Personal training, group fitness strength training and bootcamp classes. I am not only a wellness “coach” I am also a client. After my second daughter I blew up!
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I am a personal trainer, group exercise instructor, creator of “Socalicious” dance fitness and owner of EyodaNikol Fitness mobile fitness. Fitness and well-being play a huge part in my life and I love working with others to reach their wellness goals. I was not a child athlete, (I actual don’t like sports). I was not a track star or a cheerleader either. I’m just an average girl who has st
ruggled with my weight all my life. I can remember at the age of 12 prancing around with my Get in Shape Girls ribbon trying to exercise to get in shape. I know of and have probably tried every fitness gimmick around. Trust me, I know the struggle, and it’s real. After my third daughter, I weighed in at 220 lbs. and wore a size 22 pants. My life revolved around my family. Like most women I worked and cared for my children and husband. It was never about me. It didn’t matter to me how I looked, as long as my family was healthy and happy. When my daughter was about 15 months on so my family life took a tune, my husband and I started to have problems and the happy family I worked so hard to maintain was falling apart. This may have been my first turning point. I remembering arguing with him one evening and instead of doing something extremely dramatic I opened the front door and ran. I had no destination; I just knew I needed to get away. I ended up running all the way to the local YMCA. Dried tears and I was out of breath. I stood there watching a step class. I was amazed at how they made it look so easy and how fluid their bodies looked. I watched this class intrigued several more times before I was actually brave enough to try it. The instructor was so caring, supportive and knowledgeable I couldn’t stay away. This had become my sanctuary, my stress reliever. My pants started to fall off, my arms started smaller and my belly didn’t protrude from under my clothes any more. I was losing weight!
As I said that was my first turning point. (I told you the struggle was real) I was down to a comfortable size 10 and very content with my results. With that being said my mind state didn’t match up with my weight loss. I had the mentality that most people do when they start off. “I had reached my goal and now I can eat” or “I worked out today so I deserve this cake”. Bad, bad, bad thinking. I had to “free” my mind. Get my mind around the symbiotic relationship of healthy eating and exercise. You truly cannot have one without the other. Even now as instructor and personal trainer every day is a struggle. It’s a little easier than it was before but it is still work. My advice to anyone is to surround yourself with positive people, never get complacent, always strive to do your best and focus on your goals. Make smaller short term goals to gain long term benefits.
