From the age of around 17/18 I aspired to become a well qualified Personal Trainer. Prior to this I had always participated within a range of sports, contact and non contact. My main hobby being mountain biking alongside playing rugby (although I didn't really know the rules!)

I began training at around the time I decided I wanted to become a personal trainer. I had been studying from the age of 15 within secondary school about the body (2011) and gradually built up my knowledge based around these foundations.

7 months out from training (Injury March 2015). 7 months later with no answers, no training I had lost 1.5 stone. More information on my injury HERE.

After finally finding out about my injury, I decided to take it upon myself to start training and improve my physique once again while having L4 PARS Fractures within my vertebra. I decided to take pictures before training - something I didn't previously do. The slant on my hips is due to my fractures.

Sorry to scare you with my pale body...

Like anyone who has taken a knock back, I lost a lot of confidence - so I understand why people are nervous to go to the gym. As my job requires me to be a motivator, I had to self motivate myself to go train again. Motivation wasn't the hardest thing that I had to face, but to actually put myself into the centre of everyone and train while not feeling comfortable within myself was the hardest part- in reality, everyone is training for their own reasons and don't care what your doing. The best part about being a personal trainer is that I know what its like to have low self-esteem, I know how things can be difficult and aren't as easy as we'd like, but that's all part of life and without experiencing it myself I wouldn't understand how my clients would have felt to the level in which I do now.

12 Week Transformation

For the last 12 weeks I have trained between 5-7 days a week, and have eaten almost always good- Yes "almost always" but everyone slips, messes up or has down times.

My meals would usually consist of on a good day of either rice, potatoes, chicken, steaks, fish, greek yoghurts, spinach, broccoli, Mince, eggs, oats, Protein shake

Supplements - Pre-Workout (as a boost for 6am training sessions), Intra-Workout (to train for longer), and Protein (as the recovery, also used within oats etc.)

Brief Breakdown of weekly routine-

  • Monday - Legs
  • Tuesday - Shoulders
  • Wednesday - Back
  • Thursday - Chest
  • Friday - Legs
  • Saturday - Cardio
  • Sunday - Rest