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Looking forward to another week of STRENGTHENING on the Her Strength Platform 💪🏼 with the Live series of Workouts I coach you through (or catch up anytime on-demand)

FREE ⬆️Your Fitness Schedule for this week⬆️: Each week I coach you through 3 x LIVE 30min Workouts (which you can then access anytime on demand), in my “ABCs of FITNESS” series 💪🏼

This is to help you get ✅EVERYTHING DONE each week when it comes to your strength & fitness training. Ensuring you:
☑️strengthen the whole body in a balanced way
☑️improve core strength & stability
☑️increase your cardio fitness 🙌🏼

💥No distractions! Just EFFECTIVE, EMPOWERING, ENERGISING & EXPERTLY COACHED workouts….
🙋‍♀️This is for BUSY WOMEN / BUSY MUMS who want to just get their fitness done & get on with their day - without it feeling overwhelming.

The ABCs of FITNESS schedule is:
💪🏼Workout A - “A”rms & Upper Body Strength
💪🏼Workout B - “B”uild that “B”ase - Lower Body Strength
💪🏼Workout C - “C”ore & “C”ardio

✅If you’re doing the ABCs of Fitness each week, you’re doing everything you need to be doing each week when it comes to your strength & fitness training 🙌🏼

🌟You can join with your first week completely FREE to trial my platform… as a member you not only get the ABCs of Fitness 3 x 30min live/on-demand workouts each week, but you ALSO get full & unlimited access to the whole of the Her Strength Platform:
✔️300+ workouts from 10-60mins
✔️8 x Structured workout plans from 3-12weeks

➡️Head to the L!nk !n my B|0 for your FREE week

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We’re recruiting Self Employed Female PTs to join our Her Strength Team with opportunities in the Guildford area.

Please get in touch - send us a DM or email: [email protected]

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⭐️ Her Strength is Hiring ⭐️ (One for our local followers)
We’re seeking a female PT to join our team as Her Strength continues to grow. Competent to teach exercise classes. Training provided.

Interested? Let’s talk more: drop us an email with your CV to [email protected]

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🩷⚡️Feel Good fitness reminders to get after this week:

💪🏼Workouts which leave you feeling ENERGISED not exhausted!
💥 Exercise which floods you with ENDORPHINS!
🏋️‍♀️ Weights which are APPROPRIATELY CHALLENGING
⚡️Workouts of the right duration to be effective but not onerous
✨Coaching that’s POSITIVE & EMPOWERING
💥Expertly programmed workouts rather than random exercises
🔑Consistency

Looking forward to launching into another week with the Her Strength community 🫶🏼🫶🏼

✔️Join the hundreds of busy women getting stronger with time & cost effective on-demand workouts & workout plans 🔗herstrength.co.uk
🔗in B!0 for 7 day FREE trial

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Blue Monday? Quitter’s Day? It might be, but only if you let it!
You have the power to decide if you stick with things or give up…
☀️Your workouts or other wellness habits should ultimately help you feel bright, not blue.
❗️However that doesn’t mean it’s always going to be easy, sometimes you do have to dig deep. But it shouldn’t feel absolutely onerous.
🤔However, if your workouts or other wellness habits are feeling so awful that you can’t stick with them, perhaps you’ve tried to do too much too soon.
✔️Please ensure you’re taking it step-by-step, meeting yourself where you’re at & doing workouts which are appropriately challenging for you.

Having said that, bring on Spring! These sub-zero temperatures aren’t fun! Counting on my workouts to stoke my furnace each day 🔥

💥Happy New Year 2024 💥Make 2024 the year you ➡️Prioritise your Strength Training⬅️…. You will create time for what is a priority for you. 💫

Make 2024 the year you commit to being consistent with your strengthening workouts. 💪🏼

Make 2024 the year you get Strong 💪🏼

❌Not for the short term - not for a 6 week or 12 week transformation, (not even just for 2024!)
✔️But finally fully commit to the process of consistently strength training 2-5 times per week. (Depending on starting point/ time considerations etc).

👌🏼2024 can be the start or the re-confirmation of you future-proofing your body (&mind) through strength training.

🤩I’m so excited to be working with so many of you as PT-clients, at my Strength Camp classes & online at Her Strength OnDemand.

2024 - we’re coming for you 💥👊🏼

🥇 Thrilled to have been awarded the “Best Personal Training & Wellness Company” in Guildford 2023

💫I strive to bring you the highest quality, female-focussed personal training & strength coaching.

Helping my clients & members…
💥become stronger
⚡️feel more confident
🔥become empowered through strength training
… is why I do what I do….

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💪🏼 Via my online platform Her Strength On Demand.
💪🏼In my private gym studio with my PT clients & small groups
💪🏼At the Strength Camp classes I run for larger groups

💥What a way to see out the year!
😬Self-promotion on these squares always feels a bit awkward & icky for me, but sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself a little pat-on-the-back 😌

Bring on 2024, I can’t wait to help you get Strong, Stronger & the Strongest you’ve ever been 💥👊🏼

Start your 2024 Strong 💪🏼 ⭐️Strength Camp | Bramley⭐️
Here ⬆️ are all the details for the Spring Term classes. Starting WB 8th Jan 2024. (Indoors 🙌🏼)

🔸Early bird discount available🔸
💫Please share with your local friends💫

If you’re local and you want to:
☑️Build Strength

☑️Build confidence

☑️Support your bones & joints

☑️Strengthen your core

☑️Improve your posture

☑️Become more mobile

☑️Get fitter

☑️Build a bit of muscle

☑️Condition the body for Skiing this season⛷️

☑️Support your other activities will all-important strength 🏃‍♀️🧘‍♀️ 🚴🏼‍♀️

☑️Learn good effective technique in a female-focussed way

☑️Join a lovely group of likeminded women

☑️Avoid all the cliches of regular bootcamps!

💥Then book your place in Strength Camp, Bramley class:
⚡️Wednesdays 8.30-9.30
⚡️Sundays 8.30-9.30

🔗More info & book your place at the link in my bio🔗

🔸Places limited so book early to avoid disappointment

💫Please share with your local friends💫

⭐️Strength Camp | Bramley ⭐️ here ⬆️ are all the details for my upcoming Strength Camp at St. Catherine’s school, Bramley. Starting in September.

✨Please share with your local friends✨

If you’re local & you want to:
☑️Build strength
☑️Support your joints
☑️Strengthen your core
☑️Improve your posture
☑️Become more mobile
☑️Get fitter
☑️Build muscle (“tone up” or “sculpt” the body
☑️Be conditioned for SKIING this season 🎿
☑️Join a group of lovely, likeminded women
☑️Learn good, effective technique
☑️Avoid all the cliches of regular bootcamps!

💥Then book your place on my Strength Camp, Bramley. 💥💪🏼

🔗More info & book your place at the link in my bio 🔗

Look forward to seeing you there 😇

✨Please share with your local friends✨

Inspired by ‘s brilliant article in this weekend with my husband’s ( ) torso front & centre …. I thought I’d dissect the article & let you know what are his secrets to his “CEO body” in his 50s alongside a high-powered job, long working hours, a heavy/stressful workload & 4 kids!
How can the non-billionaire achieve this.

⭐️One to SHARE with your menfolk⭐️

… Darren swears by many of the tactics mentions the billionaires use… (& he’s been living by these rules for decades!) Let’s break it down ⬇️

☑️Lift heavy weights often - He strength trains 5-6days per week. Important to keep testosterone, human-growth-hormone (& libido 🫣)levels up, combat sarcopenia & reduce stress.
Darren says:
➡️schedule your workout as a priority appointment, have a plan, get in & get it done without distractions - 45mins & give maximum effort when you train.
➡️Focus on: pull ups, chest press, shoulder press, pull overs, bicep curls, rows, press ups, deadlifts, squats & lunges

☑️Prioritise protein, pack in plants & intermittent fasting approach - that’s how he eats. He eats close to 2g protein per kg body weight each day to support the muscle recovery & growth from his training, includes a diverse plant intake of veggies, salads, fruit, pulses etc & doesn’t eat between 7pm & around 9-10am giving a fasting period of about 14-15hrs overnight.

☑️Caffeine & creatine. Darren just has a strong espresso as a “pre-workout” and the only supplement he takes is Creatine

☑️Minimal alcohol / loads of H20 - gone are the days of boozy lunches - because he wants to perform at a high level Darren keeps alcohol to an absolute minimum & glugs water like there’s no tomorrow.

☑️Get competitive - it may not be the Highland Kings Ultra of the billionaires but Darren enters a fitness challenge/ competition each year to give his training drive & focus & take him out of his comfort zone.

☑️Recovery is prioritised through good nutrition, sleep & mobility/stretching - it’s not quite the ice baths & saunas of the billionaires, but it works.

Keep it uncomplicated. Do it forever.

🙏🏼Tag & Share with friends & the men in your life.

Rest in Peace, Your Majesty, our Queen Elizabeth II
My thoughts are with the Royal Family and all who loved you.
Thank you for you service ❤️

Thank you for including my expertise as a PT to help explain how we can move mindfully and effectively work our muscles while doing the household chores.

👌🏼This not only helps us brace the body safely while moving (no more tweaking your back while making the bed!) but can also help us introduce some more meaningful physical activity to our day by treating our household tasks as exercise snacks.

❗️NB… this advice is not reserved for women - ALL people should be doing their fair share of chores around the house 🙌🏼

⭐️In life there are essentially 2 places in which we inhabit - our bodies and our homes - and it serves us best to care for & look after them both, so why not combine the two 🫀🏡

Thank you &

Heading off on holidays but don't want to abandon your regular fitness routine. Thanks to Lucinda at Her Strength , you don't have to. Lucinda's online classes and workout programmes cater for everyone – from beginners to seasoned fitness fans – and allow you to workout anywhere and anytime using minimal fitness equipment. You'll also find bitesize workouts on her Instagram page. https://bit.ly/3ONzhDo

Mallorca - we made it ☀️🇪🇸 Please excuse the holiday spam! It’s been 3 years since we’ve been back to our happy place. (Swipe to see the happy little photobomber from the first pic!)

💪🏼Fitness content coming…🔥
I’ll be sharing with you some ideas of how to stay active on hols with ideas of workouts & exercises you can do in the coming days.

😎The first day, however is all about reconnecting with my hubby & girls without the pressures of home & work, soaking up the surroundings & recuperating from a 2.15am wake up! 😳
(Fortunately things were seamless for us with so I hope that gives you hope for smooth sailing with your Summer getaways too)

Happy Sunday gorgeous gang, just wanted to say thank you for all your lovely caring & kind messages from my stories yesterday 🥰 that really means a lot to me.

Aiming for a chilled Sunday, save for a couple of Mum’s-taxi-runs!!

🤗Hope you have a lovely day planned - getting active, or not if you need rest, eating nourishing food, or not if you fancy some delicious treats, recuperating or socialising …. Or maybe all of the above ❤️

Take care & have a wonderful Sunday 🥰

Happy Monday gorgeous gang. Does anyone else feel like they’ve landed with a bump after half term? 🙋‍♀️🤯
How did the first day back go for you?

It was definitely a case of hitting the ground running today!

What helped? Strong coffee of course & a strengthening workout 💪🏼 Now you know I *would* say that, but seriously once the workout is done & the stretches are through I feel clear & energised, ready to take on the rest of the day⚡️

💪🏼Today you get another new whole body strength workout for the Summer Strength & Fitness Challenge at Her Strength On Demand 🔗7 day Free Trial at link in bio🔗

How do your workouts affect how you approach the rest of your day?

Very excited to get going with another week of EFFECTIVE, STRENGTHENING HOME WORKOUTS 💥👊🏼

🙌🏼Have you joined in with my Summer Strength & Fitness Challenge yet? 🔗Link in bio to start today for FREE🔗

You get:
⚡️ 5 x real-time on-demand workouts each week:
⚡️3 x whole body strength workouts
⚡️1 x abs & core workout
⚡️1 x cardio hiit workout
⭐️EXPERT COACHING, Guidance & positive encouragement throughout
⭐️Workouts 30-45mins
⭐️Warm up & stretch out included
⭐️Suitable for all - Exercise progressions & regressions given
⭐️Coach support
⭐️Accountability / progress tracker
⭐️Just dumbbells, mini loop band & step needed (sturdy chair/bench/sofa will do)

And as if that wasn’t enough you ALSO get:
💫FULL access to 230+ workouts in a searchable workout library
💫7 x structured workout programs to follow to reduce decision fatigue
💫 2 x beginner specific workout programs to build the little & often fitness habit
💫10-60min workouts
… and so much more.

🙋‍♀️If you’re looking to include some strength training in to your schedule & not sure where to start➡️ 🔗tap that ink in my bio & join us at Her Strength On Demand with a 7 day FREE trial 🔗

Happy Jubilee Everybody 👑 🇬🇧 I hope you’re doing something “fit for a queen” to celebrate this weekend - whether that’s actually “fit”ness based -or not.

❤️I hope you get the chance to relax & switch off this weekend, to move your body in a way which you enjoy, to enjoy some delicious food & to spend time with those you love.

We’ll be wetsuiting-up & jumping over giant inflatables in Tapnell Farm Water Park 😂

⭐️Have a wonderful start to the bank holiday weekend.

Please vote for me 🙏🏼🥰 I’m thrilled to be nominated in the awards for best Fitness Instructor in Surrey. This is the award I won last year and it makes all the difference to a small business 🏆

Your nomination would mean the world to me 🙏🏼
➡️Click link in my bio
➡️Get your unique voting link
➡️Nominate “Her Strength” in the best “Fitness Instructor” Category - based in Guildford/Surrey.
(Takes less than a minute 😇)

The top 5 with the most nominations make it through to the finals 🫣🤞🏼

⭐️It is perfectly great to be training for a million brilliant reasons which have nothing to do with changing your aesthetics.
⭐️It is also perfectly great to be training for a million reasons which have nothing to do with a particular physical challenge.

➡️For the majority of incredibly busy women & mums I work with, setting and adhering to a “SMART” goal is an added pressure they could do without in most instances!

📣This is - of course - not to say that smart goals or training for a physical challenge or even a change in physique are ‘inherently’ bad - that is not what I’m saying 📣

🙌🏼There are just so many other reasons (listed in the slide) to train which are quite difficult to quantify yet come with tremendous benefits, it’s also great just to seek a little improvement in all areas over time 👍🏼

This post is based on a chat with a client of mine - she told a group of friends she has PT & they immediately wanted to know her goals & what she’s hoping to get out of it.
One of these friends had seen a PT before to chase a particular goal - she reached that goal & stopped training! 🤦🏼‍♀️🫣

For most of my clients their training is just part of the puzzle of self care ensuring they are looking after their physical body so it is strong, fit, capable & functional as part of a healthy, active, forever-lifestyle.
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You know, it need not be more complicated than that!

❔What do you think? Do you have a specific goal? Or do you train for general health & fitness benefits such as those listed in the slide?
🤗Let me know in the comments 💜

🤩Super Proud of all the amazing ladies starting the Summer Term Strength & Fitness challenge today at Her Strength On Demand💪🏼🤩

I’m 3 weeks ahead of you filming the workouts for the challenge & feeling so positive for the past few weeks of consistent, strengthening workouts 💪🏼
(Even as a trainer consistency can slip sometimes 🙃)

✔️So having a plan in place & an effective & gradually progressing program to follow is helping me stay motivated & carve out that time for me to work on strength & fitness. Feeling stronger & fitter already 💪🏼

⭐️There’s so many unquantifiable benefits of training and I can’t wait for you to be experiencing them too as you continue through the program:
💫More energised
💫Better sleep
💫Mentally stronger & more robust
💫Better wife & mother as I’m just a nicer person to be around when I’m training regularly
💫More positive outlook on life in general
💫More productive in other areas of life
💫Less stressed
…
Definitely not an exhaustive list 😊

Do you find similar? What are the best unquantifiable by-products of regular exercise for you?

It’s not too late to join in with the Summer Term Strength & Fitness Challenge ➡️ if you’re looking for an easy to follow, effective & expertly coached, on-demand programme of home-workouts then hit that 🔗Link in my bio for all the details 🔗 and join us today.

What an end to a wonderful weekend to be featured by /

Swipe along to see the profiling piece all about “My Strong Habits”.
With some simple strategies I swear by to keep going with my strength & fitness 💪🏼.

Huge thank you’s to 💜

Nourishing the soul || 💆🏼‍♀️You know how I say that fitness is just ONE part of the puzzle of our duty of care towards ourselves….
Please do bear this in mind this Easter bank holiday weekend 🐣

There I was thinking I’d get loads of work-ey things done with all this time away from the regular schedule….

But it seems what I needed was to nourish my soul with all the goodness that a long weekend can offer - have to remind myself these public holidays are there so we really do take a step away from work!

☀️Make the most of the sunshine

🥰Enjoy being present with your loved ones

🚙Visit somewhere you love or somewhere new

🌸Get out in nature

🍫Enjoy the delicious Easter food

🥱Catch up on rest

👌🏼Get an early night or stay up late chatting with your loved ones

🏃‍♀️Workout if you fancy it, have a few days off if you fancy it

… regular life along with its usual schedule will resume soon enough so, if you can, do what you can to nourish the soul this weekend 💜

Hi 👋🏼 I’m Lucinda - it seems I needed a full 7 days off posting 😱 so wanted to say a big WELCOME 🥰to my page if you’re new & THANK YOU for following me whether you’re new or a long term follower 🙏🏼

Here’s a little summary of what you’ll find here & a little bit about me & what I offer you:

⭐️Im a full time working mum with 3 daughters 13, 10 & 7.

🌟Qualified Personal Trainer with 12+yrs experience.

⭐️My Passion & focus is on helping women mid-30s & beyond - when we are in the “rush hour of life” become stronger & fitter, and put themselves back on the priority list.

🌟I encourage you to think about fitness/exercise as part of the “duty of care” towards yourself, not as a tool solely to shrink yourself!

⭐️I coach my PT clients and members of “Her Strength On-Demand” -where you can train with me online- by drawing together my multi-discipline experience in Strength & Conditioning, Pilates and Pre&Post Natal training.

🌟I’m a huge advocate for strength-based training for women for SO many reasons (too many to list here) and I coach you to become stronger, fitter, more mobile, more functional, improve balanced & co-ordination, posture, stability, core function etc through the workouts I offer.

⭐️I’m big on technique & building the skill behind the training (nothing should be done in a slap-dash way for it to be effective) so you’ll find I truly *coach* you through each exercise so you can MOVE with confidence, IMPROVE over time & BENEFIT from the exercise you’re doing in an effective & safe way.

🌟On these squares I share workouts you can save & have a go at, inspire you to move & fit it your fitness, and also to practice that “duty of care” towards yourself - not just through exercise - but in a holistic way 💜

💪🏼You can workout with me by signing up to:
💫Her Strength On-Demand membership
Or -
💫One of my stand-alone (non-subscription) structured workout programs:
⭐️Thrive in 5 programs
⭐️3 week strength & Fitness (re)start
⭐️30 day x 15min low-impact challenge
🔗See links in bio for more info🔗

I’d love to know more about YOU💜 what does life look like for you? what do you find helpful on my page?