TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR FITNESS Photo by Iolo Penri
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Rae Carpenter
Penarth-based personal fitness trainer RaeCarpenter MsRaeCarpenter
LiveFitWales
As a Personal Fitness Trainer, with my company LiveFIT Wales Cymru, I work in the community, for the community, and with the community on their health and fitness. Life is short. Without moving our bodies and eating healthily, it’s shorter still. I’m also the health and fitness expert for S4C’s FFIT Cymru and QVC, the UK’s largest shopping and lifestyle network.
Oprah Winfrey says in her book What I Know for Sure that “the only time we have for sure is now”. That mantra has stuck with me and it guides how I live day-to-day. When the news of lockdown was announced, I knew that staying fit, strong and healthy during the pandemic was going to be on many people’s minds. I knew that LiveFIT Wales Cymru, the fitness company I run with my friend Kath, would be able to continue to help our members and others who lived further afield to either stay fit and healthy or, to start a new journey.
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So far, LiveFIT Wales Cymru has hosted over 75 online fitness classes for our local members, as well as welcoming people from Glasgow, Birmingham, London, Caerphilly, Worcestershire, Kent, and even the USA! One unexpected aspect of this crisis is that it’s brought people from different parts of the world to us, giving us a chance to build new relationships and share our passion for your wellbeing. I mention this because these people realised too, that “the only time we have for sure is now” to focus on our health, fitness, and wellbeing. To put on our own oxygen mask first, before we help others. If we don’t harness this aspect of our lives, we can all picture what the alternative could look like. Here, we can really see what our futures could be like, which is why there is a feeling of unity, coming together, and like-mindedness. I think people are realising more than ever that without our health, we really have nothing at all.
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