Elle Blackwell - Fitness & Health

26/08/2026

YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO. 🍰

A lot of my new clients are surprised at how much food and variety they can have.

A meal plan is great as it gives you structure while you learn and achieve result, ways even better is being able to modify it yourself when you want and choose from thousands of recipes as well as add your own.

You want to have some structure to follow while you learn and build your confidence, but also some autonomy.

We have spots open on the team! DM me COACHING to book your discovery call.

Nutrition coaching | Flexible dieting | Healthy eating | Nutrition education | Meal planning | Body recomposition | Sustainable nutrition

23/07/2026

17/07/2026

Feel like you’re doing all the right things and just not getting anywhere?

After 20 years in the fitness industry and working with thousands of humans, here are a handful of the things I see coming up regularly when I sit down to chat with a new client.

Your body is an incredible machine, but you also need tooon after it and care for it if you want it to function at its best, and if you want to see results.

Whether the results are fat loss, increase muscle, grow strong, run fast, perform better…. These lifestyle factors will have an impact on how fast, or if .. you are able to reach your goals.

26/06/2026

Meal Plans or Macros? What actually matters….💁🏼‍♀️

This is a common question I get, and the honest answer is simple:

It depends on the person.

Nutrition isn’t one-size-fits-all. There is only what you can actually adhere to consistently.

Some people need structure.
Clear meals. No decision fatigue. A plan they can follow while they learn, build habits and confidence, and nutrition awareness.

Some people need flexibility.
Macros, autonomy and the freedom to build their own meals without feeling boxed in.

And some people sit in the middle.
Meal plan during the week. Tracking on weekends. Hybrid systems depending on season of life and goals.

Even as a coach and someone who has competed for over a decade, I still use a meal plan at times because it suits my workload and mental bandwidth.

Not because I “can’t track.”
Because I choose efficiency when I need it.

The goal is to pick the tool that supports your consistency.

If you’re unsure where you sit, that’s exactly what coaching is for.

Come for a chat 😊 Book in your free consult with me via the link in my bio.

Nutrition education | meal plans | tracking macros | health focused nutrition

24/06/2026

Before you slash calories or start blaming your metabolism, check the basics.

Most fat loss plateaus aren’t true plateaus at all.

Tracking has become a little loose.
Steps have dropped.
Sleep has taken a hit.
Weekends are undoing weekdays.
Or you’re simply not in the calorie deficit you think you are.

Swipe through and audit the foundations before you assume fat loss has stalled. The answers are usually hiding in the boring stuff. 👀

Have you been tracking accurately, food and drinks?

Are you weighing your portions accurately or guesstimating?

Are you ok track all week, but let go completely on the weekend? The weekend makes up almost 30% of your week, and what you do on these days counts.

Have you been moving less than normal?

How has your sleep quantity and quality been?

Have you been slipping into any behaviours that impact this?

Check your unmanaged stress.

Stress makes it harder to sleep, recover, and also makes it more challenging to stick to your plan.

Are you actually in a deficit?

Many people simply don’t do the basics well for long enough. Frequent weeks where you’re eating out of a deficit, moving less, can cause results to keep stalling as well.

There can be so many reasons why the scale fluctuates. It’s a good idea to be measuring by other metrics too such as measurements, how your clothes feel, how your body feels, your photos, your strength changes.

It’s also a good idea to make sure you have covered all of your metrics and are hitting your targets before rushing into dropping calories or making emotion driven changes to your plan based off only one or two weeks of numbers

Go back and check the basics before you make drastic changes.

Book your consult call with me via the link in my bio.

12/06/2026

How many times have you said “I need to start doing XYZ next week.” … “I just need to be better at XYZ.”
Only to keep running into the same road block every week?

There’s knowing what you need to do better at, then there’s knowing what is getting in the way and having some actions to address it.

Identify why it keeps happening. What are the friction points? Then, problem solve it, what can we put in place to make it work?

Most people know what it is they need to do, but don’t know how to implement it.

This is an exercise I get my clients to do to help them resolve the friction points.


Sticking to your program fitness mindset fitness coaching

10/06/2026

Does achieving your goals feel so complicated sometimes?

You don’t need a flashy program, an extreme diet, or the latest TikTok routine. The boring basics are what actually work. Simple habits, done consistently and for long enough, are what drive results and, more importantly, make them sustainable.

I know. Not very sexy. But you want to put something in place that you’re actually going to be able to sustain forever.

✔️ Lift weights 2 - 3 x a week - build a program that allows you to train hard, but also gives you the ability to actually recover from your sessions

✔️ Eat enough - protein, real food, fuel. If you’re under eating, you’re going to be constantly exhausted, underperforming in the gym, and leaving progress on the table

✔️ Sleep - because poor sleep impacts your cravings, energy, recovery and overall health

✔️ Manage stress - chronic stress keeps your body in a “fight or flight” state, which can increase cravings, disrupt sleep, slow recovery, and make fat loss and muscle gain harder than it needs to be

✔️ Stay consistent - even imperfect consistency beats a perfect program you can’t actually stick to. Months is where the change lives. Consistency looks like showing up most of the time, even when motivation is low, or life is messy.

Ideally, we want to be in a place where these habits aren’t the exception… they’re the rule.

The results you’re looking for aren’t hiding behind something more complicated. They’re usually found in doing the simple things well, over and over again, until they become part of how you live.

🔗 Book your free consult via the link in bio to chat about how we can simplify your week and hit your goals.

08/06/2026

If you want a successful competition prep, it starts way before you ever step on stage. It starts in your off-season.

One of the most common mistakes I see from first-time competitors to returning athletes, is going into their lead in or prep without a proper off-season or build season, or foundation season first. No real building phase, not enough food, not enough muscle. Then wondering why the package isn’t improving.

I’ve had athletes come in to an initial consult wanting to hit a prep straight away … without enough muscle, without enough calories, or without having solid foundations in place - some of them come from other coaches who have said the same thing, and they’re dissapointed when I tell them they need more time. But to me, my integrity, and your health will always be far more important to me than bums in seats.

A good off-season looks like this:

🏋🏼‍♀️ Eating at maintenance calories or in a slight surplus
🏋🏼‍♀️ Training with the goal of actually building quality muscle
🏋🏼‍♀️ Sitting at a healthy body fat — not stage lean, but not excessive either
🏋🏼‍♀️ Progressive, and intentional
🏋🏼‍♀️ Coming into prep on the healthiest amount of calories possible
🏋🏼‍♀️ Prioritising recovery
🏋🏼‍♀️ Building skills and learning how to have a balanced approach towards this lifestyle (at every opportunity)

This applies whether it’s your first prep or your tenth. The off-season is where the important work happens, and it’s what separates athletes who thrive in prep from those who struggle through it.

Come in with muscle on your frame, food on your plate, and a body and mind that are ready to work. 🏆