Having done a few Boot-camp classes, some Pilates and aerobics DVD’s, I knew that I needed help. I knew that I needed specific one-on-one training, someone that could help my newbie form, could push me and help support my goals. I also needed and wanted to find someone who has been where I had been, who’d not given up and pushed their own boundaries.
Meet: Amy Ratcliffe
Amy Ratcliffe my personal trainer
I met her virtually online through a friend (sew funky) on Facebook, she posted that she was looking for someone to train and help, this was over a year ago. I wasn’t ready then, but kept in touch via Facebook.
Then one day I saw her posting on her Facebook about her and her husbands Guelph Kettlebells Club. They offer classes a few times a week that are donation based and their way of giving back to the community in a healthy way, and trying to motivate the community to greater health. I went to one of their classes and was hooked. They are amazing motivators and enthusiastic about form and pushing your own personal boundaries (but not too far).
After that class I knew Amy was the trainer for me. She had disclosed to me during earlier conversations that she too was very over weight at one time and had lost 80lbs, so I knew she got what I was going through.
We went over my Isagenix food plan, then she hooked me up with a training plan, which would involve interval training, mixing it up, and circuits, warm ups, cool downs and stretching.
My first session with her was yesterday and it was amazing, we did a 5km interval jog/walk, then did three circuits that involved my kettlebells, pushups etc
She’s amazing. She pushes me and respects my physical boundaries and doesn’t let me give her my ‘old self’ excuses, she tells me “I CAN do it, that I can do anything”. She’s very good at teaching me proper form and continues to watch and stop me if I’m doing something not proper.
<3 Having a trainer like her, she along with Isagenix is really going to change my body, inside and out!