The Lakeside Fitness Studio

18/03/2026

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Do you have an existing back condition? That causes you pain or discomfort, particularly after being too static for too long? This is how I keep my disc injury in check, keeps me pain-free, and keeps me dead lifting over 200 kg. Since doing this routine every day largely, but making sure I never miss more than two days of it, at my monthly physio, Heidi reckons it’s the best she’s ever seen my lower back 👍

Something I didn’t mention in this video, is that I do this every day, or I try to make sure I never miss more than two days on the bounce - sub A plank in, if you’re less advanced and want to track your ab strength going up… Although if you’re hitting over five minutes you probably need something a little tougher - another great addition to this routine for anyone with back problems would be a superman or a bird dog, whatever you want to call it, as it gets the glut firing and working with the back - lastly I do honestly believe there are a set of five or so exercises/stretches, unique to every individual out there, that will keep them pain-free - these may not be appropriate for you, but they are what works for me!

04/03/2026

The New Squat Rack 💪

17/02/2026

This is Abbie, she is awesome!

Just over a year ago Abbie came to me after a difficult period marked by burnout and growing health concerns. She’d gained weight, felt depleted, and was shocked to discover she was pre-diabetic. With little time devoted to her own wellbeing, she knew something had to change.

She began with nutrition, shifting to a whole-foods approach and cutting back ultra-processed foods and refined sugar. She gave up alcohol, too. The transformation was remarkable: she lost two stone, reversed her pre-diabetic readings, recovered from burnout, and regained her energy.

Once her foundations were in place, Abbie introduced exercise—starting with Pilates to rebuild confidence. Soon after, she reached out to me to take things further: adding spin for cardio and 1-1 strength training to build muscle and create a strong, resilient body.

Abbie credits her success to a mindset shift—from simply wanting to lose weight to intentionally building long-term health.

Now Abbie has also qualified as a Nutrition and Health Coach— proof of just how far she’s come and how powerfully a single decision to prioritise health can reshape a life.

So from trying Pilates to rebuild confidence, to now bench pressing 40 kg for two reps, Deadlidting 77 kg for three reps, doing chin ups, various other impressive lifts, CrossFit, Spin and multiple solo weights session per week 💪 well done Abbie, keep up the good work!

I would just like to add to this…

Weighing scales can be useful to measure progress

- If your level of activity stays the same
- If you are a long way overweight from where you would like to be
- Or if you have a ‘fighting weight’ you like to stay within half a stone of.

As long as you aren’t weighing too often, and you are weighing on the same day each week and treating it as a weekly average… However if you are visibly slim or even slimish, and you vastly increase the amount of activity - then the scales really aren’t as important.

Remember, ladies in particular, do not aim to be thin and weak like society tried to get you to focus on in the olden days… Strong is beautiful 💪❤️

(… And a MILLION times better for your brain, bones, muscle tone)

01/02/2026

Next year’s January social is definitely going to be the January big bird watch 💪 even though it was a bit of a grey start walking Maggie this morning… The bird song was amazing – this is just a quick snippet…

Also people may have a bit of a downer on fishing sometimes… But this Lake wouldn’t exist without fishing, but the amount of life it attracts is amazing 💪 not just in terms of the birds… But also the newts, bats and everything else 🎣

01/02/2026

Throwback to the snow at the gym the other week ⛄️ 🧊💪 🦆 ❄️

15/01/2026

Happy belated New Year from me and our latest resident to move in on the Lake outside the gym… Simply known as ‘posh duck’ …. A Mandarin duck. Obviously word has reached the regions where they speak Mandarin, about how much food the injured goose is being fed here, and everyone wants in 🤷💪 🦆

Thanks again for all the support over 2025, from me and my quaint little gym in the countryside. There's been some big changes and 2025 was quite challenging for me… However onward and upwards for the New Year, and towards our new goals 💪💪

The Support means the absolute world to me – thank you all so so much ❤️

Big love, Nick.

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas everyone 💪💪 here’s to another good year 🎄🎄 thank you again for all the support ❤️💪🎄

17/12/2025

Autumnal Sunshine

03/12/2025

Pull workout

Mobilise back

50 roll ups with leg lift and twist… Made as difficult as humanly possible.

Deadlift

Mobilise shoulder

Warmup three sets of tricep tips and light lat pull down

Three max effort sets of

Chin up (kinder on my shoulder injury found the wide grip pullups that I’m used to)

Lat pull downs heavy

Lat pullovers

Heavy seated row

Wide grip seated row

Cable shrugs

Barbell shrugs

Rotator cuff strengtheners

Lower back stretch to finish 👍

12/11/2025

Virtual studio almost ready to go!

You rent the whole room for the hour, and you can do classes or the weights at the other end of the room, or a mixture of the two… However I have to know you very well first or be an existing paying customer, before you’re allowed to book in - but you'll have the ability to do any classes any time, to fit around your busy life and children 💪!

15/10/2025

Leaving do for Ness 💪 fabulous time at .

15/10/2025