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1-1 Personal training, fitness classes, and charity projects: changing the lives of families who liv Hey I'm Jane!

I'm passionate about helping us get fit and active through healthy, sustainable lifestyles - there are no quick fixes here!

1-1 mobile personal training, builds stronger and fitter bodies and minds - I train you at a time and place that suits you

My small and friendly outdoor exercise classes around Bristol get you active, happy and healthy. Showing you how to adapt each move to your confidence level, and meeting some amazing people too! JumpStart is a social enterprise, so we're passionate about making moving more and eating well more accessible to communities who need it the most in Bristol:
We run funded fitness and nutrition projects with families who live in tower blocks across the city. So as you’re getting fit and feeling amazing, know that you’re also helping to change someone else’s life for the better.

24/09/2026

🚗 Looping further around Namibia to our new location - Spitzkoppe where we hiked the tallest mountain

7am start.
Up to 1,280m
Near-vertical scrambling, using chains and more than a few deep breaths

EPIC

But Baboongate has officially been replaced by:

“That time we thought we were going to get murdered in the mountains.” 😂

We’d arranged to meet our guide at a crossroads at 7am

He didn’t show

Another guy appeared, said he knew him, offered to get in our car and direct us to his house

About halfway there my brain caught up:

Excellent travel safety there Rogers 🤦🏼‍♀️

We eventually found our guide at his home 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

…..then we needed to drive somewhere else to collect his bag

……then he announced he’d drive OUR car to the start of the hike

Errr nope 😅

Anyway we set off 🧗‍♀️ 🏃🏼‍♀️

And it continued to feel sketchy

He smelled strongly of alcohol and something chemical. He was making loads of phone calls at various points in the climb

At one point he disappeared for a wee and came back carrying a little bag he said he’d accidentally left on the mountain last time

Then, while explaining that the sap from one of the plants was poisonous, he found a stick, produced a blade and started making himself a walking stick 😭

At this point I started saying my prayers 😂

OBVIOUSLY…

Nobody murdered us

He was probably just a chaotic dude with two tourists who wrote a Netflix true-crime docu in their heads

But there probably is a serious lesson here

Adventure takes you outside your comfort zone

But it’s not about ignoring your gut or handing over control of your safety

Anyway

Spitzkoppe was bloody spectacular

10/10 mountain
2/10 risk assessment 😂

23/09/2026

3-day self-drive safari through Etosha in northern Namibia 🇳🇦

Hopping between waterholes watching the animals 🐘🦒🦁 🦏 🦌 doing their thing in the wild
Sunset and sunrise 🫶

Proper bucket-list stuff

But my brain started asking questions……

Who put these roads and lodges here?
What about the huge fence around the park?
And why were there people begging outside the main checkpoint?

So I started reading:

And discovered THIS was their ancestral land

It was taken from them by colonists 100 years ago
Between 3000-5000 inhabitants were killed and displaced
The UN reported it as one of the earliest examples of genocide in the 20th century

So now we saw the roads and waterholes with different eyes:

Places where people had lived, hunted, gathered and found water long before Etosha became the park we know today

But now their land is limited to a small square with houses and a school, surrounded by barbed wire

This isn’t old news:
In March THIS YEAR, they restarted legal action seeking restoration of ancestral lands in Etosha

So the people we spotted behind one of Namibia’s most famous tourist camps are connected to a much bigger story than most visitors ever realise

19/09/2026

1,000 km driven in this beautiful country 🇳🇦

From the capital to the north for three days of self-navigated safari

Deep red sand, bouncy roads, alllll the animals… and the people are out-of-this-world friendly 🥹
Chatty, helpful with no expectation of thanks, super chilled. Just wonderful

But it’s not all been plain sailing

We were getting out of the car, prepping to hike a mountain trail, when Ben shouted:

“BABOON!!”

I couldn’t see it, but they’re nasty AF, so I leapt into the front passenger seat and slammed the door

Ben leapt into the back

And we both breathed

Suddenly, the driver’s door flung open

The baboon jumped in

It HaD OpEnEd ThE DoOR

And now I was face to face with it

Him in the driver’s seat
Me in the passenger seat

Screaming at each other

Over and over

I could see right into his eyes
And he was looking right into mine

You never know what you have in you until you’re faced with a situation like this, but I shouted and screamed like I never knew I could

I grabbed my water bottle (thanks LifeStraw 😂) and started jabbing it towards him, enough to try to push him away, but not close enough for him to attack me

Trying to scare him. Dominate him. Make him get out of the car

But he didn’t

So, Plan B

I managed to open my door and run out

But he did exactly what I knew he would do:
He climbed across into my seat and ran out after me

Once we were outside, he continued to pursue me, screaming at me, trying to get closer

I kept jabbing my water bottle at him, trying to keep him off me, turning to run but not completely turning my back so he couldn’t jump me

The bloody baboon just WOULD NOT STOP

…and then my water bottle lid unscrewed itself in my hand and the bottle flew into the bushes 🫣

So now I was fighting off a baboon with A flat water bottle lid 😭😂

Eventually we worked our way around the back of the car and Ben was there

The baboon kept coming, but now there were two of us shouting and screaming at him

Ben with his hat
Me with my lid

He STILL wouldn’t stop

Then suddenly he ran back into the car, grabbed three baguettes from the footwell and disappeared into the bushes

It was done

We were OK

We both looked at each other and at the same time:
“Tonight, we’re sleeping in the car.” 😂😂

Quick body scan and I’d somehow got away with just a scratch and a graze on my arm, I couldn’t work out whether they were from the baboon or my own self-defence

Ben wiped them with antiseptic.

And then we realised we were both shaking

It’s OK. We’re OK

Onward we go 🇳🇦 x

14/09/2026

We’re off to Namibia!
Camping, hiking, safari, dune surfing, kite surfing, kayaking, surf-surfing

Bombing round in a 4x4 (rock paper scissors each day to decide who’s driving 🤞😆)
……and we’ve found a parkrun!

Last week, my workout buddy asked me what I was training for

THIS!

This is why I bang on so much about finding ways to move that we LOVE

Exercise isn’t dragging yourself to a gym

It’s about saying YES to the fun stuff 🙌

Namibia, let’s see what you’ve got 🇳🇦

13/09/2026

Hyrox Solo Female Open 1:14 🔥

F**K YESSSS
(Sorry mum!)

3 minute PB 🙌

So SO happy

After months of mentally checking out during races it all came together

I’m really proud of myself……even though it feels weird to actually say that 😂

I know there’s still more to give, and I know exactly what I need to do to get it

The BEST way to start a long-haul flight ✈️

🙏 AD GYM & HYROX Training Club Bristol

11/09/2026

A big welcome to the newest members of our family!

These are SO more than new kettlebells:

They represent learning safe technique

Skills for a lifetime

Trusting your body

Gentle progression

Progress without pressure

Encouragement without judgement

Feeling strong, owning your space and feeling confident in your body, in and outside the gym x

09/09/2026

Halfway round the lake during my mile swim this morning
“I cannot be fooked” 😂

We see the Strava and Instagram posts and think everyone else is 💯 motivated 💯 the time

Here are some other things we think - and think no-one else does…..

🌟 “I could just go home and sit on the sofa, eat chocolate until I’m lifted out of my window by the fire brigade.”
(You can tell I’ve thought this one through 😉)
Some of the most amazing life adventures I’ve done have started with this thought
It’s normal

🌟 “But I don’t eat like a saint all the time?”
My partner and I are both PTs. We laugh about this while sitting down to a kebab and pints after a cracking night out

🌟 “What time is it? I want to stop.”
Halfway through a heavy set with two more to go thinking, what if I just tell my PT we’re done and I’m going home
Normal

🌟 “Why have I lost all my fitness?”
You feel heavy. Everything feels heavy
Sometimes you just have a s**t session
Normal

🌟 “I’m not getting faster/stronger”
Not every workout needs a PB
Sometimes moving your body because it feels good is enough

🌟 “Why is my body broken? No one else’s is?” Every body has broken bits we rehab - and rehab is an ongoing commitment you just don’t see the behind the perfect running photo
You’re normal

🌟 “Why do they look so cool, I look like a potato?”
Those Nike ads have got stylists, Photoshop and a whole lot of outtakes behind that perfectly curated bicep curl we see on screen

Consistency is moving your body when it feels good - and when it feels like a potato

08/09/2026

Hi, I’m Jane 👋

If you’ve ever walked into a gym convinced everyone is watching you, I get it

Because that was me

I didn’t grow up loving exercise or feeling confident in my body

I know what it’s like to feel intimidated, unsure where to start and worried about being judged

That’s why I became the kind of coach I wish I’d had

Before becoming a PT, I was a Press Officer for the Red Cross, then ran my own PR business supporting charities. Seeing how poverty can make exercise feel out of reach, led me to found JumpStart Food and Fitness 10 years ago

Today, alongside PT, I work with GPs supporting people living with long-term health conditions, as well as running community projects across Bristol

Whether you’re completely new
Returning after injury or illness
Or simply want to feel stronger and more confident

I’ll meet you where you are x

Ps here’s my client Alie lifting like a badass after we’ve rehabbed her back 🙌

07/09/2026

Bookings are open for BoxFit this week……and it’s our last one for three weeks so booking to get your Boxfit fix!

📍 Tuesday lunchtime
🕛 1210-1250
📌 Temple Church park
💷 £8 donation

📍 Thursday morning
🕛 9:15-10am
📌 Oldbury Court park
💷 £8 donation

👉 Comment below or message me to book in

See you there!

02/09/2026

Amy was busy back squatting.

Her daughter Ida was playing around the gym….then stopped to watch in absolute awe 😍

Ida’s not watching Mum try to make herself smaller

She’s watching her get stronger
Lift heavy things
Challenge herself
Take up space
And be bloody proud of what her body can do

Because our kids are always watching

Strong Mum
And one very impressed little girl 🥹

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