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Paul has been working in the fitness industry in several capacities since 1988. His journey started as a Kung Fu Instructor in South London shortly after he had been crowned World Champion in the martial art called Sam’Tu-Dang. He then progressed to teaching a range of Exercise to Music classes throughout London and Surrey. Paul first started personal training in 1990 and has worked with a number of actors and sports professionals in several Health Clubs and outdoors. He also has extensive experience running pre-season fitness training camps for semi-professional football clubs and has worked for several years with junior athletes based at a club in South London. In an attempt to find other ways to help the general public and in particular, those with a strong sporting background, Paul qualified as a Sports Therapist and Sports Masseur in the mid-90s and has helped a vast number of athletes prepare for competition and overcome their injuries. Further success in the martial arts came with Paul being part of the Kyokushin Karate National Team Champions and he continues to train in the martial arts. As an educator Paul has worked in several centres of learning over the last 20 years and continues to enjoy being a part of the fitness industry, training four times a week and helping others on their journey.
The Strength Test That May Predict How Long You Live When we talk about strength training, it’s often centred around performance or physique goals. People want to lift heavier weights, build muscle or improve athletic performance. Those outcomes are valuable, yet research over the past two decades has steadily revealed…
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Walk into almost any gym where the clients are serious about size and you’ll hear the same familiar advice on repeat: keep protein high, train hard and don’t skimp on carbs. Rice tubs, oats, bagels, pasta, sports drinks, intra-workout powders. Carbohydrates often sit right in the middle of the “muscle…
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Most people train for something immediate. A holiday. A wedding. A photoshoot. A race. A number on the scales. Very few people train for their seventies. But the good news is, science is starting to show us that training now is going to help us later. Not in a dramatic,…
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The 82-Year-Old Who Quietly Changed the Conversation Earlier this year, The Washington Post profiled Juan López García, an 82-year-old ultramarathon runner from Toledo whose physiology has caught the attention of researchers across Europe. His VO₂ max sits at a level typically seen in healthy adults decades younger. His aerobic capacity…
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There’s a moment many of us as fitness professionals will no doubt recognise. A client shares that she’s pregnant, and almost overnight the training conversation changes dramatically. Heavy lifts disappear. Confidence wobbles. Sessions quietly turn into cautious walking, light stretching and a general sense of “let’s not do much, just…
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