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How Tim Robards helped Anna Heinrich train for SAS: Australia

"I won't miss the blows to the head she's been delivering in our boxing training" - by Tina Burke
  • 25 Jan 2022

The couple that works out together, stays together. Well, that may not be true for some couples - like, us and anyone we've ever dated - but it appears to be the case for The Bachelor Australia stars Tim Robards and Anna Heinrich.

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The fan-favourites from Season One have passed many milestones in the eight years since being on the show. They've tied the knot, welcomed a baby girl and now they're training together for the new season of SAS: Australia. 

With Anna signing up to appear in the third season of the intense reality series in 2022, she had her husband by her side to help get into top physical shape. 

"I actually had to listen to Tim for the first time ever," Anna, 35, tells WHO of their strict training.

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Tim and Anna have been hitting the training hard.

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"We actually got out of the gym, because we wanted to try and replicate what she would go up against in the real world of SAS," Tim, 39, tells WHO.

"I was really trying to go, what will you be up against? Well, you’ll be carrying a backpack, climbing up things, there’s going to be cold and icy water, you’ll be out in the rain. All of those things.

"She’d be running the hills of Bellevue Hills with a backpack on, with me pushing Elle in a pram."

Anna says it was all about "getting comfortable with being uncomfortable" as she prepped for the notoriously brutal challenge.

Much like Jana Pittman, who competed on the show this year, Anna began training for the show just a few months after Elle was born. With filming kicking off in October, Anna was competing on the show 11 months after giving birth. 

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Anna was on the show just 11 months after giving birth.

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"Tim encouraged me [to do the show]. It was definitely something I never thought I’d be doing, there was just no way. It’s so far out of my comfort zone," Anna admits.

Saying he may have been living a little vicariously through his wife, Tim reveals his unwavering support and admiration for Anna.

"I know how strong Anna is. How resilient she is and how much inner strength she has, and I knew if she decided to set her mind to it she would give it everything," Tim says.

"Maybe I was also living a little vicariously through her, but I knew she would do well because she’s got the fitness and the heart and the underlying drive to really push herself."

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Anna and Elle train together for SAS.

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When the new cast was confirmed in October, Tim revealed on Instagram that he'd been working out with Anna.

"So proud of my girl for going ALL IN on this," the star wrote on Instagram. "However she goes it’s been such an incredible journey even to this point."

"The training we’ve been able to do together, even with Elle in tow, has been an incredibly empowering and belief building journey for Anna by itself, and brought us even closer as a family in lockdown. Winning already," Tim continued his post.

The Neighbours star went on to admit he's "enjoyed" bossing Anna around as they train - boxing together to work on her strength.

"I must admit though I have enjoyed ordering her around and shouting ‘get up and go again!, but I won’t miss the blows to the head she’s been delivering in our boxing training," he writes. 

"Whatever happens Daddy and Elle are extremely proud, slightly jealous, but also slightly relieved that it’s not us."

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Tim and Elle are supporting Anna to the end on SAS Australia.

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A new sneak-peek of Anna's time on SAS: Australia has revealed she'll definitely be facing tough challenges. Like being set on fire.

"Why would someone like me, a mum, be able to take on a course like SAS?" she asks in a voiceover.

"I don't think the public will think I'll go very far in this," she admitted. "I want to prove them wrong.

"The one thing I want to give my daughter - if I tell her that she can do something, I want to believe it in myself."

The reality TV star will be joined on SAS: Australia by fellow Bachelor alum Locky Gilbert, Real Housewives of Sydney star Melissa Tkautz, Home and Away star Orpheus Pledger and rugby league player Ellia Green.

Also taking on the course are Geoff Huegill, Simone Holtznagel, Richard Buttrose, Riana Crehan, Michael Zerafa, Ebanie Bridges, Melissa Wu, Paul Fenech, Millie Boyle, Barry Hall and Darius Boyd.
WATCH: Anna Heinrich set on fire in first-look teaser for SAS Australia 2022

SAS: Australia premieres February on Channel Seven.

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Tina Burke is the Digital Lead for WHO, obsessed with all things pop culture, entertainment and lifestyle. When she’s not writing about the latest TV shows, you’ll find her aimlessly scrolling through TikTok.

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