Hey, my name’s Kim
I’m the founder and head coach of The Strength Movement
The Strength Movement started in 2021, in the midst of finding myself on the other side of second guessing my eating and exercise behaviours, and navigating plateaus in the gym.
Through studies in exercise science and disordered eating it has become my mission to help females navigate the confusion, build more autonomy in their choices, and bridge the gaps between wellness and performance, so that you build autonomy in a world where it is hard to be intuitive.
This is my story and why I’m here…
I started dieting when I was 10, in year 5.
I wanted to be smaller, to be more valued. This became a cycle of intense dieting and exercise followed by binge eating, unhelpful rules and confusion. It lead me into second guessing every eating and exercise choice I made, and by year 12 I was suffering with many health consequences.
The turning point;
I was skiing at Mt Buller in June 2017, my year 12. One of the gym staff could tell I was not doing well and started talking to me about strength and what it took her to feel good in her body again.
That one conversation changed my future.
The next day I distinctively remember looking at my back in the lululemon change rooms and freaking out at how bony I had become. I downed a heap of those health “bounce balls” that I had in my bag and didn’t look back.
Throughout the years since I have worked with coaches to let go of restrictive measures and start building stronger intuition. I was introduced to the strength sport of powerlifting, no longer choosing to be smaller as a result of exercise, but to be faster and more powerful, to take up space…
My journey inspired my sports science and eating disorder practitioner studies. It inspired the launch of my own coaching business in 2021 which I have evolved today to helping so many women transform their lives.
From the evolution of myself and inspiration from my coaches and clients The Strength Movement is a collection of services designed to help women build autonomy in their choices and discover what building their bodies capacity without sacrificing their health can look like.
