I’ve been in the fitness industry for years, in commercial gyms, private health clubs, local authority facilities ― even prisons. From the very beginning, when I self-funded my first fitness qualification after university, I loved working in the gym environment and, as soon as I could, I opened my own part-time gym in a garage lock-up. Now I co-own and operate a dedicated, purpose-built facility on the west coast of Scotland with my wife.
My breadth of experience has given me an invaluable insight into what people struggle with when trying to lose weight and get in shape ― and my ambition is to help as many people as possible to lead healthier, happier lives.
In the early days, I enjoyed working with clients who were already super-fit, pushing them to find marginal gains and seeing them incrementally increase their lifts.
But this changed when I started seeing my other clients ― people with limited fitness ― achieve things they never thought possible. People whose lives were changed by the work we did, and who’d contact me to say how happy they were that they could tie their shoelaces without sitting down, play with their children without becoming breathless, or wear a T-shirt in public for the first time in years.
I realised that a focus on straightforward, everyday fitness could change people’s lives.
And when my clients became fitter, stronger and healthier, they felt happier in their personal lives, with improved confidence and general well-being.
This became the central precept of my work as a personal trainer: no superheroes, no powerlifters ― just ordinary people making sustainable improvements to live as well as they can.
Coach Milligan 