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Amy Watling | Online Fitness Coach

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💻Online coaching
🏋🏼‍♀️121 and group PT - based at @rhinosgymnasium
10 years experience
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A very respectable quad day considering the back pain I’m currently experiencing 🫠 with a cameo from @gemma.edith 😝

- adductors
- SL ham curls
- SL leg extensions
- hack squat
- leg press (2s pause at the bottom)
- SL leg press (usually Bulgarians but taking pressure off of my lower back atm)
- leg extensions with full stretch (I also supersetted this with BW sissy squats to failure butttttt did not film)

Hoping some extra rest will sort my back pain 🤷‍♀️ that’s what I get for battering my body since I was a kid I guess 🫠

Coaching applications are open @legacyglowcoaching 💕

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Me and @xchelseyrx keeping each other going through the holidays!

It really does take a village when you have kids and that’s not just in helping with the kids themselves. Us as parents need a village to keep us sane 🤣

My @rhinosgymnasium family lift me up even on the worst days I’m guaranteed a laugh…lift heavy and have fun it’s what we do 💪🏼

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I fear it may be a learned behaviour…at least they can’t say their mum is boring 🤷‍♀️

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If I’m honest, school holidays can feel like a lot.

There’s more to organise, less routine, little people needing something from you constantly and somewhere amongst all of that, you’re still trying to look after yourself and keep showing up for your own goals.

If your fitness routine feels harder during the holidays, please know you’re not failing…you’re navigating!

Sometimes you just have to remind yourself that you’re doing your best and that your best is a little less at this time. Do you know what? THATS ABSOLUTELY OKAY!!!

Because sometimes staying consistent doesn’t mean doing more. Sometimes it simply means doing what you can, when you can. 🫶🏼

Here’s a few things I do and remind myself of when the girls are off school 💃🏼

And just remember the next time you hear “mummyyyyyyyy can I have a snack” that you’re doing your best 💪🏼

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Kinda chic huh…

I’ve been called everything from selfish to a “shi**y mum” did it stop me? Absolutely not. It made me more determined to prove people wrong!

You can be a good parent and still hold yourself to a certain standard…I see it everyday not only in myself but amongst my clients and friends 💖

Yearsssssss I spent being “just a mum” until I decided I’d had enough and made time for myself and what I wanted to achieve. If I had £1 for everytime someone told me having a baby at 19 would “ruin my life” or “ruin my body” I would be living it up on a yacht somewhere by now 🤣

A few lessons I learned along the way:
- you’re never truly ready for motherhood no matter how hard you plan. It’s absolutely fine to learn along the way
- the only time having a baby will “ruin your body” is if you use it as an excuse (trust me…been there!)
- having time and goals for yourself actually makes you a better parent both mentally and physically
- wondering “what if” until your kids grow up might as well be saying NEVER

So if you do find yourself in the “what if” cycle…time to break it my friend 💪🏼

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Becoming a parent changed my perspective in more ways than I expected…

It’s easy to put yourself last, to tell yourself you’ll start when things settle down, but I’ve realised life doesn’t really slow down you just have to decide that your goals matter too!

This transformation didn’t start to just change how I look. It was about taking responsibility for my health, my mindset, and the example I’m setting every day.

My daughters are always watching how I approach challenges, how I keep promises to myself and how I show up even when it’s hard. That’s the kind of example I want to set for them.

I’m still a work in progress, but I’ve learned that waiting doesn’t create change, you have to take the reins and be accountable to yourself and what you actually want…one day at a time.

That journey is exactly why I created Legacy Glow Coaching because being a busy parent doesn’t have to mean you come last. It just means you have to find ways to build in habits that drive change and progress everyday. Quick fixes don’t work for transformation when you’re a parent, burn out always feels just around the corner anyway, cutting your carbs and training beyond your means only shortens the window before that happens!

There is never a “right time” to make a change, today is enough. If you’re ready to stop dropping yourself off a cliff everytime you need to get ready for an event or a holiday DM “LEGACY” and let’s chat about how we can build habits that last for you and for the legacy you’re creating 💖

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Had the absolute pleasure of my online coaching client @grow_with_jen come and see me at the @limitlessflowposingg Manchester workshop at the weekend 😍

Bodybuilding has been such a journey for Jen and I had the pleasure of meeting her a few years ago as her posing coach. After a year out of the industry she decided to come back to bodybuilding and asked me to be her coach…I honestly couldn’t be more excited for the journey ahead!

We started off with a priming phase getting her used to a routine again and establishing maintenance so that now after her bloods have come back perfect 👌🏼 we’re nose diving into a fitting phase before we make a game plan to compete 😏 it was great to see Jenny pose in person and establish exactly what we need to do going forwards!!

So honoured to have built such a trusting relationship as Jenny’s posing coach previously to allow her the confidence in me as her coach taking her through the journey to come 💕

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@amy_limitlessflowposing answering the very important question of “why do you lift?”

The rest of episode 2 is out now on YouTube

Officially sponsored by @supplement_needs

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An insight into why Amy started coaching!

The full episode will be out on YouTube on 30.01.26

Officially sponsored by @supplement_needs

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I think I found my femininity in this push up phase…

I can hand on heart truly say that this is the first time in my time bodybuilding that I have truly embraced the fluff! I reached my heaviest weight yet during this phase and while yes this is the best my condition has looked when reaching “peak” weight I also have embraced the weight gain and the added fluff that comes with it.

I have enjoyed life since my last cut, having moments of almost normality (I’ll always be a bodybuilder at heart) but going on nights out, enjoying meals with my family and not immediately thinking “omg I’m gonna look awful tomorrow” and with that I am happy with the shapes I’ve built and whilst considered bigger to the norm I actually feel the most feminine I have in a long long time 🤷‍♀️

Have I been the most “optimal” bodybuilder? Absolutely not! But sometimes amongst bodybuilding and motherhood I forget I’m just a 27 year old girl living my life for the first time 🥰

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Anxiety is no joke…but your environment is EVERYTHING

6months ago I couldn’t make it through a day without a panic attack! The heaviness had me unmotivated in my career, life and even as a parent 😢 most days I couldn’t make it through a gym session without experiencing anxiety…yes me having anxiety in the gym…crazy right? 🤦🏼‍♀️

What did I do to fix it?
-cut off people and situations that triggered an anxiety response
-changed my environment
-focussed on myself and really zoned in on things I could do each day to carry me forward
-spent more time around people that motivated me and supported me
-stopped participating in so much negative self talk
-started doing things that pushed me out of my comfort zone
-set new goals
-HAD THERAPY!!

I haven’t talked much on here about my therapy journey but it helped me so so much. It rewired my brain into looking at past situations in a completely different light and helped me make sense of the way in which I was feeling.

Anxiety is so hard to navigate but with the right tools and the right support you really can control it 💕

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I have honestly not been as unwell as I have the last few days in a very very long time!

But despite that…I still had to be a mum! Because guess what?? No one else is there to help and actually I got really emotional yesterday thinking about how hard it is to keep going when you really don’t have it in you to and I almost fell into the “woe is me” mindset.

Upon reflection…I was tired, hormonal (luteal phase just to add insult to injury 🤣) and weak because I hadn’t eaten in almost 48 hours.

But, what it did make me realise was actually the same things that I tell myself when I’ve been trying to achieve my bodybuilding, fitness and physique goals alongside being a parent is what got my ass off that couch and out of bed to be some what of a functioning parent while I really really could of curled up and pretended I didn’t exist!

Much like in single parenthood when it comes to your fitness goals guess what? NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE YOU. And while people can help you like a coach for your fitness journey or your friends and family in parenthood. The main driver to your success in those situations is YOU! And surviving single parenthood gives you all the tools and more to be able to be successful in your fitness journey…you just have to apply them 💕

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