Why me
I'm a self-confessed training addict. My first gym was a cast iron barbell set in my parents' garden shed with a rusty bar and plates that didn't match. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing but I loved every second of it. The programmes I wrote back then make me physically cringe, but honestly that shed is where the whole obsession started.
For a long time I was just winging it, and it worked well enough until I hit a wall. I kept doing the same things, getting the same results, and eventually I had to figure out how to actually go further. That's what sent me down the rabbit hole of learning how training really works. And I think that's where most people get stuck too. It's not that they're lazy, it's that nobody ever actually showed them how to train properly. You get a gym membership, someone shows you how not to crush yourself on the leg press, and then you're pretty much left to figure the rest out on your own.
I've been coaching for over a decade now and I still play semi-professional football so I'm very much still in it, not just writing programmes from behind a laptop. The difference between shed-me and now-me is years of study, years of experience on the job, and conversations with hundreds of people who just needed someone to show them how to train with purpose. My programmes have a lot more substance to them these days but the enthusiasm from that garden shed hasn't gone anywhere. I got into this because I believe everyone deserves to understand how to train properly, and once you do it stops feeling like a chore and starts feeling like something that's actually yours.
