Barrie Holmes Personal Training and Nutritional Advice.

27/08/2026

Credit where credits due. These two amazing gentleman are what inspire me to get up a 530am every day, seven days a week. Brian is 90 and approached me several months ago and ask if he could try my classes- “come and join the party my friend”and he been with me ever since and loves it. Always got a smile on his face and does what he can to the best of his ability. 90 years young and showing the team that with belief and determination you can do almost anything- an absolute pleasure to have him in the group.

Gaz Hilton has trained with me for many years and is another inspiration, now in his mid 70s still has the same vigour and desire he had back in the early days- he is testimony to the fact that age is just a number. Gives his all in everything he does, prides himself in his positive attitude and direction, another pleasure having him in the team doing incredible things.

Never feel that you will be out of place in my team, regardless of age or ability, there will be a place for you like everyone else. We have all ages, with different abilities and characteristics and that’s what makes a great team. Loyal, hardworking and dedicated.

I will give you all my enthusiasm, passion and support like I always have. All I ask is, give the best you can. I will be with you as a guiding light along the way, but its you, that will shine bright before me.

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11/08/2026

One of the dilemmas my team have is getting a slot on my classes. That 10 oclock in the evening, fastest finger on the buzzer stress, seven days before, has become a tale that will one day go down in folklore. The fastest recorded time to book on a class was 0.7 seconds after 10- a world record to be proud of.

Now a savvy regular gym member has asked AI to book his classes for him. This resulted in the technology being able to kickout an already booked customer off the class to accomodate him. Could be interesting additional spanner in the works this one.going forward .

Happy Tuesday Team. The Chief

14/05/2026

A Belter- chart that progress- see the improvements, develop the weak areas and adapt when regression happens.

14/04/2026

10/03/2026

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09/03/2026

Three different lifts, with three different outcomes. On each occasion he lifted the load, but there were fundamental mistake in the start position and ex*****on. It took him 20 seconds toto make the adjustment when I showed him the video. The outcome.....he could have lifted that weight with one arm.

01/03/2026

Continuing on with sharing some of my A-Team members stories and journey to the wider world, today I have the great pleasure of introducing Nicola McGuire to you all. What can I say about this fantastic lady that even gets close to truly demonstrating my inner affection, respect and admiration that I have for her.

Nicola’s journey began at my Legs ,Bum and Tums class at Eccles with the rest of the amazing Eccles crew and what a class that is. It transcend from this class to all of my advanced morning classes, which she is now a regular participant. Cardio Mayhem, Total Body Conditioning and Strength and Conditioning including the infamous Cali workouts. These are tough workouts, classes not for the faint hearted, but with self-belief, determination and plenty of positive praise you can achieve anything and get the results you pay for. No one judges here, we are one family, we welcome you with open arms. Don’t be afraid, trust me when I say this” you can do anything, if you believe you can”.

What I love so much about this lady is she not intimidated, she got the heart of a Lioness, she focuses on her own development, she tries her socks off. Never complains; Runs, jumps, lifts and pushes those boundaries with a smile and a forceful glee in her eyes. An important cog in my team, respected and admired by all her training colleagues for her spirit and motivation.

I’m so happy you weren’t afraid to try, not intimidated or put off, to give it a go and believe in yourself as I believe in you. Well done my mate. Keep up the hardwork, you are amazing!

I will always push and blow my teams trumpet. You are the only people that matter. Without you guys there is no Barrie Holmes Personal Training and Nutritional Advice. I will give you everything and more to take you to new heights and successes, loyalty is my maxim., belief in yourself should be yours.

One team, with the same aspirations.

The Chief.

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We look at the Cali girls, setting standards that others can only dream of doing. The elite guard of the team, the best of the best. These girls are few in number but missing nothing else.

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08/02/2026

What I so love about these Sunday morning workshops, is the team are always highly motivated to learn and develop their performance. It’s so easy for me every week, their a pleasure to be around. We mess around now and then, a little bit of banter, but ultimately training is serious and we are there for the same reasons. To develop our Athletic Performance to make us better than we were the week before. Well it’s a simple model, to enable that to happen.

Currently the game is all about building raw strength in a dynamic and integrated fashion using isolation and complex movement. Strength is built on the bedrock of a simple principle- progressive overload. Combine that with good technique (form) and a few tricks and before you know it, well you are turning heads kids.

I’ve always had an innate eye for spotting little game changers in technique and this morning I past on a few little adjustment to peoples A game- put the egos and arrogance away, plenty of other shops out there for that nonsense, open you ears and eyes and a miracle doesn’t need to happen, it will just happen. I’ve got girls in the team that don’t realise how brilliant they are and how amazing they will become, I’ve got fellas of all ages that will eat up most 20 year olds and their journey continues full throttle.

Finally a couple of the gang today on the Olympic lifts demonstrated their ability to learn and adjust quickly and what an outcome. One lady said: ‘it’s to heavy I can’t lift it.’ You can’t lift it because the technique is not there, but it will come, keep working at it. Show me again with the things I’ve just highlighted to you. Boom….. it became 50% better in 30 seconds She could have put another 10kg on that bar and lifted it with ease.

We continue to progress!

TC.

24/01/2026

This year I would like to introduce some of my amazing team to you all. Some attend my classes, others get put through their paces with a one on one 'Personal Training' session. Others take on my Nutritional plans and assessments.

This is their story, the journey, the legacy and inspirational path they have taken with me.

First up, the wonderful Margaret Meredith or as I like to call her 'The 'Masher" This amazing lady has some mobility issues and has had limited success with conventional therapies, so she gave me a chance and we have never looked back. An great example of what can be achieved with belief, desire and raw motivation.

The training we do is fab- full of energy, fun, laughter and few 'Christopher Columbus'moments. We concentrate on some demanding sitdown workout routines that challenge Mashers strength and endurance. Always enthusiastic and hardworking, she is testimony to what steely determination can achieve. At the end of every session we don the gloves and pads and float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Boy can this lady bash!

I'm immensely proud to have her as a client and a true friend. We have some incredible chats and I love turning up every week. Be proud of what you do, keep the fighting spirit going and here's to more bashings with the Basher going forward.