Where it all began..

The teenage cardio bunny back in 2014 never would of imagined those hours chained to the treadmill would amount to her one day becoming a Natural IFBB Pro and advocate for Natural Women and Athletes within the fitness, bodybuilding and sporting community.
She was also naive to think steroids and doping was just something you heard about on the news...

Another athlete banned from competing in the Olympics for doping? Shocking…
The commonality of in it normal day to day life? Even more shocking when I discovered that was the reality.

Years passed for me as an avid gym-goer till I was faced with the reality. My first ever competitive bikini show, a humbling but incredible experience consisting of strict dieting for months on end, a rigorous training routine and endless posing sessions which still resulted in me looking like a constipated duck on stage. But I loved it! So much so I wanted to keep doing it, and so I did (for 7 years might I add) but it was that first show, and the conversation me and my coach had after that opened my eyes to the saturated world of performance enhancing drugs and illegal steroids within this industry.

Eager to compete again, I took the feedback I was presented with from the judges to my coach and asked what the plan of action was for my next show. I knew I needed to grow, I knew I needed more muscle but I was blissfully unaware of how so many other athletes attained this level of muscle in such short amounts of time… The next season was only a few months away after all?

This is when my coach disclosed to me the normality of performance enhancing drugs in the bodybuilding sport, and within the fitness industry as a whole. I realised that a lot of what people had achieved with their bodies, with their muscle, with their definition, was not attained naturally. These weren’t natural athletes, not all of them, it was actually more uncommon to be a natural woman within the bodybuilding world than it was enhanced (and this was back in 2018 since then it has gotten progressively worse in terms of commonality).

It was at this point I had a choice, I could do what every Tom, Dick and Harry seemed to be doing; Jump on the gear, see quick progress, with the potential of side effects and no longer be a natural woman. Orrrr I could be true to myself, take the slow route but the one that aligned with my morals, kept my femininity and health intact and still allowed me to compete as a hobby, but potentially with less success…

I stuck to the latter.

And 5 years later became a Natural IFBB Pro, & founder of Natural Pro Coaching.