Hello! My name is Mike. I’ve been a personal trainer for 15 years and a strength and conditioning coach for 11 years. I’ve been working in Liverpool Street since 2020. My training career is spread pretty evenly across two categories:

1. Training everyday gym-goers to build strength and confidence in the gym, whilst making objective progress towards their goals.
2. Helping amateur athletes and lifters perform at their best through strength and conditioning training.

• 15 years’ personal training experience;
• B.Sc. (Hons.) Strength and Conditioning Science;
• 12 years working with athletes, powerlifters and Olympic weightlifters;
• 18 years in kickboxing and martial arts.

Some of my proudest personal training achievements are:

• Helping athletes such as skiers and sprinters continually set new personal bests in their sport, even in their 40s and 50s;
• Training powerlifting clients to reach milestones such as a 200kg back squat.
• Guiding many clients to reach their definition of “the best shape I’ve ever been in”.
• Helping people to come back from injuries including ACL ruptures, back injuries, hip flexor tears, arm breaks.
• Helping weight-loss clients lose as much as 15kg over a sensible timeframe.

My journey to become a personal trainer in Liverpool Street started with kickboxing as a teenager. I had been training in the gym with no real goal or idea what I was doing, but I wanted to learn how to train properly to improve my strength and power for competition.

There were plenty of mistakes: bodybuilder workouts, crazy exercise classes, and copying workouts from magazines. I didn’t know much about training at the time, but I knew I wasn’t getting anywhere.

Over time, the injuries piled up because I wasn’t doing the right amount and type of training. These problems were compounded by some misconceptions I carried about my injuries.

Eager to do things properly, I got my entry-level personal training qualifications and started to work with clients in 2009.

The next 5 years was a transformation, and I completed thousands of hours of training and coaching. I learned about strength training, Olympic weightlifting, plyometrics, and injury.