Celebrity Fitness Trainer Svava Sigbertsdottir Shares Her Inspiring Fitness Journey

Ms. Namita Nayyar:

You have worked with so many celebrities. How has your experience been working with them? Is it challenging, interesting or both?

Ms. Svava Sigbertsdottir:

It is exactly the same as working with none celebrities. It is just their job, it is not who they are. We are all basically the same, the same things matter to must of us. We all want to feel good, to be good, to be comfortable in our own skin. We want to give and receive love, achieve things, win some and learn some. The approach might be different, person to person but the end goal is the same. So no matter in what profession you are, that is what you focus on and talk about and give energy to.

Ms. Namita Nayyar:

You have done many photo shoots and shown your spectacular toned physique. What advice do you wish to give to the women of today to be body confident in order to do such fitness shoots?

Ms. Svava Sigbertsdottir:

With photoshoots I am actually not very comfortable in. I never know how to stand or how to smile or anything. But I am body confident in general so it works. (eventually, after all the half open eyes and hair in the face and so on have been deleted :-))  We all want to look our best of course. But watch that you want to look YOUR best. That you are working with you and what can be YOUR best. Stop comparing yourself and your body to others. “If I go to the gym 5 times a week and eat really healthy, how long will it take for me to look like her?” is a question that I get often from women.

And the answer could be never. You are not that person. You are put together in a different way.  For example, I am very straight, I do not have much of a waist and no matter what I do, I will never have a tiny waist. Therefore if I think that I do not look good unless I have a small waist and try everything to get that, then I will never be confident with my body. I will then always be unhappy with the way I look. I will see women with small waists and feel that I lack that. But if I stop comparing myself to others, and just focus on making me as great as I can be, then I am unbreakable.  So be unbreakable. Focus on you. Not others. And then you will have the body confidence to do anything.

Ms. Namita Nayyar:

Advice and motivational words to the inspiring and budding fitness trainers who all are your fans, they shall like to know from you, what they should do for their climb to ladder of success in field of fitness?

Ms. Svava Sigbertsdottir:

Prioritize. As with any profession, if you want to succeed, especially with your own company, there can be no work-social balance. You need to give all of you. You cant go out every weekend and watch telly every week night and then be surprised that it is not going so well. In order to get an easy life; life that you are living out your goals, you need to do what is hard.

In the fitness industry, you are your power. What is it that you offer that no one else offers? What is your thing? You need to find your thing. Then set up a website. That is your calling card. Get a business email account. Then ask. Contact press and ask if you can train them for a feature, contact gyms to see if you can teach your thing there, collaborate, check on pop ups, give freebie sessions. Constantly ask. In the beginning you will get no, but so what? You can take much more than a little wind. Go through the no´s . Keep at it. Do not give up. If it was easy succeeding, everybody would. So, keep at it. If you do then I promise you will start getting the yes´s .

Ms. Namita Nayyar:

What do you wish to say about the website Womenfitness.net and message for its visitors?

Ms. Svava Sigbertsdottir:

Womenfitness.net is such a fantastic website bringing you endless of tools for you to become better inside out. So use all of it. Read and take in the articles about diet and exercise, but also the articles about your psyche, about your inner well-being along the ones about fellow strong women who have done well. That is inspirational for you as it shows you that you can do that as well.

What another can do, so can you. As soon as you realize that, there is no holding you back. Remember that information is power. Knowledge is power.

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