Simone is a superb fitness/nutrition/wellbeing consultant who relates easily with clients in a comfortable and understanding manner.

She is a caring, organised and a positive gym instructor creating both long and short term personal physical programs, as well as assisting, advising and explaining food and dietary needs in training and for lifestyle wellbeing. Her explanations to each physical skill is detailed as she explains muscular and aerobic values and safety components.

Simone understands and recognises the needs, desires and physical attributes of her clients enabling her to develop a unique personal program in order for the client to achieve the desired goals. Her ability to recognise the clients wellness and response to activities allows her to monitor, drive, encourage and challenge each skill during training.

Summarisation and discussion with the clients before and during warm up exercises gives Simone notification of her clients physical state, injuries and mental wellbeing. Thus she is then able to adapt each session’s skills in order to achieve maximum benefits and gains.

Simone astutely adapts programs according to specific muscular development, strength and aerobic fitness whilst being aware of any occurring injury.

Her appointment reminder contacts prior to training sessions and after training follow up contacts as to the clients recovery were extremely important and encouraging.

Simone went above and beyond the gym sessions to study the specific and necessary fitness/power/flexibility skills related to my sport - Waka Ama. She was keen to observe my paddling actions and ability on the water and also to discuss with my coach the sports unique techniques and my individual needs. She then had a greater understanding of the action skills required and developed a very specific gym training for myself, her client. She also observed any televised events after competition to notice any further skill needed in future training programs.

Simone created a Waka Ama gym long and short term development program to peak at each competition date. The program created enabled myself success at Regional, National and World Championships at Gold, Silver and Bronze medal status in sprints (500/1000m) over the years and Gold at World Long Distance -70yr+ (16/20km) competition.

Simone’s goal setting program plan allowed myself to be at peak fitness, have strength, mental visualisation and also understand dietary requirements pre and post training and during race conditions. Her explanations specific to muscular development transferred easily to the paddling actions in the waka which helped to be more efficient during each stroke. Her mental visualisation assisted in focussing me on the race plan during each race.

Thank you for all your commitment to my program and encouragement during each training session. My success was also yours.

Les (Lesley) Howat
December 2021