Thanks to Mykie O from Strut for my hair... thanks to Rudi for those bloody quadzilla legs !

I’m very proud to have been named as a finalist for the Sunshine Coast Young Business Woman Of the Year Awards.
Thank you to Genine Howard from Profile Magazine and Melanie Jacobsen from PJT Accountants for nominating me both previous winners of the SCBWN network awards and also our valued clients ! 

Here is my blurb which I had to write for part of the publicity related to the event about my career journey. Keep an eye out for me in profile mag and the Sunshine Coast Daily.   

As an elite athlete I struggled with my weight for 10 years and tried every diet, gimmick andfat pill. When I finally discovered the secret to safe and permanent weight loss I lost 15 kilos in 12 weeks and became a Bodysculpting champion.
So I quit my dead end job and set out on a mission to transform the lives of others on a grand scale. Starting with a single client and a car boot of equipment, I discovered by accident there was a demand for mobile personal training in the beautiful Coast outdoors! 

 2 years later I have over 100 active clients – many of them local celebrities, a staff of 5 and operate a fully equipped studio in Warana.  I’ve been showcased in both local and national media including SBS insight and speak to trainers across Australia on building a successful PT business. 

After SCBWN Young Business Woman Of The Year interview

My 12 week program takes Bodysculpting principles and modifies them for the everyday lifestyle.  We coach clients 1 on 1, in small groups, hold nutritional coaching challenges and recently launched Bootcamp for Women with enormous success. I’m very proud to say over the past 2 years we’ve inspired over 850 Sunshine Coast residents to lose more than 6,000 kilos 

Personal Trainers don't get a chance to dress up much, it's dressing up lorna janes pants and joggers and pretending that qualifies for "smart casual" or sssshhhh it's too late to go out dancing !

I just got back from my regular Wednesday PT session with my Sunshine Coast Personal Trainer,  Rob Reed at Kawana Fitness and I wanted to give him some well deserved props !

Bianca at WFF Sports Model Competition

I have had a lot of Sunshine Coast Personal Trainers in my time, all of them very knowledgable and credible experts, but eventually we go our separate ways. This is due to for various reasons, sometimes it’s location, sometimes it’s because I’m looking for a trainer with different strengths. But more frequently that I would like, it has happened because I held myself to a high standard, and accordingly so did the trainer – but they ended up letting their own agenda take over as to what was in it for them if I achieved my goals.

I’ve had a Sunshine Coast Personal Trainer who told me I couldn’t break from my diet for the next 8 weeks, so what do you think I did for the next 4 days? I ate everything I could possibly imagine ! You know, the age old adage – you don’t want something until someone tells you that you can’t have it.

Now when you are getting your fat folds measured in TENTHS of millimetres every week, these guys KNOW when you have not been following your diet. Eventually he just stopped taking my calls or replying to my texts to book in. I understand that I should have been true to my goals, but I struggle with the implementation of any exercise and diet regime just like any other regular client – why should I have been dealt with so harshly ?  

Because I have a bit of a profile in the Sunshine Coast Personal Training world, it’s easy to forget that I’m just an individual with my own personal goals, and my own personal struggles and failings. I’m not superwoman, I’m not infallible and if I tell you what I’d like to achieve – that is really truly what I would like to achieve.  I’m not trying to “test” you,  I’m not going to steal your ideas and trust me – I don’t want your clients! We have plenty of super motivated guys in our SculptLife family, and they keep our hands plenty busy !

After winning my competition for the INBA Brisbane Titles I finally got that monkey off my back – something I had been trying to achieve for the past two years. But I fell off the wagon big time , when I made the rookie mistake of not resetting my goals straight after the comp. I had literally burnt myself out, I had no more motivation and drive, I spent like 3 months of eating everything I had deprived myself of, things like toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches laden with butter – hot dogs, chocolate milk shakes. I think the morning after the competition i had a packet of mint slice biscuits for breakfast ! Oh my gosh I was sooo sick !

Samoan Sistas, Bianca & Sash

And of course you can imagine the deep deep hole I dug myself – and threw away the shovel !

So when I met Rob last November, I was the heaviest I had been in a long time and I sheepishly told him that my goals were to have an IFBB Figure girls body ( thos girls are the voluptuous, curvy muscly girls – not the skinned rabbit look ). I wanted to look good for photoshoots and be fit for Volleyball, oh yeah, and not let my neck get injured. Rob enthusiastically spouted off all the different hypertrophy and strength phases, macronutrient cycling with my diet and the various testing modalities we were going to use. He might has well have been talking latin, cos I have no concentration when it comes to that technical stuff – but it was like poetry to me – exactly what I needed !

This next bit is a little bit embarrassing … I was so happy to have a trainer ACTUALLY listen to me and what I wanted to achieve – without any other agendas I cried  !  Yep big tough Xena Warrior Princess is all for show ! But to make me feel better, Rob in all his metro-sexuality gave me a few little crocodile tears in sympathy too !

Bianca on stage

So off we started on a training adventure and here I am today after just finishing such an awesome, exhilarating and fantastic session I had to share it with you.

45kg Bench Press
120kg half squats
Body Weight Squat Jumps
Barbell Snatch
Medicine Ball Side Power Throws
Double Leg Throw Downs  
Repeat x 3

*During the 3^rd set of Double Leg Throw Downs and after some very unflattering groans, I decide I’m not going to have babies. I don’t think I can handle that pain!*

Single Leg Hops Up the Stairs
20 seconds speed skipping
10 lateral bounds  Repeat X3

The hardest thing is trying to walk gracefully in those heels !

* By this time I use one of my sneaky rest taking tactics-  I normally throw in a few questions about the meaning of life – the deeper the question I ask the more lengthy a response I get. This is fantastic when you are training and in desperate need of a rest, hee hee – but if you guys use it now, I’ll know!  Rob knows I don’t really care about the mitochondria’s role in the ATP –PC cycle but he just can’t help himself to explain it . It’s like he’s possessed and has to tell me or he’ll self combust and this big long winded explanation full of technical jargon spews forth – ha ! I love it !  *

Then outside we go in the car park ( ominous music )

10 Medicine Ball Power Soccer Throws
Resisted Sprinting ( Pushing Rob in the middle of the back up the length of the carpark ! )
Race back to the start ( I sprinted so hard to beat him I’m lucky the wind didn’t change at that moment – I was making some nasty faces ! Okay, I beat you Rob, but it’s okay – you weren’t warm! )Repeat

The oxygen debt I felt in the 10 seconds after each of these activities was enough to have me semi crouched pressed up against the wall and gasping for air. Which would have looked very strange to all the passers by ! ( Thanks for the public airing Rob ! )

But I absolutely LOVED IT ! Sunshine Coast Personal Training – what a fantastic activity to include in your LIFE !

So I feel like I have achieved a milestone here that I need to stop and thank you Rob for everything you have done.

From that day in November, when I was feeling so low and out of shape, I have lost 4 kilos, 5% in body fat, I’ve increased my hamstring strength by a whopping 250% – I was recently voted MVP in one of my Volleyball games and I felt good enough about myself to enter a sports model competition.  Rob has also been able to juggle all these fitness paramaters as well as making sure my physique stays balanced – preventing my chronic neck pain from taking over !  You Bewdie !

Oh, and can I give a big shout out to Vanessa from Starshots, aka “Buffy” for giving up her day and coming down to do my makeup. I felt a million bucks – I’ve decided when I finally get around to getting married, I’ll definitely have my hair like that Ness ! Thank you!

Rob has motivated me through many periods of self doubt, has pondered the meaning of various aspects of life, we’ve had plenty of laughs, has shamed me with his flexibility ! ( man, for a 95kg body builder, you should see his side kicks – I’m going to say they are better than my Pilates instructor and ex ballerina Sue’s ! ) Rob’s made me remember to be true to myself and the goals I set for myself when I try to convince myself it’s not that important to me and I’m so thankful that the universe has crossed our paths.

So – what makes an awesome trainer ?

Rob with his son Kai

An Awesome Sunshine Coast Personal Trainer will

LISTEN TO YOU when you tell them your goals and create an action plan to get there

IGNORE YOU when you try to convince them that it’s not that important to you anymore

HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE to your goals and the time line and keep you honest to yourself

ADAPT your program as you improve and refine your goals

TELL IT TO YOU STRAIGHT – hey, there’s no point in lying, if you’re not following your diet, you’re not going to lose the weight ! There is no TRY only DO!

And when all else fails an Awesome Sunshine Coast Personal Trainer will TELL YOU TO SHUT UP AND GET UP !
( Well, Rob hasn’t had to use that one on me yet, but it would definitely stop question time ! ) 

Thanks Rob – you’re awesome !

So what do YOU want in a trainer – what do you thinks makes an awesome Sunshine Coast Personal Trainer?
Make sure you leave a comment below - we always love to hear what you think !