Oak Strength Personal Training

08/10/2025

I am OFF WORK from 7am Friday 10th to 7am Tuesday 14th October 2025.

I will be unable to book, amend or cancel appointments until the Tuesday morning.
I will not be answering calls, texts or email enquiries until the Tuesday morning.
I won't be offering emergency appts.

I am OFF WORK, and as a self-employed, sole-trader, just-me business, human being this is often harder work than just keeping going and getting on with it 🤣🤣🤣🤞🏻🤞🏻

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

29/09/2025

Reminder: New Prices and my new working hours start from 1st October!

If you pre-pay for block/package deals and I receive your payment today or tomorrow I honour the package at the current price. From Wednesday 1st October the new prices will be in effect.

From Weds onwards my new working hours will be 6am-12 and 2-8pm, Mon to Fridays.

Message/WhatsApp me if you haven't yet seen or wish to know the new prices for massage appts and PT sessions.

Thank you as ever for your continued support,
Em G
Oak Strength

23/09/2025

New hours, new prices and BIG THANK YOU'S.

19/09/2025

From October 1st 2025 I will be changing the times of availability for massage/PT, alongside a price increase as previous published.

I will now be 'OPEN' between 6am and midday, then from 2pm until 8pm, Monday to Friday.

As a side note I am currently at full capacity for PT clients, unless you want early mornings (6-7am Tues/Thur or 7-8am Mon/Tue/Fri sessions)

Thank you for respecting this alteration to the business hours for Oak Strength.

Thanks,
Em.

10/09/2025

Oak Strength PT and massage will be closed/not at work from Thursday 11th until Tuesday16th September.

Any messages, emails, whatsapp or enquiries will be replied to from Tuesday onwards.

Thank you for your patience and understanding

05/09/2025

OAK STRENGTH PERSONAL TRAINING PRICES FROM 01/10/2025:

ONLINE / REMOTE PROGRAMMING*:
• Bodyweight/at home minimal kit programming £40 per phase (usually 6weeks)
• Gym-Based or Progressive Strength programming £50 per phase (usually 6weeks)
• Strong Strongman/woman programming, including comps £60-80 per phase (usually 6-8weeks)
• Pre-Comp Programming for Powerlifting £50: For the final phase, 6-8 weeks leading into the comp. (If you want a 12-14 week cycle leading into the comp £10 off, for 2 phases only £90)

*All programmes come with WhatsApp support 24/7, advice, technique feedback etc.

PERSONAL TRAINING (in person.)
BASED AT OAK STRENGTH HQ, 33 Cardinal Drive, GL4 0UW;

One hour free trial and consultation available for all new enquiries/clients, please message and book in.

Ad-hoc/one off 1 Hour £45
Pre-pay 3x1hour sessions £115
Pre-pay 5x1hour sessions £165 (expiry 2months after purchase)
2hours per week, 10sessions £280 (expiry date 3months after purchase)

If you have pre-paid for 5 or 10 sessions, they can be interchanged for massage.

Specialist sessions/advice; Movement analysis in a 90minute appt; For niggle/correction assessment AND/OR compound move analysis for Strength/Powerlifting/Strongman/woman athlete or runners/cyclists orother sports people = £75
A 20-30 consultation/chat and 1hour physical assessment/PT session . A suggested rehab/pre-hab/developmental exercise list can be sent to you after the session for you to follow (Full developmental progressive programming available at an additional cost, general follow-up advice is free.)

PT CLIENT ADD ON'S:
Add £15 per block booking for programming that can run alongside your PT sessions:
Programming you take to your gym and use in addition to the time with me in your PT sessions.

Any pre-paid sessions can be switched for massage, or you can take a massage as a pre-paid session at days/times on my massage page.

14/08/2025

Huge THANK YOU to all clients, friends and family for accommodating my energy crash and low mood this week.
You are all so truly amazing, I can't do it without your support, understanding and care.

26/07/2025

24/07/2025

The Who, What and Why of Oak Strength?

Strength is NEVER a weakness.

I am Emma Jane.
A 40+ female living and working in Gloucester.

Oak Strength exists to enable others' to find, discover, develop or expand their WHY in life.

Through either; a reduction in pain, increase in physical confidence, getting better range of motion, helping you to have the ability to do all daily tasks with ease, to be stronger than before, to have mental resilience or to physically do anything you dream of.

I hope to use Oak Strength; Sports Massage and Personal Training to release the best in each client;
Regardless of the current start point. Regardless of the goal, target or dream.
Regardless of the physical, psychological, emotional or health blockages or barriers that currently exist.

I hope to enable each and every client to begin, continue, or grow their journey onwards and strong-wards.
There are no downsides to being strong.

We get one body, one mind, one chance. You have make and take the chances, choose the next right thing for you, and make the very best of it. This is not easy.

The only thing you have from birth to the grave is your body. It is your transport module for your mind, conscience and sentience. It changes. It lets you down, it adjusts, it gets broken or malfunctions but it is yours. Make decisions daily to improve, maintain or help its longevity.

We may not always get the chance to live our dreams, but unless we build, or try... then we never will.

Oak Strength exists to assist you to better manage life physically and to help manage your body better, and hopefully clarify your WHY.

20/07/2025

⚠️CLASSIC LONG WAFFLING EMMA POST YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED⚠️

So it is now the day after!

And yes, my hip flexors dislike the 2 flights of stairs in our house, and I have slightly annoyed the rear of my left knee. (Iced and resting it.)

But ZERO blisters or feet issues.
(Seriously when you get the right socks and boots combo it's amazing.)

Today I feel so VERY lucky and grateful, for so many things today. Here is my gratitude list.

1. The capacity, tenacity and resilience to sign up to an event... but then decide to bail (Thursday) the true event but set my own route (Friday) and complete it solo (Saturday). And complete it, minus the ease of Macmillan supplying the directional arrows (I can get lost in hotels and car parks) and no set rest/food stops and portapotties en route.
2. The mental awareness that it could be done (with luck) but that it wouldn't necessarily be a bundle of laughs all day. But I had the mental flex to know the tough bits were temporary and that I would be more grateful long term to complete it for the charity and to honour the donators of money to the charity.
3. The weather was extremely kind to me starting drizzly cool and only being sunny and hot for the final 1.5miles.
4. Gloucestershire is beautiful. Stunning scenery, dog walkers, canal volunteers, other walkers, runners and cyclists making the most of a July Saturday and the Gloucestershire paths and roads. Thank you to everyone I saw and who said 'Hello/Goodmorning/etc... (including Splatt Bridge staff, and the Copeland Park runner I encountered leaving the estate and we then crossed paths on the canal a bit later too.)
5. Being Sober. None of my current life, my marriage, my family/friends/clients, my hobbies, my health/strength/fitness would be what they are without my 8+ years Sobriety.
6. Undiagnosed but most likely AuDHD or whatever my brain functionality is. Because without me being me, none of the crazy s**t I have done, attempted, achieved or dreamed of in my 45years on Earth would have materialised.

And now my THANK YOU's...
Thank you firstly and foremostly to my husband Ritchie George for tolerating my crazy plans.
Secondly, to anyone who donated quids to MacMillan via JustGiving.
Thirdly to my clients Oak Strength Personal Training, my family and friends for putting up with my brain and it's bonkers-ness, you all know I'm nuts but accomodate it. Especially Tracy who was prepared to get up super early and drop me at the official hike start line in Stow. Thanks Tracy even if you didn't have to in the end, I know you would have.
Thanks also to Macmillan Cancer Support for introducing me to marathon length Hikes, at last year's WyeValley one, it was epic (sorry I couldn't make it to the Cotswolds Mighty Hike yesterday, I promise I did my bit to honour the money pledged.)

And finally... TO ME!
I did a thing, changed the plan, made it work for me, instead of ploughing through with something that may not have been as advantageous for my mental/physical health.

I can, I will and I do, my life my way.

14/07/2025

CLOSED UNTIL FRIDAY 18TH JULY 2025.
Oak Strength will not be replying to messages, taking or re-scheduling appointments until Friday.

Recharging batteries, mind and soul replenishment work in progress until then.

Thank you to all clients past, present and future.

11/07/2025

Charity 70x70 for July training.
Day 11. Done before 8am.

All 70 inchworms are now completed. First exercise to be ticked off entirely.

And 330 reps overall ticked off for Pat and Charlie's.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/oakstrength70july