Leading Personal Trainers: 477-479 Glen Huntly Road, Elsternwick

Sassi: “I’m leaner, way stronger and I feel really body confident.”

Name: Sassi Pragnell

Born: 01/03/83

Lives: Prahran

Profession: Finance Exec

What was your training like before training with Gordon? My training was regular, but lacked variety to challenge my body, strength and flexibility as my program was limited by what I knew and I lacked confidence in my program and body, as I was often injured.

What is your training like now and what do you value most about it? My training is consistently challenging and varied (in terms of pace, exercise, and style) so I am always getting either stronger, fitter, leaner, flexible or more agile, even after more than a year with Gordon. I most value how good I feel – especially after training – I rarely have injuries, I eat better (and more), I’m leaner, way stronger, and I feel really body confident.

(Sassi and husband Ferg both looking on point at the 2017 Formula 1 Swisse and Ferrari event.)

What are you training goals for 2017? Continue to increase strength, fitness, and flexibility, with a focus on activating weaknesses so my body feels even.

What advice would you give to your 20 year old self? Maintain your core strength and flexibility – it’s a hard journey to get back.

Your personal motto: Nothing worth having comes easy.

What’s the most played artist or song on your current playlist? Pnau, Chameleon.

What’s your advice on work/life balance? Work/life balance only exists if you make it happen – be it changing jobs, getting up earlier, making plans and sticking to them, or knowing when to rest. The right balance is different for everyone, but most of the time it’s a choice, and it’s a virtuous cycle if you get it right – the more balance you get, very likely the better you’ll perform at your work and the better your relationships will be.

You use to represent Australia in Rowing how’s your training different now compared to then and what did you learn from that experience the most? Rowing training was more endurance whereas my focus now is more on strength and stability. I’m also over 10 years older, so I’m much more aware of how lucky I am to be able to train and how essential it is to keep moving. My husband thinks I train harder in the gym now. I have less time to devote to training so I think I just use my time better. Rowing taught me to how to fit a week into a day and push myself physically – 2km ergo tests will do that!

You’re a busy person with a lot of responsibilities at work and at home. What keeps you driven to keep going and keep excelling? I don’t know really. Maybe I was just bought up that way. I am never satisfied unless I’m challenging myself. As soon as something becomes comfortable I feel stagnant and start looking at other ways to improve, be it my work, health, or relationships – I like to think of it as a healthy obsession.

What’s your #1 advice on career and professional development? Find a job, employer or profession that values your attributes. In this day and age there is no point in conforming.

Sassi completing 80X8 deficit deadlifts on one of her lower body training days. 

Sassi will be the first person to tell you that she didn’t start training this athletic, fit and strong. We assessed her, kept her engaged with her nutrition and training and she did the work (which was only 3-days a week).

Ready to achieve your fitness goals with a supportive and professional Personal Training team behind you? Book in your introductory training session and consultation today.

BOOK IN YOUR INTRODUCTORY SESSION

Experience a more efficient and individualised way of training to achieve your fitness goal. Meet Gordon, discuss your goals and be taken through an individualised PT session in our studio.

Book in below:

We will only send you awesome stuff

PRIVACY POLICY

This following document sets forth the Privacy Policy for this website. We are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Crh), which sets out a number of principles concerning the privacy of individuals using this website.

Collection of your personal information

We collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information from visitors to this Website. Non-Personally Identifiable Information is information that cannot by itself be used to identify a particular person or entity, and may include your IP host address, pages viewed, browser type, Internet
browsing and usage habits, advertisements that you click on, Internet Service Provider, domain name, the time/date of your visit to this Website, the referring URL and your computer’s operating system.

Free offers & opt-ins

Participation in providing your email address in return for an offer from this site is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose your information. You may unsubscribe at any time so that you will not receive future emails.

Sharing of your personal information

Your personal information that we collect as a result of you purchasing our products & services, will NOT be shared with any third party, nor will it be used for unsolicited email marketing or spam. We may send you occasional marketing material in relation to our design services.

What Information Do We Collect?

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.

Cookie Based Marketing

Some of our advertising campaigns may track users across different websites for the purpose of displaying advertising. We do not know which specific website are used in these campaigns, but you should assume tracking occurs, and if this is an issue you should turn-off third party cookies in your web browser.

How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?

As you visit and browse Our Website, the Our Website uses cookies to differentiate you  other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from having to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our web server log files or pixels, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting Our Website and which parts of the site are most popular.

This helps us gather feedback to constantly improve Our Website and better serve our clients. Cookies and pixels do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not intentionally store any personal information that your browser provided to us in your cookies.

IP Addresses

IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as traffic data so that data (such as the Web pages you request) can be sent to you.

Sharing and Selling Information

We do not share, sell, lend or lease any of the information that uniquelyidentify a  subscriber (such as email addresses or personal details) with anyone except to the extent it is necessary to process transactions or provide Services that you have requested.

How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?

You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by using our contact page form.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make amendments to this Privacy Policy at any time. If you have objections to the Privacy Policy, you should not access or use this website. You may contact us at any time with regards to this privacy policy