Performance & Wellness with Rach

We give the number on the scales way too much power.

It goes down? Great week. Everything’s working. 🤣
It doesn’t move and suddenly we’re questioning everything and wondering what‘s the point.

But there is so much more happening that we completely gloss over.

Are you stronger than you were 6 weeks ago?

Are you lifting weights you couldn’t lift before?

Is your technique better?

Are you showing up consistently instead of missing one session and writing off the rest of the week?

Do you walk into the gym now knowing what you’re doing instead of feeling completely out of your depth?

Are your clothes fitting differently? Are you noticing more muscle? Is your body changing even though the scales haven’t moved much?

That is all progress.

Which is why I’m always banging on about looking at the bigger picture.

The scales are useful.

But they are one piece of data.

They don’t dictate whether you’re making progress or not.

So if you’re putting in the work and think nothing is happening because the scales aren’t doing what you want them to…

LOOK AGAIN.

There’s a lot more happening than you’re giving yourself credit for.

10 things you prob don’t know about me…

1. I am an absolute control freak.
I’m very aware of it and it’s def a work in progress 🤣

2. Spotify classes my music taste as “Trash Rock”.
Which, to be fair, probably describes me pretty well too.

3. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a vet.
I LOVE animals, esp dogs.

4. I have “Amor fati” tattooed on my neck which means “love your fate” not just accepting the good and bad things that happens in your life, but embracing all of it because it makes you who you are.

5. I LOVE sucking at new things.
There’s just something about being a beginner and slowly figuring something out.

6. My 11 year old son was a twin in utero, but he absorbed the other twin really early on. There are days where I wish i did have four kids… but it’s short lived 😅

7. I lost 32kg before I ever became a PT.
I didn’t grow up being “the fit one” there was a whole other version of me before this one that would really shock you.

8. I’m ridiculously competitive with myself.
My expectations of myself are extremely high, sometimes probably too high. I don’t care what the person next to me is doing, but different story when it’s me v me.

9. I hate running with a passion.
The only time I run is when I’m messed up in the head and need to sort my sh*t out. So if you ever see me out running… check on me because I am not ok. 🤣

10. My brain never stops.
Even when I’m relaxing, I’m thinking about another project, idea, business change or random thing that needs investigating.
I don’t know how to sit and do nothing and it’s bloody exhausting!

So there you go… this probably explains a lot. 😂