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Have you been gauging the success of your work outs by muscle soreness? 🛑

Common chat among regular lifters and a common sensation felt especially after the holiday period!

Comment below if this post made you feel at ease 👇

While motivation is high let me add to it 🤩 Offering this one off sale to new and existing clients - available for the month of January. Let’s work 💪🏼📈

Up to 80% of people give up on their New Year’s resolution by mid February 🤯

Will you be another statistic?

Iconic Team….Iconic Hill….Iconic Winery

Greatful for this bunch 🥰

Ange approached me in September looking for guidance in her strength training to specifically help prepare for an International Kata Karate Tournament. With a structured strength plan working around a knee injury she began noticing the benefits in her practice and some visual gains too 🍑😉

Being the hard working woman she is Ange signed herself up to a local Shred Challenge on the eve of a 3 week trip to Japan for the International Kata Tournament. She had a great support crew through the challenge with the added motivation in group fitness classes. We continued and amped up the strength training and fine tuned her Paleo styled eating plan. Gaining muscle and dropping fat was the goal.

While she struggled with the concept of eating more to get shredded, she asked questions I answered and she trusted the process-much appreciated 🙏😉

The Kata Tournament in Japan 🇯🇵 was a success taking home 6th Equal on the International Stage!

And Ange got shredded in the meantime:
-lost 5 kg of fat that’s 11 pounds off butter 🧈
-decreased her body fat percentage from 26-18%
-decreased her biological age from 40-36
-she maintained and gained 1 kg of muscle mass

In the short time period we had these results are phenomenal!

An absolute pleasure being apart of your journey Ange. Your achievements and work ethic is admirable, I’m excited for what’s next 😎💪🏼

🍑Glute Transformation 🍑

Year upon year you surpass our expectations.

The photos speak for themselves and hopefully inspire others to take progress photos 📸🤳

Eunice has developed positive lifestyle changes and habits that have compounded and created an incredible body composition change.

Your work ethic is admirable I am excited for your next phase of growth 💪🏼

first ICN show in the bank!

Getting married the week before peak week is a tremendous task not many would take on!
You are a worker in all that you do and it showed when you graced the stage!

🥉Runway Model
🥈Fitness Model Novice
🥈Fitness Model Open

You presented a top notch physique in a very competitive line up in the Fitness division.

Pretty sure you would have taken out the most chiseled ab prize if there were one 😉

It’s a pleasure working with you my friend. Excited to see what you conquer next 📈🏆

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Congratulations on another successful prep. Taking out first place in Runway Model for the second year in a row at the ICN Hawkes Bay Championships. Your stage presence is phenomenal 🤩

You continue to evolve year after year as your passion for the sport grows.

You are a pleasure to work worth, following the process step by step with no complaints.

Excited to see what more you can achieve 💪🏼🏆

🟣 Body Recomposition 🟣

has worked hard over her off season to build and shape her bikini physique for the upcoming local show on the 12th August.

She’s consistent, dedicated and disciplined the attributes required for the sport of bodybuilding and more often then not these attributes transfer into other areas of life.

7 weeks till show time 🤩✨🎆 📈

you have transformed your lifestyle and the results speak for themselves 🤩💪🏼

You have worked hard, developed a steady routine and consistency has prevailed 👏

Super proud of you 🎉🥳🙌

Grateful for this opportunity 🙏

Here to help in anyway I can. Come on down for a chat a catch up or a de-stress session in the gym 💪🏼

Starting Thursday 23rd February 2023

As a mother, mother to be, leader, Sister, Aunty, Role Model, Coach or Grandmother how will being strong impact your life?

Imagine you are planning a trip of a life time to a far away destination you have dreamed of for many years. You have 4 days allocated for the trip and unlimited spend once you arrive. One day travel there and back and 2 days at your leisure to do as you please. How will you spend those 2 days? Are you imaging all the things you want to see, do, and eat at your destination? How will you do everything in so little time? Maybe you pull out your phone and start scheduling in time allocations for each desired activity. Or maybe you plan to wing it and hope you get through as much as you can. Which method will get you through the most activities?

The Pilot of the Boeing 747 you’re travelling on has a navigation system guiding it along the safest, most direct route possible to your destination. How would the Pilot go if there were no navigation system? Where would the plane end up?

How do you approach your health and fitness goals? Are you winging it and hoping for the best? Do you have a destination? Do you have a plan? Do you have a process to measure your progress? Are you measuring progress? Are you progressing?

My Mum used to always use the phase “there are many ways to skin a cat” and in Health and Fitness there absolutely is many ways to attain lasting and sustainable results.

Ultimately having a clear idea on where you’re heading and how you’re going to get there will fast track your journey.

Ready to work, progress and see results?

Lets chat and make a plan ✈️📈💪🏼

Is your pelvis positioning serving you? 🤔

Regardless of what stage of your journey your in, at some point this will be important.

Some signs to look out for:

🔹constant back pain
🔹inability to activate glutes
🔹reacquiring injuries, frequent niggles
🔹instability in squat, deadlift and lunge
🔹Asymmetry in muscular development
🔹dysfunctional pelvic floor (common but often not spoken about)
🔹inability to increase load in strength training

Building on your pelvis awareness will prevent the issues above 👆

Here to help if your keen to master your tilts ⚖️ and bring balance to your bod 😃

♥️Looking to curb your PMS cravings?♥️

⬆️These are my go to products to help curb those darn cravings!

❣️Our bodies are amazing, we are kitted out with all the parts needed for reproduction…and the blessed monthly cycle 🩸

🤷‍♀️Why do get cravings?…..Due to our menstrual cycle our bodies are in constant fluctuation. Estrogen and cortisol are two hormones closely linked. Coming into your period as estrogen rises, cortisol follows suit. As you know cortisol is a stress hormone - with the increase you go into heightened stress mode 😬 and metabolic stimulation which causes a want for foods high in carbs and fat.

🧠feel like the weight of the 🌏 is on your shoulders? Serotonin the “feel good”neurotransmitter is significantly reduced during our cycle and our body is looking for other ways to get it….carbohydrates are used in serotonin production hence the sweet surgery cravings 🍫🍩🍪💝

Hope these help you as they have me 🤗😃

Sweet without the sugar 🤩

This is currently our favourite meal

.theedom has:

✨400g De Winkle
✨1 sachet of Vanilla Berry Aeroplane Jelly
✨2 teaspoons almond butter
✨1 Serve of the Choc Striker whey

has:

✨200g De Winkle
✨1 sachet of Mango Passion Aeroplane Jelly
✨1 teaspoon peanut butter
✨1/2 serve of Pro75 Whey

Mix together and set in the fridge. (We make ours in the morning for meal 6, so it’s nice and set)

Give it a try and let us know what you think 🤩💪🏼

✨Confidence Queen ✨

You worked hard when it mattered and overcame many obstacles the past 7 months!

Happy with the balance we brought to your physique 🤯🍑

Excited for your future 🏅🏅🏅

Keep it up 💪🏼

Outstanding Progress Award 🏆🪩

it blows me away how much you have achieved in such a short amount of time!

Your work ethic and discipline is admirable 🙌🤩💪🏼

Excited for your future girl!

Hawke's Bay's first-ever natural Muscle and Model Championships Inaugural Bay natural bodybuilding champs will take place on July 30 at the Toitoi centre.

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Consistency has prevailed

This young lady has not had it easy along her health and fitness journey!
She has faced many set backs but always pushed through without complaint.
She chose consistency and the results speak for themselves 🙌

What do you choose?

A little Raw a little Real…..

I don’t know about you, but I am defiantly guilty of posting my best photos on here and quickly deleting or never showing what’s real.
In my 10 years of being a Beauty Therapist and now Fitness Professional – Its no secret us ladies are not too keen on this dimply skin.
This photo is taken from a distance with no filter, you can clearly see the blotchy, dimpled cellulite on the backs of my legs, it’s also on my arms and my stomach. I have had it for as long as I can remember but it does seem to worsen as the years pass.

Throughout my career I have seen a lot of bodies clothed and unclothed due to the nature of my work with skin and of course being in the Bodybuilding/Fitness Industry. I have seen 100kg women with no cellulite and I have seen 60kg women with cellulite.

What is and why do so many of us have it?

Good news, it is purely a Cosmetic Condition which effects 80-90% of Women and about 10% of men (they always get off lightly) The motley, dimpled, oatmeal appearance is determined by the integrity of your skins connective tissue (Collagen and Elastin) Imagine an intertwined network of fibers like that of a Persian Rug nice and tight and interwoven. As it ages, stretches and becomes worn the fibers loosen, thin and gaps appear. These gaps are what our balloon like adipose cells seep through causing the lumpy look on our skin.

There are a few factors that can influence cellulite:

✨Genetics: If you notice it on your Mum or close relatives you may have a higher change of developing it.
(My Mum doesn’t t have it)
✨Age: Collagen and Elastin will break down over time which may worsen it.
✨Lifestyle: This is a broad one, but a big one. Sleep, nutrition, stress, hydration and exercise will influence cellulite. Before you start looking for magic pills and potions – Start here- they are controllables
✨Muscle to fat mass Ratio: The more muscle under the skin the smoother it will be. The opposite, less muscle and more soft fat will worsen the appearance.

A gentle reminder to be kind to yourself, pursuing perfection is often unachievable
Lysha xx

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Dedicated, committed and driven!

Always working hard, getting it done on top of running a business!

Love being apart of your journey and watching you evolve 🤩

Anything is possible with a little direction. Girl you have done amazing, ticking away day by day your results show in your smile, your energy and your glow. Keep up the hard work 💪🏼

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