Vertex Performance

CLIENT SPOTLIGHT🔥

NAT✨

Nat has been working with me for 6 months. In this time she has learnt how to fuel her body and has gone from eating very little food 👉🏽increasing her daily intake of good quality foods .

One of her goals was to get leaner, and in this time she has dropped 6.5kg while actually eating more. She’s now prioritising her protein, meeting her daily calories, drinking her water and getting in her steps and her 4 training days over the week!

On top of that, her movement quality has improved and she’s gotten so much stronger and way more confident in the gym!

I couldn’t be any prouder of Nat! She has been a dream to work with and I look forward to more progress from her in the future 🫶🏽

“Hey coach, I don’t think I can train today, my back hurts”.

Here’s the truth.. Pain doesn’t mean you stop training. It means you train smarter!

There is almost always a way to keep moving, even when something hurts. Training around pain isn’t about ignoring your body or “pushing through”. It’s about adjusting variables so you can still show up and make progress without making things worse.

When you’re training around pain, it may mean👇🏽

- Changing the range of motion
- Swapping exercises
- Slowing the tempo
- Reducing load
- Altering grip, stance, or angle
- Training a different pattern entirely

Maybe you can’t squat, but maybe you’re able to hinge. Maybe you can’t press overhead, but maybe you’re able to do incline press.

Movement is often part of the solution, not the problem. The problem in fact comes from doing nothing because it often leads to losing confidence and letting your entire training schedule slip.

You don’t need to be pain-free to train.
You need to be intentional, adaptable, and patient. Sometimes progress isn’t about seeing increases and load/reps, but finding a way to move forward🙌🏽💪🏽

In person clients Nat and Maria who are actually mother and daughter 🥹🥰

While I train these two at seperate times, I definitely see the similarities in their personalities, especially when they’re mid set and dying 😂🤣🤣

Because what coach doesn’t love a message like this 🥹❤️

Extremely grateful for all of my amazing clients giving me the opportunity to help them 🙌🏽

Sundays mean it’s time for a fresh week and opportunity to be the best version of yourself ✌🏽

Just a couple of clients who kill it multiple times a week with me. Their sessions always cross over and this means an opportunity for endless banter 😏🤣🤣. Darrel we’re sorry we do your head in 😂😂😂

Congratulations to team Vertex Performance who competed in their first powerlifting comp!

WHAT A DAY! Recaps to come🤝

CLIENT SPOTLIGHT🔥

Client Caitlin with some insane progress and complete body recomposition over a bit under 3 years. To add the physical change, she’s had a huge glow up in mindset and confidence.

There’s not much to add to this as the pictures speak for themselves!

SO proud of what Caitlin has achieved in this time, and I look forward to what she’ll achieve next. She’s currently 2 weeks out from her first powerlifting comp and is lifting the most weight she’s ever lifted! In fact she just bench pressed 62.5kg this week 🔥

PM CREW✌🏽

Heavy squats 2 days after heavy deadlifts is rough 🤕

2x3 @ 150kg for F**k tonight 🤝

His max squat is 170kg. The goal is to squat 180kg later this year🫡

Little flex with clients Ali and Darrel 💪💪🏾

If you can’t have fun while you’re training, you’re doing it wrong 😋