I've been training since I was five. I coach so other women don't have to start there.
I started off doing martial arts my whole life — ages five to sixteen. Then I switched and started to focus more on boxing, kickboxing and gym training. That's when I began weight training and really training myself, and from there I started working at a boxing studio as a kickboxing instructor.
That's where I knew this was what I wanted to do. Helping people work on their physical health is probably one of the most important things there is. A lot of people are uneducated on how important exercise is, and on why certain things happen to them physically — lack of exercise, injuries from exercising the wrong way, or simply performing the wrong exercises entirely. Your body is your temple. Your body is what you use every single day.
WG Training has run in Metro Vancouver for seven years. The women I work with are usually total beginners, often at a turning point in their lives, often working shifts that make a normal class schedule impossible. They come because they want to regain power — to know they can throw a punch, to feel that physical security in their own body.
Where the pace comes from
I'm not a highly religious person, but I'm very spiritual — I believe having faith is having faith in yourself and everything you do, and believing the universe is in control and we are not in control of everything. I thrive outside, connecting with nature and the beauty this world is naturally made of.
That is not separate from how I coach. Nothing built in open air is rushed. Weather doesn't motivate itself; it just keeps going, and the ground it moves is the ground that lasts. So I don't chase dramatic weeks. I set a pace you can hold through shift work and bad sleep and a hard month, and I let it accumulate into something you can actually rely on. Then, when the shape is solid, we make it hard on purpose.
“I see that many personal trainers engage in lots of small talk and even deep conversations with their clients, but they aren't about growth or about physically and mentally training at times. Having fun conversations is amazing and great for many people, but one thing that I say I would refuse to do is just keeping it at that level. I like to really use my best judgment to see how people would benefit from, like what mental conversations, what physical exercises, how can we integrate the mental and the physical together to help this person genuinely grow and thrive. The mind-muscle connection is one thing, but connecting the mind to achieve more and more from the body is something that I genuinely like to pursue. As well as build strong mindsets not just strong looking bodies.”
What I'm strongest at
Conditioning, high intensity work, cardio, endurance, athletic conditioning, stretching and mobility, and anything martial arts related — anything connecting the mind and body together. That's my ground and I'll put it against anyone's.
I'm experienced in weightlifting and have a working knowledge of powerlifting, but I don't specialize in it. If a max total is your goal, someone else should coach you for that. I'd rather tell you that than sell you my second-best work.