Heather Pistor Fitness

This is the stuff I bloody love. 😂

Because on paper, this woman was already doing a LOT. She walks. She runs. She plays sport. She's successfully lost weight in the past. She knows how to put effort in.

In fact, she'd spent NINE MONTHS going back to something that had worked for her before and trying to make it work again.

So when she came to me, the last thing I was going to do was look at her life and go...

“Right. Let's eat less and move more.” 🙄

She didn't need more effort. There was plenty of that already. We needed to look at WHERE that effort was going.

And three weeks in, I think her own words say it better than I ever could.

Similar calories.

But more protein. Better balance across her food. Strength training twice a week instead of a couple of times a month.

And perhaps most importantly, learning how to actually TRAIN. Not just completing the exercises. Not just ticking off a workout.

Understanding what weight to choose. How hard those last few reps should feel. When to progress. How to train with enough intention to actually give her body a reason to adapt.

And no, before anyone starts 😂, I'm not suggesting she's built kilos of muscle and transformed her metabolism in three weeks.

We're THREE WEEKS IN.

But after watching the scales head the other way for a long time, they've started to shift. And what excites me far more than that number is what we're building underneath it.

A woman who understands how to fuel herself. Who knows how to strength train properly. And who isn't going to spend the next ten years assuming the answer is always to eat a little less and move a little more.

She didn't need me to make her life harder.

She needed me to make her effort count.

And I reckon we're off to a pretty bloody good start. 🙌🏻

Three weeks. 👀

That's not a transformation. It's a start.

But sometimes seeing things finally start to move is all you need to think, THANK F**K. We're getting somewhere. 😂

Want to know what your first three weeks could look like? 

DM me "THREE WEEKS" and I'll talk you through how I'd approach things with you inside Rise & Empower, based on where you are right now. 🫡

I think a LOT of women are going to feel this one after the summer holidays. 😬

There’s a difference between being flexible because life happens and automatically being the person whose plans get dropped every time it does and September doesn't need to be about a massive reset, a new "diet" or suddenly getting your s**t together.

Maybe it starts with putting yourself back in the diary… and actually believing you deserve to stay there.

And if you need someone in your corner helping you do exactly that, DM me "COACHING".

Because my job, as a coach, involves helping women set boundaries as well as lift big weights. 😂

Both make you stronger 😉💪🏻

All this needs is the smell of Body Shop Dewberry, a strawberry ChapStick and a can of Elnett and we're basically there. 😂

Tell me you can't HEAR every single one of these pictures.

From Madonna and Smash Hits to sitting on the floor to James, awkward Bryan Adams slow dances and knowing every bloody move to Saturday Night… what a time to be alive. 😂🙌

And somehow we've gone from one hormonal rollercoaster to another… from hormones arriving with a BANG to hormones starting to pack their bags. 👀😂

Midlife really is quite the plot twist. But luckily, there's a lot more we can do about it than we're sometimes led to believe.

And you don't need Ask Jeeves.

You can just ask me. ❤️

PS. Send this to the friend whose mixtape you spent HOURS making. 📼😂

I hear this ALL the time.

“But I’m already doing all the right things…”

And the thing is… you probably ARE doing a lot of the right things. You’re not starting from zero. You’re training. You’re active. You’re thinking about protein. You’re trying to make decent food choices. You might already be working with a PT.

And yet you look at your body and think…

Why the bloody hell am I not seeing the return for all this effort? 😂

This is where I don’t want to tell you to just DO MORE. Especially when you’re already juggling a career, a business, a team, a family… and approximately 1000 other things that need your attention.

We need to get curious about what you’re already doing.

Is your strength training actually progressing?
Are you fuelling enough to support it?
Are you eating “healthily” but still not eating in a way that supports the result you want?
Are you recovering?
Are you consistent enough for long enough to actually know whether something is working?

Where are the little gaps between all that EFFORT you’re putting in and the RESULT you’re getting back?

Because sometimes you don’t need more, more...MORE!!! 😂

You need to make the things you’re already doing work harder FOR you.

That’s the work we do inside Rise & Empower.

If this is you right now, DM me “RESULTS”.

Let’s work out where yours results might be hiding. ❤️

Can I tell you something? If you’ve always been active and you’ve reached midlife thinking…

“Hang on. Why don’t I feel as strong as I used to?”

Maybe things feel a little harder than they once did. You’re noticing more aches and niggles. You don’t recover quite as quickly. Or you just don’t feel as physically capable and robust as you’d like to.

And that can be frustrating because you ARE active. You walk. You move. Maybe you do Pilates or yoga. You may even already be strength training.

So surely that should be enough, right? 

But you don’t necessarily need to do more. You might just need to do something different. Your muscles need a reason to stick around. They need to be challenged. And as we get older, we need to become more intentional about giving them that challenge.

That’s where properly structured strength training comes in. Not because I want you spending your life in the gym. Not because you need to burn more calories. And certainly not because your body needs to be smaller.

But because muscle matters.

For your strength. Your bones. Your joints. Your independence. Your confidence in what your body can DO.

I want you hiking up hills, carrying your own suitcase, getting yourself off the floor and saying YES to the things you want to do at 60, 70 and beyond.

And if you’ve read this carousel thinking…

“Ohhhh. THIS is the bit I’m missing.”

Come and talk to me.

DM me "MUSCLE" and we’ll have a chat. No pressure, no hard sell, just a conversation about where you are now and where you’d like to be. ❤️