john.fit

To be able to implement an effective exercise and nutrition plan for weight management, it is essential that we engage in a detailed consultation prior to training taking place. This allows us to identify your current lifestyle patterns, determine your ultimate goals, and recognise any anxieties you may have regarding physical activity.

Our consultation will enable us to agree on specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-related goals that are appropriate to your needs and expectations, and will include:

Specific short (4-12 weeks), medium (8-24 weeks) and long term (13-52 weeks) goals
Physical activity goals
Lifestyle goals
Action goals – agreement on our respective roles and responsibilities towards the exercise programme

Even though the goals of an exercise programme are generally similar for the majority of people (lose weight, be healthier, fitter etc.), the ways in which lifestyle habits and behaviour patterns are formed are extremely varied.

This initial discussion helps us both to understand “where you are coming from”, and how we can work together to alter those patterns. Once any small change in the routine has been established, it becomes easier to form a structured exercise plan, and then you will start to achieve visible results in a much shorter time span.

We will schedule regular meetings to discuss and review progress, and alter the programme as required, to ensure we stay on track for the targeted goals.

As a personal trainer, I am dedicated to helping people across a broad spectrum of health and fitness levels, through carefully planned exercise programmes, to greatly improve their physical condition, and benefit from the many positive health and social consequences that often result.

Whether it's in a 1-to-1 training session with a client I've known for ages, or teaching Core Stability to a class of 40 people I've never met before, knowing that I can give those people something that will improve their lives gives me a big lift!

I have always been a participant in recreational sport, and a naturally scientific and inquisitive mind (although my brother is the really clever one) led me to earning my degree in Sport Science. Through chance meetings and some hard graft, I have since found myself teaching scuba on The Great Barrier Reef, and running various companies for other people, amongst many other things.

Repeated knee injuries finally put an end to a 30-year stint as a decidedly average rugby player in 2014, and resulted in surgery in June 2015. By this time I had built up a good level of cardiovascular fitness and, with a great (but very simple) nutrition plan, managed to lose over 15kg (almost 2½ stone) in 12 months!

At the same time I was re-evaluating what I wanted to do with my future, and decided it was time to combine all that management experience with my background in sport and exercise to help make a difference, and support and empower people like you reach your health and fitness goals.

Far more effective than regular gym attendance, your programmes will be completely individual and specific for you, and are designed to get you the results you want in a realistic time frame.

AND

John.Fit is unique in the world of personal training in that 5% of your training fee is paid to charity.

PLUS

A percentage of all company profits at the end of the year are added to the charity fund too.