Personal Training

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"With ‘Lockdown’ taking away from me my few regular forms of exercise (weekly badminton and occasional swimming) and lacking the will power to switch to riding a bike in all weathers, the kilos started to pile on. Having accepted I lacked sufficient self-motivation I decided I needed to make fitness appointments twice a week that would force myself into a new fitness regime. 

Kev’s personal training sessions have proved perfect for me – Kev pushes you hard, but not to the extent that you don’t want to come back (a reason I had avoided ‘boot camp’ training offered by others in the past). The sessions are varied, enjoyable and tailored exactly to my fitness needs. 

I was fully aware that someone of my age (mid-fifties) and my weight at the time needed to be cautious when embarking on a more intense form of exercise than my body had experienced in several decades, and the close monitoring by Kev throughout every part of the training session was incredibly reassuring – Kev can always tell when I am starting to struggle aerobically – at which point he will introduce for example a resistance based exercise with kettle weights that allows me to recover, before gradually increasing the intensity again. Similarly, when boxing against hand pads, I’ve noticed Kev subtly tailoring the intensity of the session to how my body is reacting (simply by slightly raising or lowering the height of the hand pads and the number of repetitions). 

I have been training with Kev twice a week for 4 months and I have lost weight, my body shape is changing, my posture is improving and I now have much more energy. However, Kev’s monthly fitness test monitoring provides a quantifiable measure of the improvement in my fitness (which has been dramatic and a source of great motivation): From initially struggling to run half a mile, we now begin each training session with a 1-mile warm-up run. 

Unlike my previous gym membership (which was rarely used and enjoyed even less) I look forward to every training session with Kev and firmly believe this is the best investment in my health I have ever made. "