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2025 2025 - what a year! 🤪 I had no idea what 2025 had in store for me. Being promoted to Fitness Manager and, despite my lack of experience, absolutely smashing all of my KPI’s for the year. I had my first holiday in 10 years. I saw my favourite comedian Bill Burr live. I saw Oasis LIVE 🤯 - the best gig I’ve ever been to!! My clients have smashed their goals! Overall, all of the hard work (and the 7 day weeks) has been worth it 😅 Roll on 2026 🫡

Merry Christmas all 🎄🎅🏻

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Last push before Christmas 🎄 🎅🏻 Getting it done away from home! Carlisle (A) Some Back and Deadlifts. Stripping Deadlifts right back, focusing on form. Building up slowly each week. Finished off with an hour cardio, again, building up slowly each week.

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Post HYROX First proper weights session since HYROX. I haven’t deadlifted since August, the longest time not doing it, so that was nice to get back into. Will definitely have to strip it back to basics as I’ve lost a lot of strength 😅 Starting my new split now and not waiting until the New Year to get started. My goal is to be as big, as strong and as fit as possible 🏋🏻‍♂️ After all, the right time is always now 😉

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Now, some of you will say because I completed it that I didn’t fail. I failed by my own standards. Not because of fitness, although I felt unprepared going into the race, the running side ended up being my best bit. I failed at the end with 1. Sandbag Lunges - a 15 second penalty for dropping the sandbag (which I was unaware you couldn’t do) which was fair enough - no problem. The official taking 2/3 minutes to log it on his little machine took the p**s, slowing me down. 2. Wall Balls - This is what really enraged me beyond belief. I realise that it’s the same for everyone. However, I am saying from MY point of view that this what let me down the most and cost me almost 20 minutes along with the sandbag lunges. My hands were so sweaty that on a consistent basis the ball kept slipping out of my hands, either missing the target completely or falling short. The leathery material used for the wall balls is an abomination of the highest order. On top of the official not counting reps which in my opinion should have counted. Overall, this rattled me and my head had gone by this point. I ended up doing at least 200 instead of 100. I even asked what would happen if I just walked off, I was that incensed. The point of this post is to show that it is important to acknowledge failure as this is how we learn and grow. Not everything will all be rainbows and pots of gold. I will turn this failure into a positive, work harder than ever, reapply next year hopefully and prove to myself this was a one off.

The Gym Group Conference 2025

Couple of photos from our successful Gym Group Conference 2025.

Nice to see the business from a different perspective.
Some 0% beers.
Done.

Next year I’ll go suited and booted 😅

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HYROX Training First day off in months. 6 weeks out until HYROX in London. Running ✅ Legs ✅ HYROX Exercises ⏳ Time to lock in 🔒 Let’s see how it goes 🫡

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National Fitness Day Jumping on the band wagon with National Fitness Day! 😅 Big shoutout to those who make it all worthwhile and seeing them all fall in love with being active and bettering themselves everyday 💪🏻🙌🏻

September

A good start to the month so far!

Some recognition for the hard work I put in 🫡

If you can’t pat yourself on the back every now and then, then when can you?

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North 📍 Spa 🧘🏻‍♂️ Football ⚽️ Gym 🏋🏻‍♂️ Running 🏃🏻‍♂️ Dogs 🐶 Chilling 😎 Week off, completed ☑️ Plenty more breaks to be had from now until the end of the year 🫡

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10 Years 🤯🫠 Today marks exactly 10 years since I joined The Gym Group Watford!! Having joined after newly qualifying, I had no idea where it would take me. All I knew was that I hated my previous job and knew I had to give it a go otherwise I would never know. I’d have no regrets for trying. Since joining, I’ve built a successful business, learned so much from so many different people and, some might say, finally been promoted into management (whilst still PT’ing). For which I’m learning all the time. The highs definitely outweigh the lows. Choosing a career in this industry has been one of the best decisions I ever made. Massive thanks to those I have met and trained over the years, without you this wouldn’t have been possible! Here’s to the next 10 years, wherever that takes me! �