I was fresh out of Uni back in 2012, and I was contacted by a local gym to step in as a PT and fitness instructor at the time as I’d done some work there before during my courses as work experience
I knew that there was more to body transformations for busy women than just weight loss, it had a domino effect on their lives if they could keep the weight off, more confidence, higher energy levels, more drive and motivation, they were happier not just in themselves but happier in their relationships and families.
I knew that weight loss was just the tip of the Iceberg when it came transformations, I knew that I could transform a busy womans life if I could find a way to get them to see their own potential and guide them to body and lifestyle success.
I knew that women could lose weight, become happier, and more confident without the need for a gym, without diets, whilst still eating what they enjoy and still having a few drinks during the week if they wanted to. I watched some of the best coaches in the world achieve this with their clients, and I wanted to achieve that with mine too, I just didn’t know exactly how I was going to do it.
I was frustrated because being a PT immediately set limits on what I could achieve with clients, it was suffocating, it was exhausting and I desperately wanted to change my clients lives with coaching, not just exercise and food advice
I was a PT at the time, I didn’t know much about psychology or coaching and within the space of a year the gym I worked at closed down. I ended up having to start building my client base up from scratch again and learn how to run a business now that I was self employed.
I felt like I was always going to be stuck as a PT, helping people lose weight with PT sessions and never transforming lives with coaching.
4 years went by, I knew a little about coaching and helped a few women in different countries lose weight online from Instagram, but it wasn’t transformation coaching, more like remote PT.
Then I hit a brick wall, I knew there were amazing transformation coaches out there as I followed them online, but I wasn’t one of them yet and I’d tried for years to get there but I was stuck, dead in the water.
I felt like giving up, I was starting to envision myself as a 50 year old guy still PT’ing in the gym and never transforming lives through coaching.
Seeing and listening to my clients talk ecstatically about how much more energy they had, how they were buying smaller clothes and how much more confident they felt, made me feel amazing too, but I knew it could be short lived unless I was coaching them.
Then, as if by chance, something amazing happened... I read a book called The Prosperous Trainer and everything changed. I knew that becoming a transformation coach was still possible, he’d done it so I knew I was capable of it too, he’d been a PT, then transitioned to a transformation coach.
From there I was able to map out a highly effective 12 week body and mindset blue print, I didn’t have all the exact details of each section but I had a guide to work off, a blue print from The Prosperous Trainer book that I’d read.
As a direct results of reading that book, I decided to hire him ( Tim Drummond) as my coach, he has a masters degree in behavioral psychology, he is well respected and regarded as one of the top transformation coaches in the UK (he now works with PT’s who want to become coaches). But there was still a problem... I’d never been coached before, I was always trying to coach others, I didn’t know how or if coaching would be right for me.
We still had to deal with my willingness to open up more and be coached, I was also going through a marriage break up at the time which put huge mental pressure on me.
The coaching with Tim, was nothing short of amazing! Within the first few weeks of being coaching my whole perspective on myself and what I could achieve with my clients was exhilarating, it was exciting to know how to actually coach others in such a simple way.
It allowed me to have 10 times more impact on my clients lives, we weren’t just melting body fat and keeping it off, we were able to effortlessly reboot their confidence and motivation.
I was able to transform their lives with just one conversation per week that seemed so effortless to do but it had such a deep, positive impact on their body and mindset, they were completely blown away.
Coaching with Tim allowed me to become a stand out transformation coach for busy women.
It meant that my clients got great results and developed the habits and confidence they needed to stay healthy and in shape, long term. It meant that I was able to have the impact on my clients lives that I always wanted.
In the end, I was able to wake up every day knowing I’d become a transformation coach that was changing waistlines and lives with a simple to understand, easy to implement transformation program, no gym workouts, no dieting, no crazy fads, they could still eat all the food they loved and still have a few drinks on the weekend.
From reading that book, to signing up with Tim, I was super confident now in my abilities to coach, I love coaching, I’m passionate about long term results and my clients are reaping the benefits, the results and testimonials proved that.
This means that you can achieve what you set out to do, even without a perfect start, in fact there isn’t one! I go to sleep at night with a big smile on my face because I know I can take my clients out of the pain and suffering they’re in, and transform them into slimmer, energetic, confident, happier women who have that spark back for life again.
