16/01/2026
2016 ➡️ 2026.
I’m not one to jump on social media trends, but 2026 marks a decade in the fitness industry for me, and choices in 2016 set me on a completely different trajectory.
2016
👉🏼 Working a job I hated
👉🏼 Playing football
👉🏼 Dabbling in CrossFit
👉🏼 Starting my PT course and starting to coach
👉🏼 Drinking too much
2026
👉🏼 Own a gym (in the same place I used to train when it was DW)
👉🏼 More than dabbling in Hyrox
👉🏼 Gained 2 degrees
👉🏼 Gained a huge amount of experience coaching for 10 years
👉🏼 Still partial to a drink
I was 26 when I decided I didn’t want to be an electrical engineer and decided to start coaching.
I was in my 30’s when I started my undergraduate degree.
I was 33 when we took a huge gamble and upgraded from our small industrial gym doing classes into a huge commercial space that we weren’t sure we could fill.
One thing I’ve learnt since 2016 is that if you want to do anything, you need to go all in to make it happen.