Let me tell you about my story from leaving school, to moving to Portugal to where I am today so you don’t think I’m just some personal training robot.
When I left school, I moved to Portugal to work in my Dad’s bar 'Rambo's', it was an amazing experience at just 16.
I had no ambition to do anything at the time so this lazy lifestyle suited me just fine. For a very strange reason, still un beknown to me I decided to come back to the UK when I was 17 and fell into a job of plaster boarding due to my dad knowing a guy you needed someone to be a dogs body.
I cruised through life at that point playing football, drinking, socialising etc but I was always in the gym working out. I was like a lamp post back then , I could eat or drink anything and wouldn’t put any weight on.
To be honest In the gym I usually just messed about on the treadmill or did the simple circuit the instructor had planned out for me just to keep trim, I knew I didn't have to do much.
Fast forward a couple of years to the age of 21 and I found out I was going to be a dad! (I know young right?) in that same year I ruptured my cruciate ligament in my right knee (I’ve never been able to play football since)
Throughout that life changing year I piled 3 stone on, it seemed all my eating and drinking had caught up with me. I wasn’t doing any exercise due to being on crutches and my knee being in such a bad way. I went up to 16 stone + which for a lad who’s always been around the 12/13 mark this was a lot.
I felt very unhappy, unconfident & self concious.
The only thing I could do for my weight loss was nutrition but I didn’t have a clue about that, so I researched different ways. I ended up getting into weightlifting as it was something static and I could build strength in my knee. I use to devise my own programs to follow and nutrition plans.
To be honest I read a lot of Muscle & Fitness magazines and took influence of them.
Over time I lost around 2 stone of fat but had built some muscle in the process. I really got into the training and wanted to help my friends out when they asked advice. I’d take them to the gym with me and train them while I was training.
I’d gone back into plaster boarding by this point and was on a job over in Bolton when I heard an radio advertisement asking for people to apply for a course to become a personal trainer in a new government funded scheme, now I’d looked into getting qualified before but it was around 6-8k and that was something I just couldn’t afford, after hearing this I jumped at it with both hands.
I was 1 of only 20 people who got on the first ever course back in 2008. Once I was qualified I started work at fitness first in Rochdale, I’ll be honest I shit it at first but loved it.
After about six months or so I started getting the feeling working in a box gym wasn’t for me, I hated being indoors when it was sunny, I couldn’t stand the same old machines over and over again, I couldn't be doing with the pressure to sell shit pointless programs to people just for monthly numbers - I used to do a lot of my session in the studio with functional bodyweight training.
I'd already started planning on getting out after a year and setting up by myself, which is exactly what I did! I moved outdoors in the march and did my personal training in the park for the summer month, When went winter came around I moved indoors (I don’t like the cold) in to my garage but here’s the thing I was working 6am-9pm, I was missing family time and a social life I knew I needed to change it.
I adjusted my direction from personal training into bootcamp, again outdoor in the park for summer, inside for winter. This was awesome as I could help so much more people and spend time with my family & friends.
It’s very much adapted over the years into what it is today. I’m not a bootcamp any more I’m a coaching program, a coaching program that helps women come out of the diet cycle to free their inner self’s and finally achieve the goals they set out with by taking them on a journey of accountability and guidance so that they can once again feel healthy, toned and energized.
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