The Lakeside Fitness Studio

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

17/09/2025

Ignore the word diet – this is one of the best cookery books I’ve ever come across, in terms of what we should eat just day-to-day away from going out. Has anyone else come across this yet? One of my favourite recipes from here is the Coconut Prawn Curry page 133!

03/09/2025

When the lake outside the gym was more birds than it was water 🤷‍♂️

27/08/2025

This is Ellie, she is awesome 💪

In just over a year Ellie has gone from doing personal training -> to doing PT + spin -> Now PT, spin, bootcamp and power yoga per week 💪

I break exercise down into three areas, strength, cardio and core/mobility. By doing what Ellie does, by picking lots of training methodologies that combine more than one of these sections at a time, she is able to hit more than one area of fitness, and be super efficient with her exercise outside of a busy desk job.

Ellie’s real life superpower is the consistency she has shown in this time, and she is SERIOUSLY strong.

Unless Ellie has been away, I don’t recall her ever missing a session and in this time she has progressed her bench press to 50.5kg and her deadlift to 125 kg with the straight bar, and over 140 kg with the hex bar.

Keep up the good work Ellie and remember everyone strong is beautiful 💪

Happy lifting, best wishes Nick.