Month: November 2024

My Gym Progress

My Gym Progress

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I am still on my gym journey and loving the process. I am learning so much.

Years ago, my thoughts about exercise were do as much cardio as you can and eat very little.

I thought that you had to do cardio for at least one hour a day, seven days a week.

Now I know that I want to build, I want to be strong and to do this I have to eat.

I am so grateful for my coach who is there to guide me and to challenge me (in a good way).

I have been on this journey from 11th of May 2023 and I do not plan to stop.

We are working towards a competition next year, I don’t know when yet. I am just focusing on one day at a time.

I am still going to the gym 5 mornings a week from 5.45 am.

My alarm goes of at 4.15 am and I just get up, I don’t have those thoughts of do I want to go to the gym.

No, I get up and it is a huge part of my daily routine.

I am learning a lot about trusting the process and trusting my coach.

This is something that I have not done before and it is all new.

I love learning, I really do.

I am enjoying the whole experience, well probably not some of the injuries if I am being honest.

We have been working through them and I haven’t stopped my commitment to this journey. I also have a great physio, thank goodness.

The weekends are my rest days and I am okay with that.

I will share more soon.

A Songwriting Retreat

A Songwriting Retreat

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Last month I went on a songwriting retreat in Melbourne and it was amazing.

It was for 4 days and it was run by my music mentor’s Carter and Carter who are a country duo.

There was around 20 singer/songwriters and our hosts Merelyn and
David Carter. We also had Brendan Walmsley, Brett Wood and Paula from Jetty Road.  All country music artists in Australia.

We came from all around Australia to write, work on songs and to collaborate.

We stayed at Karma Kinglake and we shared with people we had not met but later up became friends.

We learnt a lot about songwriting, how to register our songs and other information about our music.

I was so blessed to collaborate and write a song with Paula from Jetty Road.

We wrote a song about my journey, I wanted the song to build and I wanted the song to be able to make a difference.

It was a full day of writing and I am so happy with how the song worked out.

I said to Paula this is my dream, it was a pinch me moment.

At the retreat if you worked on a song during the day and if you finished it you were encouraged to share it after dinner.

I shared my song and it was amazing.

I am so glad that I took the time away, booked the retreat, got on a plane, and went to Melbourne where I could just focus on my creativity.

It was a beautiful time where new friendships were made and the atmosphere was so encouraging.

It was great to hear other people’s journeys and their songs that they had written on the retreat.

We all wrote down a goal for the retreat and yes, I achieved my goal.

I will share more soon.

Tracey Buckley