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Forget about
New Year’s
resolutions. that wasn’t going my way. I said
[to myself], ‘You know what, I’m
Why wait 365 going to rest it and in three hours’
time, I’m going to go back to it.’”
days to set new she has the numbers to prove it:
It’s advice that works. And
the PT has helped half a million
goals, and start people through her online TIFFXO
program since 2016, hundreds of
all over again, thousands more watched her whip
Biggest Loser contestants into their
best shape ever, and 208K followers
when you can on Instagram gravitate towards
her for her very real, and very
reset your life forgiving, approach to life.
You can see this reset rule
working throughout her own life,
every three too, from the way she “bounced
forward” after gaining 30kg during
hours? Tiffiny her pregnancy (more on that later),
to the way she scored a three-book
deal for her Roxy Ran Series of
Hall reckons this teen fiction despite 40 rejections.
“Through every rejection I revised
the manuscript, and with every
is the best advice rejection I made it better. That’s 40
times that it got better! Don’t look
she’s ever given. at a rejection as a failure ... [but] as
an opportunity to learn something,”
she says. Then, there’s the way
she’s managed to live with epilepsy
Under
“Treat every three hours as a and still practise taekwondo while Armour
sports
brand new day,” the 35-year-old building a career as one of the bra, $60;
Melburnian says with a kindness that country’s most recognised trainers. L’urv bikini
bottoms,
shows she’s fallible – like the rest of “Sometimes I felt like [having $45; Apple
us – but with a firmness that comes epilepsy] has held me back, and Watch Series
4 (worn
from 19 years of navigating people I always have carried this sort of throughout),
out of their ruts as a PT. “It’s a reset. sadness and grief … But then I from $599
It stops that all-or-nothing attitude think, no, it’s made me a fighter,” she
that comes into play, especially revealed for the first time on our WH
with weight loss and fitness.” Uninterrupted podcast. Obstacles
She goes on to give this example: like these are difficult to overcome
you get out of bed and into the if you wait 365 days to take control
gym when your alarm goes off at of your life. The key to success,
6am (high fives!), then you down as Tiff says, is “always resetting”.
a healthy protein smoothie post-
workout (you’re almost at peak Bouncing
#influencer status now), but 10am
hits and you’re slamming Tim Tams forward
with your tea at your desk. “All of a
sudden you’re having takeaway for Two years ago, Tiff famously threw
lunch, you’re not meal prepping that out her bathroom scales. And she STYLING: CHARLOTTE STOKES. HAIR: GAVIN ANESBURY. MAKE-UP: KATIE ANGUS
night. It’s all out the window and still hasn’t replaced them. She gave
a bad day turns into a bad week, the scales over to her husband,
right?” Uh yep, Tiff. How did you comedian and radio host Ed
know? “Instead, reset and say, ‘OK, Kavalee, who either “hid them or
I’m going to try again at lunchtime.’ maybe he ran over them”, she would
It doesn’t just apply to exercise. later jokingly tell the crowd at her
I apply it to everything. Like, I TEDx Melbourne talk. Back then,
was just writing a pitch document though, she wasn’t laughing.
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