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This Sunday, Ollie is racing Ironman Frankfurt.Two years ago he walked through our doors at MBH.Running his own business...
23/06/2026

This Sunday, Ollie is racing Ironman Frankfurt.

Two years ago he walked through our doors at MBH.

Running his own business had taken over his life.

Long days. Stress building up. Fitness slipping further and further down the list of priorities.

When he started, things were a struggle. Work was still hectic. Routine was difficult. Consistency was a real challenge.

But after a few weeks something shifted. Instead of chasing the quick results he'd gone after before, he started focusing on small habits. Showing up. Building routine. Doing the work when he could, not when everything lined up perfectly.

Since then he's lost over two and a half stone, completed three triathlons, and signed up for Ironman. But the biggest change wasn't the weight. It was how he feels about himself again.

The energy he has every day. The structure we've built around his work. The belief in what he's now capable of.

This Sunday he races Ironman Frankfurt, one of the toughest single day events in endurance sport.

Two years ago he was a man whose business had swallowed his health whole. On Sunday he'll swim, bike and run his way through one of the hardest days most people will never attempt.

That's exactly what we hope the 6 Week Rebuild gives people.

Not Ironman. A starting point. The same one Ollie had two years ago — small habits, real consistency, and the belief that what comes next is actually possible.

Good luck Sunday, Ollie. We'll all be following.

If you're ready to start your own version of this story, the 6 Week Rebuild is open now.

We start next Monday.

The next intake of the Mind Body Health 6 Week Rebuild is now open.If you've struggled with consistency — constantly sto...
22/06/2026

The next intake of the Mind Body Health 6 Week Rebuild is now open.

If you've struggled with consistency — constantly stopping and starting, never quite getting results that last, this is a direct invitation to finally change that for good.

Here's why it works when other things haven't.

You'll have proper support, people who actually know your name, who genuinely care how your week's gone, who notice the effort you're putting in even on the days it doesn't feel like much. Not a plan you're left to follow alone.

That alone is the difference between starting again for the fifth time and finally building something that lasts.

You'll have training and food built around your actual life, not an idealised version of your week that falls apart the moment something goes wrong.

What you can realistically expect:
— Lose 7 to 14lbs
— Get fitter, stronger and leaner
— Build training and nutrition habits that actually stick
— Finish with a system you understand and can keep using

But here's the most important part.

The six weeks isn't the finish line. It's the start.

The goal was never to get you through six weeks and leave you to figure out the rest on your own. It's to get you to the point where staying consistent doesn't feel like a fight anymore, and then keep building with you from there.

Most of the people who do the Rebuild stay on with us afterwards, because once the cycle breaks, people want to keep going.

If you can't get to the gym, we run the exact same programme online, same coaching, same support, same community, just from wherever you are.

If the stop-start cycle is something you've lived through more times than you'd like to admit, this is built specifically for that.

We start next Monday. Spaces are limited.

If this sounds like what you've been missing — drop me a DM and I'll send over the details.

19/06/2026

People filming in commercial gyms — should it be banned, or do we just need to accept that's the way it is now?

It seems like everyone's got a tripod these days.

What's your thoughts?

I was at an event last week and someone asked me to sum up, in one sentence, why being fit and healthy should be a prior...
18/06/2026

I was at an event last week and someone asked me to sum up, in one sentence, why being fit and healthy should be a priority when so many people find it difficult.

This is what I said. Being fit and healthy is hard. But being fit and healthy makes everything else in life easier.

If you're fit and healthy, you deal with stress better. Your body and mind can absorb pressure instead of being flattened by it.

If you're fit and healthy, you deal with the challenges life throws at you better, the exhausting weeks, the setbacks, the things you don't see coming.

If you're fit and healthy, you're significantly less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, and depression — conditions that are directly linked to inactivity, poor diet, excess weight and drinking too much. Not maybes. Established, well-documented links.

That's because being fit and healthy generally means you drink less, eat better, and aren't carrying excess weight your body was never designed to carry.

Every one of those things lowers your risk of the diseases that quietly shorten and shrink people's lives.

If you're fit and healthy, you can be present and active with your kids and grandkids — not watching from the side, not too tired to play, not sat down while everyone else is moving.

And if you're fit and healthy now, you're far more likely to still be active in your 60s, 70s and 80s. Walking unaided. Travelling. Living a life that's genuinely yours, not one limited by a body that gave up on you decades earlier.

This one matters to me more than most. I've got two teenage girls who need me at my best right now, physically and mentally present, able to keep up with everything that comes with that age.

But I've also got a two year old, and another baby on the way. By the time my youngest is in their mid-teens, I'll be nearly 60. That's not a throwaway fact to me.

That's the reason I train. Not to look a certain way. Not for performance. Because I want to be the dad who can still get down on the floor and play, still go on the walk, still be there fully — not running on empty, not managing my own health on top of everything else.

Every session is an investment in being able to show up for them in fifteen years the same way I can show up for them now.

That's what this is actually about for me.

So when you put all of that together — less stress, more resilience, lower disease risk, more presence with the people you love, a better quality of life right to the end

I'll ask you the same question back. Why wouldn't you make your health and fitness a priority?

What's stopping you from making it yours?

Miriam came to MBH with a goal most people would call ambitious.She wanted to build the strength, fitness, confidence an...
17/06/2026

Miriam came to MBH with a goal most people would call ambitious.

She wanted to build the strength, fitness, confidence and stamina to climb Mount Kilimanjaro — the highest free-standing mountain in the world, standing at 5,895 metres.

And she absolutely did exactly that.

This is exactly the kind of thing we love being part of.

Not because of the mountain itself, though that's an incredible achievement on its own but because of what it represents.

An everyday person with a career and responsibilities, training consistently, building real capability, and going on to do something genuinely extraordinary.

Health and fitness was never just about how you look.

It's about what you're capable of. Miriam is proof of that in the most literal sense possible.

But here's the thing about Miriam that's even more important.

She's one of the funniest, warmest people you could ever meet.

She's got a smile and a laugh for everyone who walks through the door, members, coaches, complete strangers on their first session. She makes people feel instantly welcome.

That's not a small thing.

That's exactly what having a fitness family is about.

This is MBH. People who come in for one reason and find something much bigger than they expected.

People who push themselves further than they thought possible and bring everyone around them up with them at the same time.

We're proud of Miriam for climbing the highest free-standing mountain in the world.

We're just as proud of her for being who she is every single day in our gym.

We know what stops people from reaching out to us.I've heard it enough times now to know exactly what the conversation s...
16/06/2026

We know what stops people from reaching out to us.

I've heard it enough times now to know exactly what the conversation sounds like on the other side.

Over the years some of the best people to ever walk through our doors, members who've gone on to completely change how they feel, how they move, how they live, all had one thing in common before they arrived.

They sat on the outside of this page for weeks, sometimes months, reading the posts, wanting to do something, and talking themselves out of reaching out.

Tony. Karen. Donna and many others. People you've seen featured recently. People who are now part of the fabric of this place, every one of them had a reason not to get in touch.

Every one of them got in touch anyway. I want to address those reasons directly.

"I'm too out of shape to start." This one comes up more than any other. And it breaks my heart a little every time, because what it really means is that someone has let how they feel about themselves become a reason to stay exactly where they are.

Let me be clear about something. There is no version of out of shape that disqualifies you from walking through our door. None. The people who need this the most are exactly the people we built this place for.

You don't arrive here ready, you arrive here and we build it together.

The starting point doesn't matter. The decision to start does.

"I'll wait until after [holiday / summer / the kids go back / things calm down]."

Things don't calm down. There's always a next thing. The people who are still going years later didn't wait for a quiet period, they started in a busy one and built it in around everything else.

"I don't want to waste your time if I'm not sure I'll stick at it."

That's not wasting our time. That's exactly who we're here for. The people who aren't sure. The people who've tried before and stopped. The people who want to do something about it but haven't found the right place yet.

"I can't afford it."

Talk to us before you decide that. The options are more accessible than you might think — and we'd rather have that conversation than have someone talk themselves out of something that could genuinely change how they feel every day.

"I'm worried I'll be the only one who doesn't know what they're doing."

You won't be. And even if you were, everyone in this building was that person once.

Nobody here has forgotten what it felt like to walk in for the first time. If any of these sound familiar, this is me telling you that the reason feels bigger than it is.

Drop us a message. That's the whole step. Just a conversation.

Saturday morning at MBH.Once a month we host our Social Saturday — a morning where our members, non-members and people f...
15/06/2026

Saturday morning at MBH.

Once a month we host our Social Saturday — a morning where our members, non-members and people from the local community can all come together to train, connect and have a good time.

There's no pressure and no agendas. Just good people in a good space.

Saturday was a brilliant one. Mandy came along having not trained for years. On top of that she had a hip replacement last year, something that might have stopped a lot of people from showing up at all.

It didn't stop Mandy. She got stuck in, was supported throughout by our existing members, and did amazingly. When she left she told us how great she felt for it.

That's the whole point right there.

Margaret has only just started with us. She came along yesterday and did things she didn't think she could do, not because she was pushed beyond what was right for her, but because she was surrounded by people who believed she could before she did.

That's what MBH does. Two people. Different starting points. Different journeys. Both supported, both challenged, both leaving better than they arrived. All ages. All abilities.

That's not just something we say, these days prove it.

We'll be doing this again. And if yesterday wasn't the right time for you, there are plenty of ways to get involved with us:

A free personal training session to see what we're about before committing to anything Our Saturday class — 9:30am, £7, every week, all welcome.

A free 1 week training plan to get you started wherever you are

Just drop us a message and we'll sort whichever works best for you.

Last reminder — Social Saturday is tomorrow morning.Team workouts, coffee and croissants, and good time spent with good ...
12/06/2026

Last reminder — Social Saturday is tomorrow morning.

Team workouts, coffee and croissants, and good time spent with good people.

All ages. All abilities. Whether you've never set foot in a gym or you train every week, you're welcome.

Tomorrow. 8:30am. Mind Body Health gym, 125 Whelley Road, Wigan.

If you're coming, brilliant, we look forward to seeing you. If you've been on the fence all week, come anyway.

You won't regret it.

When I finished professional rugby, moving into fitness felt like the obvious next step.What wasn’t obvious was where it...
11/06/2026

When I finished professional rugby, moving into fitness felt like the obvious next step.

What wasn’t obvious was where it would take me.

Like a lot of coaches, I started with weight loss challenges, transformation programmes and helping people get fitter, leaner and stronger.

But something I’d seen throughout my rugby career kept coming back to me.

Some of the fittest and most successful people I knew were still struggling with confidence, stress, anxiety and self-worth.

Getting in shape didn’t solve everything.

And I started seeing the same thing with clients.

People would lose weight, get stronger and achieve goals they never thought possible, but many were still battling things going on behind the scenes.

That’s when I realised health is about a lot more than what you see in the mirror.

Physical health and mental health go hand in hand.

That’s why we built MBH differently.

Yes, our members lose weight, get stronger and achieve some amazing things. But we also focus on confidence, mindset, support and helping people build habits that last.

That’s what makes us different, and I’m proud of that.

If you’d like to see what we’re about, come along to Social Saturday this weekend.

📍 125 Whelley Road, Wigan
⏰ 8:30am Saturday

Everyone’s welcome.

When I finished professional rugby, moving into fitness felt like the obvious next step.What wasn't obvious was the rout...
11/06/2026

When I finished professional rugby, moving into fitness felt like the obvious next step.

What wasn't obvious was the route I was about to take.

Everyone assumed I'd go down the performance side. High intensity, elite focus, results-driven.

And for a while, I did.

We ran shred challenges. We ran the kind of programmes that hammer people into shape and celebrate the transformation photos.

All the things the fitness industry told me I was supposed to do.

But something I'd learned during my years in professional rugby kept nagging at me.

Health and fitness was never just physical.

I'd seen it at the highest level. Players who were in the best shape of their lives who were struggling in other ways.

Men who had achieved things most people only dream of, winning, performing, competing at the top, who still struggled mentally.

The physical achievements didn't fix that. They never did.

And early in my coaching career it was confirmed. Time and again, no matter what people achieved physically, no matter how much weight they lost, how lean they got, how strong they became, they still struggled with confidence, self-belief, self-worth. They were never truly healthy. Never truly happy with themselves.

That was the moment I knew we had to take a different route.

Physical health and mental health aren't separate things. They work as one.

You can't properly address one without the other.

And any gym or programme that ignores that is only doing half the job.

So we built something different.

The people at MBH still lose weight. Many of them get leaner and stronger than they've ever been. We have people training for Hyrox, triathlons, marathons — performing at levels they didn't think were possible.

The physical results are real and we're proud of them. But what every single one of them has in common is this: we work on the whole thing.

Not just what you can see.

The mindset. The relationship with themselves. The reasons they show up and the support when things make showing up hard.

We are different. And I'm extremely proud that we are.

If you want to see what that looks like in person we're hosting our Social Saturday event this weekend.

Come and train with us. 8:30am, Saturday, 125 Whelley Road, Wigan.

All welcome.

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