29/11/2025
My client sent me a picture of his weight this morning. Weighing in at 14 stone 11lbs. When he first started training with me in May 2024 he was weighing at 17stone 13lbs, that’s a loss of 3 stone 2lbs (44lbs overall).
Almost immediately I could see he was a hard worker in the gym and he lost a stone of body fat very quickly. Then when he hit around the one and a half stone fat loss he plateaued for a while, or so he thought. He continued to get stronger, build lean muscle and becoming physically fitter.
With his cardiovascular levels higher, Leigh added in some running into his training plan, however an old knee injury reoccurred. I run myself and I love it, but as I’ve always said, resistance training and steady state cardio will always be a more safe and effective way of losing weight than road running. Only experienced runners know their bodies well enough to avoid injury.
Leigh got a bit downbeat with the injury as he felt it was detrimental to further fat loss, I advised him that small adjustments in his diet would get far more quicker results than running. He’s taken it on board and in the last few months smashed through the 3 stone barrier, all whilst rehabilitating the injury, getting stronger and maintaining a social life with a few beers on a weekend. It can be done.
