50kg of confidence
50kg fatloss started with a simple decision, “I’m going to sign up to the gm today.”
I wont lie, the decision to sign up to a commercial gym as an overweight person in my late 20’s was terrifying! I was 150+kg and had never stepped foot into a gym before this point. I will always remember my first time training in that gym. I walked in , looked around and thought “I have no idea what to do”! The thought that every person in there would be looking and judging me made me nervous beyond belief. What I came to realise was, no-one cared what I was doing, they were all focused on what they were doing. I got a friend to show me around and I came up with the only thing I had heard of, I started training with the bro split, you know like Arnie, chest, arms, back, shoulders and legs. I would add movements to my workout, that lived in my phone notes, from things I would see on instagram.
Being a complete beginner, training in this way did start to yield results, purely from the added exercise each day. I began to think, “is this really the only or the best way for me to train?'“ I began researching, reading books, listening to podcasts and finding words like progressive overload, upper/lower split and mechanical tension which lead to more research and making alterations to my own programming. As I began to understand the process, two major things began to happen;
I fell in love with the ins and outs of program design.
2. I began to make unbelievable progress, the type of progress that my self limiting beliefs told me weren’t possible.
Being overweight all of my adult (and most of my youth) life, I truly never thought I could become known as the person who hits the gym regularly, yet there I was, 2AM every morning working my ass off before I went to my job. Always researching, always learning so that I could be sure I was making the right decisions for my training.
Fast forward to now, I’ve lost 50+kg, I feel fantastic and I have a head full of knowledge and life lessons that I want to pass on to others who are in a similar position to where I started, which is why I decided I needed to quit my job that didn’t help anybody and become a coach. As a coach I am in the position I need to be in to help as many people as possible.
The changes I have experienced throughout this process are hard to even put into words. The newfound confidence, not only in my appearance, but in all aspects of my life, is something that I need to share with all of you. My identity has shifted from a depressed, overweight, unhealthy individual who needed the help of alcohol (in excess) to enjoy a night out, to a person full of confidence, happy energetic, driven and ready to take on anything.
JudgeFit was crafted from this newfound identity. I aim to help people empower themselves and let go of their self limiting beliefs. If I can help just one person find what I have found, I will be ecstatic, but I intend on touching the lives of as many people as I can through my coaching.