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Hi! I’m Anna, fitness coach, an ever-realist and idealist in heart. Deeply spiritual and evidence-based. I believe in the inseparable union of body and soul. Over the past 13 years, I have successfully experimented with smaller and larger steps of self-care and I am persistently educating myself to support others on the path of becoming stronger in body and mind.
Since 2012, at the same time as my own lifestyle change, I started writing a blog and since then I have been helping people on the bumpy path of lifestyle change, life coaching and even parenthood, with my writings.
In 2015, I obtained my life coach qualification. In the first period, I helped my clients to dare to listen to the call of their hearts and switch to a profession that gives them identity and personal fulfillment instead of their soul-killing office work.
In 2016, my little son was born, and a year later, in 2017, my twin daughters. I became a mother of a large family at a breakneck pace. My own bone-deep experiences on the journey of becoming a parent, full of depths and heights, inspired me to focus my support work on mothers. It was a long season in my life where I needed a lot of strength to be able to cope with all the changes.
As a deep-heart lover of strength training and healthy lifestyle, in 2018, I delved into the world of functional training and obtained the Level-1 Functional Movement Trainer Certificate.
In 2023, I expand my knowledge with the Fitness Academy Fitness instructor training, so that in addition to functional training, I also serve you with up-to-date and evidence-based knowledge in strength training, bodybuilding, figure shaping, conditioning and health-preserving fitness methods.
I deeply believe (and that science also supports) that a long and healthy life is based on a strong body. As a coach, I strive to give you an empathetic space and support that encourages your development.
In 2012, I decided to end my previous lazy and unhealthy lifestyle, finally embark on the path of change and lose weight. At the same time, I started writing my blog, where I followed the entire process of my lifestyle change. As time went by, I realized that this was about much more than just getting rid of extra pounds and building muscle. It began to become a deep work of self-knowledge and my blog reflected this. The result of my lifestyle change was that I not only lost weight, but what is much more than that, I became stronger in body and soul. The biggest turning point came in 2014, when I practically started a new life. That year, I got divorced, changed my place of residence and then my job, and I also started a new relationship on a completely new, but now more secure, and since then intensively deepening basis of self-knowledge.
3 years after my lifestyle change, I finally realized who I really am and what kind of life I want to live. In this process, strength training (initially weight training in the gym, later powerlifting) and continuous attention to myself and self-reflection, which my blog meant (and overall, conscious living), were my most important helpers.
3 years of continuous work and a series of small steps led to me breaking out of the captivity I created myself, finally, for the first time in my life, I truly prioritized my own points of view over those of others, and I took on everything that I am and want to be. A person who is able to decide what is good for her and take extreme ownership, full of life and generally happy. Along with the turning point, I felt one thing for sure: I FINALLY LIVE. Finally, I am truly living life with all its happiness, difficulties, and struggles. For the goals that are important to me.
In 2014, by being able to stand up for myself, at the same time risking all my previous ideas and desires and actually letting go of everything I had created up until then (because I previously thought that these would help me realize them), I finally got everything I ever wanted. In fact, much, much more. I finally became a happy person!
Of course, the story didn’t end there: life presented me with many challenges (or I did, unconsciously). It’s no coincidence: by then, I could call myself strong enough to fight it, no matter what. In early 2015, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s. I can proudly say that although I had a serious low point in the spring of 2015 because of this, building on my previous experiences, I successfully fought the awareness of my illness, so that I can call myself a healthy, balanced and happy person again. I could finally say: I control my life.
That’s why I continued working in 2015: I completed Wiesner Edit Lemma’s coaching school, so that I could learn from my own journey and help others make small or big changes as a certified coach. My own journey showed me that a happy life is not just a wishful thinking, but a real goal that can be achieved and created by us.
This was just a stop, because the depths were still waiting for me. In a very short time, we had 3 children from our marriage: our little boy in 2016 and our twin girls in 2017. Yes, you read that right, I became a mother of three in 2 years! Our twins were born 12 months apart after our first child, and this miracle was also a life-threatening task for us. We knew very well that we had only one choice: to train in this life situation and this set-up.
Motherhood is the most intense, deepest and most uplifting experience I have ever had in life. I am constantly learning about myself, my relationships and discovering the essence of human life through it. As a mother, I have experienced how little time I can often spend on the things that make me alive. However, this distance also fuels the desire in me to work for myself and at the same time pass on all the knowledge and experience I have gained in recent years to others. In 2018, with my three little ones, I completed the Functional Movement Trainer training at Thor Gym, and I ccontinues my journey with the Fitness Academy Fitness Instructor training in 2023.
I believe that our lives can be happy and complete.
I believe that a life following the voice of our own heart is not a girl’s dream, but a reality that can be created. And that the strength of our body can greatly support our ambitions.
I believe that we can live our lives in a way that includes the values that we ourselves consider important. For me, this is family, a helping profession, empathetic and supportive human relationships, simplicity and. And most of all: freedom – which is for me spiritual and emotional integrity and safety.
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