About Maria

My name is Maria and 5x years ago I took a gamble, left my safe job to embark on a journey to help people. I’ve always been sporty. I played basketball from a very young age and continued playing in local clubs and through college. I had numerous jobs in hospitality and the corporate world but nothing held my attention for very long. I knew I wanted to help people and being a nurse or doctor wasn’t an option because of my squeamish tendencies! During a really stressful job in 2015 where I developed lots of illnesses from stress I decided to finally look after my health from the inside out. And so the journey into fitness began. I started a course on Nutrition, found a part time job in a gym and left the stressful job behind. It was as I said a gamble but one I was willing to take. Once I immersed myself in a gym environment and was surrounded by people who all had the same goal as me…. To Better themselves! A sentence I continue to use to this day I quickly found my stride. I qualified as a Personal Trainer & Fitness Instructor. I enrolled in a Pre and Post Natal Course and I started teaching classes. Then in 2019 I became pregnant with my first child. For 7x months of my pregnancy I taught classes but as I waddled around the gym floor I knew I had to hang up my sports bra!

Adam was born in October 2019. A gift from heaven. In his short time earth side he has taught me more than all my years put together. Postpartum was both my hardest journey and greatest achievement all rolled into one! I lost my way. I was sad, tired, I didn’t recognise myself. In January 2020 I stepped back on the gym floor to have my first workout as a mother and that day will always be etched in my memory. I felt like me again. People often ask “how do I find the time” and I always respond with “How do you not?!”

Fitness is my therapy. Its that hour you need to be a better partner, girlfriend, wife…. You can BE BETTER once you feel BETTER! 

I teach women how to find themselves again.