Fitness queen Kayla Itsines reveals ‘very scary’ encounter with male client
Celebrity trainer Kayla Itsines reveals ‘very scary’ encounter with male client that led her to open a women-only business: ‘Alarms, immediately’
Kayla Itsines has revealed the reason why she decided to focus her fitness training program on women.
The fitness influencer and entrepreneur, 32, told the Australian financial statement she had a bad experience with a male client when she was 18 and training people at home.
“I rocked up to this guy’s house and he answered the door, wearing normal clothes, not sportswear,” she explained.
Alarm bells, immediately. I went through the consent form and he stared at me. It was very scary.’
The trainer then told the man to get something out of her car and never came back.
Fitness queen Kayla Itsines revealed ‘very scary’ encounter with male client early in her career
She then started training female clients only.
Kayla went on to create programs for women, including her Bikini Body Guide with her ex-fiancé Tobi Pearce and her fitness app Sweat.
In 2021, Kayla’s sale of her company Sweat – formerly known as Bikini Body Guide – to American software giant iFIT brought her net worth to $164 million.
The fitness influencer and entrepreneur, 32, told the Australian Financial Review that she had a bad experience with a male customer when she was 18 and was training people at home
This was enough to place her 39th on the 2021 Young Rich List, just one spot ahead of her business partner and former fiancé – Tobi, who had a similar net worth.
The annual list, compiled by the Australian Financial Review, ranks the wealthiest Australians aged 40 and under.
Kayla and Tobi launched Sweat as an ebook in 2015, before growing the company into an app-based online community with over 50 million users worldwide.
“I staggered to this man’s house and he answered the door, dressed in normal clothes, not sportswear. Alarm bells, immediately. I went through the consent form and he stared at me. It was very scary,” he said