By Elissa Friday
The goal for eating and exercise is “healthy and fit” rather than “obsessively miserable”, says one of Geelong’s leading personal trainers.
Body Conquest’s Ingrid Barclay has created a flagship mindset course called Mental Makeover to achieve both objectives.
The course helps women ready to address the factors holding back their progress in achieving improved health and fitness, Ingrid explains.
“It touches on perfectionism, feelings of unworthiness and the ‘stuck’ feeling in following fitness and nutrition plans. The course has become a benchmark in the fitness industry for women who want to address their mindset.”
The course was born from Ingrid’s own past struggles balancing diet and exercise, which prompted her to ask “why I was sabotaging my own effort”, she says.
But developing a “mindset makeover” helped Ingrid regain control over her former food obsession.
With a new mindset about food that “it doesn’t control me anymore”, Ingrid was able to maintain her low body fat with “ease”.
Mental Makeover is based on her philosophy of “four cogs in the wheel”, she says.
“It begins with number two, being nutrition. Three is weight training and four is cardio.
“Number one is clearly mental strategies because, without one, two, three and four, won’t happen.
“It’s about getting your mind right and your physique will follow.”
Ingrid’s experience of training thousands of clients has taught her that results are often short-term if “the mind isn’t addressed along with nutrition and training”.
“The main problem is dietary rules because the nature of rules is that we feel bad or wrong when we break them. You can get great results by creating your own rules based on your own preferences, mindfulness practice, listening to your body’s cues and finding a way to like how you eat.
“Body Conquest will help you do that.”
Ingrid also offers an associated course called End Emotional Eating, which over three sessions works on five steps to improve mindfulness.
“The Body Conquest mission is to help women break through the crash dieting cycle through easy tools and useable insights,” Ingrid says.
“Our keys are passion, purpose and positivity, building confidence, learning to trust yourself, and choosing a perspective that serves you so that it can be implemented effectively.
“The tools are your inner-game. It’s in your control and is your responsibility.
“Your perception becomes reality, so choose wisely how you see the world.
“The goals are to get smarter, get more effective and get results.”
