About me

About Dymphy

How I went from Chubby Girl to Sporty Spice!

As a child I was sporty, but with my sturdy build I was certainly not the best at PE. I thought I was “too fat” and always felt like I needed to lose weight to accept myself.
From the age of 15 I started with fitness: circuit training for women. When I felt confident enough and had gathered enough courage, I started working out by myself at BasicFit. I only trained my legs, abs and cardio. But I didn’t know what to do with all those machines. I felt insecure.

At age 17 I started kickboxing at FittClub Diemen. And I was immediately hooked! The technical and intense training taught me respect, discipline and team spirit. The old school kickboxing, MMA and boot camp sessions have shaped me both mentally and physically.
I learned that I was stronger than I thought. At first one minute of planking was hell! And a push-up? Ha, I could only fall on my face! Because I found training fun and challenging and I trained consistently, I got better.

I believed I would always stay chubby, but when I learned more about nutrition and started tracking it in a nutrition app, I lost almost 4 kg in 1 month! The story I used to tell myself suddenly turned out to be completely untrue! Only then did I really start to believe in myself; in my own strength and perseverance. And if I could have such a strong limiting belief holding me back, then other people can experience this too. This increased my drive to help other people.

Speed date with Dymphy

Which sports have you done?

• Fitness
• Powerlifting
• Olympic weightlifting
• Spinning
• High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
• Obstacle races (Mud Masters, Strong Viking)
• Dancing (hip-hop, dancehall, twerking)
• CrossFit (international competitions)

What other people don’t know about you…

I love art, museums as well as painting and drawing myself. With some of my clients we had a painting club together where we came together every week to paint.

How do you ensure that you continue to develop professionally?

As an athlete I always set new performance goals and my coach helps me to work towards them in a personal program.
As a coach and trainer I read a lot and follow various courses.
Since 2020 I have been a teacher and mentor at the Milo Performance & Education programme. Here I teach new Personal Trainers our wonderful profession. As a teacher I need to be at a higher level of understanding of the theory and practice than our students. That definitely challenges me to keep studying!

What are you unsure about? And from which story you tell yourself would you like to break free?