19/01/2026
May as well jump on the 2016 / 10-year challenge.
Back then my life fully revolved around the gym. If I wasn’t training people, I was training myself — there wasn’t much time for anything else.
I was delivering 40–50 in-person PT sessions a week with only one day off, and honestly loving it for the most part. I was passionate about getting real results with people.
At the same time, I was training myself nearly every day, and a lot of the time twice a day because I loved it so much back then. I actually had to force myself to take a day off.
I was fully focused on competing and building the best physique I possibly could. That year I won the East Midlands show and competed at the British Finals.
I also had a great bunch of clients getting fantastic results — some of them were competing and winning shows too.
It’s mad how much the industry has changed in the last 10 years. Some good, some bad.
It’s great that fitness has become more popular and there are some brilliant coaches and pages out there giving solid information and genuinely helping people.
On the flip side, it’s also saturated with extremely low-quality coaches with no real-world experience of getting results and zero qualifications.
Being in the trenches teaches you things you simply can’t fully learn online or even on courses.
Any OGs out there that can relate?