As a Physiotherapist and Personal Trainer my mission is to take you from pain to performance.
23/01/2023
A fun (and quite stressful) day out testing my cold water endurance.
Water temp 4deg C, 250m
I won’t lie, it wasn’t fun, but I’m happy that I can now tolerate these kinds of temperatures.
Great job to everyone who joined in, especially .triathlon.doc who flew in from London especially.
22/12/2022
Happy birthday to my wife ❤️
04/12/2022
When it’s minus degrees out what make more sense than to join our friends at for some hot and cold therapy 🔥
‘Wow, I really am doing it’!
Congratulations to for getting the big plates on the bar for the first time.
It’s always a great feeling to watch someone do something they thought they couldn’t do.
When training people for strength these moments happen a lot.
When training people for body building these moments don’t happen
So remember to focus on things that make you:
Strong, healthy and happy
Everything else is an inefficient use of your time
❤️💙
14/06/2022
A few pics from a Wim Hof course I attended on the weekend.
Essentially a simple, yet very powerful combination of breathing, mind set and cold exposure.
It reminded me that true strength of body and mind requires more than regular exercise and eating healthy
The Wim Hof method in a nutshell:
Breathing - cycles of hyperventilation and breath holds ‘exercise’ the autonomic nervous system allowing improved oxygen handling and a number of potential other benefits
Cold exposure - essentially a ‘functional meditation’. Anyone can meditate while sitting in a nice quiet room with no distractions, but can you do it while you’re in pain and almost unable to breath?
Mindset - something that changes when you spend time doing the above. For example - winter swimming cured my recurring Danish winter depression and now my mindset is that I’m a winter swimmer who kinda enjoys the awful Danish winters!
These course are held all over the world so check one out.
All the love, all the power - Wim Hof
15/05/2022
Would you like to work with a great coach but can’t afford the 1:1 price?
Well look no further…
I have trained with Charlotte for 3 years now and have enjoyed every session.
She loves the process of getting stronger, so we have focused mainly on the big powerlifting movements - the press, bench, squat, deadlift and pull up.
A lot of people might find spending 3 days a week training mostly the same exercises quite boring, but Charlotte knows what it takes to get strong - use a few fundamental movements, every week attempt a little more weight/volume than the previous week, enjoy the grind, and don’t get side tracked with all the fluff the fitness industry has to offer.
Charlotte is a perfect example to all women out there who feel uninspired in the gym. Lifting up something that has been too heavy to ever lift before provides so much more satisfaction and is so much more of an accomplishment than spending 45min burning calories on the stairmaster or spending a session focusing on 10 different way to train your glutes!
Keep up the hard work Charlotte
18/03/2022
Book review
Cured by Dr Jeff Rediger
A fascinating delve into the connection between mind and body, stress and disease.
During his days as a junior Doctor the author kept coming across terminally sick patients, who against all the odds miraculously recovered. After coming to the opinion that modern medicine was akin to ‘the ambulance waiting at the bottom of a cliff in case you fall off’, he went on to spend 17 years studying spontaneous remission and the effects of stress on the immune system.
He found that disease is caused by much more than just a pro inflammatory/nutrient deplete diet and lack of exercise.
Chronic low level stress is the problem. It creates an environment where disease can flourish, while also ageing your body by reducing reducing telomere length.
Note: telomeres are a component of your DNA which shorten during cell division. Stress reduces their ability to replenish with early cell death occurring. Once your cells die, you start to die
The big message in this book is that stress can be much more subtle than being too busy, not getting enough sleep and hating your job.
Other mental stressors are unconscious, such as holding onto guilt or grudges and holding a negative perception of yourself. An identity or sense of self built on negative ideas (and the healing of) was a common thread in many patients who underwent spontaneous remission.
So what’s the fix?
Eat unprocessed, organic, mostly plant-based food
Change your situation so that your stress is controlled and can be perceived as a challenge, not a threat
Figure out what makes you happy and do a bit of it every day
Undertake the journey of rewriting what you think about yourself if your current thoughts are negative
This is essential reading for anyone wanting to take health into their own hands and to do as Dr Rediger describes ‘build guard rails to stop us falling off the cliff in the first place’
12/03/2022
Are you a new mum looking to get back in shape after having a baby?
Would you like to train under the specialised guidance of a Physiotherapist who understands the special needs of a woman’s body after recently giving birth?
Contact me to book your spot 😀
Dads also welcome 💪🏻
