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Occupation: Mother, Home maker Age: 46
Family: Simon – Husband (46), Roana (16), Connor (15), Liam (15) and Nick (12)
Height: 172cm Contest Weight: 58kg
Have you always been into fitness and exercise? What did you do before bodybuilding?
Yes I have always been involved in some sort of sport.
Throughout school I was heavily involved in netball, basketball and volleyball. I continued to play netball and volleyball after leaving school as well as playing social touch, indoor netball.
Once I got married and had children I started swim training, aerobics and later on started going to the gym.
I walk a lot through the botanical gardens and have completed several organised walk/runs including to ½ marathons. I started going to the gym about 6 or 7 years ago and haven’t looked back. More recently I have tried Bikram yoga and am loving this too.
  
Hard to believe you were overweight. How heavy were you at your heaviest?
I have always been overweight – bit of a genetic predisposition! I think at my heaviest I would have been around 110kg.
I was at my heaviest ever after the birth of my daughter in 1995. I managed to lose the weight and sit around 80kg for a year or so but it crept back on.
I’ve been training with Darrell Payne (SBE Training systems) for the last 6/7 years and with my gym training partner for the last 2/3 years.
You name it I would have tried all the ‘fad’ diets, including Weight watchers, Jenny Craig, Dr. Spackman.
  
Did you think you were that fat and unhealthy while you were in the moment?
Not consciously, it was more of an unsatisfied feeling. I thought because I had always been overweight that was it.
What inspired you to take the next step and take up bodybuilding diet and training? When did you start weight training for bodybuilding or have you always done it.
Once Daz took me through my first couple of programmes (a programme last 4 weeks training 4 day a week) and knew what I was capable of he just kept on writing programme to ‘push the bar’. 50+programmes later this is where I am.
I have been seeing Tarren (Champion Nutrition) since April 2010. Both Tarren and Daz had been suggested trying a comp since the end of 2010. It was only in May this year that I made a commitment to training/dieting for my first comp.
Champion Team. Tarren McCall, Agnes and Darryl
Could you ever imagine you looked the way you did?
No, never.
What has bodybuilding taught you about eating, training and managing a healthy lifestyle?
That it’s a lifestyle choice you have to consciously make. And that it needs to be an ongoing thing.
You looked awesome at your first show, any thoughts about competing again? Have you got the bug?!!
It was a total blast! Yes I would love to compete again, but with all my 4 children heavily involved I their respective sport, with the 3 older ones competing at a National level I have to make sure it fits in with our already busy work/school/sports life schedule – watch this space.
   
What’s your advice to ladies reading this who might’ve been in your overweight situation? What would you say to them to get off the couch and into training and dieting?
Find something that you enjoy and commit to it. I think the most important elements to ‘my’ success was finding people who knew what they were talking about and having total faith in what they said. I listened to everything that both Tarren and Darrell told me – after all they are the experts.
The other element was finding a ‘gym buddy’. I can’t take credit for this – it was all Daz’s doing. Sonia Hawea is another of Darrell’s clients and our training times started to clash, so Daz suggested we give training together a go. We have been training together for the last 2 to 3 years and I am loving every minute of it.
The other thing is I don’t like being told I can’t do something so factor in your own stubbornness before you give up.
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