Matthew Gorrie
I have been working with Andre for just over a year before entering and completing the Geelong 70.3 ironman, and Andre has helped me on so many levels that I have hugely appreciative of. As like most triathletes we tend to be hard charging type A personalities where it’s all, or nothing. The biggest improvement to myself working with Andre has been his ability to reason with me that there is a time and place for an all or nothing approach but sometimes that is not the case.
I was a person that would read and follow people on the internet about the best and latest dietary improvements that could be made to improve your triathlon time. I would follow this with regards to Ketogenic diets, carnivore diets, fasting and eating one meal a day. This left me feeling good with day to day living if I had to do no training, but working with Andre got me to realise and get out of my own head and step back and really think about what I was doing and was this beneficial to my training and race preparation. Now after working with Andre I don’t class my eating habits as anything other than fuelling for the work required in my training schedule. I have seen great improvements with this approach in both my training and my day to day life.
I love the fact that Andre listens to your life stresses and modifies your training to that and understands that this is meant to be a hobby and enjoyable. Andre regularly makes contact to see how you’re feeling, sleeping and how your stress levels are going.
This all help greatly with a very enjoyable and stress free 70.3 race in Geelong. I had the privilege to race at the same race as Andre in Geelong and that was hugely beneficial in how he approached the race both mentally and physically. I normally worry greatly about the swim but in Geelong Andre and I met up and did a swim the morning before which greatly improved and reduced my race day nerves.
If you are on the fence in either working with Andre as a triathlon coach or a life coach, I have found benefits in both areas working with Andre and am greatly appreciative and am looking forward to another year of working with him.
I have had the pleasure working with Andre during the last 3 months. I was really stuck in a rut and got caught on the conventional wisdom treadmill. I desperately wanted to increase my energy and lose some unwanted kilos. So I did what I thought was “right”. I ran harder, rode further pushing myself to fatigue and then ate more and pressed repeat! Sadly I was feeling more tired than ever and my weight didn’t reduce on the scales. In fact it went up…WHAT!!!
The catalyst for my decision to work with Andre was my (rapidly) declining performance on the hockey field. I am certainly no superstar but I was nowfinding myself extremely frustrated with my inability to play like I knew I could. I set a measurable goal of making the Australian over 50 team to compete in the Masters World Cup in 2020. This is a team I had made the reserve list for previously but had not been selected at all in 2018.
I contacted Andre when my wedding was fast approaching and my current ‘healthy’ eating and crazy gym habits didn’t seem to be giving me the results I wanted.
I decided to join Andre’s program following a post Christmas splurge on alcohol and sugar. My reasoning was that I could not put a price on my health and my physique. I had been training and dieting for many years. I own a gym and have a formal qualification in fitness, but no matter what I did I could not get my weight below 72kgs.
