Dave Watkeys

Personal update on my journey😎⬇️

I completed my photoshoots two months ago✅

I went through a slightly wobbly period with my nutrition, which often happens after you rinse your body to an extreme and then a big date or event is removed.

I imagine it’s quite similar when you enter a marathon, or do something like a Hyrox competition. You tend to go through an indifferent period after pushing to your max.

Fortunately I expect and anticipate it after going through it so many times, so I am patient, BUT I keep taking action and just wait for the body and mind to settle.

The past few weeks I have been back in my groove, focusing on standards and paying attention to patterns of behaviour.

Everything is back where it should be and now the emphasis for the next few months is personal standards, bringing my best to my clients and preparing for my The Mac-Nutrition Collective exams in September✅

In the past when life’s demands got higher and more responsibilities piled up, I tended to drop my personal standards and justify a lot of poor behavioural patterns.

However I’ve realised in the last few years that I can get far more out of myself, if I push my personal standards higher during periods of more demands.

You are able to handle everything in life far more effectively and efficiently when you take care of yourself.

Ultimately that is what your health and fitness lifestyle should do.

It should be practical and incredibly beneficial to your day to day performance and then that has a ripple effect to all other areas of life.

That is the ULTIMATE goal I want to achieve with my clients🚀

Two available spots for new clients in July✅

Only three available spots in August✅

If interested, you can complete an application form on my website and I’ll be in contact ASAP👊

The Egyptian legend🚀

This client runs and owns many world-class gyms in Egypt and they are currently expanding into other countries.

He works incredibly hard in all areas of his life, is impressively coachable, and is probably one of the nicest and most humble individuals I’ve met.

A man with a lot of responsibility, people to take care of and understandably, he wanted his physique and health, to go hand in hand with his business growth🚀

This client came to me having not been sub 90kg in decades and he could never sustain any loss he did generate.

When I told him on our first call that I was very confident we could get to the mid 80’s, he laughed with disbelief but also some excitement!

We have ticked off both of those goals and in my opinion, he’s going to keep improving even more in the second half of 2026.

When you work with the body and have smart systems, you don’t get to a new low body weight and then immediately fall off a cliff.

That is the ultimate key to generating life changing results.

If you use incorrect methods, you sabotage your long-term progress because you keep having to lose the same amount of body fat repeatedly due to a lack of sustainability in what you’re doing.

Interestingly this client had a similar issue I see quite frequently in entrepreneurs: they try to force a result through brute force because they have become accustomed to that approach in business.

The best analogy I can give is that you need to land the body like a plane that is landing.

Smooth, steady and with precision.

I couldn’t be happier for this client to be generating this level of progress as he heads to his 50th birthday and finally getting the results he deserves after decades of trying by himself 🙌

I currently have TWO new client spots available in July and THREE for August.

If interested, complete the application form on my website and I’ll be in contact ASAP🫡

Not ‘competing’ = I don’t need a coach❌

The above is something I’ve heard an incredible amount of times in my career.

An individual on the fence about hiring a coach because they are not ‘competing’ in something.

Or they believe they need a huge event to aim for, to justify their decision to invest in themselves.

Which leads to years of putting off the decision, avoiding the problems at hand and just ticking over in the same place of mild discomfort.

Maybe not unhappy but living at a fraction of their potential.

The gigantic part of coaching that delivers the most meaningful and valuable impact, is coaching people on HOW TO LIVE, for decades ahead.

Therefore you should be coached in every stage of life, not just to an ‘event’.

An 8 week intervention or race to a date, is just a battle of compliance, which often creates little behaviour change or shift in identity.

One thing I LOVE about my clients is that they are just everyday people, wanting to be a boss and leader in their lives.

They want better.

Not for a brief moment in life but permanently.

Stop convincing yourself that you need to be an ‘athlete’ to seek out professional guidance and expertise.

You just have to be someone that wants more, believes they are capable of more and is willing to invest the time and energy now, for huge returns and improvements later.