Progress One Coaching

Progress One Coaching Online fitness & nutrition coaching for real people. No fads, no pressure — just simple, sustainable coaching that works. www.progressone.co.uk

Level 3 PT | MNU Certified Nutritionist.

Happy 21st birthday to my lad Ben. Hope you have a great day. These are the years where he doesn't want to do anything w...
29/05/2026

Happy 21st birthday to my lad Ben.

Hope you have a great day. These are the years where he doesn't want to do anything with his parents. Thanks Mother for photobombing our photo too! 😃

For about four years I ate around 1,800 calories a day, trained five times a week, and couldn't work out why I felt knac...
16/05/2026

For about four years I ate around 1,800 calories a day, trained five times a week, and couldn't work out why I felt knackered all the time and my training never moved forwards.

I thought I was doing everything right. Eating clean. Tracking. Hitting the gym. Cardio on top for good measure.

What I was actually doing was running myself into the ground.

The thing nobody told me, and the thing my MNU course later drilled into me with proper evidence, is that under-eating doesn't speed up fat loss. It does the opposite. You lose muscle. Your training quality tanks. Your hunger spikes. You binge at the weekend. The scale doesn't move and you assume the answer is to eat even less.

I look back at that version of me and want to grab him by the shoulders and tell him to eat his protein, eat enough carbs to actually train hard, and stop punishing himself for having a normal appetite.

I wasted years getting it wrong.

The reason I'm direct with my clients about calories now isn't because I'm clever. It's because I made every one of these mistakes myself, for far longer than I should have.

If you're in that same loop, eating less, training harder, getting nowhere, the answer is almost never to eat even less.

My free calorie & protein guide is in my bio. The version of you from four years ago will thank you.

Soreness ≠ a good session.This one cost me years.I used to walk out of the gym and judge whether the workout was "worth ...
14/05/2026

Soreness ≠ a good session.

This one cost me years.

I used to walk out of the gym and judge whether the workout was "worth it" by how stiff I felt the next day. Not sore? Obviously didn't train hard enough, right?

Wrong.

Soreness is your body reacting to something unfamiliar. New movement, new load, more eccentric work than usual. It's not a quality marker. It's a "you did something different" marker.

Plenty of well-trained lifters barely get sore anymore. They're still progressing. Still getting stronger. Still building muscle. They've just stopped using soreness as the scoreboard.

The actual scoreboard is simpler: are you lifting more than you were 8 weeks ago?
More weight, more reps, more sets, better technique?

That's training. The rest is noise.

Drop me a message if you want a programme that actually progresses you week by week.

I don't talk about Base enough, so here it is properly.Who is the base for: point to Progress One. £9.99 a month. It's ...
12/05/2026

I don't talk about Base enough, so here it is properly.

Who is the base for: point to Progress One. £9.99 a month. It's not 1-to-1 coaching and I'm not pretending it is, that's what Shift and Apex are for. But for a tenner a month, here's what you get:

→ Structured training programmes you can actually follow. Not random workouts. Proper progression built in.

→ Access to the Progress One app, track your sessions, log your lifts, see your progress over time.

→ A community space. No spammy motivational quotes. Actual useful stuff.

→ Programmes for the gym AND home setups. Whatever your situation.

→ Cancel anytime. No 12-month tie-in. No "founding member" pressure tactics.

Who Base is for:

People who know roughly what they're doing, or are willing to learn, and just want a proper plan to follow without paying £150/month for full coaching.

Who Base isn't for:

People who need weekly accountability, personalised macros, and someone in their corner every day.

That's Apex. Different tier, different price, different level of input.I built Base because not everyone needs (or wants) full coaching.

Some people just need a plan that doesn't suck and an app that doesn't crash. £9.99 felt like the right number, cheaper than your Netflix, cheaper than two coffees a week, and it actually does something for your body.

Link in bio if you want to take a look or feel free to message me. You can even try it for free for 7 days.

This is one of my Base clients. The cheapest tier I offer.11 weeks ago: 100kg.This week: 96.4kg.Down 3.6kg. Self-guided ...
09/05/2026

This is one of my Base clients. The cheapest tier I offer.

11 weeks ago: 100kg.
This week: 96.4kg.

Down 3.6kg. Self-guided through the app, doing their own check-ins, no 1-to-1 coaching from me.

Look at the line. It's not a clean diagonal. There are bumps, plateaus, the odd uptick.

That's what real fat loss looks like, roughly 0.3kg a week on average, which is exactly the rate every credible nutritionist will tell you is sustainable.

The reason this works isn't the programme being magic. It's that they showed up. Week after week. Even the weeks the scale didn't move.

Base won't do the work for you. But if you're consistent with it, this is what's possible.

The scale is not lying to you. It's just not telling you what you think it's telling you.Daily weight bounces 1–3kg for ...
07/05/2026

The scale is not lying to you. It's just not telling you what you think it's telling you.

Daily weight bounces 1–3kg for everyone. Water, food, sodium, training, hormones, it all moves the number around.

Fat loss happens slowly. The scale moves quickly. Those two things will drive you mental if you weigh daily and treat every number as gospel.

Track the weekly average. Ignore the daily noise.
Want the free guide on calories and protein? Drop me a message and I'll send it over.

Think about it.Every week there's a new diet. A new supplement that's the missing piece. A new exercise you've been doin...
05/05/2026

Think about it.

Every week there's a new diet. A new supplement that's the missing piece. A new exercise you've been doing wrong. A new guru telling you the last guru got it wrong.
Carbs are the enemy. No, sugar is. No, seed oils. No, processed food. No, gluten.
Fasted cardio. Fed cardio. No cardio. Only cardio.

It's not an accident. Confused people buy more. If you knew the basics worked , eat enough protein, train consistently, get your steps in, sleep, repeat, there'd be nothing left to sell you.

So the industry keeps reinventing the wheel. New programmes. New protocols. New problems you didn't know you had.

The truth is boring. Eat enough protein. Lift weights. Walk. Sleep. Be patient. Do it for years, not weeks.

That's the whole thing.

(P.S. — this is me on holiday with the dog. Nothing to do with fitness. That's sort of the point.)

Quick scroll through Instagram tells you everything you need to know about the fitness industry.Half the coaches on ther...
02/05/2026

Quick scroll through Instagram tells you everything you need to know about the fitness industry.

Half the coaches on there are shirtless. The other half are about to take their shirt off.

I don't do it. Never have. And it's not because I'm self-conscious or have something to hide. It's because I genuinely don't think my body is the point.

Here's what I mean.

If you hire me as a coach, your goals aren't my goals. You're a 42-year-old with a desk job and two kids. I'm 41, no young kids, train consistently when I can because it's literally my job to.

We have completely different lives, completely different starting points, and probably completely different goals.

What works for me doesn't transfer cleanly to you. Showing you my abs would be advertising my results, not serving yours.

The other reason: most physique content online is selling you a fantasy. The implied message is "look like me, and you can have what I have." That's not coaching. That's marketing.

A good coach makes the client the focus. Their progress. Their goals. Their results. Not a constant highlight reel of the coach's own body.

So you'll never see me shirtless on this page. You will see my clients' results, my training principles, and my honest take on the industry.

That's the deal. That's the brand.

Real client feedback after finishing Phase 1 of Base.No 12-week transformation. No dramatic before-and-after. Just eight...
30/04/2026

Real client feedback after finishing Phase 1 of Base.

No 12-week transformation. No dramatic before-and-after. Just eight weeks of consistent training and small nutrition tweaks, and look at what's actually changing.

Strength up massively. Movement quality better. Posture improved. Better support through the lifts. A solid foundation built and ready to push on from.

This is what real progress looks like in the early stages. It's not always visible on the scale or in a mirror at eight weeks. But the body is doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing, adapting, getting stronger, moving better.



The aesthetic stuff comes later. The foundation has to come first.
And the bit about a heavy weekend? Normal. One week off-track doesn't undo eight weeks of consistency.

The clients who get long-term results aren't the ones who never slip, they're the ones who don't let one slip turn into three.

Phase 1.2 starts this week. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

Shared with Antony's permission.

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