Rhian Adams – Icon in Fitness & Coaching
If you have been aspiring to achieve your this year’s health/fitness goals and have not yet reached where you expected, we have got it sorted for you. Meet with one of the top fitness coaches in Dubai. Yes, we are referring to someone you could easily find lifting heavy weights at gym, competing as a bikini athlete, getting muddy and wet swinging across rigs in OCR races and making it all seem natural and sexy – Rhian Adams. She walks the talk. She cares for her clients. She is vibrant and vivacious. She offers you an enriching and profound wellness oriented physical training program that will push progress through your journey of life transformation and accelerate your way towards your goals. Rhian has been making it big in the fitness industry for last twenty-two years and growing. Her devotion and commitment has brought her many awards and accolades including PT of the year thrice at the prestigious UAE Fit Awards, Fitness influencer of the year 2023 and Woman of Inspiration 2024.
Rhian’s Professional Strengths:
Rhian is a fitness passion driven entrepreneur, who ensures that her clients experience life transformation through her work as well as tutoring a range of Fitness courses for leading Fitness Provider Bodyhack. As a professional, she was recently awarded her ‘Advanced Exercise Specialist Certification by RepsUAE. Her qualifications include Level 4 strength and condition (specializing in OCR and bodybuilding), Level 4 Lower Back Pain and she Specializes in Pre and Post Natal Coaching.
“My clients, both females and males are seeking something more profound than physical training and strength. They are in pursuit of life transformation. And this is what my programs are based upon. I love seeing my clients reap the benefits both physically and mentally as they gradually change their lifestyle by developing healthy habits and mastering them for life.” Apart from coaching, she shares her knowledge through health and fitness articles quite frequently and shares her knowledge and information through short reels on her social media platform. She is authoring her new book “Beautiful Bump to Bulletproof Body” due to release by end of summer 2024.
Pre and Post Natal Pregnancy and Exercise Controversy:
As a Pre /Post natal specialist, mother of two, and certified Doula, she has a huge passion for guiding women through healthy pregnancy and becoming fit and strong as a mum after birth. She says, “Pregnancy and early motherhood is such a special stage in a woman’s life and it’s a very beautiful journey for me to be part of. Only 25% of pregnant women get the recommended amount of exercise which is only 5 x 30 minutes per week, 3 out of 4 women do not get the recommended amount of exercise. There is fear around exercising during pregnancy and a lot of misinformation to stop exercise and a false idea that exercise causes miscarriage or premature birth.
Rhian Adams continues, “Over the last decade recent research has shown the wonderful impact that moderate exercise has on pregnancy – so much evidence and research suggests overwhelming benefits for mum and baby, the ACSM and ACOG both recommend aerobic and resistance training (lifting weights) during pregnancy even if you have not exercised before and even if you have gestational diabetes.
I recommend you have an examination by the doctor to check for things like pregnancy induced hypertension, if there are complications, you are carrying multiples or you are considered a ‘high risk pregnancy’ then follow your doctor’s advice and guidelines on exercise/rest recommendations.
“On my first doctors visit at 4 weeks pregnant I was advised to stop everything except walking and swimming, the doctor didn’t know I was a pre and post-natal coach and tutor. I realized at that moment that the need was MORE than educating women around me but to educate and inspire medical professionals to have a greater understanding and make the appropriate recommendations for Pregnant and Post-Partum
mums, more and more gynecology doctors are attending the pre and post-natal certification courses that I teach to learn more about the benefits of exercising during pregnancy, the precautions, how to differentiate between the myths and misconceptions that we have heard and may believe, and how to advise patients to exercise safely and confidently without supervision – walking and swimming, how they can exercise in a safe environment – pre and post-natal classes and how they can stay strong and fit for motherhood under a supervision of a pre and post-natal qualified coach.
Benefits of Training through Pregnancy:
Training through pregnancy reaps a whole lot of benefits for mother and baby – here are a few benefits you should tick off:
1. Reduces aches and pains and reduces risk of lower back pain
2. Reduced risk of gestational diabetes
3. Prepares you for labor and birth
4. Improves quality of sleep
5. Prepares you for all the bending and lifting as a new mum
6. Less unnecessary weight gain
7. Preservation of lean mass
8. Quicker return to strength and fitness
9. Lower stress levels
10. Increased circulation helps with cramping, swelling and varicose veins.
You feel like a hot pregnant mumma!
“There is also a huge gap that needs to be filled between giving birth and returning to exercise, this gap is the foundation of your future motherhood bulletproof body – I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for a woman to be guided through some essentials with a coach involving rehabilitation, recovery, core strengthening to heal abdominal separation, rectifying imbalances, strengthening and correcting static and dynamic posture, pelvic floor health focus, deep tissue release, increase of body awareness and pro-prioception, diaphragm stretching, foot focus, mobility and flexibility to open up the body and nourishing body-weight exercises. If you return to exercise without this foundation being built, you are missing out on the benefits you will reap but also put yourself at risk of injury, hernias, sprains, strains, stress fractures and worsening of your diastasis recti. Get an assessment with a pre and post-natal specialist and visit a pelvic floor physiotherapist BEFORE thinking of returning to your pre- pregnancy classes.
Rhian’s Health & Wellness Philosophy:
Real Fitness is about long-term positive lifestyle changes to become a happier and healthier person. In her view, “My philosophy is that Fitness is about staying fit and healthy through each stage of life and as it goes through all external forces of life which is essentially aging, pregnancy, injuries, sickness but also day to day changes like moods, sleep quality, nourishment and nutrition.
We can live and achieve our best life through active living and through moving, nourishing and believing.”
Exercise and good nutrition choices are in a way therapy and empowering ways that help us all manage life trials and turmoils. if there is one thing that the previous few years have taught us all, it is that fitness extends so much more than the physical realm and maintenance of a bodily shape. It encompasses the mental, emotional + spiritual existence too which are all required to battle the many highs and lows of life, from sickness, to the unknown, to spontaneous vacations to even surprise pregnancies!
Rhian is a Warrior Mommy:
Rhian recently recognized as ‘Wondermum’ 2024 cares for her two adorable children Samson and Seren and mentors them towards a healthier and happier life. She dotes on them. Her daughter has learned from her mother about the importance of a healthy and fit body, therefore, she joins her every morning during Rhian’s workout. For two consecutive years Rhian has been organizing a “birthday sports day” for her daughter to grow the love for healthy life and fitness in her. As for Rhian’s own personal achievements, she is no stranger to the bodybuilder stage and is proud to have competed for the second time as a PRO athlete after becoming a Mum.
Advice to the Readers:
In our efforts to achieve the most from our workout and training we make things complex, most certainly when it comes to losing weight, building stamina and staying fit. Rhian Adams advises to continue with simple routines and appropriate dietary choices to avoid frustration and demotivation. She also advises to avoid the overwhelm, generalizations about fitness routine and mis-information. Social media is entertaining but everything it presents might not be as accurate as it is promised there; therefore, she advises not to fully trust what is being fed on social media.
She advises to build healthy habits gradually. One step at a time, we will achieve more than doing everything all together. She states, “Habits are more mastered when they are introduced one at a time, and our bodies respond better if it’s given time to adapt to new stimulus and overloaded progressively. You can lower your body fat by creating a small and progressive calorie deficit over time, think of it in the same way that you manage your money in what you earn, spend and save.
A) How much do you make and spend each week?
B) How much do I want to save? Where can you spend less and save?
C) How much do I budget for a night out with my friends?
How this equates to nutrition would be;
A) Track what you are eating each day over the week- what is your total calorie consumption? (FYI Research shows that writing it down DOUBLES fat loss)
B) How much of a calorie deficit am I aiming for? What could you reduce or replace to consume less to create that deficit?
C) How many calories do I need to budget for some flexible eating on the weekend.”
Connect with Rhian:
Connect with award winning fitness coach on LinkedIn Rhian Adams. You may discuss various fitness and wellness issues with Rhian on Instagram at @rhian_adams_athlete
