HELLO!

Welcome to Better Together With Becca! In this new blog I shall be sharing news, pictures, insights and musings from all my lovely classes and from the lovely people who I work with, as well as giving you some handy hints to help you move more with a smile on your face and a spring in your step! I thought that I’d start by introducing myself!

A bit about me.

I am Becca. I am 50 this year. I live in Totnes in Devon with my lovely husband and a cat called Margaret who is a total narcissist but we love her. I have a daughter, a step daughter and step son and 2 beautiful grandchildren ( I know- I don’t look old enough hehe..!)

That’s the introduction done! I love moving about- be it on land or in water. I have fallen in love with many forms of exercise- from aerobics in the 80s, tai Bo in the nineties, bootcamp. HIIT, zumba, mountain biking, weight training- I’ve tried them all. I suppose that I have been quite ” good” at them at times too- mainly due to my reluctance to give up and fierce self competitiveness and, as you will read in a blog coming at some point, an historic unhealthy relationship with food and exercise. HOWEVER…. I am TERRIBLE at team sports. Don’t let me anywhere near a ball or bat- or a racquet- I will drop it/ fall over/ hit the ball in your face/forget which way I am running. That familiar ” being picked last” feeling that I had at school creeps up and I panic. I was never a “sporty” kid- “dancey”- yes, “sporty”- no!

All change

When the first lockdown happened, I was working for a company teaching pupils who have been unable to stay in mainstream education. Trying to teach online was impossible with these young people as you can imagine. I was lucky enough to be able to see them face to face and we spent a lot of time outdoors in the countryside. I fell into SEN teaching through my desire to make education creative and relevant to each young person. As a dramatherapist as well as a teacher, I wanted to be able to nurture the WHOLE child. A flexible and hands on approach suited me very well and I thrived. At the same time, I was thinking about what I wanted to do next- I had been in teaching for almost 20 years and was beginning to want a change. I began an online course to train as a PT- not considering it as an option for a good few years. Life doesn’t always go the way you expect it to, however!

New Direction

Through some well timed conversations, chance meetings and opportunities, fly forward a couple of years and here I am. My sister introduced me to Move it or lose it- or more specifically, to Julie Robinson- founder of the company. Through some funding, I completed the training to become a senior exercise practitioner. the day after the course, I was asked by a lady running classes in Torquay if I would take over her classes as ill health meant that she had to stop. And so it started. For 2 days a week I hung up my teaching hat and became an exercise and wellbeing practitioner. I qualified as a boxercise instructor ( a childhood dream), I qualified as a PT and spent the next few months attending other courses and gaining qualifications in circuits ,resistance training , core work, nutrition and wellbeing.By July my heart was yearning to make that break and I did. I jumped into the world of personal training and exercise and wellbeing. I was terrified and all my teenaged self doubt, imposter syndrome and fear of being seen and standing alone- something that I had wanted to do for so long, came to the fore. But I did it anyway.