Silvera Strength and Fitness<\/a> full-time.\n<\/p>\n\n The women\u2019s strength and conditioning coach said: \u201cIt was a scary decision, but it was honestly the best thing I\u2019ve ever done.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI love it, it doesn\u2019t feel like work to be honest.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI just see the difference it makes to these women and how far they\u2019ve come.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey couldn\u2019t do one sit-up, for example, when they first started, and now they\u2019re bashing them out.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI have a moment where I look at them, and I\u2019m like, this is amazing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Jilly said she has recently hosted a padel event for her clients to socialise and exercise at the same time, and is working on hosting similar events in the future.\n<\/p>\n
\n She says she focuses on creating a safe space for women to work out as an alternative to a busy gym.\n<\/p>\n
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She has converted her conservatory into a studio (Image: Jilly Silvera)\n<\/p>\n
\n Jilly said: \u201cI get a lot of enquiries through, and everyone says the same thing. They feel intimidated walking into a gym. They don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey feel like they\u2019re going to be watched and judged, and I get that. I personally don\u2019t think a gym is a nice environment either.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo I wanted to create a safe space where women felt really comfortable. They wear whatever they want, they don\u2019t care if they\u2019ve got makeup on or not. It\u2019s not about that.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cJust to prioritise themselves for an hour, forget everything else that\u2019s going on in their life. Everyone\u2019s got stuff going on in their life.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat hour is their time to work on themselves and to feel that bit stronger, but more importantly, to build that confidence.\n<\/p>\n
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Jilly Silvera has been a personal trainer for around five years (Image: Jilly Silvera)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m not interested in weighing my clients; I don\u2019t care what the scales say. The scales are just a number. I always say go off how you feel internally.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n She said the average age of the women attending her sessions is 45 and over.\n<\/p>\n
\n Jilly said: \u201cA lot of people are going through menopause, and they don\u2019t really know where to start with it, and I think they get put off and they get a bit scared and intimidated just walking into a gym.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDuring the menopaus,e you lose a lot of muscle and bone strength as we get older.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI always say, \u2018You want to be able to run around after your grandchildren, you want that healthy heart, you want to be able to lift them and throw them around, you want those strong bones’.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s a long-term thing; it\u2019s not just for the six-week transformations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jilly Silvera began her business, Silvera Strength and Fitness, 18 months ago. The single mum-of-one offers both one-to-one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,407,84],"class_list":["post-503186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}