Ally is passionate about helping people lead better, healthier lives and giving people the knowledge to care for their own health, on a day to day basis.
A British national, she arrived in Hong Kong in 2005, pursuing a career in sales and marketing, while taking part in sports at the evening and weekend (cycling through running, netball, dragon boating, strength training, white collar boxing and Crossfit). For the first eight years of her time in Hong Kong she was certainly overtraining; compensating for the HK lifestyle of eating and drinking too much with too frequent workouts, not enough rest and sprinkled with a touch of emotional eating to boot. She wondered why her weight yo-yo'd and didn't reflect the amount of exercise she was doing...oh... and the physio was her best friend.
Having always been interested in health, food and nutrition from an early age, in 2016, she swapped her career in Sales and Marketing to follow her passion. Now, she is a Strength & Conditioning Coach and a Naturopathic Practitioner.
Her style of functional strength training is often the missing element in clients' exercise regime. As a Certified Pain-Free Performance Level 2 Specialist (PPSC), she not only helps clients build muscle, strength and fitness, helping to reduce body fat and improve overall health, but helps to improve core, hip and shoulder stability and mobility, subsequently reducing pain and niggles, evening out bio-mechanical imbalances, thus improving sporting performance or simply life performance! As a Naturopathic Practitioner, she is a Certified Healing Diets Practitioner and Iridology Consultant, Herbalism and Naturopathy student. She examines your diet, health and lifestyle in a whole new way, to keep you lean, make you feel better, give you more energy, reverse or manage chronic health conditions, help you sleep better; ultimately helping your body to heal.
She is a NASM-Certified Personal Trainer, a Certified Level 2 Pain-Free Performance Specialist, a SNM Certified Healing Diets Practitioner, a SNM Certified Iridologist, a AAHF Health & Wellness Coach and an AAHF Senior Fitness Specialist, in addition to holding First Aid and CPR qualifications. She is a Herbalist and Naturopath-in-training and is due to graduate in 2023 and 2024 respectively.
