Gillian'S Profile
I was late bloomer as far as exercising goes, I didn’t grow up in a family that was sporty or encouraged physical activity, in fact even now must of my family think I am totally insane. Eating was quite a regular pass time in my family big family meals were you weren’t allowed to leave the table till your plate was cleared.
What changed I hear you asking, well I had a baby rather a big baby for my petite size and bless him he did a little damage to the back in delivery.
The damage was so severe that I had to have physio to learn to walk properly, I then made a decision that I could do one of two things I could stay home immobile and let my back pain dictate what I could do or I could take control manage the pain and get on with my life.
So I joined a gym and started exercising not really knowing what I was doing but I was moving, I went on to have a second child who was delivered without any trauma of the first one and this was put down to the fact that I was a regular exerciser.
I continued to exercise on a regular basis at the gym, and then when I was 40 I set a goal I was going to run the Great North run. So I got myself a personal trainer, that’s when exercise got serious for me.
I completed the run in 2004 and started to retrain as a Personal Trainer, 2006 I was a fully qualified Personal trainer I was teaching 11 aerobic classes a week and still running. By 2010 by back was starting to trouble me again the pain when I STOPPED moving was horrendous sitting & sleeping was uncomfortable.
So I took a course in exercise for the management of lower back pain and retrained in Modern Pilates, doing the back and core exercises as enabled me to manage my back pain
What changed I hear you asking, well I had a baby rather a big baby for my petite size and bless him he did a little damage to the back in delivery.
The damage was so severe that I had to have physio to learn to walk properly, I then made a decision that I could do one of two things I could stay home immobile and let my back pain dictate what I could do or I could take control manage the pain and get on with my life.
So I joined a gym and started exercising not really knowing what I was doing but I was moving, I went on to have a second child who was delivered without any trauma of the first one and this was put down to the fact that I was a regular exerciser.
I continued to exercise on a regular basis at the gym, and then when I was 40 I set a goal I was going to run the Great North run. So I got myself a personal trainer, that’s when exercise got serious for me.
I completed the run in 2004 and started to retrain as a Personal Trainer, 2006 I was a fully qualified Personal trainer I was teaching 11 aerobic classes a week and still running. By 2010 by back was starting to trouble me again the pain when I STOPPED moving was horrendous sitting & sleeping was uncomfortable.
So I took a course in exercise for the management of lower back pain and retrained in Modern Pilates, doing the back and core exercises as enabled me to manage my back pain