James Rafferty

James Rafferty 1:1 Online Coaching
World Class Fat Loss & Physique results
Certified Nutritionist
10+ years experience (PT)

29/10/2025

I’ll be dragged in-front of a council of gym elders for letting this information out 🤣

29/10/2025

It’s cool to get shredded.

I’ve done it. It’s a crazy look and the sense of accomplishment to go along with it is great.

But it isn’t a look you can hold all year round.

I know that contradicts a lot of what your favourite influencers say but it is the truth.

Getting done to single digit body-fat and holding it for large swathes of time isn’t it.

The impacts to your energy levels, cognition, hormones and even vital organ function are not worth it in any context.

In some instances, it can prove fatal.

It’s never worth it. Even for social media.

Really hope this dude starts to spend some time outside of those harshly low body fat levels at some point soon 🙏

21/10/2025

Massetermaxxing 😃

Absolute Trojan effort from over the last 12 weeks. 🔪3 weight training sessions per week with 1 of them being in-person...
05/07/2023

Absolute Trojan effort from over the last 12 weeks. 🔪

3 weight training sessions per week with 1 of them being in-person in

Super adherent on the food side but also navigated trips abroad, concerts and social events really well in that was a very hard final few weeks.

Scale down a touch over 11lbs but strength actually went up considerably across a lot of our core lifts. Which is 💰for a successsful diet!

Follow the plan, get the results.

Bumped into an old friend training legs today ☺️Stefano coached me to my first ever show what is probably around 5-6 yea...
06/03/2022

Bumped into an old friend training legs today ☺️

Stefano coached me to my first ever show what is probably around 5-6 years ago now 😳

It’s been a few years since I’ve seen him, he was a bit shocked to see me about 50lbs heavier than the last time he had seen me 😂

A real good guy in the industry 💪



There’s a perception with people who are trying to get into weight training that to be “like those people you see in the...
02/03/2022

There’s a perception with people who are trying to get into weight training that to be “like those people you see in the gym”.

Each session has to be noticeably better than the last and you have to be at the top of your game every single time you set foot in the gym.

Then, after a handful of weeks, they feel a bit of a disconnect because they don’t feel the way they think they should – unwaning hyper-motivation.

“Maybe I’m just not the gym type”.

Whatever that is supposed to mean.

I will tell you first hand, a large portion of my own personal gym sessions are relatively routine and are nothing to write home about. It is me ticking a box.

Now, there are some very, very good sessions in there, but also some sessions I would rather quickly forget…. But the common theme is that I am turning up regardless.

And that is what wins out over time.

Like this picture, I will turn up with bedhead on a rainy morning after a long day catching up on work previously. Am I ecstatic to be there? Not realty, but I know it has to be done.

Don’t get me wrong, I love weight training, but that doesn’t mean I will consistently have the same application for it every single day, or that other competing commitments might make me feel a little bit less motivated, and that is totally normal.

So, if you feel that you go through that same process. Don’t get too worried about it. It is completely part of the process, just make sure you turn up and do the work either way.





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