When Brigitte Kemp began her journey as a body sculptor, she had no idea it would lead to the creation of her own business.
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The mother of three boys has always had a passion for healthy living but after completing another marathon, Brigitte was in pursuit of a new challenge.
“I have always enjoyed living a healthy lifestyle, exercise and training hard,” Brigitte said.
“But the last marathon I did really hurt my body and I was ready to try something new.”
She weighed up her options and eventually decided to jump into the deep end and commenced training for the ICN 2018 Coffs Harbour Classic – a body sculpting competition.
Brigitte, who trains at Co-Op Fitness in Kempsey, had never been into weight lifting, instead focusing on high intensity and pilates style training routines.
The change in training created a new passion and motivation for the 37-year-old and it sparked her into 12-months of dedication.
Brigitte's journey was aided by Co-Op Fitness’ Lawry Jolly, who passed on vital information on weight lifting, and helped her stick to consistent training and a healthy lifestyle.
The hard work paid off when she finished in second place in the Bikini Momma and fourth in the Bikini First Timers divisions last month.
During her path to success, Brigitte recognised dozens of locals were asking her for advice and realised so many people pursue a healthy lifestyle but don’t have the proper direction and discipline.
“People were constantly asking me ‘how do you lose weight, get healthy, look fit etc’,” Brigitte said.
“It made me realise a lot of people do want to improve their health but they don’t have the proper knowledge to truly dedicate themselves to it.”
That led to Brigitte and husband Michael embracing a new challenge, as they aim to impact locals lives in a positive way.
“We want to inspire people to live healthy, give them tips on how to achieve that and how to be held accountable for their decisions,” Michael said.
“We want people to receive long term results, rather than a quick fix where you drop 10 kilograms but put it back on again once you fall off the bandwagon.
“It will start with a relationship change with food, creating new habits and creating achievable goals.”
The weight loss program, which comes under Michael’s physiotherapy business Keystone Health but will be known as ‘Relish’, will include individualised health coaching, one-on-one sessions, goals will be set and tasks to be complete each week, meal recipes, seminars with health professionals and an online private community of people who share a common goal.
Brigitte has proven ‘Relish’ will be a success.
“The program is evidence based, it has worked for me and will for everyone else,” Brigitte said.
“I don’t follow a strict diet, it’s more about eating healthy consistently. Every now and then I would fall off track but then it’s about getting back into eating healthy and making sure the food you eat the most is the food which is best for you.
“My calories are actually quite high, I am not starving myself, I am fueling my body with the correct food so I actually eat quite a bit.”
The Relish program will be adjusted to fit each person individually.
Membership fees for the program will cost $25 a week for a minimum of 20-weeks or an up front fee off $450.
Brigitte and Michael are so confident their clients will receive results that they are providing a 100 per cent money back guarantee if the agreed upon goals aren’t met and the client has achieved 80 per cent of their tasks.
To find out more information about Relish, attend a free seminar which will be held at Keystone Health on October 31 at 5pm.
Brigitte has commenced training to compete in the Fitness Division at the body sculpting competition in Newcastle on March 31.
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