Brook Adnitt Training & Coaching

03/12/2025

WOW! I haven’t posted in ages.
Here’s a good one though :

5 things I have changed my mind on in my coming up to ten years as a fitness and health professional.

15/08/2025

Today I finished my 6 week clinical placement in an MSK outpatient’s department in a Cornwall community hospital.

What a fantastic experience.

The past 6 weeks in MSK have been incredibly challenging (in a good way). I have learned so much and finished each day with my brain feeling “done” with thinking.

Imagine the feeling after a big Sunday roast where you are full, satisfied and can’t take anymore… but as a metaphor for learning and it’s your brain that has had enough.

I have had to develop my existing skills whilst developing new ones. This has been a crazy month and a half for development of my clinical reasoning skills, working on getting better at identifying a diagnosis and creating a treatment plan for each individual person.

Taking skills from my previous careers and experiences, playing with rehab and coaching, applying this to a new population has been brilliant.

I feel incredibly blessed with mentors at this point in my training. I have been so lucky to be taught by amazing NHS physiotherapists who are incredible at what they do.

I love this stuff!

On to the next one.

We go again!

12/06/2025

Have you or a family member had these words used to explain normal age-related changes to joints or your body?

Here are some thoughts around why viewing osteoarthritis as “wear and tear” probably does more damage than good.

While osteoarthritic changes do occur over time, as you age and you can see where the terminology “wear and tear” comes from… it just misses the mark a bit.

What is Osteoarthritis?
As we get older (which we all do) the cartilage layer in your joint can change shape or get thinner, it will also become less hydrated and also your bones tend to change shape a little bit. Small structures,shapes called osteophytes occur.

It’s a completely natural process that can happen even as early as 30 in some people but evidence of these changes is not well linked to symptoms. So some people get pain even without many of these changes showing on a scan. And many people have clear changes with no symptoms.

Symptoms of arthritis seem to have other causes that don’t simply involve these normal changes.

To me… wear and tear says that I shouldn’t work hard, I shouldn’t run, I shouldn’t lift heavy… because the more intense my exercise is then the more damage I am doing to my body.

The evidence is increasingly showing us that this isn’t really the case.

Yes, if you have a big knee injury from a skiing accident, then you may be more likely to develop arthritis in that joint when you are older. However, activities like running and especially strength training can be exercises that make your cartilage more resilient and your joints more stable.

The bottom line and my reason for making the post is this:

I feel that some people out there think that hard work and tough training wears down your body and you pay for it when you’re old in a sort of “live fast, get pain young” sort of trade off.

But this isn’t the case.

Working hard to build a strong body and especially strength training is one of the best first lines of defence against having a more pain-free body as you age.

Obviously… genetics also has a few things to say, as it always does. But having a strong body still improves your chances even if you don’t have a good ticket in the dna lottery.

02/06/2025

Here’s a post about an awesome woman I have been working with since March!

I had to share some insight into online coaching and what is possible when you find someone excellent who asks for help and applies the advice you give them!

We have some good progress pictures showing some great changes! But I often like to let clients have their photos for themselves and I think the messages tell enough of a story!

Here’s some insight into what we are achieving but also some commentary on the details of how we are doing it!

And it’s proof…

Proof that you don’t need to go to the gym 5 or 6 days a week and force feed yourself lettuce to make progress…

This is doable (even with a family, kids and a full time office job)… when you do things the right way.

Two, three or four exercise sessions per week.
Simple nutrition changes.
Active lifestyle.
Accountability, support and direction and tools to help you do that.

That’s all this really is.

I don’t plug my coaching very often… but honestly… if you think you are ready to get support, take action and make results - then DM me now.

20/03/2025

12/02/2025

Chat GPT helping me jump on trends..

Running must be one of the better things you can do for your health?

It’s also one of the things people get most injuries and niggles with when they are trying to get better at it (I think)

This is why runners probably shouldn’t neglect their gym training.

There are two main reasons runners should probably go to the gym:

•To do exercises that get better at running.

•To do exercises that prevent injuries.

There are multiple ways these exercises help.

E.g. strengthening helps you train harder and do more mileage without getting injured.

Strengthening also improves relevant qualities that help running: e.g. strengthening power output on some of the movements in running like hip extension or knee flexion. And improving muscular endurance.

You definitely can do too much.. if you want to be great at running and do too much strength training meaning you can’t train hard in youth running.

But that is a talk for another day and the main point of this post is :

Runners - strengthen your body.

11/02/2025

2025 so far:

January =
Lots of studying
Lots of learning
Some walks (very cold)
Some training
Some fun

10/02/2025

How we can break down a problem or goal in to smaller parts/segments and get better by targeting one segment at a time.

How this improves us in terms of the bigger picture overall.

Using an example of my Olympic lifting practice over the last two weeks.

30/01/2025

I am not trying to teach people to suck eggs and preach the obvious - that we know smoking isn’t good for health.

But I did want to share some understanding I have gained recently - that although it doesn’t surprise me - I didn’t previously know.

It’s commonly known and thrown in your face if you are a smoker that it will impact your lungs.

But I think… for anyone out there who is a smoker and is experiencing back pain or knee pain… it could be worthwhile knowing the link. -
And I am fine with being that person.

04/12/2024

Swipe through to see the best ways you can prevent
(Or more so reduce) getting sudden or long-developing injuries

(Even features some quotes from Troy in there too)

18/11/2024

Is this good advice?

Trying to bulk - just eat as much junk as possible for the calories?

Well no.. you can still eat nutrient dense food and increase your calories.

Yeah… maybe it would be good to eat some cookies, doughnuts, burgers, pizza and all the good stuff to help you get the calories in.
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But you should still eat a nutrient-dense diet, good meals, and eat plenty of whole foods, protein, fruit and veg.
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17/11/2024

Core/ab training:

There are so many different ways to train and so many different ways to train core.

I have loved training core with ab circuits in the past but one thing people have talked to me about often is not finding the time to get an ab workout in.

So why not train the core like you train other muscles? Heavy and for just a few sets?

Some people also ask… how important is training the core?

I have often thought in the past that I don’t need to train core because I do a lot of heavy lifting.

To some extent that’s not far from true.

I probably don’t need to do much plank work because I do a lot of heavy squats and lifts where I am doing the same thing but better.

A plank won’t give you much extra stimulus when you already squat over your own bodyweight.

But getting the extra flexion, extension and rotation work in makes my body (my back, my hips, my shoulders) feel a lot more mobile and buttery.