The Aligned Programme

One thing we’ve never really spoken about on here is why we completely disappeared from social media for a few months.

From December onwards, our focus wasn’t on content, growing the gym or posting every day.

It was on our angel boy, Chief.

For anyone who didn’t know him, Chief was our golden retriever and a massive part of the gym. If you ever trained with us, you’ll probably remember him lying in the middle of the floor, greeting everyone at the door, stealing attention by randomly barking during sessions or him walking up to you with a pillow in his mouth looking you to play tug of war.

At the end of December he became very sick with kidney failure and from that point on, our lives revolved around vet appointments, medications, syringe feeding and trying to make the most of whatever time we had left with him.

At the end of January we had to let him go.

To say it hit us hard would be an understatement.

The gym was one of the places we felt his absence the most because he spent so much of his life there with us and with all of you.

Truthfully, social media just didn’t matter for a while.

We still coached our girls, opened the gym every day and showed up for our clients, but posting content, filming videos and growing the business wasn’t where our heads were at.

The last few months have been about finding our feet again.

A lot of you have asked where we’ve been and actually thought we had shut, so we thought we’d share the reason.

And for everyone who checked in on us, sent messages, asked about Chief or supported us during that time, thank you.
It meant more than you’ll ever know!

Chief will always be a part of The Aligned Gym and he’ll always be spoken about with our old, new and current members 💙

For anyone who’s ever wondered what’s actually in the gym 🍑

Women’s only small group PT
📍Maghera

£20 trial week available through the link in our bio x

Gym timetable 🗓️

Women’s only small group PT
📍Lisnamuck Road, Maghera

£95 per month for unlimited sessions

Link in bio to book your £20 trial week x

Everyone wants the before and after,
but no one talks about the bit in between

The bit where you’re not smashing it every day,
but you’re not falling apart either…
You’re just steady, holding fort when life’s a bit fu***ng messy

Real progress isn’t about being perfect girls,
it’s catching yourself mid spiral and choosing differently this time
It’s having the takeaway or the night out,
and not letting it turn into a bad week, you just make the choice and then move on

It’s when your choices start to quietly line up
with who you say you want to be

Not because you’re clean buzzing with motivation,
but because you’re done breaking promises to yourself

It’s not loud and it’s not the type of result you can post on Instagram and get flooded with well done comments,
but it’s the kind that actually lasts

Shannon messaged us yesterday and said something that proper got us

“I actually felt good in everything I wore last week and I’ve started to not absolutely hate getting pictures took as much now”

That line right there girls… that’s the real transformation

Not the 25lbs she’s lost, not how much leaner she looks in these photos from this year vs last year

It’s that she doesn’t spend her life feeling s**t about herself anymore

A year ago Shannon was turning up to the gym but she wasn’t really there

Hopping between machines with no structure and no real push to get anything out of it

Talking herself out of sessions before she even started

And the worst part? She KNEW she was capable of more, she just didn’t believe it yet

That was the problem. It wasn’t about effort or time.. it was her belief

Fast forward to now and she’s a completely different person

She doesn’t negotiate with herself anymore about food or the gym
She doesn’t avoid the camera
She doesn’t spend weekends wishing she looked different in her outfits

And yesss, she’s 25lbs down and looks unreal. But the real win is how she FEELS

That’s what we actually work on here

Not just your body. Who you become in the process

If you’re going through the motions
If you keep talking yourself out of starting
If you know you’re capable of more but can’t seem to follow through

You’re not broken

You just need someone to help you build the structure and belief that makes it all click

That’s what we do

Keep an eye out for what’s to come soon 👀