately. We have recently renovated our kitchen. Nothing to fancy, no huge changes but we do have some beautiful new cabinets and a stunning island. One of our friends came to help put the new kitchen in. He is a cabinet maker by trade but he is also a craftsman. I watched as he would look at the product, touch, and then say how much the door or the shelf was out by. He would then grab his tape measure to double-check

I found myself avoiding writing this blog post this week. For some reason it was something that l kept putting off, l was finding so many other ‘FUN’ things to do. When l start to avoid things it means that there is a learning in there that l don’t or l am not ready to adventure upon. I have been giving a few different opportunities this last fortnight to reflect on how far l am have come in my personal growth. Sometimes you spend all this time working on yourself emotional

As one year rolled into another as the fireworks woke us up on New Year’s Eve, l went about like most setting new goals and targets for myself. Working through what worked last year, what didn’t, what did l learn, what can l do better, and what would l love to achieve if l had nothing to stop me? As l started to tick the items off the list, l kept avoiding blog post writing. I kept saying to myself, ‘oh l must not be ready to face that yet?’ I am never afraid to step up for

And that's a wrap for 2020… And what a year we went through, well i think we all know what we went through and l think that all that matters now, is that we are here to talk about it. Take a moment to think about what you have survived this year, think about the things that you have accomplished. Think about what you have learnt about yourself as a person and that way that you have grown. Think about the good things, the people that you love and have loved. Ask yourself what

Kindness is such a buzz word at the moment, it is really on-trend throughout the social world. When was the last time that you did something for someone and not wanting something in return? Or when was the last time you helped someone out without having an angle behind it? The definition of Kindness is, quoted from google dictionary; the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Showing kindness doesn’t have to be in a sum of money or gift giving it can be as sim

I recently competed in an online Weightlifting Competition.  And as l do before each comp, l get a little edgy you could say…. I get to the point l can feel my body tensing up, l am short with my answers, and l need to get out of the house. For me, l crave nature when l get like this.  I crave trees, green, and water.  I don’t know why l am not a beach person, maybe it has something to do with the sand. I need to go and be ‘grounded’ again.  I love to find some grass, take my

How do you want to be remembered? Do you want to be remembered as the person who always won or do you want to be remembered for the type of person that you are? I have been having a few chats with our big one about character lately. About what type of person she wants to be, and how she treats others in this world. And understanding why people do what they do... Heading back to school and being around kids her own age, has taken some adjusting. After you have spent so much

Over the last lockdown, our little business put together a challenge for our members/clients.  Sitting and working out the details, thinking about what would work, what wouldn’t work, and what the main goal of the challenge would be. The main goal over the second lockdown was to keep people moving.  We know and understand that not everyone ‘loves’ the screen to do workouts with, and we know that people don’t want to have to ‘log-on’ again and again. What’s the simplest thing

are you willing to do to get something that you want? I ask this question to anyone new that walks through our doors.  It can be quite a confronting question.  What are ‘you’ not me but you willing to do to achieve the goal that you have set out to achieve.  The goal that has driven you to go to Personal Training, the goal that has made you make a decision to go work with someone. There are some that say, ‘anything, l will do anything.’  Then there are others, ‘well l just ne

I have been asked lately a few times, ‘how did and do you work with a child by your side?’ Great question! Here are my tips to help get you through the next few weeks with working from home while having the littles around. In my job, everything is done on time.  30mins for a client here, 45mins there, my first tip is to let your child know what you need to do.  They know you work but they don’t really understand it and they are unsure of how important work is.  I would explai

There is so much craziness going on in the world at the moment.  Is the information we receiving true?  Or is it not? The health authorise are learning daily more and more about the virus.  When we are learning new about new things or even a new skill we are going to make mistakes.  It’s how we learn, its how we learn not to do things, or we learn that that’s not the way to go - across it off the list. If we don’t try new things or new ways, we will never know if it is the ri

Perception. The online google dictionary describes perception as 1. the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. And 2. the way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted. I am going to focus on the second point in this blog.  The way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted. We all see things differently and that’s what makes us who we are as humans.  What we see and what we believe makes us become the people wh

Just because you put the work in doesn’t always mean that you will get the results that you want, but you will get a greater lesson, one that if you have your eyes open you will embrace. I have just come off one of the biggest and hardest training cycles with my Weightlifting.  Being in lockdown, the competitions, like everything else have stopped.  It’s out of our hands when speaking with Coach, we set up a new plan of attack to spend this time getting stronger. I don’t norm