Strength training that fits the life you actually have.

I'm Connie, a NASM-certified personal trainer in Victoria, BC. I did not arrive here in a straight line.

I grew up in a small town near Nuremberg, Germany, and trained as a conference interpreter for German, English and French. For a couple of years I worked as a translator for the German military's language service — a job that included a deployment to northern Afghanistan. It was during the basic training for that role that I first noticed how out of shape I was. I started running. I joined a gym.

Somewhere in those years I found the barbell. I moved to Canada in 2011 and to Vancouver Island in 2019, and I have been lifting ever since — most of it in my own garage gym.

More recently, I have rediscovered my love of running. I built up from a 5k to a half marathon, and now the marathon. Some days life is hard and running is easy; other days it is the other way round. Either way, if I can run a marathon, I can do life.

Through the struggles and the ups and downs, training is what has kept me grounded.

I train around an eleven-year-old's schedule, so I have a realistic idea of what fitting workouts into an actual week looks like. Not the version with two spare hours and a perfect gym.

I know what it is to start from scratch as an adult, in an unfamiliar room, surrounded by people who look like they already know what they are doing. What I want most is to help you discover what exercise can do: build confidence in your own body, and give a busy mind a break.