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Rachel Amies Online Personal Trainer for women

Sustainable fitness for real life

Not built on pressure or performance.

Built to support you.

A sustainable approach to fitness

Much of the modern fitness world centres around performance and optimisation — rigid rules, tracking progress, increasing output, and continually pushing for more.

Yet many women are already living close to capacity. They're balancing careers, family, hormonal changes, and competing demands on their time and energy.

In this context, fitness just becomes another thing to keep up with.

But fitness should support your life, not add to the pressure. It should build your physical and mental capacity, not continually test its limits.

What if, instead of pushing harder, you could build a more flexible approach to fitness? One that fits more naturally into your life and no longer depends on extremes or perfect conditions in order to feel effective.

When fitness becomes more supportive, you start to feel stronger, more capable, and more confident.

You become more in tune with your body, and begin to understand what works for you — and why.

Fitness stops feeling like another standard to live up to, and starts becoming something steady and sustainable; something that helps you feel more grounded and better equipped for everyday life.

About

I’ve spent over a decade working with women who are capable, intelligent, and successful, and still struggle to stay consistent with fitness.​ Not because they lacked willpower or discipline, but because the model they were given didn’t reflect the reality of their lives.

My approach is grounded in evidence and shaped by experience.​ It prioritises stability over extremes, capacity over performance, and longevity over quick results.​ It helps women build strength that supports everything else they do.

Rachel Amies Sustainable Fitness Coaching for Women

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Newsletter

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I write a weekly newsletter on sustainable health and fitness. 

 

Training, nutrition, and mindset, all explored in the context of real life experience.

 

No hype. No fads. No extremes.​

 

It's a steadier, more considered, more realistic way to approach your fitness.​​​​​​​​​

 

Courses

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Foundations is a 6-week online coaching programme designed to help you build confidence and consistency with your exercise and nutrition.

 

Mindset work and learning guides accompany structured training sessions, so you can  gain clarity, build strength, and lay the groundwork for lasting change.

Workshops

 

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I run regular small-group workshops in Cambridge, UK, focused on improving movement quality within strength training.

We explore the fundamentals that underpin effective training through hands-on movement work, simple equipment, and an approach that’s easy to take and apply at home.

 

Private Coaching

 

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I work with a small number of clients on a one-to-one basis.

 

This is for when you want something more tailored, more specific.​ We look closely at what’s working, what isn’t, and where things still feel stuck.​ Then we adjust from there.

There's no fixed template; this is shaped around you.

Testimonials

"Before I started, I couldn't stand working out and felt wholly disconnected with my body. Since working with Rachel, my entire outlook on health, fitness and nutrition has changed. She tailors our sessions to my abilities and limitations and her support, patience, kindness, understanding, humour and confidence in me has led me to feel more comfortable in and in tune with my body than I have ever felt before. I now actually look forward to training! I can't thank Rachel enough for helping me make long-lasting, positive changes in my life."

- Emily R -

Rachel Amies Women's Fitness Coach

Sustainable fitness for real life

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