ABOUT
Hello and Welcome! I'm Nicole, a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach, with certifications specializing in prenatal, postpartum, perimenopause, menopause, and beyond. I have 12 years of experience in the field, where I started coaching fully in-person and over the years added in online training. I'm a mom of two school-aged kids, a dog-lover, and a University of Calgary Dinos track and field alumni.
I help women who are seeking healthy changes to their movement or nutrition habits, empowering them to realize their innate physical and mental strength and power. My goals for the women I work with vary depending on the stage of life they are at. For pregnant women, we work a lot on body awareness, adjustments as each trimester passes, and preparation for birth. We focus not only on the physical, but also the mental health side of pregnancy. Early postpartum is focused on body awareness, healing, and re-introducing movement in small but effective ways. Later on postpartum, I love seeing women realize that while yes, so much has changed since the birth of their baby, they are still equally important and deserving of attention and time to do the things they love. As someone who is in perimenopause myself, I have a profound desire to help women navigate this overwhelming life stage, and beyond into post-menopause. I am inspired daily by 70 and 80 year olds who have made their movement and health a priority, and the way it benefits their overall quality of life. I don’t believe it’s ever too late to start, nor a bad time to start. My role and desire is to help women meet their body where it’s currently at, and find ways to get them moving in ways that light them up and make them feel a little more like themselves again.
I’m there for clients in many capacities - to just listen judgment free, to be their accountability partner, someone to sift through all the noise and overwhelming amount of information out there for training and nutrition.
Sports and daily movement have been a part of my life as long as I can remember. The mental clarity, reduction of stress and anxiety, increased self-confidence, concentration, and feeling of belonging are what bring me back to training year after year. My workouts look much different than they did 20 and even 10 years ago, and while my focus and reasons for being consistent have altered as my values and insights have grown, the underlying benefits are what have consistently kept bringing me back. The life-changing benefits of what nutrition and physical activity has done for me, is what drives my desire to help women experience this for themselves. I believe what we put in our bodies and how we move our bodies have so much untapped power, and if I can help one more woman see that and feel that for themselves, I’ve done my job.
On a personal level, I’ve also dealt with PPD, MCAS, POTS, SIBO, and have been through pregnancy, postpartum, and now perimenopause - all layers that have added to my personal skillset as a coach.
CERTIFICATIONS and CONTINUING EDUCATION:
I first really took sport seriously as a member of the Track and Field team at the University of Calgary (go Dinos!), and it was after university that I really started to tune into the mental health benefits I reaped from working out. My training education began with a personal trainer certification, followed up with Crossfit L1, then 200hr Yoga Teacher Training, 80hr Pre & Postnatal and 40hr Children’s Yoga Teacher Training, Precision Nutrition Level 1 followed shortly by Level 2, Spin, Postnatal Fitness Specialist (Jessie Mundell), Postpartum and Pregnancy Athleticism (Brianna Battles), as well as continuing education courses by Julie Wiebe, and Girls Gone Strong. I’ve completed the NCCP Weightlifting Coach In Training course. I have also studied under Dr.Sara Duvall’s Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist Certification, Katie St.Clair’s Empowered Performance Program, and Menopause 2.0 by Dr.Stacy Sims. I’m currently in the process of completing my Board Certification for Nutrition, as well as CanFitPro’s Active Aging continuing education course.