Coach Mahara Feala

A busy season!

1. Premiership 🥇
2. Family 🧑‍🧑‍🧒
3. Home Gym 🏋🏽‍♀️
4. Waterworld 💧
5. Ōwhata 🏠
6. 30 🎂
7. Mahi 📍
8. Surgery 🗡️
9. Recovery ❤️‍🩹

Just a few highlights of life lately 😮‍💨

How I got back into running postpartum after clearance - What the last 13 months has looked like 🏃🏽‍♀️

📝 Following a program - I started with couch to 5km. Couch to 5km is a 6 week block, I repeated it twice (12 weeks), this allowed me to work at higher intensities the 2nd time around. I then progressed to more anaerobic capacity work at 2:1 & 1:1 work to rest ratios e.g 2mins on 1min off or 30s on 30s off.

📈 Being intentional with what running zones I am in for different sessions e.g interval sessions vs recovery runs. This is purely based off the zones that appear on my watch, not the most accurate data but enough to keep me on track.

💪🏽 All strength sessions for the week included core and upper back work. During pregnancy and postpartum we become very forward heavy with an increase in breast size, a pregnant puku followed by carrying/cradling baby. So making sure I was still improving my upper back and core strength for better posture helped with staying more upright and open while running.

✅ Staying consistent. Getting 3 runs and 2 strength sessions done each week as much as I could. Juggling being a mum very early on in your postpartum journey is hard not all weeks are going to be great. Not all sessions are going to feel amazing but also not all sessions are going to feel bad either!

🛺 Running while pushing the pram! The added resistance of pushing Bub for the last 13 months has added an extra challenge to running but one that has been extremely helpful. While running with the pram feels normal now, running without the pram feels like a breeze!

🥅 Setting a goal. My goal was to be able to complete Hyrox without stopping at all on the running or at any time I was completing stations. At 7months PP and 4 months of being back to running, we made it happen!

Feeling more and more like myself again!

If you are wanting to get back to running after having Bub and don’t know where to start, send me a DM, I’d love to help you get started. Let’s chat! 💕

International Women’s Day 💕

5 things I have learnt in this industry after graduating from university 👩🏽‍🎓

The last 2 are my favourite 😊

When training gets hard:

🪷 Know your why
🪷 Reflect on your journey and the progress you’ve made
🪷 Revisit your goals and make them visible
🪷 Choose your hard, would you rather the hard path that results in growth or the hard path that results in regret?

I look back on these and think:

1️⃣ It was such an epic thing to be able to do only 7 months postpartum.
2️⃣ No one actually cares what you are wearing, they are all focused on getting the same thing done as you!
3️⃣ I’m stoked with the progress I’ve since made from then until now.

Growth always! 🌱

Finally emerging from our chaotic end to 2024, hello! 🙋🏽‍♀️

1. The LC’s 💍
2. The Motherland 🇼🇸
3. Baby girls 1st birthday 🎂
4. Moved back to NZ 🇳🇿
5. Enjoying our home ❤️💛🖤

Settling back into our new life. You’ll see me around here a lot more again 😊

Selling at home gym set up due to relocating back to New Zealand. Individual prices below. Preference to take the lot for $4000.00 and I’ll throw in a smaller DB/Shelf, various resistance bands and small side storage seat/ottoman for free. No time wasters please!

Available from December 9th 2024. Location Avondale Heights, Victoria.
Ad is also up on FB Marketplace.

Dumbbells (191kg total) + Dumbbell Rack
3kg Pair
5kg Pair
7.5kg Pair
10kg Pair
12.5kg Pair
15kg Pair
20kg Pair
22.5kg Pair
=$600.00

Ironedge portable squat rack + Ironedge 15kg barbell
=$1000.00

Ironedge Bumper Plates
5kg Pair
10kg Pair
15kg Pair
20kg Pair
=$500.00

Gym Mats (11 Mats)
-Black x 7
-Speckled Black x 4
=$20.00 per mat

Plate and Barbell Tree (on its own)
=$100.00

Ironedge Soft Boxes
=$500.00

Concept 2 Rower
=$1,000.00

Ironedge Flat Bench
=$200.00

Adjustable Incline Bench
=$250.00

Snap Collars
=$20.00

Extra Plates/Micro Plates $2 per kg
10kg x 2 = $40
5kg x 4 = $40
2.5kg x 4 = $20
1kg x 2 = $4
0.5kg x 2 = $2

Biggest good luck to this legend as she’s headed to Toronto for Aus camp this week!

2024 World Box Lacrosse Championships starts next week and I can’t to see you do your thing, you’ve put a whole lot of work into getting to this campaign and boy is it deserved!! I’m so bloody proud of you Steph! It’s not often that I’d be supporting an Aussie 😉😆🇦🇺🦘

When I tell you she hated running, she haaaaaaated running 😂 Did I mention she’s also signed up to her first 10km?

Our training wasn’t even focused on running and yet look what Georgia is doing now?!?

All of Georgias training was done remote, we would check in weekly and make sure everything was tracking how it should, and if it wasn’t, we’d look at what changes we needed to make.

Following a program doesn’t need to be hard, you just need the right person keeping you accountable.

🤔 Do you find you go to the gym and just do whatever you feel like?
🤔 Not seeing much progress/change?
🤔 Finding yourself constantly YouTubing workouts?
🤔 Have training/exercise goals but don’t know how to achieve them?
🤔 Want the flexibility to train when you want, wherever you want?

If any of these sound like you, having an online coach through remote programming may be for you.

Comment below or send me a DM. I’d love to hear from you 📩

It’s been a hot minute! We are back personal training face to face 🥳

Ive already had a handful of clients booking in and filling my main spots so I thought I’d open up 2x day time spots.

Who would this suit?

⭐️Someone who works from home and has the flexibility to train during the day.
⭐️ A Mumma (or Dada) that is at home with bubs and would like to train with a coach during the day but needs to bring bubs along too (maybe you have a friend who would like to join too).
⭐️ Someone who has a day off during the week that would love the luxury of training in the middle of the day (expectant Mummas encouraged!).
⭐️ Someone who doesn’t mind a miniature coach telling you what to do as well as me 👶🏼 (this one’s the most important).

Information that will help you make your decision:

⚡️Personalised training from a qualified coach with 7 years experience working at multiple well established businesses and organisations within the industry.
⚡️Experience as an athlete at both semi-professional and professional level.
⚡️ Experience returning to exercise post natal
⚡️1:1 sessions - $90.00 per hour
⚡️2:1 sessions - $110.00 per hour
⚡️ Sessions are run from a fully set up home studio in Avondale Heights

If this something you would like to do or know more, please send me a DM to discuss further.