Kelsey Wells

Kelsey Wells started exercising by walking around her block. Today, she’s a world-famous personal trainer with a social media following of over 4 million, her PWR workout programmes inspiring people across the globe. It all started when, after a lifetime of stop-start exercising and fad-dieting, she began healthy eating and regular exercise as a way of relieving post-natal anxiety. In 2016, finding herself physically healthy but still mentally unhappy about her weight, she posted an Instagram video where she urged other women to “screw the scales” and look after their wellbeing. The post went viral and Wells’s career as a social media influencer began.

Aged 24, after giving birth to her first son, Wells began suffering post-natal anxiety, body dysmorphia, and crippling self-doubt. When her son was two months old, her doctor recommended regular exercise and a better diet than the fast-food-fizzy-drink one she had been living on. Although she’d exercised and dieted before, Wells had always given up. This time, however, something clicked. She realised that, in the past, she’d used exercise and dieting to punish her body, trying to force herself into shape for an occasion.

Now, however, through small, sustainable steps, she was improving her wellbeing and approaching fitness from a far healthier, long-term perspective. It was this revelation that inspired her to become a personal trainer and share her experiences with other women. Wells launched PWR (short for “power”), her 52-week workout program on Sweat, an app aimed at female fitness to almost-instant success. She has become one of its breakout stars, highly in-demand as a personal trainer and international keynote speaker.