FitnessPro Personal Training

13/05/2025

14-year-old Daisey Walker-Jones has created a petition to make GCSE PE options more accessible.

12/05/2025

End the year as a qualified Personal Trainer 😍💪

The date is set! We’re getting ready behind the scenes to introduce the next wave of health and fitness professionals to the industry 👊

If you’re passionate about personal development, building better health and performance outcomes, helping others and the human body then this could well be your gateway to the next chapter 📚

If you’d like to receive a prospectus and ask some questions just comment below is get in touch direct, we’d be happy to help you along the way 😇

Yours in health and performance,

FitnessPro

25/04/2025

🤗‼️The Next Chapter ‼️🤗

Certified PT Diplomas 🧑‍🎓
Workshops 💪
Boot camps 🏋️

All coming soon 😍

18/03/2025

Uncomfortable changes to try and comprehend and accept the impact of to us as a society.

Why do you think this has happened, do you think this change in eating habits isn’t the link to our decline in health outcomes as a population?

Let me know your thoughts 👍

Oh hi by the way!!! It’s been a while 😅 yea I’m still around, just busy cracking on with the job at hand 😇👍🤦‍♂️

23/07/2023

A lot of you won’t know that I actually used to train Mark! I can confirm his recent health success have zilch to do with my input 🤣 really happy to see him taking care of himself and setting a good example though 👍💪 well done Mark 👏🙌

The Beast has lost an incredible amount of weight 👏

03/07/2023

Dylan’s at it again!

After a competition in Cardiff this weekend for Down syndrome swimming Dylan smashed out a loud of PBs across his events.

Todays first working superset went like so:
A1: chin up - narrow parallel 3x5
A2: dips 12x5

Body weight + 12.5kgs on his chins 👍💪 20kg one rep max soon ahead of more swimming comps, bossing it Dylan 👏

14/01/2023

⭐️ Coaching sessions available! ⭐️

I’ve been so busy recently getting my clients into 2023 vibes, running my own gym, development meetings etc etc that I almost forgot to post about this availability!

A rare chance to get 2 sessions a week with me for the next 5 weeks due to 2 lovely clients going away on a trip of a lifetime.

Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5pm, Monmouth leisure centre, starting Tuesday 17th Jan finishing February 16th. 10 sessions in 5 weeks to focus on what is most important to you right now, learn some new lifts to expand your exercise catalogue, get a kick up the butt during your workouts to bring home the intensity, rehabilitate from an injury, you tell me. I’ve been doing this for some time now (10 years in March😱) and am confident you’ll get something very helpful and valuable from this time.

Coaching slots like this don’t come around very often with myself so get in touch pronto to discuss your wants and needs before pulling the trigger 🔫💪

Yours in health and performance,

Matt

21/11/2022

British Down syndrome swimming championships

2 wonderful athletes,

11 glorious medals,

Next event, they’re coming for you!

11/10/2022

World mental health day

In 2022 I think there’s space for this everyday now amongst most communities, which is really quite beautiful I feel.

I don’t have a picture of me upset or on a dark day to share like I’ve seen many others do, not because I don’t have them, I do, I’m just not very good at recognising it or dealing with it head on.

My life’s going alright, I’ve a lot to be grateful for, but I still have anxiety almost everyday that it’s going to crumble around me at some point, imposter syndrome, abandonment fears. Or at least that’s what I think it is. My squirrelling away often leads to chronic fatigue or chronic pain, or just some serious freeze to the point I can’t do anything with my time.

Training is one of my avenues to express and helps a heap, occasionally it hinders though getting lost in my world of solitude.

A big high five to my colleagues who commit their time to making others feel good and hopeful about themselves, you’re all hero’s in my eyes, and your worthy of devoted time to you in return.

I hope you can all if you haven’t already find your safe space, person, people, community and activity to help you express, feel, reconcile and thrive, not always, that’s not realistic, but as often as possible.

I’m here to do what I can to enjoy the passage of time and I wish you all the same.

Life can get rough, we’re all on this roller coaster together, reach out the moment you recognise you need to. It might just be the best thing you ever do.

29/09/2022

Tricep training 🥐

Triceps are 3 muscles that predominately extend the elbow on the back of the upper arm. The medial and lateral heads of the tricep are what you see on the outside of the arm and the long head is more toward the inside of the back portion of the upper arm.

Unlike the lateral and medial head the long head is the only one that originates up onto the shoulder blade rather than upper arm. This means it also affects the shoulder joint and not just the elbow.

This is worth knowing when training triceps as this can help inform set up and intent of exercise.

If you’re entering a tricep exercise with the intent of training the long head or achieving a complete tricep activation consider these next points:
• Because of where the long head attaches across the shoulder joint onto the shoulder blade it requires shoulder blade stability to perform optimally. I recommend getting your lats engaged during set up to depress and anchor the shoulder blades to create that solid platform to work off
• Elbow position, when training triceps we have 3 main points of flexion, elbows to the side, out in front and then overhead. To hit the long head in the short position we want elbows to the side with the previous set up point in place
• To train the long head in its lengthened position (potential for greater building stimulus) we need to stretch it in a similar way we would the lats with the elbow overhead
• When training the tricep in an overhead position shoulder mobility and importantly stability is very important to achieve a safe set up to add intensity to. If this is something you struggle with then take it light, focus on quality and build time under tension rather than load until you gain these qualities

Tricep muses,

Happy Thursday all, go get it 👍💪

05/08/2022

Strength

What is strength?

Specifically, the total amount of force a muscle is able to create in a single muscle action.

Power being the speed in which a muscle can produce a required amount of force.

A big component of “strength training” in how we see it being done today is also skill acquisition. Making sure that our neuromuscular system knows what to do and that our musculoskeletal system can actually achieve the necessary positions.

So when you’re next training for strength, ask yourself during each part of your workout, are you:
Training strength?
Training power?
Training skill?
Or, are you:
Training hypertrophy?
Training conditioning?
Training energy expenditure?

All are good in reality, but is what you’re doing true to the goal and true to the intent?

Something to ponder on 🧐

11/07/2022

Free weights vs resistance machines…?

It doesn’t have to be one or the other! There’s plenty of benefits to be had from both forms of resistance training.

In fact, wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have to sit in a single camp and get all the benefits from both over time!?

Specificity toward your goals are the deciding factor here, but for almost everyone there should be space for both in a well balanced resistance training program.