Darryl MacGregor is the creator and owner of IntaHealth which is a health and fitness company.
Darryl had a well-paying job but hated being there due to the long hours doing shift work which gave him little time to have a quality life outside of work. Like many people he tried to fill the void by buying lots of expensive toys. This seemed reasonable at the time until the global financial crisis hit which, when coupled with other events over the next two years sent Darryl broke.
The thought of losing everything he had worked for over the past 30 years sent him into depression. At this stage Darryl had no job, no money and could not find the drive to get out there and find work. Luckily one morning some friends contacted him with the name of someone who was looking for a worker and by the end of the day, he had a job.
Now having a job was important but Darryl realised something that he had taken for granted his whole life – physical activity is very therapeutic. The physical activity releases feel good hormones which helped with his depression and lower his blood pressure from potential stroke level down to a much more healthy level.
Why IntaHealth?
Darryl went on to study to become a qualified personal trainer. During the course of his training, he became aware of a huge void that existed in the support that personal trainers could provide for their clients. It was great to be able to help people once or twice a week while they were with the trainer, but what Darryl could see was, the clients needed support for the other days of the week as well. They needed guidance on continuing their exercise program at home which they were away from their trainer and with other lifestyle changes that needed to be included into their lives to help them become healthy – including diet changes.
After long conversations with a number of others who were also interested in long term health improvements, the concept for IntaHealth came to life.
While reflecting back on the jobless and broke stage of his life, Darryl realised that he actually could not afford to eat pre-packaged or processed food, even if it did come from the supermarket. It took only a little time for him to work out that it was much cheaper for him to buy healthy food and prepare his meals himself.
He looked for support from other organisations, but most offered short term systems and this did not fit his desire for life time health improvements. Darryl needed his health to improve for the long term and not just for a number of weeks.
IntaHealth became a long term health system offering support with fitness, diet and lifestyle and the slogan was born: HEALTHY FOR YOUR LIFETIME