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Catherine | Fitness & Nutrition Coach

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🙋🏼‍♀️ Mid 40’s Coach helping you get strong
💪 Strength Training & Calisthenics Skills
🥗 Nutrition made simple
👇 Start your pull-up journey

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Comment CALI if you fancy a week of workouts and tips to show exactly where to begin if you’re “Calisthenics Curious”

Lifting weights was def my first true love, but starting cali changed EVERYTHING.

🤸‍♀️ Better suited to my body and working around previous injuries, safely.

🤸‍♀️ I totally enjoy knowing the small details, I don’t wanna “muscle” my way through things, I love learning the “why”

🤸‍♀️It’s exciting AF! Even the “boring” stuff excites me – feeling those small measures of progress.

🤸‍♀️The goals are never ending – as soon as we master a skill, there’s a harder version to chase!

I could go on and on.

I’m going to get stuck into making more beginner tips to post here, but for now, here’s a snippet of the last 6 years of my journey so far 🤸‍♀️ by @catherinesargentcoaching

Well this is canny exciting 🥹

Sitting in that room with my GP when I was 35 felt like the worst day ever…

If someone had predicted 12 years later I’d end up here coz of early menopause! Bonkers!

It’s no longer something I think about often, but it’s 100% the reason this entire journey began.

35 with 3 young kids, overweight and had never exercised since I was at school!

Now at 47 I couldn’t even imagine my life without fitness!

Like I always say…

💫 There’s nothing special about me

💫 It’s never too late to start

💫 Lift weights

💫 Add a fun goal like pull-ups or handstands etc

💫 Start & don’t Stop

🥰🤸🏻‍♀️ by @catherinesargentcoaching

With so many new faces here, I wanna tell you all a little bit about my (often boring) story 😆

Comment EMAIL if you’d like a few weeks of all the tips I’ve tried to remember from over the last decade.

The biggest thing I hope to show is that there is NOTHING special about me.

👉 I wasn’t “always into fitness”
👉 I’m not “naturally” lean
👉 It IS possible to lose weight during meno
👉 We CAN build muscle and get fit in our 40’s
👉 There is no END DATE to ALL this.
(find something you enjoy doing then keep going until you need to move onto something new) by @catherinesargentcoaching

Comment EMAIL if you wanna read my emails where I cover all of the stuff I’ve learned over the years.

I’m not sure I’ll ever stop being shocked and totally grateful that my approach and mindset to this kinda stuff is so VERY different compared to a decade ago.

It’s truly the most freeing feeling to not have any negative emotions after enjoying a break and seeing the scale go up.

Knowing that I can confidently just jump back into my usual habits and within the next week or so, everything will be back to how it was.

As a person who spent over 20 years yo-yo dieting, I’ll always wish I’d sussed this out sooner, but I’m glad I finally did. by @catherinesargentcoaching

Give this one a save so you can find it easily, coz I’m posting allllll things Pull-Ups for the next few weeks.

Learning pull-ups was one of the longest and hardest goals I ever had.

But… I wasted loads of years just “trying” what I thought were the right things to do.

Even now, I feel that so many of the tips I see, are just too hard when we’re a
Total Beginner.

So I wanna break down EVERYTHING step by step. by @catherinesargentcoaching

Spotted @mogas.date in the gym recently banging out Pull-Ups, Spinning round the bar and holding handstands!

So obviously I was over there like a whippet to find out everything I could about him and what he does! 😂

Barry is 67.

He was a gymnast in his late teens, then he got back into this style (and many more) in his 30’s.

And he’s also an absolute gent of a lovely bloke.

He’s been practicing HS on some parallettes while navigating some elbow pain.

The last time I tried these I bailed wrong and really pulled my shoulder. That was a year ago and I’ve been too scared to try since.

So we did some practice together, with Barry spotting me and also showing me how to roll out if I over kick (I still haven’t braved trying that yet)

I think we’re very lucky in our gym, coz there’s loads of us that train this way.

But I forget that this probably isn’t super common – A 47 & 67 year old over in the corner doing handstands 😂

Yes…. I LOVE my training and love having new goals n stuff…

But the MAIN goal!

Still moving like Barry 20+ yrs from now!

I wanna be that lass that “started fitness” in her 30’s, still posting handstands in her 60’s! 🤸‍♀️🙏 by @catherinesargentcoaching

Women!

Lifting weights won’t make you…..

Oh wait…… never mind….. 😬💪😂

Think this idea might have backfired on me…. by @catherinesargentcoaching

Nothing like a new progression exercise to wipe out all ya smug’ness from the previous months 😬😂

Literally spent 20 mins “wall balling” my arse against that poor wall 🫢 by @catherinesargentcoaching

Just pop CALI on here if you fancy trying some beginner calisthenics skills but don’t know where to start and I’ll send over a week of workouts and tips.

These Shrimp Squats are SUCH a LUSH drill to work on:

Great for pistols and just great as another squat alternative 🤌 by @catherinesargentcoaching

It's def not for the faint hearted 😂🤸‍♀️ by @catherinesargentcoaching

Motivation is created by YOU ☺️

🤸🏻‍♀️ Trying new things

🛠️ Consistency & Patience

🏋🏻‍♀️ Being ok with failing, but not giving up

💪 And re-starting when you’re ready

🤓 Getting help when you need it

🥰 And enjoying (even LOVING) what you do by @catherinesargentcoaching

If there’s a movement, I haven’t made a video about that you’d like some tips on, pop the name here and if I know how to do it, I’ll make a post. 🎯

Push-Ups kinda drive me insane, coz I think we all assume they should be easy, but they’re not!

I did them on me knees for years and never learnt how to do them.

And now more than ever I understand why, coz doing them that way doesn’t even feel the same, never mind use the right muscle or positions.

Try these elevated ones instead – they’re sooooo good! 🤌 by @catherinesargentcoaching