https://www.joshnealfitness.co.uk/

Josh Neal Fitness, 8 Lawgrove Place, Perth (2026)

07/09/2026

You don’t need to pass an entrance exam before you’re allowed to start training

One of the strangest barriers people put in front of themselves is thinking:

“I need to get fitter before I work with a coach”

No!

That’s rather like cleaning the house before the cleaner arrives 😂

I don’t need somebody to walk into their first session and impress me

I need to know:
💪 What can you do now?
🏋️ What weights make sense?
🔄 Does anything need adjusting?
🎯 Where should we actually start?

That’s useful information
Because once we know your starting point, we can build from it

The small-group strength programme starts next Monday, 14 September, here in Perth

The full setup is:
👥 Maximum 6 people
💪 12 weeks
🏋️ 2 coached sessions every week
🗓️ Monday + Wednesday at 7:45pm
📱 1 additional programmed session each week through a training app
🔄 Coaching and adjustments based on the person, rather than everybody blindly doing exactly the same thing
🔔 Your own Wolverson competition kettlebell included — and it's yours to keep
💷 £825 paid in full, or 3 monthly payments of £285 (£855 total)

You don’t need experience
You don’t need to already be strong
And you definitely don’t need to spend this week desperately trying to “get fit enough” to join 😂

Your first session isn’t a test

It’s simply where we find your starting point
If you’ve been thinking about joining and haven't quite made the move yet:

Just message me

We'll have a chat
If it suits you, brilliant
If it doesn't, that's absolutely fine too

05/09/2026

A considerably less dramatic Saturday this week 😂

Last weekend involved Warhammer, my brother and two grown men arguing about tiny plastic gangs

Today currently involves:
household chores,
sorting various bits of life out,
and collecting the kids just after lunch

That's about as exciting as the itinerary gets
And I'm actually quite happy about that

Not every weekend needs an activity planned for every available hour

Sometimes it's nice to get the boring stuff done, have a reasonably quiet day and see what happens

And before anybody worries…
no, I am not about to explain how vacuuming is secretly functional training
😂

Sometimes cleaning the house is just cleaning the bloody house

What's everyone else up to this weekend?

04/09/2026

This small group won’t be for everyone
And I don’t really want it to be

If what you’re looking for is someone to shout at you while you do burpees until you reconsider every decision you’ve ever made…
I’m probably not your man 😂

If you want to train six days a week and make the gym the centre of your entire existence…
again, probably not your man

But if you’re busy, your strength or energy has started slipping, and you keep thinking:

“I really should do something about this…”

then it might be worth a conversation

The September small group is built around a pretty simple idea:
💪 Get stronger
🧠 Know what you’re supposed to be doing
🏋️ Actually be coached
🗓️ Train enough to make progress without it taking over your life

The practical details:
12 weeks
Maximum 6 people
Monday + Wednesday at 7:45pm
Two coached sessions each week
One additional session to complete independently
💷 £825 paid in full, or 3 monthly payments of £285 (£855 total)

You don’t need to already be fit
You don’t need to know how to use kettlebells
You don’t need to “keep up” with anybody else
You start where you are

Then we build

If that sounds like something you’d genuinely benefit from, send me GROUP
Or comment GROUP and I’ll message you

No hard sell

We’ll just figure out whether it actually suits you

02/09/2026

You’re not paying a coach for a list of exercises

You can find workouts online for free
Thousands of them

Some good
Some terrible
Some presumably designed by people with a personal vendetta against knees 😂

The valuable part of coaching happens around the programme

It’s knowing:
👀 where somebody is actually starting
🏋️ what weight is appropriate for them
🔄 when an exercise needs changing
📈 when they’re ready to progress
🪫 what to do when they’ve had a terrible week and their energy is nowhere to be found
🎯 whether what they’re doing is actually moving them towards what they want

And sometimes it’s simply having someone there who knows what the plan is when you don’t have the brain space to think about it

That’s a big part of why I’ve kept the September group small

I don’t want to hand six people a sheet of paper and supervise them doing the same thing

I want to actually coach them

Same room
Different bodies
Different starting points
Different weeks

The plan gives us direction
The coaching makes it useful

If you’ve been trying to get stronger but the bit you struggle with is knowing what to do, staying consistent, or adjusting things when life inevitably gets involved…

send me GROUP

We’ll have a chat and see whether the September group makes sense for you

31/08/2026

Right. I've talked about this September group for long enough 😂

So here are the actual details

I'm starting a 12-week small-group strength programme in Perth

And when I say small group, I genuinely mean small

👥 Maximum 6 people

The whole point is that you get to train alongside other people without becoming another anonymous person in a massive class

What you get:
💪 Two coached strength sessions every week
🗓️ Monday + Wednesday
⏰ 7:45pm
📱 One additional session to complete independently around the rest of your life
🏋️ Training adjusted to suit your current ability rather than expecting everyone to do exactly the same thing
💷 £825 paid in full, or 3 monthly payments of £285 (£855 total) for the 12 weeks

You don't need to already be fit
You don't need experience with kettlebells
And you definitely don't need to spend the next week frantically trying to “get in shape” before you're allowed through the door 😂

That's completely backwards!
You start where you are
Then we build

The group is for people who know they'd benefit from feeling stronger, fitter and more capable, but don't want training to take over their life

If you've read some of my posts recently and thought:

“This actually sounds like it might suit me…”

now is probably a good time to ask

Drop “GROUP” in the comments below and I'll message you

We'll have a chat and figure out whether it's actually a good fit

No hard sell

29/08/2026

Apparently this is what two grown men consider a perfectly sensible Saturday 😂

My brother is over today and we're spending a few hours playing Warhammer

Or, technically, Necromunda

For the people who know what that is — hello, fellow geeks 👋

For everyone else, it's essentially tiny plastic gangs trying to murder one another across an increasingly ridiculous miniature city while two adults argue about dice rolls

It's excellent

I've got quite a few hobbies that have absolutely nothing to do with being a personal trainer

This is definitely one of them

And unlike some of my Warhammer collection...
these ones might actually be painted 😂

No training lesson today
No productivity hack
No “five things Necromunda taught me about resilience”

I'm just having a laugh with my brother

What's the hobby you can disappear into for a few hours and completely switch off?

28/08/2026

You don't have to love the gym

In fact, you don't even have to particularly like exercise 😂

Most of the people I enjoy coaching have other things they'd much rather be doing with their lives

They've got jobs
Families
Responsibilities
Things they want to do at the weekend

And absolutely no desire to structure their entire personality around how many times they've trained this week

What they usually do want is pretty simple
💪 Feel stronger
🔋 Have more energy
🧍 Move better
😴 Stop feeling like everything physically costs more than it used to

And actually feel like their body can keep up with the life they're trying to live

That's exactly who I've been thinking about while putting together my new small-group strength training in Perth this September

The idea is straightforward
✅ Two coached strength sessions each week
✅ Another session you can complete independently around your life
✅ A clear plan instead of wondering what you're supposed to do
✅ Exercises and weights adjusted to suit the person
✅ A genuinely small group so I can actually coach you

You don't need to already be fit
You don't need to know how to use kettlebells
You don't need to prove anything before you arrive

You start where you are
Then we build from there

If you've been reading my posts recently thinking:

“I really should do something…”

this might be your something

Send me a message and ask me about the September group

Let's have a chat

No hard sell

No expectation that you've already made your mind u

26/08/2026

Small group shouldn’t mean everyone gets exactly the same workout

I've finally started talking properly about what I've been putting together for September

It's small-group strength training

And one of the reasons I want to keep the group genuinely small is that I still want to actually coach the people in it

Because six people walking into the same room doesn't mean they suddenly have:
🏋️ The same strength
🦵 The same mobility
🔋 The same energy
🎯 The same goals
📈 The same starting point

Someone might need a heavier weight

Someone else might need a lighter one

One exercise might be perfect for one person and completely inappropriate for someone standing two metres away

That's normal

The point isn't for everybody to do exactly the same thing

The point is for everybody to train together while still getting what they need

The setup I'm putting together will include two coached strength sessions each week, with another session you can complete independently around the rest of your life

Enough structure that you're not guessing
Enough flexibility that training doesn't become another bloody job

And a small enough group that I actually know who I'm coaching

Same room. Different bodies

That's the idea

If that sounds like the kind of training you'd actually enjoy sticking to, let's have a chat

24/08/2026

When you're knackered, remove decisions

Someone commented on one of my posts last week that lack of energy was where they're at

They'd been skipping workouts

But the post had given them enough of a kick that they were going to go and do something

I loved that

Not because I'd somehow inspired someone to suddenly smash out a heroic 90-minute workout

Quite the opposite

They were going to do something
And sometimes that's exactly what you need

Because when your energy is already low, even working out what to do can become another barrier

🤔 What exercises?
⏰ How long?
🏋️ What weight?
😴 Should I even bother today?

Before you know it, you've spent ten minutes negotiating with yourself, and the sofa has won 😂

That's one of the reasons I like having structure

Know when you're training
Know what you're doing
Adjust it if life requires it

Then get it done and move on

You don't always need more motivation
Sometimes you just need fewer decisions and a sensible plan to follow

And that's a big part of something I'm putting together for September

I'll tell you more about that very soon 👀

22/08/2026

Today I had a crack at something I've never done before

Kettlebell Pentathlon 😬

I've never competed in it
I've never attempted to qualify in it

So naturally, today I went into the gym, joined a Zoom call and attempted to qualify for the English team 😂

There's a reason for it
The World Championships are coming to Edinburgh in November and I'd quite like the opportunity to compete there

But there's something else I like about this...

I've spent years getting stronger
Not because I knew one day I'd need to be good at Pentathlon

I didn't

I've done it because I enjoy training, I enjoy competing, and I like having a body that's capable of doing things

And being capable gives you options
Sometimes they're very ordinary ones

Carrying something 📦
Playing with your kids 🧒
Trying a new hobby 🎨
Going somewhere 🏞

And occasionally it's:
"Fancy trying to qualify for England in a kettlebell discipline you've never competed in?"

Apparently my answer to that one is yes 😂

Final score: 1,851
Qualification standard: 1,400
England team qualified 🥳

I still maintain that Pentathlon is horrible

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