fitness at the farm
Oxfordshire
After an 8-year career in marketing, I decided that I didn’t really want to do
that any more. So, I did a part-time MSc in Nutrition, Physical Activity &
Public Health at the University of Bristol, qualified as a Personal Trainer and
Fitness Instructor, then quit my job and started my own business (a very
succinct summary making it sound way more straight forward than it was). I have
the enormous privilege of living on a beautiful farm in South Oxfordshire with
my husband, Andy and our “little ones”, Geoffrey (dog) and Rupert (cat). Living
on the farm, I have all the space anyone could need to keep active. I never
really loved the gym environment and always found the regimented, rep counting,
calorie tracking, muscle building approach to exercise very unnecessary. I feel
best when I’m outdoors, being active in anyway that I fancy. I love strength
training, but I quickly figured out that you don’t need machines in a gym to be
able to do this. You just need to lift heavy things… and there are plenty of
heavy things lying around the farm.
