I Invested in Three Coaches

2021/2022 the years I made the biggest investments in the most important person- Myself.

I invested in three coaches (actually four I forgot to count golf!) and they were the best decisions I ever made.

I invested in my education, my finances, and my physique. I talk a lot about my investment in education. That is nothing new to me, I have been consistently educating myself since college, 2007. This year I became a member of the pro sport academy, and it has solidified my practice as a neuromuscular therapist. I have written about this in my past blog called ‘Neuromuscular therapy enhancing my approach click the tab below to have a read.

This blog will focus on my investment in my physique. When I started formulating Fitness I did so under one condition – If the business got in the way of my own health and fitness, I was giving it up, no questions, it wasn’t worth it.

I was very fortunate to be able to afford a lot of gym equipment during lockdown and to continue my training from home over covid. My training was never bad it was a combination of weightlifting and cross fit style stuff (none of the fancy fancy lifts now mind) and I have a very solid knowledge of nutrition, so I managed to stay fit, and relatively strong all through the first half of 2021. Which was all rosey until the business started getting busier and I was landing home late tired and not one bit interested in planning a workout for myself, let alone actually doing it.  The gym I was a member in was a good 10-minute drive away, again another daunting task after an evening’s work, so I had reached that point where my one condition was being tested.

It was when two footballers that I work with who are both personal trainers told me that they both had their own coaches, that the idea took hold- get yourself a coach Maura. And away I went! A good friend was always chatting about her coach, they sounded good, and just happened to be working out of the gym around the corner from my clinic, I literally had no excuses I had to give it a go!

In November 2021 I started training in Hercules gym in Tralee and it was by far the best decision I ever made!! I walked in the door clueless as to how a single weights machine in the place worked! I was not a bodybuilder (I still am not one) and I was probably a bit judgemental about bodybuilders but that quickly changed (I am now in awe of their discipline). My original plan was to train twice a week with the coach and the rest on my own. After my second session I was hooked, and I upped it to four sessions a week. It was a whole new formula of training for me, divided into hamstrings, quads, shoulders and back. Training with a coach was fantastic, because I am in the industry, I soaked up the knowledge, and my coach was more than happy to share his wisdom. I saw it as a double investment, an investment in my physique but also in my education, nice one. I also invested in the coach for a nutrition plan- again to give me one less job to do and the combination was magic. I put away my phone (no recording shit for Instagram) and I put myself to work, on the days I didn’t want to work I worked harder. It wasn’t long until I started to notice results, I could (and will) write a separate blog on the results. In six months, my form and my physique have been totally overhauled, I’m now less quad dominant, I have a strong posterior chain, hamstrings, glutes, rhomboids, infraspinatus, supraspinatus, serratus posterior, lats, and erector spinae and the mad thing is the scales has not changed one bit!

I have taken a break from working with a coach for the summer, but I am still training on my own ( throwing some up on Instagram) using the same methods but also adding in some home sessions too abeit my nutrition has been a bit lax to date. I envisage I will be back to getting coached by the end of the year.

I would highly recommend investing. Investing in yourself, be it a PT, a life coach, an interview coach, invest and you will grow, learn, and prosper.

If you have any questions about my new training style, the coach I used etc just get in touch.