Head Coach
HALEY KIRK
ROLE
After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Brock University in 2015, Haley decided to travel and have a think about what career paths she wanted to pursue. After falling into the fitness industry in 2018, she has since completed her Cert 3/4 in Fitness and has been a coach for the last 4 years. During the pandemic she recognised the need for coaches who understand the complexities of mental health issues, so as to improve the services and coaching experiences people with mental health disorders might receive in the fitness industry. Since deciding to try and address this gap between fitness and psychology, she has ventured back to school in order to complete a Masters in Clinical Psychology at the University of Melbourne by 2023. It is Haley’s dream that she may be a practicing clinical psychologist to serve disadvantaged populations struggling with mental health disorders, as well as continuing to bridge the gap between psychological well-being and the fitness industry by providing her coaching services to the general population.
Her favourite part about being a coach is watching the evolution of a client’s mindset that occurs across the months and years she works with them. Haley believes there is nothing more satisfying than watching a client reflect on how their small efforts daily have added up to create the big and meaningful changes required for achieving their goals.
PROUDEST MOMENT
One of her proudest moments has been receiving her Letter of Offer to her dream program for Clinical Psychology at The University of Melbourne. Completing her first successful muscle building phase, where she acquired 8kg of lean muscle tissue, is a close second.
After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Brock University in 2015, Haley decided to travel and have a think about what career paths she wanted to pursue. After falling into the fitness industry in 2018, she has since completed her Cert 3/4 in Fitness and has been a coach for the last 4 years. During the pandemic she recognised the need for coaches who understand the complexities of mental health issues, so as to improve the services and coaching experiences people with mental health disorders might receive in the fitness industry. Since deciding to try and address this gap between fitness and psychology, she has ventured back to school in order to complete a Masters in Clinical Psychology at the University of Melbourne by 2023. It is Haley’s dream that she may be a practicing clinical psychologist to serve disadvantaged populations struggling with mental health disorders, as well as continuing to bridge the gap between psychological well-being and the fitness industry by providing her coaching services to the general population.
Her favourite part about being a coach is watching the evolution of a client’s mindset that occurs across the months and years she works with them. Haley believes there is nothing more satisfying than watching a client reflect on how their small efforts daily have added up to create the big and meaningful changes required for achieving their goals.
One of her proudest moments has been receiving her Letter of Offer to her dream program for Clinical Psychology at The University of Melbourne. Completing her first successful muscle building phase, where she acquired 8kg of lean muscle tissue, is a close second.
“I have always had really high expectations for my body image, many of which in hindsight, have been quite unrealistic. None the less I started training with Haley so that I could achieve many of these goals “I have achieved so much with Haley, not only from a physical perspective, but also from a mental health and well being perspective as well. When I started training with Haley, all I cared about was being 'skinny' and getting a 'thigh gap'. Even though currently I'm not the skinniest I have ever been, I'm certainly the fittest, strongest and healthiest. Not to mention I am the best I have ever looked”. “Haley isn't just my personal trainer, she has become my life coach! She's really helped me accept my body for what it is, and focus on the things I can improve and strengthen as opposed to allowing me to obsess over things that aren't in my control and are more or less genetically impossible. I have had several personal trainers in my life, but Haley is the first who has really taken the time to get to know me and really understand my needs”.
When Kin inquired with me he was hoping to primarily increase strength and size of his chest after tearing his right pec. Receiving the green light from his physio, we began a structured program 2x per week together.
He did no other training outside of our sessions but was very active with surfing most weekends and also loves to push his limits. An optimal amount of volume with exercises that didn’t absolutely destroy him with loads was super important in negating risk to his right pec whilst giving him enough overall stimulus in order to grow in the limited time we had together each week. Since he likes to push himself it became clear that pedantic tracking of his volume increases for chest each week was necessary for making confident but slow increases whilst maintaining buy into the small, slow progressions.
Kin never missed a session and has always committed to tracking his nutrition. For him it was some days eating more, some days eating less but always aiming towards the calorie amount and protein intake assigned. He fell short of his protein target by 20-30g each day which just goes to show it’s not the 1%’s for perfection that make the difference but the overall consistency you put in long term.
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