Welcome!

I have decided to write my own blog. Not only will I be posting health and fitness tips and recipes but also my own experiences. Recently, I have been listening to more podcasts and feel more generally motivated to push myself and my business. Now enough about the boring stuff here is a little about me!

(This is me lol feel like a bit of catfish as I'm sat here writing this in my PJ's)

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I know everyone always has an interesting tale about how they got into fitness but mine is quite boring. In truth I've always worked out, from being 5 I went dancing until the age of 17, to joining my parents at outdoor boot-camp's and eventually joining a gym at 14.

I did okay at high school but looking back I realise I sort of fit in just to get through it, I didn't really develop my own personality. I knew leaving high school I didn't really want to go to college but without anything else grabbing my attention I soon realised that would be my path. At college I studied English combined, Sociology and Psychology. Throughout college I made some really good friends and even though it was only 2 years they weren't the most enjoyable. However, I learnt a lot about adult life and how lonely it can be (getting a bit real).

Now skip forward to leaving college in 2019 I had no idea what I wanted to do but I knew I definitely did not want to go to university. Personally, for me I knew the only reason I would go to Uni would be for the lifestyle and not the actual degree and the thought of wasting all that money didn't appeal to me. Towards the end of college I decided to study beauty and fancied myself an up and coming beautician. I went as far as enrolling myself into beauty school and paid the deposit...Until one day I thought to myself why am I doing beauty, what of it appeals to me? The honest answer, the money I thought with all the new beauty trends like permanent makeup I could make some money in this career. And while that may have been true I wanted to do something I loved or at least enjoyed.

What do I love? I love going to the gym and the gym environment. Just like that I knew I wanted to pursue a career in fitness.

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Fast-forward to today and I'm 19 with my own business currently employed by a gym and registered as self employed. I recently had a bit of a meltdown about when my apprenticeship ends and I am going fully self employed at such a young age.

However, I think about all I have achieved in just ONE year of business. I have started an apprenticeship, grown my confidence within working in a gym and conversing with people, acquired amazing clients, started Annie Fitness, developed my social media, brought out clothing merch for my brand, started doing park sessions due to Covid-19 and published my website. And there's no signs of me stopping, I'm constantly looking at how I can improve my brand and give elevated service.

Now when I look at it like that, I'm hugely proud of myself. However, I think we can all agree lockdowns have been getting to us all. I think especially in this 3rd lockdown I have found it especially hard. I had no motivation to do anything and was just chugging along really. Recently, I have started listening to podcasts in my spare time and downloading organizer apps to get me in gear. I have evaluated my goals and realised I no longer want what I used to, so my workouts have changed along with my mindset to fitness. Even though I work within the industry I still find it challenging sometimes.

I think that was the whole reason why I decided to start this whole blog thing. I have always loved reading and just English in general, I remember writing my own story on my mums laptop when I was younger (I have gone back and read it. Believe me when I tell you it is absolutely awful). So not only am I going to use this as an outlet for expressing myself but to try and help people gain a bigger insight into the health and fitness industry. Together we are going to learn along the way so I hope you carry on taking the time to read these as I have actually really enjoyed writing.

Thanks for reading!

Annie