Training the Weyman Way

10/11/2025

💥 The Fitness Myth You Need to Stop Believing 💥

You don’t have to pound your joints to get stronger. You don’t need a gym or machines to build functional, total-body power.
At Training The Weyman Way, we draw on centuries of ancient strength tradition and martial fitness wisdoms and gold-en age physical culture.
Over the next few posts we are going to be talking about how you can become immensley strong just by staying still, Your heart and lings will feel like they are running a marathon and all your muscles will be on fire. Until taht is Untill you learn to calm your mind, breath and body
These postures will
✅ Build real-life strength
✅ Activate your core, stabilizers, and cross-body synergy
✅ Improve balance, coordination, and control
✅ Calm your mind while energizing your body
📍 Serving Ascot, Windsor, Winkfield, Sunninghill & Virginia Water.
Call 07814683245 to start your training.

30/08/2025

✨Looking to the Fitness Masters of the Past for the Future of Fitness & Personal Training✨
The newly rebranded Training The Weyman Way is live — and our brand new homepage is ready to explore!
This is personal training for men and women 40–70 in Ascot and surrounding areas — Blending Ancient Strength Tradition with Martial Fitness Wisdoms and Re-Imagining Lost knowledge of Physical Fitness from the Golden Age of Physical Culture.
Here’s the difference: no other personal trainer anywhere is doing what I do. My decades of experience in the military, martial arts, and golden-age physical culture allows me to bring authentic, time-tested methods to modern fitness.
I teach what others simply don’t know or understand:
⚔️ Ancient warrior traditions
🌊 Flowing arts Influenced and based on Tai Chi & Qi Gong and the Legendary 72 Exercises of Shaolin Temple Gong Fu
💪 Golden-age strength systems — Indian clubs, mace, dumbbells, and non impact bodyweight functional strength training
This isn’t about chasing trends. It’s about real strength, resilience, and vitality — for life.
🔥 Curious how training like this can change your body and mind? Click below to see the full approach:
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💬 Question for you: If you could train like a Warrior Monk and master Strength through Stilness and the Flowing Fitness of Hybrid, Body, Mind Strength and Fitness Training or Master Bodyweight Functional Strength Training which would you try first? Comment below!

29/07/2025

Training the Weyman Way-Personal Training that delivers results.
A big well done and shout out, to Luke, a great man, athlete and trainee of Old Sool Personal Training The Weyman Way. On Finnishing the London to Brighton Ultra Marathon. It was a tough 2 years of training set back by injury but by listening to my guidance, experience and knowledge, as well as his consistent hard work and effort. I am realy proud of his achievement at completing such a difficult event, running 62 miles non stop. Well done mate.

30/06/2025

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🌀 The Art of Cardio Without Doing Cardio 🧘‍♂️

Think cardio only comes from running, cycling, or HIIT? Think again.

Qi Gong meditation – a centuries-old mind-body practice – offers remarkable cardiovascular and muscular endurance benefits without the sweat-drenched workouts. Here’s how:

❤️ Cardiovascular Health
Qi Gong uses slow, controlled movements and deep, rhythmic breathing that activate the parasympathetic nervous system, reducing heart rate and blood pressure over time. This “internal cardio” improves circulation, oxygen efficiency, and heart rate variability – key markers of cardiovascular fitness.

💪 Muscular Endurance
Holding postures and flowing through low-impact sequences builds isometric strength and muscular endurance, especially in the legs, core, and back. Repeated practice increases muscle control, joint stability, and stamina—without strain or burnout.

🧠 Bonus: Qi Gong also sharpens mind-body awareness, lowers cortisol, and promotes long-lasting energy and balance.

➡️ Regular practice may not look like cardio – but your heart, muscles, and nervous system will thank you.

29/06/2025

🧘‍♂️💥 WHY YOU SHOULD BE USING WAI DAN (EXTERNAL ELIXIR) MEDITATION ENERGY TRAINING BEFORE BODYWEIGHT STRENGTH WORK 💪🔥

The modern fitness industry pushes quick fix, pre-workout stimulants like caffeine-packed drinks and powders to “get in the zone.” 🚀 But what if you could naturally boost your energy, sharpen focus, and ignite raw internal power—without crashing later?

Here’s what the Shaolin monks, Daoist alchemists, and martial artists have done for centuries to cultivate explosive power, strength and endurance—naturaly and from within:

🔮 THE PRACTICE: WHAT IS WAI DAN & DAOIST INTERNAL TRAINING?
Wai Dan (External Elixir) – Ancient Daoist energy practices that uses focused breathwork, in both standing and sitting postures and visualization techniques and awareness to clear the mind, to awaken the body’s natural electrical energy, qi (life force) and lead it to the external muscles of the body priming them for action.

🔑 CORE PRINCIPLES:
Jing (Essence) → Strength foundation

Qi (Energy) → Internal fuel

Shen (Spirit) → Mental clarity and warrior mindset

Stillness before action → Activates parasympathetic system for deeper control

Yi (Intention) → Focused mind = focused body

🔥 BENEFITS BEFORE STRENGTH TRAINING:
✅Builds lasting mind muscle connection
✅Activates and stimulates muscle fibre of external muscles at will through intension and directed breathing and leaading of Qi.
✅Increased fast twitch muscle fibre activation
✅ More reps with less fatigue
✅ Laser-sharp focus during isometrics and slow reps
✅ Deep core activation from the inside-out
✅ Lasting energy & post-training calm
✅ Enhanced recovery via qi circulation

Modern pre-workouts only give you a spark, that can be jittery and comes with burn out and crashing post workout and can lead to dependancey
Wai Dan meditation gives you a fire that never goes out. Calms Nervous System Impact and tunes the CNS. Allowing you to tap into your internal energy and send it to any part of the body at will.

👊Train from the inside out. Tap into the knowledge that warriors, monks and sages knew all along.

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29/06/2025

An Old Skool way to boost your energy, calm your mind, and improve your health - Without pre workout stimulants? Without Dumbells, kettlebells or even a gym— all in one practice? Together with Training The Weyman Way
🌬️ Then it's time you started breathing Into Strength: The Full-Spectrum Benefits of Daoist Breathwork. 🧘‍♂️💪
Discover the power of Wai Dan (movement-based external elixir meditation) and Nei Dan (internal elixir meditation) breathwork . To cultivate and circulate Qi. These ancient Daoist techniques are more than just breathing exercises — they’re full-body rituals that support and strengthen your nervous system, digestion, energy, and emotional balance.
Here’s how regular practice can transform your life:
🌬️ 1. Nervous System Regulation
✔ Activates the parasympathetic “rest-and-digest” mode
✔ Improves vagal tone for better stress recovery and emotional resilience
✔ Enhances interoception — your awareness of internal body states
🌿 2. Digestive Health
✔ Stimulates digestion and gut motility
✔ Improves enzyme flow and nutrient absorption
✔ Reduces IBS, bloating, and inflammation
🧘‍♂️ 3. Energy Cultivation (Jing, Qi, Shen)
✔ Jing (Essence): Supports hormonal balance and vitality
✔ Qi (Energy): Enhances oxygenation and circulation
✔ Shen (Spirit): Improves clarity, mood, and mental resilience
🏋️‍♂️ 4. Pre-Exercise Performance Boost
✔ Increases blood flow and oxygen uptake
✔ Activates muscle fibers through breath-coordinated tension
✔ Improves endurance and primes the nervous system for strength
🧠 5. Mental and Emotional Benefits
✔ Reduces cortisol and stress
✔ Improves sleep and recovery
✔ Supports mindfulness and neuroplasticity
🔁 6. Long-Term Adaptations
✔ Greater autonomic flexibility
✔ Stronger diaphragm and lung capacity
✔ Better body awareness for movement and martial arts
🧠 What’s the secret behind all this? Vagal Tone.
Your vagus nerve controls your rest, digestion, and emotional balance. When your vagal tone is strong, you recover faster, feel calmer, and perform better.
You can improve it through:
✨ Deep abdominal breathing
✨ Meditation & mindfulness
✨ Cold exposure
✨ Singing, chanting, or Qigong
This isn’t just breathwork — it’s a lifestyle rooted in ancient wisdom and backed by modern science.
✨ Breathe deeper. Move smarter. Live stronger.
👇 Have you tried breathwork before? Share your experience or ask questions in the comments!

13/05/2025

Dynamic tension training, wholebody strength, joint health, mobility and mind muscle activation and body control. Based around principles and methods of practice of Qi Gong exercise, 72 Exercises of Shaolin Temple Gong Fu, Charles Atlas and muscle tension and control by Maxick. Which makes up the 4th training method used in Hybrid, Body, Mind, Strength and Fitness training system. As part of our Holistic non impact functional strength and fitness personal training that we bring to your door, helping anyone turn fitness ambition into realty in Ascot, Sunninghill, Virginia Water, Sunningdale, Windsor and surrounding areas.
Dynamic tension strength training is not only a great and proven method to build muscular strength, doing so using only the concentric contraction of muscles whilst allowing full range of movement through limbs of the body. You dont need any dumbells, barbells or exercise machinery that modern strength training requires. For that matter you don't even need to go to the gym. So why not join us on our holistic and non impact functional strength and fitness training journey. That will increase muscular strength, strengthen your joint and over time you will create a deeper mind muscle connection and be able to excert more control over your body. So let's ditch the gym and start getting stronger, working out at home, or even better outside and connecting with nature for a lifetime of physical strength and fitness training. Why not call Dan a British Army Veteran that has been running a 2 time award winning fitness business as a personal trainer. With a 35 year fitnesslifestyle and experience that goes with it. To guide you along a path to strength, health, wellness, strength and fitness.
Call 07814683245 or email [email protected] or visit https://www.doscpersonaltrainingtheweymanway.rocks/hybrid-body-mind-strength-and-fitness Or https://www.doscpersonaltrainingtheweymanway.rocks/bodyweight-functional-strength-training or https://www.doscpersonaltrainingtheweymanway.rocks

05/05/2025

More great non impact holistic whole body functional strength and fitness blending ancient strength tradition and fitness wisdoms, this time swining light clubs for functional fitness, with Indian club training that is another part of Hybrid, Body, Mind, Strength and Fitness brought to you by Training the Weyman Way holistic wholebody functional strength and fitness personal training in Ascot, Sunninghill,Virginia Water, Sunningdale and surrounding areas. Training that comes straight to your door.
Indian club training is a fantastic tool for fitness training and joint flexibility and mobility and takes all the upper body muscles through thier entire ranges of motion, builds whole body strength endurence and develops co ordination. Why not come and join us training. With15 years of being a personal trainer and 35 years of combined fitness and strength training experience i will help you to tranform your workouts and will start you on a strength and fitness journey that will grow with you for life time of fitness, wellness, health and vitality. It's also great fun. Say good by to the gym and embrace are better and more holistic way to heath, strength and wellness. Personal Training that's brought straight to your door.
Call Dan on 07814683245 for a free consultation.
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21/04/2025

Let's face it folks alot of strength training today is pretty low skill, right. Even advanced principle are not that advanced. But thats certainly not true with these two great functional strength and fitness exercises. Golden Rooster and Indian club swings.
Don't worry our holistic functional training system, Hybrid, Body, Mind, Strength and Fitness has you covered with training that will grow with and continue to stretch your capabilities, both stregth training wise and your intalect as it will constantly develop and inprove your strength and fitness skill level. Helping to build not just functional strength and fitness but also cognitive strength, co ordination and mental health gains. And as you can skill and mastery over harder training techniques, train for longer and learn new training patterns and improve your mind set. You will have strength training Gong Fu.
If you are looking for a fully holistic and wholebody , non impact functional strength and fitness system that will last you a lifetime of training without the need for expensive exercise equipment. Holistic Personal Training in Ascot, Sunninghill, Virginia Water and surrounding areas. We can bring and exciting fitness journey to your door. Call 07814683245.
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16/04/2025

Veteran Fitness Coach of the year 2025. It's Official Ladies and Gents.
Winner, winner chicken dinner. Great news I am over the moon. Not only this month is Personal Training The Weyman Way celebrating 15 years of turning fitness ambitions into reality every day. But it's fantastic news now being a 3 time award winning personal trainer and fitness coach. I would also like to thank all my great trainees both past and present for being a part of my journey.