I first met Kat after joining one of her Spinning Classes in Tooting. I was instantly hooked!  After years of attending the gym with no significant results, boredom had set in.  Kats enthusiasm while teaching was like no other and so I decided to ask her to become my personal trainer and that was by far the best decision I have ever made in regards to my health and fitness.
Kat’s commitment to understanding the nature of my goal paid off. She got me motivated enough to be out on the common at 6am every morning doing various exercises drawn from a very effective training programme she had created for me.
Having never run in my life (besides a few half-hearted attempts on a treadmill) I have now recently completed my second half-marathon thanks to her, and will be joining Kat for my third half marathon in Paris this year!
Kat is a fantastic trainer, with extensive knowledge and experience in fitness, is a keen motivator and a really nice person too! I have been amazed at my results so I thoroughly recommend Kat to keep you fit! Go for it!

Nadine Ardati, 28

Eating disorders are often misunderstood as a diet gone too far or an obsession with looking like a supermodel. If only it was that simple. I had anorexia for several years and my eating distress was only a symptom of deeper unhappiness. Since those dark days I have crawled back to life and although I am now in recovery my relationship with food and my body continues to be stormy. It is like an old injury that haunts me and threatens to debilitate me again. So I fight hard for my happiness, for times when I feel good and can enjoy eating with friends and more often than not I win and anorexia loses.

Recently though, I had a really tough time. I had a fairly traumatic bereavement and life was very stressful. I needed to do something to get rid of my feelings of anger and of feeling out of control. I went to the gym with the intention of running until I was too tired to think or feel anything (an old anorexic habit). But a spin class was about to start and having not done it before I wandered in, sat on a bike and held my breath as the lights went down and the music went up.

The instructor shouted at us to go faster, to push ourselves, work hard. She told us we were doing great that we could keep going even though we were in pain. The awesome music and the positive messages combined with a fearsome workout was just the medicine. That year, Kat’s spin class was the one thing that got me through.

I think exercise should not be punishment. It should be about about feeling good about yourself: proud that you pushed hard and are developing a positive relationship with your body. These are the messages Kat promotes. I think too often gym instructors focus on calories to be burned and fat to be melted. When I exercise I know I am using calories and reducing my body fat so I think to focus solely on that is wrong and particularly for someone like me, its unhealthy. For me, exercise is about developing a positive relationship with my body and helping me reduce my negative feelings. I call it ‘spinning them out’.

Thank you Kat. You inspire, you spin… you rock!

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