About Me
“Some of the differences are that I treat every single client as an athlete.”
I’m a strength & conditioning coach, personal trainer, and weightlifting coach based in Leicester, UK. I’m an ex-professional athlete with medals in powerlifting, strongman and weightlifting. Training is in my blood and I started competing at a young age. In addition, I have almost a decade of dedicated coaching experience under my belt.
Since starting my weightlifting club, the value of biomechanics and the intricacies of movement have never felt so important. I am continually challenging myself and learning new approaches and skills to deal with a variety of different athletic needs. This has created opportunities for me to work with more injury prevention and rehabilitation cases, with which I have recently been working in collaboration with sports therapist and clients.
What has worked for me is how I have learnt to transfer the knowledge from working with weightlifting athletes and seeing ‘movement deficiencies’ and correcting them, and applying this to the issues of other clients - athlete or not.
I enjoy coaching because that has given me the opportunity to improve other people’s lives by showing what being strong can do for athletes and the general public. I make the point of not just getting people stronger but explaining and teaching them the value of moving correctly, biomechanics and how good technique will benefit all areas of training. This aspect of not just training people but teaching, has led me to working closely with personal trainers and other coaches that can then help their athletes.
I treat every single client as an athlete, meaning I assume the role of a coach more than a personal trainer, I asses the person and their capabilities, then based on their desires, make a detailed plan to reach their desired goals. Functional training is at the core of everything I do.
I always insist on approaching the persons’ goals from creating a strong, healthy and capable body first, any secondary aesthetic goal will then be easily achieved. My training mantra is, train like an athlete to look like an athlete. I will help the client smash their weight and measurements goals but this is a by-product, first and foremost the client walks away with confidence and strength so that they can maintain their new body without my help!
When it comes to training athletes that are looking to compete or just be the strongest/fastest/fittest person possible, I would employ my knowledge from strongman powerlifting and weightlifting to crystallise all the aspects from each sport that works specifically for them to deliver best possible approach, so it doesn’t matter if you are postpartum or have had a hip replacement, I will tailor everything to your needs. In addition, my understanding of biomechanics results in coaching that represents biomechanically sound and real life tested and proven training techniques to make mobile, fast and powerful athletes with enough sports specific strength and skill to dominate their chosen sport.
Good posture is a prerequisite to having good strength, good posture is dependant on well functioning joints and balanced muscular structures to support them, this can be manipulated and adjusted by stretching or releasing muscles as well as strengthening or activating dormant muscles. Through this specialised manipulation we can achieve correct body function that leads to pain-free living and a solid foundation to develop our training practice.
I have helped many clients to optimize how their bodies move, improve their posture and strength, during this process, their aches and pains also went away. Such success has allowed me build a reputation for helping people with dysfunction related joint problems. This has all been done through a technique called corrective exercises, to help prevent injury, increase mobility and be stronger.
Corrective Exercise is a technique that leverages an understanding of anatomy, kinesiology, and biomechanics to address and fix movement compensations and imbalances to improve the overall quality of movement during workouts and in everyday life.
Corrective Exercise is used to help assess and determine the root cause of imbalances and faulty movement patterns that lead to issues with posture, balance, and total body coordination.
Once the issues are identified, I can then develop an exercise routine that addresses the problem through foam rolling, stretching, and total body exercises.