This week’s episode is with the gorge Kirsten Aisbett who is a personal trainer and property manage from Ballaratt, Victoria and is also an ICN Bikini & Sports competitor – soon to be WBFF bikini!What I love about this sport and community is the amount of incredible women I’ve ‘met’ on social media. Kirsten is one of them! We’ve been following each others’ journeys for more than a year now and it was soooo incredible to watch her smash the stage for the first time last year.When I started this podcast I just knew I had to speak to her! We really left no stone unturned in this chat. We covered:Dealing with COVID and training during lockdownOpening a new gym this monthHer journey into health and fitness which started four years agoBeing inspired at the Arnolds to competeLosing 40kg in total and overcoming anxiety and depressionBack to back prepsComing from a really dark place and turning her life completely around Training her mind and mindset to focus on her selfLearning about nutrition and learning to trackFocussing on herself and how some people were incredibly unsupportive of thisUsing her own journey as fuel to help other people The biggest things she has learned along the wayNot letting other people’s opinions affect herDealing with unsupportive people and criticismSwitching from exercising to training for a competitionPrep making us realise what we’re capable ofWhat she wish she knew before competingDealing a difficult reverse and how she worked through itTransitioning to WBFFTaking two years off and embracing a long offseason to growGoing for that pro card!Advice for new competitorsReally - there wasn’t anything we DIDN’T cover!If you want to follow Kirsten’s journey head to https://www.instagram.com/kirstenashlea_pt/If you love the episode, please share to your stories and tag us so we can see and give you a shout out!Hope you’re all staying safe and well (particularly you Melbourne!) and I will catch you next week!Love you,R x

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