James Rafferty

James Rafferty 1:1 Online Coaching
World Class Fat Loss & Physique results
Certified Nutritionist
10+ years experience (PT)

27/11/2025

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27/11/2025

Sunrise - sunset 🌆

25/11/2025

My birth year starts with a 1….

25/11/2025

It’s a combo set up for disaster.🤢

Low cost gyms with very little, if any, oversight.

& gym beginners who think they can wander into gyms and mess around.

I’ve spent a decade working with every level and demographic you can think of.

But for every beginner, I reiterate the same message.

Everyone should weight train.
It’s a great addition to your life.
It can also be really FUN
BUT
That’s if you take it seriously and treat the SKILL of weight training with the respect it deserves.

Anyone can fail a movement.

But the sort of stuff in this video can literally change your life, and not in a good way.

Rocking up in uggs and loading up a highbar squat with no spotter and a weight you’ve no hope of handling isn’t “having a laugh down the local gym”

A lot of this seems to come from trying to match strangers in the gym or what you’ve seen on social media.

If you’re a beginner looking to start in 2026, the best thing you can do in the early days is work within YOUR means and gradually develop the skills to perform these movements over time.

THEN you’ll find you’ll be able to handle steadily heavier weights WITH good form and WITHOUT such a high risk of turning yourself into a human pretzel.

19/11/2025

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19/11/2025

Let me de-influence you….

And risk slightly demotivating you

Although if you take it up the right way, it’ll likely be for your own good.

If a friend were to tell you that in the new year they’re going to:

- Entirely overhaul their diet overnight

- Jump into a VERY restrictive calorie deficit

- Go from very little activity to 15k steps a day + a separate cardio routine.

- Begin a 5-6x frequency gym split

How confident would you be that they would stick to it?

Given they have had a history of attempting this lofty list before in previous years and barely got to February.

I’d wager you’d be VERY SKEPTICAL.

So why are you not applying the same pragmatism to your own efforts?

You’d readily take the same approach, get overwhelmed and then wonder why it didn’t stick this time?

Look, it’s cool to set yourself some new years goals - and it’s also exciting to make those goals challenging.

But if it’s overkill, you’re not going to give yourself much of a chance of getting some early consistency and building a solid foundation.

I know takes like this doesn’t necessarily sell or grab attention on this app, but being a bit more realistic (and fair to yourself) regarding the goals you set - can really help you to sustain your efforts across the entire year.

Not just January 🤷‍♂️

Need help getting started? My DMs are open 😇

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