Testimonials

I have always been borderline underweight and had found it impossible to gain weight. For the last four months I have been taking two personal training sessions a week with Tim.

When I started, Tim asked me to keep a food diary and he gave me some advice on my diet. Tim then focused very much on core stability exercises and I feel that I have learned a lot about healthy exercising.

He varies the programme according to my needs, so there is no chance to get bored, which helps to keep up motivation. But the best thing is that I'm actually making progress: I have already gained 10 kg (22 lb) of lean muscle without increasing my body fat percentage, which is a low 8.5%!

Frank Peske

My objectives as I approached 50 were to lose weight from my near 14 stone, improve flexibility and build body tone. My weight dropped to 12 stone and my body fat index was down from an above average 21% to a lean athletic 12% which was a terrific result. At the same time my core and body strength improved considerably as did my muscle tone. During our time together we worked on and resolved a long standing shoulder injury building up the supporting muscles. Posture and balance rapidly improved and general feeling of confidence and well being was enormous

Gerard Brown

Tim is the most friendly, approachable person and a great encourager. I began training with him, prior to spending a season in Switzerland training to be a ski instructor. Tim designed a plan to build up my core strength, agility and balance. This included exercises that could be done in the gym and at home. As a result I maintained very good health and fitness throughout my three months in the Alps, skiing every day.

Unfortunately I did get hit (while stationary) by an uncontrolled skier and sustained a shoulder injury. This was quite stiff on my return home. Tim enabled me to rehabilitate this injury with graded strength exercise, and with muscle massage and stretching. This injury has now completely resolved.

Geoff Morris

After 20 years of progressively worsening knee pain and decreasing knee function it was decided that my only option was to have bilateral patella-femoral joint replacement surgery (i.e. replacement of both knee cap/femur joints).  Having both knees done at once has its pros and cons but it would not have been open to me if I had not been able to prepare effectively with Tim. We worked hard to build up the strength in my legs and arms - legs to aid recovery and arms so that I would be able to support myself post-surgery.  You cannot appreciate how important upper body strength is until you lose the strength in your legs!

Post-surgery I had a lot of physio and also gym-based re-hab with Tim.  Tim has spent two sessions a week with me starting from when I was still using two walking sticks and could barely do anything.  Less than a year on from surgery, my right knee is better than it was pre-surgery and my left knee is not far behind. My flexibility is a good as it ever was (which is unusual after such drastic surgery).  Hours and hours of patient attention from Tim (plus some sports massage - much less painful than physio!) have meant that I am on-track to achieve my end of year goals including being able to run, jump, dance, climb the stairs to the gym and lift the whole stack on the lat pull-down machine!  Next year I should be able to ski, snowboard and surf again.

You can read elsewhere about Tim's professional knowledge and infectious enthusiasm, but for me his greatest quality is his patience. We have been doing variations of the same boring rehab exercises for nearly 2 years now - but he still counts every one and changes the exercises when I come to hate them. He remembers better than I do how far I have come in my recovery and reminds me of it when I am ready to give up.  And I would have given up a long time ago without his support and encouragement.  Thanks Tim.

Annette Blane

Staying in Woolacombe on holiday, I wanted a decent sports massage whilst down here. Being a BTEC L 5 Soft tissue therapist, I know what I want from a treatment. I booked in with Tim after looking on the Internet and on the SMA website. Tim was highly professional, knew his stuff rather than taking things as they come, understanding the symptom can be very different to the cause! If only he lived in Nottingham so I could see him regularly!

Kim Shone

Tim was recommended to me by one of the physiotherapists at my gym, with whom I was having some treatment for a reccurring neck problem. I have had neck, back and shoulder problems for many years created by sitting, driving and surfing. This has given rise to countless treatments by physios and chiropractors.

When I started training with Tim, these visits soon stopped. What Tim did was to increase the flexibility in the muscles that were creating my problems rather than treating the area that was injured. We then worked on strengthening the muscles that were weak which dramatically improved my posture, giving lasting results, eliminating my pains unlike my previous visits to the chiropractor and saving me a shed load of cash in the process.

Neil Hecquet

I started training with Tim 9 months ago. I thought I needed to take exercise more seriously following an operation and because I was applying to work for the Army and had to pass their fitness test. With Tim's guidance, l have learned to run properly, without the pain l used to get in my knees. Sports massage also assisted with this process and cleared up my backache.

I used to think that personal training was a nice, if slightly expensive, add on to the price of going to a gym.

However, since working with Tim, I have found that unless you really know what you are doing, having a good trainer is the key to making real progress with fitness. I would not hesitate to recommend his services.

Rob Corrigan