Welcome to Strong with Brydie!

Hey, I am Brydie. I absolutely love working with women and girls to help them discover their strength, physically and mentally, through strength training.

In 2018, I left my job as a Communications Manager, having experienced stress and burnout. I spent several weeks feeling completely lost. With confidence, self-esteem and self-belief hitting rock bottom, it was at this point that something had to give.

During the time I was signed off, I discovered the benefits exercise had on both my physical and mental health. By working out regularly, it provided me with an outlet to reset and refocus my mind and the thoughts racing through it, it not only played a fundamental part of my own recovery but is has since been a huge part of the direction I have taken.

My ethos to fitness and wellbeing and helping others, as shared with my husband who I work with, is recognising the benefits we all get from exercising, on both our physical health and mental wellbeing, and we truly believe fitness is more than just a workout for the body, it is also a workout for the mind too.

For women, it often means even more than that; it's the unlocking of potential and self-belief, it's the rebuilding of a body positive relationship, it's the making time for yourself and it's the realisation of 'yes I can'.

It's exactly why I established Strong Women.

Now, I don't know about you, but I grew up in a time where the weights area in a gym was dominated by men as weightlifting was seen as a 'no no' for women - "you don't want to 'become big and bulky' - and instead it was seen that hours of cardio, as well as diets that were silly and extreme, were the answer.

They were definitely not.

Now in my 40s, I have come to the realisation, as well as experienced it myself and through 100s of women I have worked with, that strength training is one of the most empowering and important things to bring into a woman's life.