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Star Client - Stephanie

Posted by on 24 June 2010 | 0 Comments

Steph has been friends with Kaz for over 15 years. They worked together at IBM for many years. Since the time that Kaz left IBM, they stayed in touch and Steph's husband Craig is Kaz's running mentor and he assisted her with advice for the very first City 2 Surf training program.

So it seemd quite natural that when Steph needed a personal trainer that she called Mind Body Motion. It's quite funny how life moves on and friends come back to work together in a completely different way! Now despite Steph and Kaz's love of aerobics, often cutting some outstanding moves on the dance floor at many an IBM function, Steph had grown to dislike cardio just a tad. She made it quite clear that she wasn't going to enjoy it but she would do it as she knew that an element of cardio was required to meet her goals.

Over time Steph had been plagued with medical issues. The medication that she was on resulted in weight gain and she wanted to sleep all the time. Her fatigue was quite tangible and not only did she have a weight loss goal but she wanted to gain energy. This was really important especially as her baby was soon becoming a very active toddler.

She commenced training with us twice a week and Kaz tentatively introduced some cardio sessions on Saturday afternoons when they had the opportunity to get down to the local park. During the week they needed to be at the house to watch Chelsea, Steph's lively one year old. Despite the fact that she is sworn off children, Kaz has quickly become quite the baby-sitter and has been showing young Chelsea how to skip, squat and handle equipment! Chelsea has also been known to "supervise" Steph's workouts and she herself can now do squats on demand!!

Regardless of the fact that she had to endure ongoing complaints of "I hate cardio" and scrunched up faces almost every week, Kaz somehow managed to show Steph how she could enjoy cardio and the benefits it provided. Eventually after seeing some results with her improved energy levels, Steph added in a run once or twice week on her own. A 6km run! She wasn't fit enough to be able to do this before she had started her personal training sessions.

The three to four workouts a week made a difference. In three months Steph managed to see reductions in the following areas of her physique: 1cm off her chest, 1cm off her arms and forearms, 4cm off her lower waist, 2.5cm off her hips, and 1cm off her thighs. However, perhaps the biggest achievement is the improvement in her energy levels. She no longer needs to sleep as much and does not feel unusually tired any more. Steph now also embraces her cardio sessions with more ferocity and determination! When she puts her mind to something, she certainly focuses.

She's dropped back to one session per week and started training several times per week at the gym now that she has more enthusiasm for exercise and can self motivate. Kaz still manages to get the odd groan out of her by sneaking in cardio sessions in their weekly sessions.

Well done Steph! Keep up the great work.