Het succes verhaal van Veronique Nauss

“Train je fit!”

Als werkende moeder stond sporten meestal onderaan m`n to-do-lijstje. In periodes was ik wel aan het hardlopen en wielrennen, was ik eens lid van de sportschool, maar echt structureel was het niet.

Eind september moest daar echt eens verandering in komen. Ik merkte dat ik moe was, weinig energie, de kilo`s bleven plakken. Daarnaast had ik behoefte om iets voor mezelf te doen.

Via via kwam ik bij Your Personal Training terecht en mijn trainer Loïs. De eerste 3 maanden trainen met persoonlijk voedingsschema vlogen voorbij. Naast de training in de studio van YPT, liep ik ook hard. Dit ging steeds beter. M`n conditie werd beter, ik werd sterker en niet onbelangrijk ik had veel meer energie.

Door Loïs haar enthousiasme en support ben ik doorgegaan met trainen, ook wanneer ik er een keer geen zin in had. Na 6 maanden is het sporten een onderdeel van mijn leven geworden en kan ik niet meer zonder.

Als ik sport is het belangrijk dat ik een doel hebt. In mei staat mijn eerste Viking run op het programma, 19km, 40 obstakels!  Gelukkig doet Loïs zelf ook mee voor de peptalk onderweg. Maar wat wordt het volgende doel? De halve marathon…?

– Veronique Nauss

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De Metamorfose van Abby

Haar succes verhaal!

 

“I wasn’t expecting much. I was never an athletic person. When I was a kid I volunteered to be the goalkeeper on my soccer team, because that meant I didn’t have to run. Avoiding exercise like that has been trend throughout my life. Despite this, I’d joined and gone to the gym before – even had a trainer for some time in Seattle, where I lived. I forced myself to go after work each day but was happy to give it up when I moved to the Netherlands. (After all, I was biking a lot, so I didn’t need to do anything else, right?) There had been some results, but not enough to make up for how little I liked being there.

Unsurprisingly, my weight, never low, started to creep up in my years since leaving the US. My mother, who had recently started working out and eating healthy herself, suggested that I should do the same on a visit home. I asked her, jokingly, if she was willing to pay for a trainer. She was. When I got back to the Netherlands, she emailed to remind me of that.

So I went looking for a trainer. Marigje stood out to me from the beginning, and I made an appointment to talk to her and give it a shot. I liked her, so I signed up. As I said, I wasn’t expecting much – going by my last attempt, I would lose a little bit of weight and be able to fit into my older pants again, but nothing more than that.

Within a month, things already seemed a little different. For one, Marigje noticed that I really did need an asthma inhaler – that I was capable of doing certain exercises, but was taking much longer to recover than I should be. I got a new inhaler and so much changed. After using it, it was much easier to actually do things, and to recover. I wasn’t so tired the rest of the day. Armed with this, I kept at it – maybe not with enthusiasm, but at least with the knowledge that I could.

At the same time, Marigje helped me get my diet together. I was a little afraid of this, as I really enjoy food and eating in general. I’d always thought that eating healthily meant giving up everything that I enjoyed. Marigje helped me realize that this wasn’t so – that I could just make some changes (different things for dinner, different snacks, etc.) and that would do the job. Maybe it was the Dutch mentality, which encourages more of a balance than the American one. The goal was to change how I ate from now on, not just go on a diet. Marigje gave me the knowledge of how to do that.

The results started to come. I could do more at the gym. My clothes fit loosely. When I went home in the winter, everyone noticed how different I was starting to look. I’m not going to lie – that helped me keep going. But I also found that I was good at a few things. I could deadlift well. I was flexible. I had more determination to get things right. As someone who’d never thought of herself as athletic, it was a surprise to me to find out that there were some athletic things I had skills in. Marigje helped me in finding out the things I liked to do and kept me doing them.

And along the way, somewhere, a few things changed. Instead of doing the minimum asked, I found myself trying harder. Seeing what I could do, and how far I could push myself. I always say that I’m not someone who enjoys exercise, but I’m finding myself much more enthusiastic about going and seeing what I can do. I bring up my routine in conversation. I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished. I’ve lost nearly 20 kilos.

I’m still not saying that I’m an athlete, that I’m someone who builds her life around fitness. But I am fit now. And that’s not something I thought I would be saying.”

-Abby

De metamorfose van Roy en Karin

Hun succes verhaal!

Precies een jaar geleden hadden we het voornemen om ‘het sporten weer eens te gaan oppakken’. Tijdens het intake gesprek met onze personal trainer Rob van Your Personal Training gaven we aan ons vooral fitter te willen gaan voelen. Rob adviseerde ons om naast het trainen ook zijn voedingsschema te gaan volgen.

Voor iemand die niet van groente houdt leek ons dat wel een hele opgave. Maar nu een jaar later willen we niet anders meer. Door gezond eten onze manier van leven te maken zijn we niet alleen 35 kilo afgevallen, maar hebben we ook geïnvesteerd in onze gezondheid. Verder weet Rob ons, door gevarieerd en afwisselend te trainen, elke keer uit te dagen en is geen 1 training hetzelfde. Daarnaast staat hij ons bij met praktische adviezen als we met onze voeding vast lopen. Natuurlijk moet je het allemaal zelf doen, maar mede door de kennis en ervaring van Rob hebben wij dit kunnen bereiken. Daar zijn wij heel erg blij mee en trots op! Wij gaan in ieder geval in 2017 op deze manier verder!

Roy & Karin