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Hiking, travelling, training, food and coaching are the great loves of my life. I have a few other hobbies I dabble with, but these are the cream of the crop.
Without giving you my whole life story from birth, I was born in Jersey and have moved around a lot throughout my life. Having moved to Sussex and then Suffolk before initially coming up to Chester for uni, I ended up staying here for 9 years before deciding to go travelling and to see more of what this big world has to offer. This 18 month period saw me tick off a good few of my bucket list countries – including New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia and Nepal (where I also
fulfilled a 20 year old dream of hiking for 2 weeks to and from Everest Base Camp). I’m now settled back in Cheshire, where I see as home, continuing to build a life I love and help others do the same, as best I can.
I’ve had a bit of an up and down relationship with fitness during my journey so far. During my younger years I played football a lot (whether I was good or not is up for debate), but heading into my teenage years I began living a pretty unhealthy lifestyle, where all I wanted to do was sit and play Xbox, watch films and eat a LOT of toast. My first change came thanks to some brutal honesty from my mum, which saw me take up running with my dog in the evenings. Over the next few years I dropped a lot of weight, but then went to uni and saw my health fall off again in favour of alcohol, partying and takeaways. Eventually, a little after uni and battling through some personal hardships, I
discovered my love for weightlifting and the gym. Since this, I have developed a love for simply being active and focusing on what my body is capable of – be it lifting heavy weights, running a marathon, hiking for days on end, competing in a Hyrox race, kayaking, snowboarding, sprinting, kickboxing and whatever else I may dabble in.
Everything I do is tailored toward a healthy, happy, fulfilling and well-balanced life.
It was shortly after covid that I decided to become a PT – I had been making programmes for my friends for free and realised I could make a job out of it! The motivation to make a career out of it comes from the fulfilment I get from helping clients reach their goals and become their best selves. I know from personal experience how much life changes from getting into shape and looking after your physical and mental wellbeing, and smashing fitness-related
goals simultaneously.
I like to switch the focus to performance over anything else – getting and seeing yourself getting stronger, faster and fitter I find is the best motivation to continue, and provides much more mentally fulfilling milestones to achieve
rather than purely focusing on the aesthetic side. The physique improvement will still happen, you’ll just enjoy the journey a little more this way.
The people. I’ve worked with such a plethora of clients – be it complete beginners or advanced trainers, everyday or competitive athletes and everyone in between – every person has had unique goals and I get so much fulfilment and joy seeing everyone smash their personal goals – regardless of the target or the unique why.
Even more so, just getting to know the people. The job itself is fun, but it’s spending time with and getting to know everyone from the client to fellow staff and coaches. Every day I turn up for work I feel lucky to be working in my
dream job.
Now this one changes like the tide, it depends what mood I’m in. If I had to choose one though, it’d either be a heavy deadlift for the raw power needed and accomplishment of lifting the weight, running for the mental clarity it brings me or Bulgarian split squats because I’m mental – they feel good, deal with it.
Has to be anything on the treadmill. I love running but only outside, I lose my mind being on it for more than 10 minutes! Or maybe the stairclimber due to pure PTSD from the day I spent 7 hours on one for charity…
Being healthy and physically fit enough to do anything that I want to do.
There’s so many things to do and experience, and I don’t want to miss any of this due to having not taken care of my body – we only get one, at the end of the day. Happiness and experiences also motivate me – life is for living, and I intend to do everything I can to embrace and follow this mantra.
I’ll give you a few:
“Life’s not about how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and
keep going”
.
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. And that is
why it’s called the present”
.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”
I really enjoy my food, so I don’t personally enjoy referring to certain foods as a treat – food is food! Some is just more nutritionally beneficial than others.
Everything in moderation and in balance is the best approach for a sustainable, happy and healthy lifestyle in the long run.
Saying that though, a glass of scotch and a tub of ice cream whilst watching a film at night hits different – there’s just something about it.
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