Personal trainer’s client support work acknowledged with Fitness Australia Award

Melbourne-based personal trainer Belinda Nelson’s work in helping a client overcome Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and arthritis has been recognised with her being awarded the fitness industry’s highest personal training honour, Fitness Australia’s National #ActiveAchievers Award.

Nelson, the owner and Head Trainer at View to Fitness supported her client Donna Egglestone in achieving not only her health goals but also her personal exercise goals.

With Nelson’s help, Egglestone ran her first full marathon, returned her weight to a normal healthy range and significantly increased her muscle and strength, something that is important with her forms of arthritis.

Egglestone also competed for Australia at the World Masters where she finished with a Bronze medal and shortly after won the Victorian title for W40+ 400m hurdles.

She acknowledges that she would not have considered these activities before she started training with Nelson.

Egglestone, who lives with PTSD, nominated Nelson for the Award.

She says she’d like to see a shift in the way society views mental health, explained “I want exercise to be one of the first steps in supporting people with mental health issues just like rehabilitation for those with injuries.”

“We (people with chronic long term mental health issues) need somewhere to go where we feel nurtured and cared for, safe and supported.”

Commenting on the Award, Fitness Australia Chief Executive Bill Moore stated “a rrainer and client relationship like this one between Belinda and Donna demonstrates the life-changing work that AusREPs are capable of.

"As the peak industry association we exist to empower our AusREPs to engage more people in exercise for better quality of life - this is a perfect example of that - which makes us extremely proud of the life-changing work being done all over the country each day.”

#ActiveAchievers recognises the outstanding work that fitness trainers and instructors do to help their communities live a more active, healthy lifestyle.

Images: Donna Egglestone (left) with #ActiveAchievers Award winner (Belinda Nelson (top and below) and #ActiveAchievers Award winners celebrate (middle).

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