About & Contact Me

LEANNE SIMAYS – BIOGRAPHY

TRANSFORM4LIFE

  • Owner & Director
  • Personal Trainer
  • Nutrition Consultant
  • Life & Wellness Coach
  • Retreat Organizer
  • Motivator Speaker & Mentor

TRANSFORM GYM: 9 years

  • Owner & Director at Transform Health & Fitness
  • Personal Trainer
  • Nutrition Consultant
  • Life Coach
  • Sales & Marketing

QUALIFICATIONS & CERTIFICATIONS

  • Cert. Life Coaching NZ
  • Cert. Abundance Coaching NZ
  • Cert in Mindfulness Coaching NZ
  • Diploma in Nutrition & Training (high honors) CANADA
  • Cert. Sport Performance Nutrition USA
  • Cert. Sport Resistance Training CANADA
  • Cert.  Adult Training – Wellness NZ
  • Cert. Aerobic Teaching – Wellness NZ

“Everything starts with a decision to change”

Leanne has been in the fitness industry since 1990 where she started as an Aerobic Instructor at the age of nineteen, she went to then become a Personal Trainer also in weights resistance training for World Gym in Wellington NZ. This got her hooked on the fitness industry but also with different training styles for clients and even benefits in her own sports.

From there Leanne moved to Canada for six years where she continued to do part time studies in Training and Nutrition as she worked as a full time Nanny, she then stopped as a nanny to work part time for a big fitness centre in Edmonton, Alberta while also working in the design industry.

It has been Leanne’s passion all this time to test theories, design different training programmes, calliper testing and personalized nutrition plans for people and has looked after thousands of people with different goals and all walks of life in the sense of body types, sports and health issues – including her own.

My passion for bodybuilding began

While living in Canada and at the age of 26 years old she stood on the bodybuilding stage for the first time for IFBB federation and took first place in middle weight division, this got her hooked and continued on to complete and win most of her 56 shows – two events in Canada then rest back here in NZ & Internationally.

Bodybuilding taught her more about nutrition than most of her studies over all the years, challenging the body nutritionally but mentally was the best learning challenge.
Leanne did further courses in sports performance nutrition, then life coaching, and mindfulness courses to give her clients the best guidance and help possible.

Leanne over the years has been a successful athlete in a few different sports, from athletic champion, cross country champion, playing soccer most of her life, champion bodybuilder having also competed for NZ Internationally and then becoming a power-lifting champion.

Leanne is always trying to set new goals to keep herself on track but also so she is always learning with how food effects different training, how things change as we age, so using herself as guinea pig but also her clients to give the best help & advice. Leanne believes you should practice what you preach as a consultant & as a coach in wellness – she feels a hypocrite if she isn’t doing or living it herself.

Shes looked after thousands of people with different goals from all walks of life

Leanne was diagnosed with CML Leukaemia in 2007 so knows all too well the importance of taking care of yourself through exercise and eating well, not only to keep yourself physically well but mentally in a good place is essential. Going through her first treatment it didn’t stop her getting back on stage that same year of diagnosis to take a third Miss NZ Overall Title in bodybuilding.

Over this time from 2007 she has done a few different cancer treatments but also IVF to try and have kids – this went over a 10 year period. Leanne got to go through hormone changes because of IVF, but also because of her cancer it has helped her understand the process as you go into peri to full menopause.

Leanne is always learning and keeps an open mind to many theories but has learnt over all these years its best to stick to her own beliefs on what she has found to work the most for her clients.

International & National Titles

ADULT SPORT CAREER HISTORY

  • First Division Soccer for 25 years
  • 3x Miss Overall NABBA NZ
  • 2x Miss Overall INBA Natural World
  • 30+ x NABBA & INBA Regional titles
  • 2x Miss Overall NABBA ProAm
  • 1x Miss Muscle Mania Australia
  • 4x GPC Regional & National Powerlifting Champion

Contact Me by Email or Phone

  • Home Studio : Based in New Lynn, Auckland, NZ