I am 52 years old and woke up to the fact that I was overweight and unfit. At 5’9 tall and 14 ½ stone and getting heavier, something had to be done! I did not feel comfortable and was embarrassed to take off my shirt and don shorts in the summer. The answer was not simply diet, but “lifestyle change”. A combination of managed exercise, and eating healthy food.

When I met Chris from www.personaltrainerdirect.co.uk I had already changed my eating habits and now knew the exercise had to kick in to achieve my goal of being healthy, fit and enjoy better agility.

Being busy working and traveling it’s easy to make excuses not to do the exercise and worse do exercise that is not achieving the result you are seeking. Chris was able to assess me on the first visit and come up with a realist achievable fitness program that would allow me to build up my exercise. Chris being a fully qualified personal trainer could help me achieve my goals without fear of injury or strain and at the same time push me and encourage me to improve. All this and regular weekly sessions in the privacy of my own home also meant no fear of embarrassment as some may find if using a gym.

I now continue with my weekly sessions with Chris but have also joined a gym near my work and follow Chris’s program. I have purchased a bike and am cycling and enjoying running now. Having a personal trainer can be the difference of seeing it through and not failing. Chris of www.personaltrainerdirect.co.uk also has made the whole thing fun so that you actually want to do the program as the results become so evident so relatively quickly. Chris monitors and assesses progress made and this is so encouraging in it ‘self. I have seen my blood pressure come down from a high level, now I no longer have to worry about this as it is on the good side of normal. Now just 7 months after eating healthily and after 5 months of training with Chris I am a respectable 12 stone 3 lbs. I have more energy, enjoy far better agility and best of all I feel good about myself and am told I actually look a whole lot better.

Thank you Chris for helping me change my lifestyle and for your knowledgeable encouragement and mentoring...

Stephen Chidgey