07/11/2025
• congratulations Katherine •
As we welcome the w-end, we also welcome you to be up standing and let’s all honour Katherine - our recent Harts winner - Katherine was was kind enough to provide insights into her experience.
“I was lucky that I grew up with parents who were in the medical/health field, so I learnt early on about good nutrition, so I have always been relatively healthy from a food perspective.
I’ve been less successful finding time to be active. I found (and still find) it difficult to motivate myself to exercise alone, so joining a gym was not an option. I had done (and enjoyed) group training before, so I knew that was something that I would potentially stick with. I also knew that I wanted to have fun, with people who don’t take fitness to the extreme, or judge you for always being last, or using the lightest weights, or not having the perfect body proportions. Finding such a group was my biggest frustration when it came to increasing my activity level, and I was starting to think that it didn’t exist!
The unicorn DOES exist – group training that is FUN!! Chi has me doing double sessions 3 x per week, and a couple extra when my work schedule allows. I am fitter than I have ever been, and I’m setting fitness challenges for myself that I never dreamed possible.
Chi is quite simply amazing. It ticks all the boxes I mentioned above – group training that is fun, with no judgement. That’s not to say it is easy! Kris will tell us to lift our game if there’s low energy – but always in an encouraging, accountable way: if *we* don’t put in 100, then that’s on us.
Did I mention fun? The amount of banter that happens on the square is one of the main reasons I feel like I have found my tribe! Chi is not just a great group of people showing up for a fitness class – it is a cultural eco-system of people with shared values who want to live their best life, and help you live yours.
The other major point of difference with Chi is that it really is holistic. Kris talks openly about links between movement and activity, and mental health. Add Tracey’s expertise on the best ways to refuel the body, and you have an unbeatable combination.”