Welcome to my first blog.
I can’t wait to get stuck in and start sharing my thoughts and feelings on everything health, fitness and nutrition. But before I do that let me share my journey and experiences on how I got to where I am now.
How I Got Started
Well… I suppose it all started for me from a very young age of maybe 7 years old. An impressionable boy watching his dad meticulously lay his weights out in the living room. Seeing my dad so passionate about lifting weights obviously had a lasting impression. I even remember him let me try some strawberry flavoured protein shake as he looked on smiling.
Fast forward a few years and I got my first gym membership at Fitness First, where I invested in a few sessions with a Personal Trainer. An ex-military man who if I learned one thing from him it was to push past your comfort zone and try what you thought you couldn’t do. And that was it… I caught the bug; the gym was my life.
At 18 I joined the British Army where fitness as you can imagine was key to my work. Here my knowledge and passion for fitness only grew. If I took one thing away from my time in the military, it was that your mind is often what gives in before your body. I learned to push myself!
If I took one thing away from my time in the military, it was that your mind is often what gives in before your body. I learned to push myself!
Passion to Knowledge
But it was 2014 where my passion turned to knowledge, and I became a Personal Trainer (PT). I couldn’t get enough knowledge, it wasn’t enough. I wanted to be more than a PT. That thirst for learning led me to academia. I enrolled onto a Sports science degree and finished with a first-class honour’s degree. The knowledge and experience gained here was invaluable. I worked amongst brilliant tutors who are doing brilliant things and shaping what and how we understand fitness. But that’s leads me to the biggest thing I learned at university… we don’t know it all…we are still learning…and I’m still learning.
What makes a good PT?
That’s easy, it’s someone who continues to learn. If you meet a PT who claims to know it all… beware. And that will be my aim on my blogging journey. To tackle current issues in the fitness industry, sharing my opinions and hopefully give you the right tools to make the right decisions in your fitness journey. But as I’m writing this it has only just occurred to me, my fitness journey started at 16 years of age where I invested in an ex-military man to PT me… and I’m here now an ex-military man hopefully helping shape your fitness journey.