Club 300 Glasgow South

Stu will tell you he’s stronger now… more confident too.

But that’s not how he walked in.

When you’re not sure you belong in a gym, you feel it everywhere. You hover near the back, you copy whoever’s next to you, and you wait for the moment someone clocks that you’re out your depth (thankfully our Coaches are great at spotting this early)

You see, in my 12 years of coaching I’ve found that nobody gets more confident staying like that.

Confidence comes after action not before it.

What turned it round for Stuart wasn’t a number on the scale. It was being somewhere friendly, where the coaching made sense and someone actually had his back. The confidence grew from there, and the strength came with it.

If you’ve been waiting to feel confident before you start, you might be waiting quite a while longer.

DM STRONG and we’ll get you started properly.

Club 300 Personal Training Gym - Glasgow

A few new faces about lately, so we thought we’d properly introduce ourselves.

This is the team you’ll actually see when you walk in.

The ones who’ll know your name, know your plan, and notice when you’ve gone quiet for a week.

Have a swipe and meet them.

Then tell us in the comments - which controversial gym opinion are you actually on board with? 👇

In my opinion… the whole point of fitness is so you can do the things you love, with the people you love for as long as possible 🖤

Reiss left us this review last week and one line has been rattling around my head since.

“It feels less like a gym, and more like hanging out with friends to better yourselves.”

A few years back, Reiss wasn’t training at all. The weight had crept up, the motivation had gone, and he wasn’t feeling great about himself.

He describes joining as “biting the bullet” - which tells you exactly how he was feeling a bit taking that first step back.

i’m sure you can relate.

Most people picture walking into a room full of strangers who all know what they’re doing, while they try to figure out how to adjust a seat without launching themselves across the floor. So they put it off…

Sometimes for years.

What Reiss actually walked into was a coach who knows when to push him (Shout out to Coach Phil, who might be unbearable about this shout-out for at least a fortnight), people who welcomed him in from day one, and sessions he now looks forward to.

He says it changed his whole mindset as well as his health.

And the community he’s on about was never a marketing plan… It’s just what happens when people are known by name, are missed when they’re off, and are allowed to have a laugh between sets (even if they use it as a tool to try and distract us).

If you’ve been circling that first step for a while, DM STRONG and we’ll help you take it.

Club 300 Personal Training Gym - Glasgow

Bit of an honest one.

I’ve fallen out of love with posting on here.

Ten years I’ve been at this, near enough, and somewhere along the way it stopped being fun.

In fact it’s absolutely became a bit of a slog.

Just another thing on the list I’d put off until Sunday night and then resent.

Lucy and I were watching Clarkson’s Farm last night (if you’ve not seen it, sort your life out) and I got thinking about why we’re always so keen for the next season the second it lands.

Then the penny dropped.

He’s just showing you the whole thing. A man with no real clue what he’s doing, having a go anyway. The daft ideas, the struggles, the bits that actually work, the odd tear. Nothing dressed up to look better than it is.

And that’s the bit that hooks you. Watching someone share the actual journey and going “I feel that” - realising life’s hard for everyone, even one of the most successful presenters on the tv.

So instead of going back to what I’ve done for years, I want to just try and document more of what we do.

What we’re up to, what’s happening in the gym, the good weeks and the ones where the wheels come off. All of it, not only the wins.

So, let’s see how it goes.