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PERFECT WEIGHT AND HEALTH IS ONLY A DECISION AWAY
Are you perhaps mid-life, 40 years of age or even in your 50s (there is absolutely no reason why 50 shouldn’t be considered mid-age) and just not “feeling it” like you once felt?
I am living proof that if you want to feel younger and enjoy doing activities that you once did in your 20s, then you can. You may just need a redirect in your life’s journey.
Conventional wisdom has taught us many beliefs about nutrition and healthy eating, even exercise. I followed this conventional wisdom for almost 20 years until I just couldn’t do it anymore. I was simply exhausted mentally and physically broken, all due to following the conventional rules and guidelines I had been taught since going to school and then onto university. I am here to tell you that this is not normal.
Don’t put up with being “normal” – not if your “normal” is excess weight; disrupted sleep; constant stress; endless exhaustion; or starving much of the day.
Work with me and I will deliver an individual coaching program that helps you truly optimise your life.
I’m living, breathing proof that you can change your health and optimize your life.
About Me
My name is David Daffey, I am a Health Coach which put simply helps people to feel and look their best version of themselves. I also coach them in activities that often coincide with making this happen. I am a competitive age-group triathlete who has raced 6 x Ironman distance Triathlons (3.8 km open water swim, 180 km bike in the time-trial position, 42.2 km marathon) including the coveted Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawai’i in 2018. I promote living a clean life by following a Low Carb Healthy Fats lifestyle and essentially walk the walk when it comes to helping others.
Since 2016, I have been an advocate of MAF (Maximum Aerobic Functional) Heart Rate training with respect to exercise and connected with peers who operate in this space. I am a lover of animals and all things in nature. My best mate is Harry, a purebred Ragdoll cat who behaves more like a dog than a cat. One passion I have is working with the Can Too Foundation as one of their swimming and running coaches. Since 2016 I have coached wonderful human beings in swimming, running and even triathlon events with the primary aim to help fundraise money in the fight against Cancer. Together, Can Too has worked to achieve raising $20,000,000 in funding Cancer Researchers since inception.
I have lived in Sydney since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia however recently moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland (during COVID-19) in July 2020.
I have a degree in Psychology and Human Movement Studies from The University of Queensland. I am a Certified Triathlon Australia Foundation and Development Coach. I am AUSTSWIM accredited as a Teacher of Swimming and Water Safety. I also develop exercise programs through Training Peaks software and am an accredited Health Coach through the LCHF experts from Real Meal Revolution. All this qualifies me to work with people who want to lose excess weight, achieve optimal body composition, feel good and perform to the best of their ability through best practice nutrition, solid science and exercise that makes you healthy, not simply fit. I try to lead people by setting a good example myself. And importantly, I try to have a laugh everyday…because life is too short not to.
Have a totally different life.
Coaching
What can I help you with?
Weight Loss and Body Composition
There is a saying that I really like. “You cannot outrun a bad diet”
Understand what happens to our bodies as we grow older. It is not a simple matter of repeating what you did in your 20s to have the body you did back then. 80% of our body composition is determined by the choices WE make with the food and drink we consume. Learn how to make better choices that will rid yourself of unhealthy body fat. These choices will have you feeling better, moving better and looking better.
Cognitive Thoughts and Beliefs
Initially we focus on Goals, Your Current Beliefs, Habits, Routine & Planning
Informative Content
Web Access to the Real Meal Revolution Educational Platform, one of the World’s Leading Resources for a LCHF (Low Carb Healthy Fats) Lifestyle
Communication
Dave will respond to your messages between sessions
Weekly Coaching Session
Stay on track, be accountable, stay motivated, get results
Cooking Lessons and Recipes & Meal Plans
Hundreds of LCHF Recipes, Meal Plans, Cooking videos
Dedicated Support
Dave is your one-on-one dedicated Coach
Tracking Tool
Track your Macro Nutrients, build custom meals, insert RMR recipes and serving sizes in an instant with a web based tool
Shopping List Tool
Easily build your weekly shopping list, view it on your smart phone while you shop
Nutrition Training Program
Are you confused about what to eat? I was. After attending University and learning what I should eat to get the most out of my body, then applying that knowledge over the next 10 years, I began to just not feel like I once did. Being told “that’s just getting old” didn’t sit well with me. That is when I started researching the research.
Excessive weight, skin issues, fatigue, hormonal imbalances and bloating aren’t “natural”. They are the early warning symptoms of the long-term costs of a poor diet and unhealthy lifestyle.
A foundation stone of your health is your nutrition – but “healthy eating” is increasingly a complex arena packed with competing fads, promises and fast fixes.
Reconnect with your body and apply current nutritional science to recover from illness. Even better, let’s lift your body’s performance capabilities BEFORE you sustain an injury or illness. Your genetics are NOT your destiny. What you eat and how you live are powerful choices for health. I have learned that through a systematic approach, you can re-program your genes through the choice of foods you consume each day, so that ultimately your body will learn how to burn the excess fat that is stored in your body as its primary fuel source, whether you are resting, exercising or sleeping.
Together we will build strategies and actions to optimize your nutrition so that your health and your life are optimized.
Informative Content
All the knowledge you need, including Lists of Food, delivered through video lectures and notes.
Cooking Lessons & Recipes
Health begins in the kitchen. Learn to cook delicious meals that will make you lean.
Meal Plans
Weekly meal plans for every dietary group we can think of that will help you stay on track
Shopping List
Easily generate a shopping list from your chosen recipes
Tracking Tools
Track your progress through our meal and weight tracker tools
Calculators
All the fundamental tools and utilities in one place
Community
Connect and learn through our worldwide LCHF community
Hands-on Support
Dedicated 1-1 coaching to help you achieve health and weight-loss goals
Increasing your Endurance Capacity
Learn a very counter-intuitive approach to exercise and building a bullet-proof body. I have certainly been there and done the “conventional wisdom” approach of doing more, thinking that is going to yield better results. A couple years ago, I was training 20 to 30 hours a week across swimming, cycling and running. This gave me some success, but it also led me to physical burnout and being mentally broken.
Customised Training Program
Tailored to your chosen sport (swim, bike or run), together with sports specific strength and conditioning exercises for longevity in your sport. Sessions are delivered via the Training Peaks software platform.
Swim Lessons and Coaching
One of life’s greatest treasures is swimming in water. It is so good for your body, mind and spirit. As an AUSTSWIM certified Swimming Teacher and a Triathlon Australia Certified Coach, I can help you learn to enjoy the amazing qualities from being a swimmer. Whether you want to learn to swim, or already have some swimming foundations as an intermediate, or you want a coaching and training plan to get you faster in your next competition, let me help you.
Maximum Aerobic Function MAF Training
A systematic approach to building health and fitness while improving your overall human performance and preventing injury, illness and disease.
LCHF Nutrition - Training and Race Strategies
Learn the principles of how to fuel during training sessions and when to do so. Being a fat burning athlete requires a different approach to the strategies of conventional endurance nutrition.
Dedicated Support
Dave is your one-on-one dedicated Coach
Weekly Coaching Session
Stay on track, be accountable, stay motivated, get results
COVID-19 adaptable via cycling, running and strength sessions from my own commercial gym via Skype or Zoom
Communication
Dave will respond to your messages between sessions
Mindfulness & Mental Endurance
Learning how to manage your stresses in life will be key to unlocking your physical performance – both in your training and on race day
Various Programs To Choose From
PROGRAMS
Get experienced help on optimising your health
I’m on the same journey to health that you’re on – just a bit further down the road. That makes me a living, breathing testament that this works.
I’ve lived what you’re about to live. Not only have I lived it, I’ve coached others on their own adventures. That means that you get the benefits of our combined experience to make your progress faster and easier.
As a specialist health coach, I work with you to increase your physical fitness, your emotional fitness and your mental fitness. Your success is about you as a whole person and as a biological being.
Are you ready to optimise your body, your results and your life – without the suffering?
The myth of the self-sufficient individual belongs back in the 20th century.
Today we know that humans are more successful when they collaborate.
Einstein defined insanity as “doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
To get a different result, you need better information and real support.
We each have a unique physiology and genetics that we inherited. This is then impacted by how we live.
Learning how to live in optimum health is different for everyone – building your optimum body in an optimum time frame requires a wide knowledge base, the right programs and ongoing support
That’s why coaching and mentoring are the key
Knowing how to change is not enough – support is the difference that makes the difference.
As your coach, I will challenge and support you to create your optimum health as you learn how to listen to your body and make the changes necessary to get stronger and faster as you get older.
You will have a coach and mentor that LISTENS to you – not a drill-master.
You can draw on my years learning from competing in the highest level in sports as an international triathlete and representative junior tennis player.
I don’t have a vested interest in anything except your results, so you can explore your inner fears and worries with an independent third party and decide whether they’re real – or ghosts from the past.
I promise you a safe space – a space for learning, for questioning, for understanding. I won’t judge you. I will respectfully hold you accountable – because you’re worth it. You will get a chance to ask the deeper questions that will help you find long term answers.
WHAT to eat is only part of it
But knowing’s not enough. You also need to develop the execution skills to turn learning in action, and action into sustainable habits rooted in your values and core beliefs. That’s where long term results come from.
Whether you want to optimise your body composition, your sports performance or your life, I will give you the knowledge, the tools and support to make real, long term changes that will shift your performance to a whole new level.
My programs are custom-built to suit your personality, your lifestyle and your physiology.
As you learn how to build your fat-burning and aerobic capacity, you will learn emotional resilience and improve mental capacity.
You will re-connect with your body on an intuitive level – so that you can recognize the connection between what you do and how it affects you – all of you.
I teach you how to connect with your body, your mind and your emotions – to think deeply about the impact of your choices and the way you think.
I know that you can do more than you currently believe is possible – because I’ve been there myself and seen my clients succeed beyond their own vision.
Testimonials
The results are in from my 12 week Dexa scans and thanks to working with David and discovering about this way of eating, I've found it easy to manage my macros, sometimes eating more (as I only roughly know based on pre-prepared meals) and with training have gained lean muscle and lost fat in that period from 15.9% to 12.6% which puts me in the top 1% for body composition for my age-range at 46. I'm gunning for sub 11% but I know that's going to be hard but achievable, nonetheless. I will never drift away from this way of eating. It has been so great working with David who challenged me about my traditional thinking around food. Once you create your 'new normal' you'll never feel deprived. Had been on the way of eating prior to starting weight training but this is 14 weeks progress. Started at 88.6kg an 20.9% body fat. Now sitting at around 85.5Kg and I reckon Around 12%, possibly less. Another 6 week block to go. Sub 10 is the goal. Only carbs are some sweet potato on training days. Occasional glass of wine, piece or 3 of 90% dark chocolate and some Greek yoghurt and berries. Everything else is meat, fish and veg. Eggs and our usual banting favourites like seed crackers. I’m in the best shape of my 46 years, even when I was doing triathlon...
Eating Low Carb and Healthy Fats is not just about food, for me it's about good health. Since changing my eating habits through the help of David, in 2.5 months, my health has improved. My latest blood results showed improvements in my triglyceride levels and my liver function has also improved. David helped me understand how my body was now using fat as a fuel source. As a professional triathlete, I rely so much on energy to help me get my best performance. Learning to access fat a s a fuel source has been incredible. Other areas that have improved since working with David are my energy levels throughout the day whilst working as a swimming coach. I have a more constant energy supply and have better concentration in between the time I eat my main meals. Following this Low Carb lifestyle has allowed me to better appreciate the effects of food choices on my overall performance and health. David has shown me the positive effects of training at my MAF (Maximum Aerobic Function) and how this relates to better endurance performance and improved health. I am really grateful to have learned what I have about the food I put into my body. Working with David has been such a mind-altering experience. It’s been awesome.
So I am a 50 year old active female who had a podge for as long as she could remember. What is a podge you ask, well it is a big fat belly that I have had since a teenager, the only bit of fat all the way around my middle. I have an all or nothing personality, who is also soft in the head & in the need of guidance So that is where my good friend David Daffey comes into it. He is supportive, sets out the game plan & basically a to do list, he also rings & harasses you (in a nice way) Best part is the structure which I so needed. Your weekly meal plan, plus he makes you accountable. For me if it went in your mouth it was written down, so do I really want to right it down (as Daffey checks up on you weekly) So he keeps you honest, motivates you this little contagious energiser bunny So if you need that push from someone who cares, Daffey is the man
Dave and I worked together on my training and nutrition for my first Ironman. Dave helped me create a nutrition lifestyle that supported my training, full time work and family, with a focus on easy food preparation and sufficient eating to meet my endurance training goals. Dave’s attention to detail and personalised realistic approach was great. I loved my energy, lack of cravings and good hormonal balance, while training up to 20 hours a week, and of course completing my first Ironman.
More about Me
I really do LOVE eating healthy food, along with swimming, cycling and running. That’s right…if you’ve seen the photos on this site, you may have guessed I’m a triathlete. I also am a Triathlon Australia Certified Coach, as well as an AUSTSWIM Teacher of Swimming and Water Safety. And when I am not swimming, cycling, running, or cooking, I’m hanging out with my best mate….Harry (a purebred Ragdoll Cat who is more of a dog than a cat).
Now based on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia my passion is to help people live better and healthier lives through what I call “controlling the controllables”. Since mid 2016, I have been a Health Coach, teaching people about how to feel better through food, physical movement and good sleep practice.
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Contact Us
Contact
- Hope Island, Queensland, 4212, Australia
- +61 410 097 265
- dcdaffey
- david@daviddaffey.com
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You can email me on the address above or Skype call me, however please send a request prior to our scheduled call