29/08/2026
THE PRESSURE TO LOOK FIT IS STOPPING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING HEALTHY.
I’m fed up with people being made to feel they aren’t thin enough, fit enough or pushing themselves hard enough.
That unless they train until they can barely move, follow an extreme challenge or completely restrict their lives, they aren’t trying.
There are places that specialise in that style of training and if that’s what somebody enjoys, brilliant. That’s their approach and it works for their members.
But it isn’t ours and we won’t follow suit just to fit in.
We are not one size fits all because our members are not all the same.
Some are managing injuries, pain, fatigue or health conditions.
Some are exercising for the first time.
Others are extremely fit and follow challenging programmes designed specifically around their performance goals.
and every one of them belongs here.
Success might mean getting off the floor independently, lifting more than 3kg, putting type 2 diabetes into remission, running through a hospital to perform emergency surgery or achieving a new strength or fitness goal.
Those achievements may look completely different but every one of them can change a life.
We also focus on the health markers that can’t always be seen in a photograph.
Visceral fat, the fat stored around the internal organs, is one of the most important markers we monitor because higher levels are associated with an increased risk of conditions including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
It is often overlooked because it doesn’t create the dramatic visual transformation people want to broadcast online.
But reducing somebody’s health risks matters far more to us than making everybody look the same.
I’m not a personal trainer and I don’t pretend to be one. We have a team of qualified, EXPERIENCED coaches who assess our members and write their programmes.
But I am highly educated, I help run this facility and I see the difference our approach makes to people every day.
It doesn’t take a PT qualification to understand that people have different bodies, abilities, health conditions, experiences and goals.
So why would we ever train them all in exactly the same way?
Thin does not automatically mean healthy.
Exhaustion does not automatically mean progress.
We will challenge you when you need challenging but we won’t run you into the ground just to create a result we can broadcast online.
We want you to move better, become stronger, reduce your health risks and enjoy a better quality of life.
Your training should add to your life.
It shouldn’t take it over, punish you or make you feel as though you’re failing.
Different bodies. Different abilities. Different goals.
Beacuse it’s YOUR health. YOUR journey.
Nobody else’s.
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