I'm Robyn. I put heavy things in women's hands for a living.
I coach 1:1 in my own studio in Warrington.
I am not going to shout at you.
I am going to be quietly delighted when you lift something you didn't think you could. ✨
I wrote a dissertation about this.
My Master's dissertation was on resistance training and women's identity, what actually shifts when a woman starts lifting, beyond the obvious.
Short version: it changes how you talk about yourself. Women stop apologising. They start describing themselves by what they can do.
So yes, fitness is political for me. An industry that spent decades telling women to be smaller and quieter didn't do that by accident, and I'm not going to hand you the same script in nicer packaging.
No calorie chat. No perfection.
I don't do all-or-nothing.
No 5am workouts because someone on the internet said discipline. No cutting carbs. No "starting again on Monday" because you had a normal week.
You are allowed to train badly, be tired, laugh halfway through a set and still be someone who lifts.
I let myself be a beginner, in public.
I'm training for an Ironman 70.3. I started swimming as a near-total beginner, which means I have been the slowest person in that pool, in the wrong goggles, being overtaken by a man in his seventies.
It was humbling. It was also the best thing I've done for my coaching.
I remember exactly what it feels like to walk into a room where everyone seems to know what they're doing. That's the feeling I've built my studio around.
Two labradors and a strong opinion about hills.
Most of my time outside the studio is spent walking two labradors who have never once been tired.
The rest is spent up hills. Snowdon, the Yorkshire Three Peaks, and a long list of lakes I keep swimming in on purpose.
I used to trade as Inner Light Fitness Coaching, group hiking challenges, an online habits programme called The New Normal. Same coach, same values, my own name now.
Come and be a beginner at something.
You will not be the worst person in the room. And even if you were, I'd be delighted you turned up.