Coaching By SB

Coaching By SB Changing your perception of fitness.

with fitness being an absolute mindf**kery of a gaff most days, it’s down to people like myself to try make it a better ...
17/02/2026

with fitness being an absolute mindf**kery of a gaff most days, it’s down to people like myself to try make it a better place for yous lot.

Instagram can be very much a highlight reel of what coach can produce the best physical results.

Yeah it’s cool to want to look better of course - if anyone says they don’t care what they look like are lying. But to me who you become as a person as a byproduct of the hard work put in to obtain that over a time scale is the message we wanna put out here.

This is why you’ll rarely see me post my clients transformations - how the individual got there, their journey, how strong they are and how they’re feeling in themselves is the real transformation for me. Nothing beats that.

If someone hasn’t dropped any body fat or the scales haven’t budged for a hot minute BUT they are sleeping better, doing hard s**t they never thought they could do, having more positive thoughts over negative ones, got a better relationship with themselves, thinking of food as FUEL rather than something that’s going to negatively impact the way they perceive themselves and performing harder than ever in their workouts (could be here for days) then that to me is far more important than than a few inches dropped.

Do you know why? Because if the above are in order then you’re far more likely to see your body change in the long run.

As always, becoming a new person In all aspects of your life is far more Impactful than a quick bout of weight loss.

(Middle fingers up to slimming world and the rest of the FAD mandem)

Changing your identity will simply give you more bang for your buck because without a change in mentality you’re less likely to change anything.

Remember that next time you’re a d**k to yourself on your next wEiGh iN or check in.

It’s important to take pictures for your own personal reflection but don’t get ya knickers in the twist thinking it’s the only way to monitor your progress.

It matters, but it ain’t everything.

Big love,
SB x

Life’s hard enough, don’t make it any harder than it needs to be.
11/02/2026

Life’s hard enough, don’t make it any harder than it needs to be.

Was having a good ol yap with my client today about behaviour change and habits. My kinda chat. I was saying to her that...
05/02/2026

Was having a good ol yap with my client today about behaviour change and habits. My kinda chat.

I was saying to her that’s it’s not enough telling yourself you ‘just wanna lose fat’ or ‘gain muscle’ for example. It needs to run a little deeper than that for it to stick long enough to see a change.

You have to have a deep enough reason behind wanting to make a change. You really gotta know your ‘why’.

‘I wanna make a positive change to my body so I can finally feel confident enough to rock a bikini in the summer’

‘I want to start running or take up some form of cardio so hopefully I can run around with my grandkids one day without getting out of breathe’

‘I want to start strength training so I can feel confident enough to go topless on the beach’

Find your why and this s**t suddenly becomes a helluva lot easier to stick to with less negotiating with yourself, otherwise you run the risk of finding out the effort required to make a change is too much so the easier option is to stay where you are.. which isn’t making you feel very good right now, is it?

F**k around and find out I guess.

On the flip side, you don’t even need to hit rock bottom to prompt a positive change - you can be happy with where you are but still want to be better. Progress comes in all forms. But it all starts with a why.

Figure that out and you’re more likely to win.

I’m running another marathon because it would make the fatter Sam during Covid who couldn’t even run the 5k he got nominated to do proud.

You get my drift.

Big love,
SB x

29/01/2026

Mandem on track.

15/01/2026

The mind tends to wander a lot on my ‘easier’ runs so thought I’d jot down some thoughts that ran through my head today that you didn’t ask for but you’re getting anyways:

Back in the day I never used to care about moving fast or feeling fit. If you ever mentioned the word cardio I would have laughed in ya face - disgusting behaviour I know. Tbh I didn’t even care about being strong, it was always about looking the best. (Which I never did, mind).

Nowadays the goal it’s solely feeling my best and making sure my training aligns with that.

I love feeling strong, I love being able to run without falling into cardiac arrest and I love the sensation of my lungs burning a hole in my chest during a spicy workout. Sadist I know.

I’m not sure where I’m going with this tbh but what I do know is that I see myself in you, stuck in a rut and attaching all your progress to what you see in the mirror rather than what your body can do. And I’d love to help.

Theres so much more to this game than a set of scales, mirrors and raging six packs - the latter costing you a lot of enjoyment In life to obtain.

Go move fast, hit some high numbers, jump in that CrossFit class, go for that run, sign up to that half Mara you’ve been dreaming off but keep putting off because you don’t think you’re ready.

I can assure you the magic happens when you test your body’s capabilities. F*ck ya limiting beliefs.

It’ll feel s**t at the start and you’ll probs wanna can it in after a few weeks but ride it out because this s**t will become your new normal if you let it.

Nothing worth having came easy.

Big love & peace out,
Sammy x




An elite response if I do say so myself. Oh and just to clarify, I’m not talking to Jemma Besley about this here, it’s j...
12/01/2026

An elite response if I do say so myself.

Oh and just to clarify, I’m not talking to Jemma Besley about this here, it’s just the perfect shot that fits the narrative! Plus, she’s just shifted 100 kegs of the floor because she’s a f*ckin weapon. 💪🏼

It’s 2026 and I can’t believe I’m still hearing this s**te.

The ‘toned’ instagram iNfLuEnZeR you’re comparing yourself to ladies, yeah she’s actually very muscular.

And how do you think she got there? By lifting weights.

It’s crazy to think we are still living in a world where this s**t is still a thing.

Look around you, do you not think if this was an actual thing then all the girls in your gym would be ‘bulky’ because they all lift weights don’t they? Do you know how crazy that sounds.

Unless you’re lucky enough to have some crazy genetics or you’re using PEDs BTS then I can assure you it’s very f*cking difficult and takes AN AGE to pack on the amount of muscle it takes to look ‘bulky’ or whatever your hang ups are.

Lean muscle looks great.
A good set of quads looks great.
Being strong is fu**in cool AF.
When your back is poppin all sorts of shapes in the mirror? Yeah, that s**t is the one.

So please, change your messed narrative society has done its best to brainwash you with over the years.

Your dream body probably weighs more than you think.

Your dream body probably NO definitely has more muscle than you think.

Galdem, I got you.
Go neck some creatine and lift heavily ever after.

Nothing like a bit of positive perspective sprinkled with some satire to start the year off x
06/01/2026

Nothing like a bit of positive perspective sprinkled with some satire to start the year off x

Nothing like a bit of perspective to kick start the year 🚀
02/01/2026

Nothing like a bit of perspective to kick start the year 🚀

What’s good team! Just a big, fat juicy squeeze to those who are still here, to those who have come and gone and to thos...
31/12/2025

What’s good team!

Just a big, fat juicy squeeze to those who are still here, to those who have come and gone and to those who are a constant community for allowing me to go to work everyday and never work a day in my life.

I say it every week but this really is the best job in the world and you’ll never really know how grateful I am to be in the industry of helping people and love it how I love it.

will continue to make fitness a happy place to be in 2026 and leave people feeling much better about themselves than when we first crossed paths.

That’s the mission. Always.

Happy new year gang, let’s kill it together.

❤️

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