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Level 3 PT | MNU Certified Nutritionist.

Today we pause all serious fitness business for a far more important matter.Yesterday was Jax’s birthday. 🎂🐾 🥳 7 years o...
19/06/2026

Today we pause all serious fitness business for a far more important matter.

Yesterday was Jax’s birthday. 🎂🐾 🥳

7 years of unconditional support, judging me from the sofa during home workouts, and reminding me daily that rest days are sacred and walks are non-negotiable.

He doesn’t count macros. He doesn’t track his steps (I do that for him). He just shows up, every single day, with the same energy, which, when you think about it, is more consistency than most New Year’s resolutions manage.

Happy birthday, mate 🐾 🐾 🥳

This is what proper training looks like.Not the gym. The sofa.Here’s the bit the fitness industry won’t sell you: you do...
11/06/2026

This is what proper training looks like.

Not the gym. The sofa.

Here’s the bit the fitness industry won’t sell you: you don’t get stronger when you train. You get stronger when you recover from it.

The session is the stimulus, sleep, food and rest days are where the actual adaptation happens.

Train hard 7 days a week with no recovery and you’re not “dedicated,” you’re just accumulating fatigue, sleeping worse, lifting heavier on tired legs and wondering why nothing’s moving. I see lots of gyms forcing this mentality.

A couple of genuine rest days a week isn’t slacking. It’s part of the programme. Same as the workout. Same as hitting your protein.
So if today’s a rest day, take it. Properly. Be more like Jax 🐾

06/06/2026

Two clients. One start line.

Over the weekend, ran his second ever parkrun in Dudley and grabbed a new PB.

A fortnight earlier he had a calf strain and running was off the table, on Saturday he ran the whole 5K without stopping.

Apex client was there too, a fair few parkruns into his own journey now and still showing up.

That’s the part that actually matters. Not one big dramatic transformation, just two normal blokes lining up on a cold Saturday morning and doing the thing. Setbacks and all.
Proud of these two.

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.

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