Shirley Elliott

Who is Shirley?

• I am a qualified Personal Trainer spinning Instructor+life+fitness coach!
• I specialise in training woman and have researched and accordingly devised spesialised interval programs that shape, burn fat and compliment the body somatotype of my client,with brilliant transforming results!
• I do train men interested in fitness and extreme type sports!
• I have placed and won many Fitness, figure divisions in various IFBB, NABBA, MIss SA Fitness and Exergise Awards!
• I have my Provincial colours and placed SA time trialing and road cycling.
• I am a single mom as well with 3 children 2 boys 19, 16 and a 7 year old young daughter!

Shirley’s Story

About 16 years ago i started working out with weights and after my 2nd son was born got involved in competitive cycling. I achieved provincial colours and progressed to south african level achieving top 3 in both time trialing and road champs.

After i fell pregnant with my 3rd child,while watching fitness America I just fell in love with the feminine look the fitness girls portrayed while still doing dynamic gymnastic/dance routine and discovered I had a desire to  do that.

So at the age of 37, 9 months after my daughter was born I enterd my first miss fitness show in cape town run by Bernadette Beyer (www.missfitnesssa.co.za) and came 5th overall.

I have since never looked back and went on to win and place top 3  both on national and provincial level.

I decided to quit bookkeeping as the increasing demand from woman asking for my help on getting into shape and assisting them  with diets, was so overwhelming  and made me realise the need and necessity for me to study and research the complexities of the woman in fitness, and for a general healthier lifestyle that would not only impact them personally but their families as well.

As i studied and learned so much on a practical level and used my own experiences to help others,i discovered  all the insecurities i had to let go of to achieve success,not only in my carrer but as a mom as well.

I had to renew my mind on a daily basis, I had to let go of past failure,and with renewed Godly confidence and trust,worked towards maintaing that positive mindset with overwhelming success.

Do you believe you cannot achieve what youve set your desires on to achieve?

Do you undervalue your dedication and commitment to yourself to complete your goals in not just health and fitness but in any other task you set yourself?

Our biggest fear,the one that tugs at our confidence with insistent,clumsy fingers is the fear that we are not
good enough.

I hope you are not good enough because good enough is on the edge of mediocre, good enough is not brilliant..its flat!

You are not good you are brilliant and i am going to show you how to find the brilliant luminous passionate you!

What you focus on is what you move toward.what do you have to give yourself permissin to let go of before you can achieve all you were born to achieve?

What is the positve outcome after youve let go, see the bigger picture in front of you ,long term?

Ask yourself what is the 1st thing i must do to achieve that outcome?

I have applied the above to my life and not without intense struggle,i never said it would be easy,but  with godly guidance,all things are possible.

Besides all the above I am first of all in love with Jesus & I love spending quality time with my children, the outdoors, horse riding, cycling, running, reading for hours on an end, movies and cats!!! I am pretty much fun loving but have an intense passion to help set abused woman  free, more on that later…