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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.
Twenty-nine systematic reviews. Eight hundred and sixty-three separate trials. Twenty-four different treatments, all pointed at the same problem, which is the muscle ache about a day after a client does something their body has not done in a while. That’s a huge amount of evidence which the research team pulled…
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Many of us have a client who has started moving differently. They take the stairs one at a time now. They reach for the back of a chair before they sit down. Somewhere in the warm-up chat they mention a bit of a stumble in the kitchen last month, and…
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Few moments in a client’s life involve as much physical change, and as much uncertainty about what to do next, as the months after having a baby. New mums arrive nervous and with many, many questions about the changes in their body. Is it safe to lift again? What about…
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Most of us have worked with a client who was having a hard time with their mental health. The low energy, the missed sessions, the days when they were just not themselves, whatever we tried with the programme. For many, the advice was to speak to their GP, who might…
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A cancer diagnosis used to mean rest, wait and recover. For a long time the standard advice was to take it easy, conserve energy and let the treatment do its work. That advice is starting to change. There is now a serious and growing body of research showing that structured…
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