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Richard Scrivener

Richard has extensive experience within the health, fitness and nutrition education and training sector. His love of new knowledge shows in the wide range of areas in which he is educated – sport science, personal training, strength and conditioning, behaviour change, and nutrition, amongst others. Richard currently works as the research and development manager for TRAINFITNESS and is a London-based personal trainer. He is a movement training enthusiast and holds the role of Lead Global Master Instructor for the quadrupedal movement training system, Animal Flow. He teaches regularly in UK, throughout Europe, and Asia Scrivener’s previous experience includes working as a strength and conditioning coach within Rugby Union, Soccer, Judo and Boxing. He is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and has written for their fitness publications. Across a 25-year career in the health and fitness industry Rich has taught several thousand students and has helped guide many to become successful fitness professionals in their own right. Rich believes that our knowledge and understanding of what drives better health and performance is always expanding and we must piece together all of the clues from many disciplines, whilst remaining open minded to the fact that what we thought was correct one day may be incorrect the next. Rich is a stalwart believer in “practice what you preach” and subscribes to building health from the ground up for positive and long-lasting results.

Muscle Growth With Age Blog Banner
30 Sep, 2025 • Personal Training /

Personal Trainer Course Series: The 7-Day Muscle Plan: Why Muscle Gets Harder to Build With Age

As we get older, muscle becomes less responsive to the usual “grow” signals from protein and training. Researchers (Keng et al. 2025) call this anabolic resistance, which is dampened muscle protein synthesis (MPS) response to amino acids and mechanical loading that nudges the body towards muscle loss over time. Mechanisms…

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Fitness Myths Clients Believe Blog Banner
30 Sep, 2025 • General Fitness /

Personal Trainer Course Series: Fitness Myths Clients Believe

Walk into any gym and you’ll overhear it. Could be someone telling their mate that crunches will burn belly fat, or that a woman doesn’t want to lift weights because they don’t want to get bulky. These myths spread quickly, usually because they’re simple, catchy and sound convincing. Social media…

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Resistance Training for Speed Blog Banner 2
23 Sep, 2025 • Strength & Conditioning /

Strength & Conditioning Coach Course Series: Resistance Training for Speed

Sprinters don’t just sprint. They lift. They squat, pull, jump and sprint again. At first glance it looks odd. You want to move faster in a race measured in seconds, yet you’re spending serious time moving heavy loads. The logic though, sits in physics and physiology. Sprinting is the art…

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Oestrogen, Exercise & Protein Blog Banner
23 Sep, 2025 • Nutrition /

Nutrition Coach Course Series: Oestrogen, Exercise & Protein

Many women worry that low oestrogen means poorer returns from strength training. A new controlled trial gives some reassuring news in that the immediate muscle-building response switched on by lifting and protein still happens when oestrogen is low. As a personal trainer, this has an impact on day-to-day programming and…

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Ozempic, Wegovy & Mounjaro Are Not the Whole Plan Blog Banner
16 Sep, 2025 • Nutrition /

Nutrition Coach Course Series: Ozempic, Wegovy & Mounjaro Are Not the Whole Plan

Why Food and Training Still Matter for Clients with Obesity, Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Medications like semaglutide (Ozempic & Wegovy) have made a big splash in the world of weight loss. Appetite drops, the scales move and clients often feel they have found the missing piece. Yet weight loss…

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