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Kathryn Lillyston | Milo Mekaio

Kathryn Lillyston

Personal Trainer and Aerobics instructor
Dip Ex Science
Phase 2 Cardiac Rehab

Why did I become a personal trainer?

My interest in fitness started when was 17 and working as a café assistant in Petone.

The café was in a large company making cigarettes! But they had a small gym for employees use. I had been curious about exercise and gyms since a good friend had joined a gym, but I was too scared to go!

It turned out that not many of the staff used it, so the gym was deserted most of the time, so on one such a day I nervously poked my head around the corner…

Well… that was the beginning! I loved it and soon thought that I “knew it all” as you often think after 6 months of working out! And when a good friend lost a whole lot of weight on the weight watchers program, I suggested that we join a gym together so we could tone up and reshape his new body.

We decided to do it right and saw a trainer for a few sessions and one day after we had been going for a while, my friend said “you should be doing this for a living!” Ha, I thought, I had no qualifications, no idea really on what to do, but something inside me thought, “Wait, why not? I'd be a really good trainer!" and so I did, I got my qualifications and went for it and have never looked back.

I love this job so much. There is nothing that compares to the feeling you get when you help someone achieve their goals!

I say “go for it — any age — it’s never too late to get started!”

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