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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.
Whatever you charge an hour, you probably arrived at it by rounding up from what the last trainer in your gym was charging, or by picking a number that felt defensible when a client asked. That is how almost everybody in this industry sets their price, because there is nothing…
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Most Pilates instructors learn the same thing, and that’s avoid flexion for anyone with low bone density. That usually means no Roll Down, Roll Up or Rolling Like a Ball. The rule is often presented as fact. Its main source is a 1984 study of 59 women. Only nine were…
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A client books a 7pm Tuesday session. She comes twice, cancels the next four and stops replying. Hmmmmm…something is up. The story we may tell ourselves is that she lost interest. Another possible reason is that the gym at seven o’clock on a Tuesday evening is unbearable. The music, the…
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5.4 million people in the UK have osteoarthritis in at least one knee. That figure comes from Arthritis UK, the charity formerly known as Versus Arthritis, in its State of Musculoskeletal Health 2025. The same report puts the median age at which symptoms begin at around fifty-five. Not eighty-five. Fifty-five,…
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A great group exercise class delivers far more than a workout. There is the exercise itself, of course. But there is also the energy of the room, the instructor who knows your name, the people you expect to see each week, the shared effort of getting through the difficult part…
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