YOUNGTraining

Excited to announce I will be managing the LTAD program for the Manhattan Mako’s swim team for their up coming season.

It’s a huge passion of mine to help foster and develop aspiring young competitors and grateful for the opportunity.

Excited to be partnering with

Working with junior footballers to move them towards maximising their physical potential & getting the most enjoyment out of the game.

Hey everyone,

I've started a podcast with OPEX Fitness founder James Fitzgerald on youth fitness. It's a topic I am extremely passionate about and wanted to share the first two episodes.

I hope you enjoy.

Episode #1:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qDnt7zT0kVlGL1SoKlqJS

Episode #2:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3wIKDVizR5dX3H9KAYKQPl

#1 - Three Obstacles Preventing Youth Engagement in Fitness Listen to this episode from Fitness in Youth on Spotify. In the first episode of the Fitness in Youth podcast, hosts Dan Young and James Fitzgerald zoom in on three major obstacles preventing youth engagement in fitness today;EnvironmentEducationIntentionThey reflect on their on their earliest memor...

The next time you are choosing fuels think, will this provide me the greatest chance of;

1️⃣ High metal acuity (both immediately & hours after)?

2️⃣ Sustained physical expression (relative to my Fx)?

3️⃣ Forward progression towards my goals?

This provides a helpful framework to bring awareness around the what, why and how of nutrition and help align actions & behaviours towards your highest values.

Rinse and repeat this principle for optimal results.

YOUNGTraining has partnered with to bring professional, structured and specialised strength and conditioning programs to their athletes.

It has been big part of YOUNGTrainings vision to bring pro level strength and conditioning to those athletes who don’t get access via their sport, organisation or are simply not yet expressing at the elite level.

Water polo is certainly a sport that doesn’t get the attention and resource it deserves when it comes to complimentary dry land training programs and I’m excited to be giving back to the sport I love and gave me so much.

When prescribing your own exercise programs, make sure you’re covering these six essential movement patterns for structural balance and prevention of compensatory movement.

Squat
Lunge
Bend
Push
Pull
Core

This should provide great structure to your sessions plus give you a ton of variety to keep things fresh.

If you’re ready to take your fitness to the next level, get an individually designed program that specifically meets you where you’re at and nudges you to where you want to be. We follow this three simple step process.

1 - Consultation
2- Assessment
3 - Program Design

Plus when you’re up and running, you’ll get 1:1 coaching on the three core pillars of long term health

Nutrition
Lifestyle
Movement

If this sounds like it’s for you, book a free 15min consult in the bio

As a young athlete I was fascinated by how I could optimise all aspects of my life so that it might positively impact my performance. It led me down a rabbit hole of information overload and I craved a mentor who could teach me to make sense of what I was learning and how then to put it into practice.

I was fortunate enough to encounter such a mentor. He had such a profound impact on my life that I’ve dedicated myself to paying forward that coaching and mentorship to help others who are struggling.

An integrated fitness program is more than just a workout or nutrition template with macros. Integrated fitness accounts for everything that makes you, you. No two humans are identical, so why would your program ever look like anyone else’s? Through a thorough evaluation of your biomechanics, energy systems nutrition and lifestyle, I will develop a program that meets you where you are at and nudges you to where you want to be.

Program Includes:

- Daily and weekly feedback comes in the form of personalised videos as well as text messages through TrueCoach.

- Monthly feedback is done via 30 minute face to face consultations via Zoom.
- Personalised fitness program.

- Based on your initial assessment as well as ongoing re-assessments built into the program.

- 100% outcome based. If you need to train twice daily to hit your goals, there is no extra charge for writing more.

- Personalised nutrition plan.

Nourish your body adequately and satisfactorily throughout the day.

Move your body for joy, not in a compensatory or punishing way.

According to your goals, abilities & interests.

Big shout to

You work hard, stay curious, make mistakes, learn, adapt, practice patience and strive to lead by example. Well done.

Congratulations on this result.

Ps. Don’t forget to thank your parents for all the driving and especially your amazing sister for being the best training partner!

Training with the intent to build muscle is an extremely difficult and unnatural (biologically), endeavour.

It requires extreme discipline, consistency and precision within behaviours, exercise and nutrition to attain muscle hypertrophy.

If starting down that road, I highly recommend working with a coach or professional to help guide you and give you the tools to create autonomy within your health and fitness goals.

If you’re starting to play around with hypertrophy or bodybuilding styled training, here are some fundamental behaviours to ‘do more of’ and ‘do less of’.

What are you training for?

Are you training for optimal health to enjoy freedom of movement and high mental acuity for as long as possible?

Or are you an athlete training to reach your maximum physcial potential and expression within your spot?

The approach to training and your program design will be relative to the goal.

Get the best possible results by creating the program designed for the individual.

Designed for you!