Hello world. My name is Jacky Tyrrell and I am a Personal Trainer, Massage Therapist, Pilates teacher and much more. I have only been in this line of field for 7 years and was in Marketing before that, but have always been into fitness of some sort and used to be a club badminton player.
Unfortunately at the age of 16 I was diagnosed with an array of spinal problems including hyper-kyphosis, hyper-lordosis and the worst of all was scoliosis. This put an end to my badminton days as it put too much stress on one side of my body and thus I set out to find someone that could help relieve the pain and the constant headaches I was getting.
I tried many therapists and nothing seemed to work, until a friend of mine recommended his massage therapist. Well, this was the answer I was looking for. After only one session the headaches reduced and my muscles started to relax. I continued to see him for quite a while and the results were incredible! In fact this is what moved me towards my massage qualification as I wanted to help others, like my therapist had helped me.
I also found that resistance training in a gym helped my muscular problems immensely so I became an avid gym go-er at the age of 17. I found that I loved this environment so much that I would like to work in this field so at the age of 31 I decided to give up my well paid job and retrain as a Personal Trainer.
So, this is where I am today and still loving it. Of course I have added a lot more strings to my “bow”, the most recent being Pilates, but it is just a great field to be in and I love every minute of it. The best thing is I am my own boss and don’t regret leaving my old job. This is definitely job satisfaction!!!!!!
