Steve and Ilona answer the most their most asked question as fitness instructors - how to find (and keep) motivation to work out? 

They talk about motivation itself, and Steve shares his method for getting into, and sticking to, a routine with exercise. 

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Jess teaches yoga at fitlife Summertown, hosts yoga, music and breathwork events and is a serial business owner. 

Ilona asks Jess all about her career, her own journey and her expertise on breathwork: what is it? What are the benefits? and how do you start? 

Find Jess's Events here:

https://www.byfirelight.co.uk/

https://www.rogueyoga.co.uk/

And on instagram https://www.instagram.com/jess.rogueyoga/

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Steve and Ilona discuss morning routines. What is a morning routine? Why should we have one? They go through what they personally do in the mornings and some helpful tips for building your own. 

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Chloe is a yoga teacher and Sound Healing practitioner. She teaches pilates and yoga at Fitlife Summertown. Ilona asks Chloe all about her journey to spirituality and she shares insights and inspiration for anyone who is open to mindfulness of any kind. 

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Steve interviews Ilona. 

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In the first episode in this relaunch of our podcast, founder, Steve and co-host Ilona recap the journey of Fitlife, the ups, the downs, Covid and what has changed since the podcast was last recorded. 

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I often joke with Eleanor that she is the reason Fitlife exists. But it is largely true. In 2014 she, my sister and Becky convince me to train them in my mom‘s back garden. It sparked something in me to become a personal trainer and start a Boot Camp. 8 years on and she sits opposite me recording this podcast.

We deep dive into the history of Fitlife, what it means to Eleanor and the key to why she’s so incredibly consistent with her workouts (we figured out she is done well over 1000 gym visits).

We also touch on our struggles with grief and how therapy was the answer to navigating this.

Thanks to Eleanor for recording this with me. 

I hope you enjoy the listen.

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Max is a FitLife Superstar member.

What’s a superstar member? It’s one that lives and breathes the FitLife way. He comes to classes, has a personal trainer, wears the t shirts and recently has started listening to this podcast.

He reached out to me following his listen to episode 9, which was a recording I did when we first went into lockdown in 2020. I did it by myself, in my sons bedroom and gave my life story. 

Now Max has his own podcast show ‘9werks radio’ which dives into his true passion - motorsport. So he messaged me to say ‘have you ever thought of being interviewed on your own podcast?’. Which my answer was no, but I was up for it. I was up for it because so much has happened since that recording in 2020, both professionally but mainly personally and I thought it was important to set the record straight after that original episode.

Now it’s not essential, but if you haven’t heard it, you might want to give episode 9 a listen first. We refer to it quite a lot.

Thanks Max for having this idea. It was great to get this off my chest.

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This is Jessie. 

A successful Personal trainer and class instructor with a London marathon medal round her neck. From the outside, she is thriving.  Ask Jessie though and you’ll get a different answer. She massively suffers from imposter syndrome, something that ordinarily would hold people back from making bold decisions, like leaving a well paid salary job to pursue a self employed career is a courageous step, then attacking that new career with positivity and hard work, whist also taking on the biggest physical challenge ever is something special. But to do all of that whilst constantly battling with self doubt is why this conversation is worth listening to. 

Thanks to Jessie for a great episode.

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Gary has had two lives. One as a rockstar, one as an inspirational gym member.

In this episode we will here about Gary’s phenomenal life story. He is one of the most accredited keyboard players that ever lived, working with bands like the Beegees. 

A few years ago, he got Guillan-Barre syndrome. A rare disorder in which your body’s immune system attacks your nerves meaning not only was he not able to play the keys, he was paralyzed from the neck down.  

This is a must listen!! You’ll hear how his determination and drive have got him back on stage again.

FEEL FIT. LOVE LIFE.

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