About me
Hi, I’m Neema.
I’m a Personal Trainer and Certified Menopause Coaching Specialist with over ten years’ experience helping women become stronger, fitter and more confident with exercise.
Strength training is at the heart of what I do, but I don’t believe fitness needs to take over your life in order to make a meaningful difference to it.
My approach
It has to work for you.
There isn’t one way of exercising that’s going to work for everyone.
Your goals matter, of course. But so does everything else. How much time you have. What you enjoy. What experience you already have. What equipment you can use. And what you can realistically fit into your life.
That’s why I don’t start with what I think you should be doing. I start with where you are now, and we work from there.
As you get stronger and more confident, your training can progress with you.
Why strength
Why I put so much emphasis on strength.
There are lots of reasons to exercise. You might want to get fitter, feel better in your body, change your body composition or simply have more energy.
But strength is something I come back to again and again.
I want women to be strong for everyday life, but also to keep that strength as they get older. To carry things, get up from the floor, climb stairs, travel, take on physical challenges and keep doing the things they enjoy.
That matters to me just as much as what you can lift in a workout.
A bit about me
Fitness has had to fit around my life too.
Before becoming a Personal Trainer, I spent 16 years working in the corporate world. I’m also a mum of two, and becoming a parent changed what exercise looked like for me.
There wasn’t always an hour to get to the gym. Sometimes I had 30 minutes. Sometimes 10. I had to find ways to keep moving and getting stronger around work, children and everything else that needed doing.
That’s shaped a lot of how I work now, and it’s a big part of why I created Lift & Thrive.
For me, being strong isn’t just about what I can lift. I want to have the strength and energy to play with my children, do things with them and keep doing that as they grow up and I get older.
Exercise is important to me, but it isn’t my whole life. And I don’t expect it to be anyone else’s either. I want to help women find a way of training that fits into the life they actually have.