This is not your usual Trainer’s Bio where you get to read about all of my amazing sporting acheivements all the way back to my childhood. The reason being, I don’t have any!

In fact I had no interest at all in sports or training until I was hospitalised with severe asthma at age 19, and was given firm instructions that I needed to get myself into shape, or could expect to see a lot more of the inside of the hospital.

Over the next few years I started training with weights and learning karate, but lost interest again until age 25 when I had become quite out of shape, and eventually was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Fortunately the tumor turned out not to be cancerous after all, but this was enough of a scare to get me back into the gym once again.

From that time I on I trained quite consistantly, although I still had a terribly unhealthy diet that revolved around pizza and hot chips or potato wedges. As time went on I became more and more passionate about training, and a snowball effect started to occur; the more passionate I became about fitness and training, the better results I would notice. The better results, the better I would feel physically, the sharper I would feel mentally and emotionally. The better I would feel, the more passionate I would become about training, and so on!

Finally I started the slow process of improving my diet. I’d never been much of a meat eater anyway, so I decided I would officially become a vegetarian as well. Gradually cutting out a lot of the junk and replacing it with healthy vegetarian meals was really the turning point where I got better and better results, especially in reducing  my body fat levels. At around this time I began to realise just how many people had started to come to me for advice with their training, nutrition or weight loss goals. Sometimes this would be friends and acquaintances, or just other guys working out at the gym.

Being a little wary of passing on bad advice I may have picked up or been given in the past, this inspired me to leave my boring I.T job and to enroll and become qualifed as a Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer.

I hope my story will inspire anyone who comes from a  non-sporting background, has a  limited diet or any other obstacle to overcome in order to pursue and achieve their fitness goals and enjoy the improved health, energy and vitality that comes along with it.