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Online Coach with 15+ Years of Experience
Helping individuals achieve their fitness goals through personalized coaching and a results-driven approach.

Whether you're looking to lose weight or build muscle get in touch today! Online Coach & Personal Trainer with 15+ Years of Experience
Helping individuals achieve their fitness goals through personalized coaching and a results-driven approach. Whether you're looking to lose weight, build muscle, or improve overall health, I provide the expertise and support to guide you every step of the way. Let's transform your fitness journey together!

10/10/2026

🥩 If loving steak this much is wrong, I don’t want to be right. 😂🔥

T-bone steak, potatoes, asparagus, baby carrots, corn on the cob and peppercorn sauce. Basically, a Sunday roast and a steakhouse had a baby. 🤤

Be honest… what are you stealing off my plate first? 👇

27/09/2026

1 MONTH FREE ONLINE COACHING 👀

I’m opening up a limited number of spaces for my October intake, and I’m giving away the first month completely FREE.

No catch. No watered-down version of my coaching.

You’ll get exactly what I’d normally provide to a paying client:

• A training plan built around you, your goals and your lifestyle

• Nutrition support without stupid restrictions or cutting out everything you enjoy

• Regular check-ins and accountability

• Help building routines you can actually stick to

• Ongoing support throughout the month

• Adjustments to your training and nutrition as we go

This isn’t about smashing yourself in the gym for 4 weeks and living off chicken and broccoli 😂

It’s about figuring out what works for you and putting a proper structure in place that can actually produce results long term.

Whether your goal is fat loss, building muscle, getting stronger, improving your fitness or simply getting your s**t together again — we’ll build the plan around that.

October intake.
1 month.
Completely FREE.

And if October doesn’t work for you, don’t worry — I’ll also be opening November and December intakes, so there’ll be another opportunity to get involved before the end of the year.

Spaces for each intake will be limited because I still need to actually coach everyone properly.

👇 Want a space?

Comment FREE below and share this post with a friend who might want to get involved too.

I’ll be in touch with everyone who comments with the next steps. 👊

THE POCKET COACH

25/09/2026

Thinking about working with an online coach?

A good online coach isn’t just sending you a training plan and checking in once a week.

And coaching definitely isn’t standing next to you in the gym counting to 10 while you do a set you could have counted yourself.

Training matters. Of course it does.

But the 3–5 hours you spend training each week are only a small part of the picture.

What about the other 160+ hours?

That’s where online coaching really comes into its own.

I’m looking at the things that actually drive your results outside of the gym too.

Your nutrition.
Your daily movement.
Your sleep.
Your recovery.
Your stress.
Your training performance.
Your habits.
Your routine.
Your adherence.
Your progress over time.

Because you can have the best programme in the world, but if everything around it is working against you, you’re going to struggle.

My job isn’t to make you dependent on me.

It’s to give you structure, accountability and support while helping you understand why we’re doing what we’re doing.

If progress stalls, we look at the data and make adjustments.

If life gets busy, we adapt the plan rather than pretending life doesn’t happen.

If something isn’t working, we figure out why.

And if things are working?

We don’t f**k about changing things just for the sake of it.

That’s the difference.

You’re not paying someone to count your reps.

You’re getting someone in your corner looking at the whole picture and helping you put the pieces together.

Training is part of the process.

Coaching is everything around it too.

If you’re thinking about starting online coaching and want to know how I work, drop me a message… there might be a cheeky little discount waiting for your first 8 weeks 👀

23/09/2026

Mental health struggles rarely appear overnight. Often there are warning signs long before things reach crisis point.

Coaching isn’t a cure for mental illness, but building structure around training, nutrition, sleep, routine and healthy habits can be part of looking after yourself before things start falling apart.

If you’re struggling, support is available. Speak to someone. Your GP, NHS services, charities, friends or family — don’t isolate yourself and don’t be ashamed to ask for help.

And if you want support building the lifestyle foundations that can help protect your physical and mental wellbeing, drop me a message about coaching.

1% better every day.

26/08/2026

WINTER IS COMING… ❄️

And so are the little habits that quietly start f**king with your progress.

☕ 400–600 calorie seasonal coffees
🌧️ Fewer steps because the weather’s s**t
🍕 More takeaways because it’s cold
🍺 More nights out and “festive” drinks
🍫 More evenings indoors picking at food

None of these things individually ruin your progress.

But stack them together for 3–4 months and suddenly January arrives and you’re wondering what happened.

And here’s a question…

How many of you joined a gym in January?

Started a diet?

Decided “this year I’m changing”?

And then eventually ended up exactly where you started?

Respectfully — you keep failing because you don’t actually know what you’re doing.

Not because you’re lazy.

Because motivation without knowledge, structure and accountability has an expiry date.

And if nothing changes, you’re about to repeat the exact same cycle again.

Enjoy winter. Enjoy Christmas. Have the takeaway. Drink the ridiculous £6 coffee.

Just have a f**king plan.

Want help building one that actually fits your life?

📩 DM me “WINTER” and let’s have a chat.

26/08/2026

SAME WEIGHT. DIFFERENT BODIES.

Two people can be a similar height and almost identical bodyweight and still look completely different.

Why?

Genetics. Skeletal structure. Muscle mass. Fat mass and distribution. Body water. Lifestyle. Nutrition. Training. Daily activity.

The number on the scale is just total mass — it doesn’t tell you what that mass is made up of or where it’s distributed.

And this is where comparison becomes pointless.

Your body isn’t supposed to look identical to somebody else’s at the same weight.

Understand your own body. Set realistic expectations. Focus on your health, strength, performance and the things you can actually influence.

And maybe stop arguing over whether strangers on the internet are “too skinny” or “too fat.” 😂

Different bodies. Similar weight. Nothing wrong with either.

As you were. 🫡

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Mia Mendes

25/08/2026

CONFESSIONS OF A PT & A ST****ER 👀

Two very different jobs.
A surprising amount of crossover in human behaviour.

Years spent watching people in gyms, social environments, relationships and high-emotion situations taught me something:

We’re not always consciously aware of why we do what we do.

Rationalisation.
Present bias.
Validation.
Avoidance.
Social permission.
Self-justification.
Reward-seeking.

The conscious mind can give us a perfectly reasonable explanation, while underneath it, learned behaviours, emotions, impulses and environmental cues may be influencing the decision.

And these behaviours don’t exist independently.

How you respond to stress can affect how you eat.
How you seek validation can affect your relationships.
Your environment can influence what feels acceptable.
How you avoid discomfort can affect whether you train.
What you repeatedly reward can eventually become automatic.

Everything overlaps.

And your environment matters — but it doesn’t have to dictate your actions.

Look at the people, habits and situations you surround yourself with and ask:

Is this environment serving me, or is it reinforcing behaviours that are holding me back?

Understanding behaviour isn’t about judging people. It’s about recognising the difference between the story we consciously tell ourselves and what might actually be driving our behaviour underneath it.

Awareness gives you the opportunity to interrupt the pattern rather than simply repeat it.

And that accountability applies to me too.

I lived it. I enjoyed it. I had some ridiculous experiences and made plenty of questionable decisions.

And while hindsight and maturity change how you see things, I’m not going to pretend I was innocently wandering around conducting a decade-long behavioural psychology study. 😂

There were times I absolutely knew what I was doing was wrong — and did it anyway.

Understanding why we behave a certain way doesn’t remove responsibility for the behaviour.

Sometimes the most useful observation is simply:

“Yep. That one was on me.” 😂

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