Mia Oldroyd Coaching

Posture, energy and strength - who doesn’t want those to be better?

Eva travels a lot so training has to be flexible & adaptable - it can still work, the approach just needs to be different.

Online coaching can be a great tool for people who are busy and have up and down routines. Giving you the freedom to do it when it works, not on a rigid timeframe.

For online coaching enquiries - send me a message or email [email protected]

Just start.

It doesn’t matter how far ‘gone’ you are.

How much you feel you’ve messed up.

How far you think you’ve got to go.

How much work you think you’ve got to do.

How badly you think you’re currently doing.

Just start.

Now.

Now.

Now.

Now.

Because that is ALL you can do.

And if you've been telling yourself you'll start when you've lost some weight, got fitter, got your eating under control, have more confidence, or finally feel “ready”...

You don't have to wait.

You're never too 'past' it to start.

I have spaces available starting September for 1:1 Personal Training..

Working with women who want to get stronger, feel better in their bodies and build something they can actually sustain, without the burpees, diets and nonsense..

If you've been thinking about starting, send me a message and we can have a chat!

I LOVE RICE

Two years of getting stronger.

From chronic back pain, recurring injuries and feeling stuck — to feeling strong, fit and confident in her body again.

This is why I do what I do. ❤️

Proud of you Tori! Legend.

Have you heard that voice in your head?

I'm sure you have

Or, maybe you think it's you?

Maybe you listen to it, agree with it, feel flattered by it..

Maybe it validates your poor decisions, excuses something you didn't need excusing,

Or maybe it beats you around, makes you feel useless, worthless..

Maybe it dictates your life?

The best scientific estimate is that we have approximately 6 thought transitions a minute - that's 6,200 different thoughts a day.

One of the biggest things I've noticed in clients who are consistent and those who aren't, is the ability to distinguish thoughts from reality.

The ability to recognise the thoughts of:

"This will never work"

"What's the point in even trying?"

"I'm s**t"

“Give up. Start again next week"

"Just wait until X is over, then you can get going properly"

“I'm tired"

“I don't like this feeling"

And to notice that they don't have to listen to them.

YES life gets in the way of being consistent with training and habits that make you feel good -

But really: You get in your own way the most.

Those thousands of thoughts in your head that you give a platform to - that you believe, listen to, obey, are ordered by.

What if you could just notice them and not be dictated by them?

What if you got to know yourself so well that you were no longer thrown around by the different feelings and problems and ideas that you constantly have?

What if you could have those thoughts and not live by their meaning?

What if you could be tired and still do it?

What if you could be feeling off and still do it?

What if you could know when to ignore that nagging voice and when to listen?

Consistency would be easy.

There would be no negotiating, no constant internal battle or conversation or tension to try to 'keep on it'...doesn't that sound way nicer?

No more loss of self trust - no more doubting.

But more freedom, self-confidence and all the other good bits in-between

3 years ago I ran a 70 mile ultramarathon up and down some big lumpy hills in rural Scotland -

For the first 10 days after that, I had no appetite and was really struggling to eat anything..

Which after 25 hours of running, definitely not eating enough.. wasn't ideal..

Subsequently, as well as the other myriad of things that happens to your body after a rather traumatic endeavour,

I felt like a shell of a human for about a month

But!

My appetite soon came back, and despite a stomach that felt half the size and feet that resembled that of a dried, dead fish;

I felt invigorated and so excited to be able to eat.. and more importantly - to WANT to eat

Food. Is. Great.

But it reminded me of something:

I've chatted with countless women, who want to get strong, build fitness, regain their inner confidence of their abilities..

But are entirely put off by the fact that if you train, your appetite increases.

Because food is BAD. Hunger is BAD.

Now -

It's ok to want to lose weight, for health, confidence, whatever someone's reasoning is..

BUT -

Training often causes an increase in appetite, because you're BREAKING YOUR BODY DOWN

.. and so it needs food, nutrients, the basic building blocks to build it back up, and allow it to get stronger.

Far too often, training is seen as an extra way to "burn calories"

And so when it comes to replenishing your body with the calories/energy you've lost..

it seems entirely RIDICULOUS.

If you've just worked so hard to shed them excess calories, why would you even
DARE listen to your body's hunger saying "please repair me"

Here's the thing -

You don't need to do things so intensely.

If you want to lose weight, great!

But it's a long-term, long-stretched process.

Countless analyses of all of the weight-loss methods EVER, have shown that basically
none of them work, except -

A moderate 100 calorie deficit a day. Which is nothing.

But - you continue to fuel your body, you continue to get stronger, fitter..

You don't feel like utter dogs**t because you're not feeding yourself..

You feel bloody amazing.

And overtime, the weight comes off anyway, your body composition changes, blah blah.

Keeping "weight loss" at the centre of your decisions often results in very backwards results.

Aka - you never get what you want.

Focus on looking after yourself,

Fuelling yourself well, with a varied, colourful diet (WITH CARBS)

Rest when you need to, look at the sky, the stars, breathe

Train hard, efficiently, appropriately, make sure you keep progressing each week

Don't berate yourself for not being perfect, for you never will be.

And all good things come from there, the body, all else - will follow a heartfelt
intention to look after yourself.

Rather than continue to punish..

One of the biggest lessons I've learnt over the last few years is this:

Freedom isn't the absence of structure.

It's having enough structure to protect the things that matter most.

The irony is that discipline often feels restrictive before you've experienced what it gives you.

Then, one day, you realise it was the very thing that allowed freedom to become a way of living.

We all need it to a lesser or greater degree.

Just a casual 104kg for a few sets.. 🫨

There is a huge difference between exercising and training.

Exercising is sporadically moving your body with no real progression or intentional reasoning for what you’re doing, with little consistency.

Training is consistently moving your body with the intention to create a specific stimulus, to evoke a specific adaptation, with intentional reason for everything you’re doing.

One gets you actual results and creates important changes physically (and mentally), the other, sure, is better than nothing, but will very rarely lead you to any actual physical changes or progress.

Women - this means you need to move your body with and against adequate resistance.

We don’t need more science to back the importance of strength training for women.

Especially women > 30.

Exercise is good, helpful, has a role.

Training is useful, forward-facing and to protect future you.