Twice a year I organise an event at The Compound, an Obstacle Course Training ground for my bootcampers to attend.

We aren’t training for Tough Mudder or Miss Muddy, we aren’t training to compete in anything in particular. This event is more about facing fears and pe...

Sisters Amanda and Katy arrived at the last bootcamp session for 2015 dressed in matching Hello Kitty Christmas pyjamas and reindeer antlers. 

They’re totally in sync these two – training and laughing together, cheering each other on, and making wisecracks.

It’s an in...

The answer may lie in a seven letter word beginning with P.

Some of the most common complaints I hear from clients are that their jelly belly is reducing their confidence, their lower backs are aching, their necks and shoulders are sore from standing up all day, or bei...

It’s been six weeks since I hobbled into the Emergency department of William Angliss, grimacing like a constipated meerkat – my lower back locked up in spasm after an old injury reared its ugly head (making a sandpit for your digging dog will do it).

Five years ago, wh...

After sweating it out for months to get fitter, stronger and leaner, the cold weather and darkness of winter comes along and ruins everything, well, only if you let it! Just as well we train indoors!

Just get into your fitness gear without thinking and get going. Here...

One woman conquered her fear of heights, another stretched her limits of agility - and all of us proved that with training and support we can be Wonder Women.

With The Compound Obstacle Course Training ground booked for our group of I Want Fitness Women Bootcampers...

Fitness Bootcamps are nothing to fear, with participants undertaking in body weight, strength and interval training to gain strength and endurance and improve their health.

You may find the trainer encouraging you to push through the pain but it is nothing like what y...

In November 2014, some of the IWantFitness girls dressed as Glamazons and did The Stampede obstacle course in Wandin. We took on 30 obstacles over 5km – into mud pits, up and over rope walls, through ice baths, electric wires and into dams, but together we did it, and...