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ONLINE 121 COACHING

Custom built programmes that help you move efficiently and pain-free.

👉 1:1 Online Coach
👉 Personal Coach
👉 Movement
👉 Performance
👉 Strength & Conditioning
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👉Kyokushin Karate It's about gaining a complete understanding of your goals taking current fitness levels into consideration, then building a practical and measurable programme to achieving your objectives. The journey will challenge you using strength and conditioning, and functional movement patterns, that develop you to be faster, leaner, more agile, and stronger. Whether you're looking to take on a more effective training programme, make better use of your current gym membership, competing in a sporting event, or returning from injury, the aim is toprepare you for optimum performance and maintenance. The crucial bottom line is this: Improve your biomechanics and you're instantly able to train harder and longer, and compete at a higher level. What's more, you achieve all this with a reduced risk of injury, simply because of the corrections you make to hitherto unrealised faulty movement patterns.

17/09/2026

Strength has value on its own, but its real usefulness comes from how well we can apply and control it through movement.

That is why exercise selection matters.

A split squat gives me a simple way to develop lower-body strength while also asking the athlete to control the pelvis, trunk and spine in a staggered stance. It is not just about producing force through the legs; it is also about owning position while that force is being produced.

From there, I can keep a similar split stance, hold an upright neutral spine, and introduce an upper-body pull.

Now the challenge changes. The lower body has to maintain position and stability while force is being generated elsewhere. The hips and trunk have to manage that interaction rather than simply remain passive.

The next progression is to integrate the lower and upper body together.

By combining the split-stance pattern with reciprocal upper-body movement, we begin to create a more coordinated whole-body action - linking the hips, trunk and upper body in a way that starts to reflect the patterns we see in gait, rotation and athletic movement.

This is how I think about progression.

Not simply making an exercise harder, but changing the demand in a way that develops another layer of capability.

👉 Build strength.
👉 Control position.
👉 Connect movement.

Yes the exercise matters. So does understanding why it is being used.

TRAINING FOR MOVEMENT

16/09/2026

More isn’t always better.

This is a key message of mine and throughout the Shift journey.

A good training programme is not built by seeing how much work you can squeeze in. It’s built around what you actually need to improve and what you can recover from.

Invoke enough training to create a clear stimulus, enough recovery to adapt, and enough restraint to avoid turning every session into a test of tolerance.

Read that last part again. And again.

The hard part is recognising when useful work starts becoming unnecessary work.

That’s why context matters. Strength work, conditioning, sport, work stress, sleep and everything else in life all contribute to the load you’re carrying.

So the question isn’t:

“Can I do more?”

It’s:

“Will more help?”

Sometimes the best programming decision is progression. Sometimes it’s holding the line. Sometimes it’s taking something out.

Do enough to create the adaptation. Recover from it. Then move forward.

Training for movement.

14/09/2026

3 weeks out 💥

Always a pleasure and the best feeling to help fighters prepare for British Open.

A special energy that if you know, you know and carry with you. Good to stand with and

04/09/2026

Push strength is about more than pressing a heavy weight.

It’s the ability to produce force away from the body, and transfer that force effectively through the whole body.

Here, I’m developing it in three different ways:

• Single-arm cable press: controlled horizontal pushing strength and trunk stability.
• Medicine-ball chest pass: expressing horizontal force quickly through an explosive pressing action.
• Underarm medicine-ball toss: using the legs and hips to generate force, then transferring it through the trunk and upper body.

Strength builds the capacity.
Power is how quickly you can express it.
Good movement connects everything together.

For everyday life or sporting performance, we want strength we can actually use.

Does your training develop strength, power, or both?

SHIFT | Training for Movement

31/08/2026

A good training programme shouldn’t feel random.

There’s a difference between a programme that evolves and one that constantly changes for the sake of keeping things “fresh”.

Most progress comes from doing the right things consistently enough to actually get better at them.

That doesn’t mean repeating the exact same session forever. Loads move. Reps change. Tempo changes. Conditioning progresses. Exercises can be adjusted when there’s a reason to.

But the foundations need to stay in place long enough for you to:
👉 build skill,
👉 create adaptation and
👉 see whether the work is actually doing what it’s supposed to do.

Too much variety can make training feel busy without making it productive.

Keep the important things in. Progress them. Change them when there’s a reason.

That’s how you build momentum.

So, train with intent intelligently.

27/08/2026

BKK Summer Camp 2026 🥋

3 days.
160 attendees.
1 Karate family.

Once again, I had the honour of being one of the instructors at this year’s Summer Camp.

Camp is always a big weekend, but for me it’s never just about the training.

It’s about bringing everyone together. Different dojos, different grades, different ages, all sharing the same space, training hard, learning from each other and enjoying being part of something bigger.

There was plenty of hard work across the three days, but also a lot of laughs, conversations, catching up with old friends and making new ones.

I always enjoy teaching at camp, but I also enjoy watching others coach, picking up ideas and seeing how people respond to different ways of training.

You never stop learning.

160 people on the field creates a great atmosphere, but what really makes the weekend is the people.

Another brilliant BKK Summer Camp.

19/08/2026

This isn’t just a warm-up.

I use this type of work early in a session as part of elastic prep and development.

Pogos, forward pogos, carioca, speed skaters, lunges and alternate knee lifts might look simple, but there’s a lot going on. You’re asking the body to deal with force, organise itself quickly, stay coordinated and move in different directions.

With the pogo work I’m looking at things like ankle stiffness, rhythm and the ability to produce and absorb force quickly. The carioca and speed skaters bring in lateral movement, coordination and control, while the lunges and knee lifts start to introduce more range, balance and single-leg control.

None of this needs to be exhausting. In fact, I’d rather it wasn’t. I want this work done while someone is fresh, moving well and able to focus on the quality of what they’re doing.

That’s why it sits early in the session. It prepares the body for the strength work that follows, but there’s also a longer-term reason for keeping it in the programme.

As we get older, or as training becomes more gym-based, it’s very easy to gradually lose some of the qualities we probably took for granted when we were younger: a bit of bounce, moving quickly in different directions, reacting, controlling a landing and being comfortable on one leg.

I don’t think we should wait until those qualities have disappeared before deciding they’re important.

Strength is a big part of what I programme, but I don’t just want people to be strong in the movements they practise in the gym. I want that strength to sit alongside coordination, elasticity and the ability to move well.

That’s what this type of work is there for.

Preparation for the session, but also part of building a body that stays capable.

Training for movement.

13/08/2026

Jumping isn’t really about how high you can get.

It’s about whether you can create force, control it and deal with it when you land.

That’s why I like to include some form of jumping or landing work in training. It might be pogos, small hops, snap-downs or low-level jumps. It doesn’t need to be complicated or maximal.

Learning to land well teaches you to absorb force, stay balanced and control your position before you move again.

That matters in sport, but it also matters as we get older. We shouldn’t only train slow, controlled strength. We should keep some exposure to moving quickly and reacting to the ground.

Jump. Land. Control it.

That’s the bit that matters.

08/08/2026

Stay capable 💥

There’s a lot of talk about getting stronger. TBeing able to use that strength quickly matters too.

Think about catching yourself when you trip. Getting up quickly. Running for something. Changing direction. Or, if you play sport, being able to react and move explosively.

As we get older, that ability to produce force quickly can decline, and it can happen faster than the loss of strength itself.

So not everything in the gym needs to be slow.

Sometimes the intention should simply be: move fast.

That might mean a jump, a throw, a quick step, or moving a lighter weight with speed.

It doesn’t have to look dramatic, and you don’t need to be an athlete to benefit from it.

Being strong is important. Being able to use that strength quickly is important too.

31/07/2026

Your core is designed to do far more than bend your spine.

When most people think about “core training”, they immediately picture endless crunches, sit-ups and ab circuits.

The reality is very different.

Your core’s primary role is to:
👉create stability,
👉transfer force, and
👉allow you to move efficiently.

It connects your upper and lower body, helping you lift, run, throw, punch, kick, carry shopping, get up from the floor and simply move well through everyday life.

Sometimes the best core exercise isn’t one where your abs are burning. It’s one where your body is resisting movement.

In this video I’m performing:
• Four-point plank shoulder taps
• Inline half-kneeling cable lifts

Neither exercise looks particularly flashy, but both challenge the body to resist rotation while maintaining posture, balance and control.

This is known as anti-rotation training.

Instead of creating movement through your trunk, you’re teaching your body to prevent unwanted movement. That ability is fundamental for athletic performance, reducing injury risk and improving movement quality.

A stronger core isn’t about having visible abs.

It’s about:
Better balance
✓ More efficient movement
✓ Improved force transfer
✓ Greater resilience
✓ Better performance in sport and everyday life

Of course, there’s still a place for flexion-based exercises like crunches or curl-ups when they’re appropriate for the individual and their goals.

But if every core session consists only of chasing the burn, you’re probably leaving a lot of performance on the table.

Train your core to do what it was designed to do.

Move well. Resist well. Transfer force well.

That’s training for movement.

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