Strength that lasts. Not just a phase.

Meet your coach

I had to learn how my own body worked.

Let me actually tell you my story. Not the highlight reel, the real one.

I was always the naturally skinny one. I ate a lot, genuinely loved food, and trained on random days doing random things with no plan at all. No structure, no idea what I was actually doing. Sound familiar? We have all been there.

Then at twenty, two things happened that changed everything. I found out I have scoliosis, which I had lived with my whole life without knowing. Around the same time I badly sprained my back. That forced me to learn how my own body worked instead of copying whatever workout I saw online. I had to train around a curved spine, carefully and patiently, working out what actually helped and what did not. It was not glamorous. A lot of it was slow and frustrating.

That is when I started learning about fitness properly, not just going through the motions but understanding it. Over this past year I have been deep in figuring out how to build real muscle on a naturally skinny frame while still eating properly, rather than cutting everything out to stay lean. Building and leaning out at the same time is genuinely hard, and I have lived every part of it.

So when I say I get it, I mean it. Old injuries, a body that did not come with an instruction manual, food confusion, all of it. I have trained through every excuse people give themselves, including my own.

Not magic, not shortcuts. A plan that respects where your body actually is, applied consistently.

Coach Soph, founder of Better Within, Level 3 qualified personal trainer