DCSfit, Glasgow (2026)

15/12/2025

It’s been a long few years away from the spotlight.

In that time, I’ve been working mostly offline – rebuilding from the inside out. Physically, mentally, and in terms of what I actually want DCSfit to be.

I’ve watched so many people quietly struggle with confidence, self-belief and feeling “out of place” in the kind of fitness spaces we’re told are normal. A lot of them are neurodivergent, anxious, burnt out, or just tired of being made to feel like they don’t fit.

Out of all of that, DCSfit is shifting direction.

I’m moving towards a more structured, step-by-step coaching approach built around a framework I’ve been developing for years called Equilibritecture – designed to rebuild health, confidence and identity in a way that actually fits real life.

At the same time, I’m founding a new charity project, Designs on Yourself, focused on helping neurodivergent adults and others who never felt at home in “traditional” self-improvement spaces to rebuild belief in themselves, one layer at a time.

Over the next while, I’ll be sharing more about:

How I coach around stress, sleep and recovery as much as training

The Equilibritecture framework I use to help people rebuild from the foundations up

How DCSfit and Designs on Yourself fit together as two sides of the same mission

For now, this is just me stepping back out and saying:

If you’ve followed this page for a while, thank you for sticking around through the quiet patch.
If you’re new here, welcome – this is the start of DCSfit 2.0.

I’m still here. I’m still building.
And the next chapter is finally taking shape.

If you’d like to follow the charity side of this journey, you can find it here:

👉 Designs on Yourself - SCIO

27/06/2022

Need a little motivation?

(Head to the first comment for a link that might help)

We all struggle to get going with things from time to time. Even if it's something we believe we 'should' be doing.

And exercise is an area where this commonly comes up.

But where does motivation come from and how can we tap into something that will ensure we are driven to do the things we know we should?

And when is it OK or even beneficial to skip it?

These are the questions explored and answered in the latest article on the Core.

Link in first comment below.

07/03/2022

We know our health & fitness is important. And there is a desire there to take action. Yet, we don't!

Why is that?

There are things that fully justify our focused attention for short periods.

But when we keep saying we're going to eat healthier, be more active, hit the gym or get out more, yet it never happens for anything other than a few weeks or even days at a time, then it's worth looking at why.

🤯 Our minds work in very strange ways and can trick us into believing we are doing the right thing (in the moment) because it is the thing we feel more pressurised to do.

Yet, even if the cost is a critical hit to our health, we still don't feel it as a priority.

This is likely because we are wired for short term survival rather than long term nurturing.

Yet what we perceive as 'threats' these days no longer have the same weight as they did thousands of years ago (when our very lives were in danger).

Regardless, it's what happens.

💡However, by understanding why, we can be better prepared to react based to make smart decisions rather than reactive ones.

This video outlines why our brains react the way they do.

But how can we get a good balance of self-care when the pressure is on us and time is short?

Fortunately, I've got you covered.

💥The full video this info was taken from is called "Too Busy for Fitness Focus! What to Do" [🔗Link in 1st Comment Below]💥

Check it out. And start making positive changes today!

02/03/2022

You've got a target, a plan, a goal. Perhaps you've even hired someone (a PT or a Coach) to guide you there. But how long is it going to take?

When something becomes your focus and you're excited about the prospect of it happening, then it's not unreasonable to want to know how long it's going to take.

Well, just head to the Core on the DCSfit site and you'll get the answer in the latest article.

(🔗Link in the first comment below).

Before you head there though, ask yourself:

🔸What number would feel good?
🔸What would feel disappointing?
🔸And what do you expect the answer to be?

(Let me know below) 💬

The thing is that expectation is going to colour your view of the answer.

If you've been pessimistic, then the answer is likely to delight you.

If like most people, you've been overly optimistic and hopeful, the answer may disappoint.

So, whilst you will now have an answer its impact will be different depending on your starting point.

Nothing's ever straightforward, is it?

But at least, understanding our reactions and gaining more knowledge and insight, puts us in a better position to make good choices, stay motivated and achieve more.

09/02/2022

If you are going to put the time and effort into a self-improvement routine, you want to get it right.

Right?

And with so many variables (intensity, rep ranges, speed, weights used, distance run etc) all of which are apparently manipulatable to optimise for certain goals, getting the length of your workout optimised is clearly just another thing to get right.

And it's an easy one because you can just look at the clock. 🕐

🚨Well, not so fast!🚨

Yes, getting the timing right can make a huge difference to your progress.

But taking the commonly spouted advice is more likely to cause you problems than lead you to success.

Let me show you why that is the case (and how to make good choices based on YOUR circumstances and situation)...
🔸🔸🔸(🔗Link in 1st comment below)🔸🔸🔸

21/01/2022

One of the most simple, basic and undervalued improvements we can make to our health, fitness and well-being is to drink more water.

However, it is something we all take for granted.

💥Currently, 1 in 3 people does not have access to safe drinking water the way we do.💥

🚰Yet, though we have it "on tap" (literally) many of us fail to consume enough because we "forget" or "don't like the taste". 🤔

A clear marker for just how lucky we are, regardless of the daily irritations or annoyances we face.

🚨As such, for 2022, the growth of the DCSfit YouTube Channel will be linked to donations of clean water, through organisations that specialize in this.🚨

(As I'm still learning about the individual bodies, I'm not tying this to a specific charity yet. Though if anyone reading this has detailed knowledge of such organisations, please get in touch).

I'm not going to link to the channel. There are plenty of links through this page (and FB throttles exposure when you do it).

But the name changed, at the start of the year, to DCSfit. So it is very easy to search for.

I hope you find the content useful. And you can feel good consuming it as you are helping someone else who has less than you do in doing so.

But please take this as a reminder of what a privilege it is to have clean water so readily available and make it a bigger part of your life.

Many people do drink enough (or at least think they do), so who is willing to post their current average daily intake?

14/12/2021

How much (or little) do you focus on your health?

Given everything that has happened over the past 2 years, there has been a huge focus on preventing hospitalisations and worse.

And given the numbers of people affected, that's understandable.

💥 However, it has long been acknowledged that there is something that could be done. Something simple. That would save more than DOUBLE the number of lives lost to this virus. 💥

[▶️ This video is a modified clip from a longer video - Link in 1st comment 🔗]

No research, restrictions, drugs or anything complicated is required.

Just a little more deliberate movement.

Unfortunately, many of us look at movement as something we do to "lose weight" or as part of a physical improvement programme.

Be honest, how many of you think about your health when it comes to exercise or movement?

And when the movement involved is little more than getting up and moving around once or twice per day (for a total of around 25mins), it doesn't feel impactful.

Yet, globally, if followed by everyone, it could be more than twice as impactful as having saved every life lost to Covid.

For that, we shut down businesses, closed schools, stopped people leaving their houses, distanced from one another, didn't see our families and spent Billions on tracing systems (that didn't work) and vaccine development etc.

Yet there is no effort to encourage basic movement.

💭 Imagine if sanctions were put in place to force employers to include a 15min of movement for every 4hrs of someone's working day.

(Not necessarily formal exercise - it could be walking meetings, rather than sitting at a desk; space designated to walk whilst talking on the phone; or something as simple as ensuring people take a break and get off their chair and move as company policy - though it could include a formal group activity if that seemed suitable).

That might sound ridiculous or OTT but think back 2-3 years.

How ridiculous would it have sounded if you were told you would be wearing masks everywhere, you would be quarantined to your home with only emergency travel and an hour of exercise time available to you, you would be doing all your socialising through zoom and touching another human, even to shake hands, would be a no-no.

Yet it happened.

Unfortunately, there is no money in promoting basic healthy living (the way there is in vaccines, PPE, tracing apps and the like) so this is never likely to come to fruition.

But there is nothing stopping individuals from taking their lives into their own hands.

🚨 Remember, without your health you are capable of nothing. 🚨

So, rather than looking at fitness from the aesthetics, consider looking after your health first.

What you do with that health and wellbeing is then down to you

30/11/2021

Breathing is something we all do but mostly undervalue.

Generally, we don't think about it. It just, sort of, happens.

And with so many other things requiring our focus and attention, why would we spend time on something that we can do without thinking?

Just because we do it well enough to exist does not mean we are doing it well.

🚨 Under stress, in particular, we tend to lose control.

Holding our breath without noticing.

Taking shallow breaths.

Breathing erratically.

When we tax our system (as with exercise) often people revert to mouth breathing. Trying to gulp down air in an attempt to combat the feeling of suffocation the activity is creating. 🚨

But breathing has a huge part to play in every aspect of our being. And to neglect it is asking for trouble.

Common side effects of poor breathing:

💥 Fat burning suppressed
💥 Muscle development inhibited
💥 Poor concentration
💥 Frequent unexplained headaches
💥 Poor endurance levels (getting out of breath faster than you feel you should)

These could all be down to how you breathe.

On a physical level, poor breathing can have a detrimental effect on:

🪞 Skin Quality
🪞 The Straightness of your Teeth
🪞 Your jawline

Along with your general mood, it is possible to generate improvements by improving how you breathe.

If you want to know more on how breathing impacts these elements, how yoga ties in to this (and why this is more associated with the true spirit of yoga than acrobatics or contortionism), and why, taking some time on breathing focus can make improvements to your health, fitness and wellbeing, without the need to move from your seat, check out the full video, "Is Yoga Worth Considering" here:

▶️ https://youtu.be/DwUNJDQqCGA

Now take a breath and lift your life with it.

25/11/2021

A little sodium in our diets is healthy (actually it's necessary). But with everything laced with the stuff, to add flavour or preserve its shelf life, it's easy to overdo it.

And it's no longer a secret that too much salt can lead to severe health issues.

But there is a route to getting that taste punch, but without the worry (and with some added health benefits to go with it).

https://www.dcsfit.com/samphire-natures-salt/

Samphire!

Is this something you use? Something you've tried?

Do you think it makes for a solid replacement?

And although table salt is generally considered an 'unhealthy' option, it did supply one big benefit to our health (check the link for more on that). So, as always, a balanced approach is important.

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