G'day, I'm Jacob.

I'm a father, coach, teacher and runner. I've been coaching people online through their fitness journey since 2014. 

You can follow my journey on Instagram @jacob_andreae.

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When I left school, I had no idea what I wanted to do. 

During that Christmas school holiday after I left school, I remember sitting on the back verandah of my parents house with my mum. She was reading the paper. In it was an ad from Charles Darwin University (Northern Territory University back then) advertising a double degree in sports science and teaching. 

She said to me, "Look at this. Why don't you become a PE teacher?! You get 3 months off per year and paid to play sport each day".

I'm pretty sure she knew the truth. Teaching PE (even PE) was much more than 3 months off per year and playing sport all day, every day.

I didn't know any better though. And it sounded pretty good to me. 

So I enrolled. 

I struggled through my first year. The whole first year was made up of the fundamental sports science units (essentially science).

I hadn't done any maths or science classes since grade 10. And that whole first year was made up of Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, Maths and Physics. Welcome to hell. What a baptism of fire! 

I passed 3 out of 8 classes and finished the year thinking, what the **** had I got myself in to. 

It didn't help that my perception of university was sitting at coffee shops by day and partying by night like a U.S. sitcom. 

I tried hard in my second year to make amends and I managed to pass most of those classes. All but maths. 

I had to enrol in the bridging maths. Which I still failed. 

I took the next year off and worked as a Development Officer for Northern Territory Athletics. It was the best thing I did. I grew up and matured a lot in that time. But most importantly, I realised completing my degree and becoming a PE teacher was actually what I wanted to do. 

It didn't hurt that during my time at university, I helped my dad in his business line marking and water proofing. If you ever want your kids to create the motivation to study hard, get them water proofing 🥵

I completed my third and fourth year really well and eventually became a teacher. 

I learned to love learning so much that after becoming a teacher, I went back to university (this time as an online student through Edith Cowan) to study a graduate diploma of psychology. 

With a love of the human mind, an interest in the body, and a taste for health and fitness, I also completed a certificate 3 and 4 in fitness. 

As interesting and valuable as those qualifications were, probably my favourite and most valuable qualification was in Neuro Linguistic Programming. Neurons are my jam. They seriously get me excited more than anything. And learning how to communicate; well, that's the essence of being human, isn't it? 

During my time as a teacher, I increasingly had this desire to start my own business. 

In 2014, I resigned to pursue this dream.

In 2015, I started my blog and it launched while I was in Laguna Beach, California, USA for an online business workshop. 

In 2016, I was asked to manage and facilitate a research project and program called Move More Learn More for the Northern Territory Institute of Sport. 

In 2017, I co-hosted a show on commercial radio (Mix 104.9), was offered full-time lecturing at Charles Darwin University, and came on board part-time at the Northern Territory Institute of Sport as a Coach and Athlete Development Officer.

Later in 2017, I also started my podcast as a way to expand on the topics I was writing about in my blog and interview the amazing people I was getting to meet and converse with. 

In 2020, I was contacted by the Adelaide Crows AFLW Football Operations Manager to remotely coach some of their players. 

I was then contacted by the Richmond Tigers AFLW Physical Performance Manager to deliver the knee rehab for one of their players. 

I currently teach PE at Darwin High School, as well as write my blog and host my podcast. 

I share this blog and podcast by email as a weekly chronicle so you can maximise your performance. 

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