Judy

1.    How was your health and fitness before you joined Vision?

Pretty ordinary. I wasn’t ill much or totally unfit but I certainly wasn’t exercising deliberately or eating properly.

2.    Tell me about your recent training (the highlight of it)?

My recent training has been interrupted by holidays but the highlight has been coming back and being able to train for an hour when I thought I might not be able to do that.

3.    What results have you achieved lately?

I have become fitter and stronger over my time at Vision and in the last four-and-a-half years I have lost 20 kilos. Lately I have persevered even though I have now been diagnosed with a condition that affects my daily health and haven’t wanted to train. I have had incredible support from my personal trainer Lexi Allston Teague who always encourages me rather than complaining about my shortcomings! She is kind and empathetic (and fun!) while making sure I work to my capacity and that’s what I want in a trainer.

4.    What would you tell someone who is thinking about joining Vision?

I would say that I have been to many gyms over many years – decades even – and have never been able to persist with the training regime, partly because I never rarely felt at home with the gym or the personal trainers I had. At Vision, where I have been attending for going on 8 years now, the trainers have been amazing – knowledgeable and well trained themselves, friendly, encouraging, optimistic and realistic at the same time, and they all know my name, whether they have been my personal trainer or not. I call it a “big T-shirt rather than a lycra and fashionwear gym” and it feels much more like a relaxed community than a business. I still go twice a week when my health allows (which is almost all the time now) and will continue to do so until I can’t anymore. I would encourage anyone looking for a gym where they will feel at home and see progress they can measure to go to Vision.