30+ Years of Fitness, Coaching & Real Life Training

I’ve taught fitness, sport, and movement in some form for over 30 years.

It started young.

In my early teens I supported my running coach, helping with training sessions and athletics in schools. By my mid-teens I was already working in a gym, helping members train weights, learn tennis and helping children learning to swim.

Fitness was never just a hobby to me.

It was always part of life.

Over the years I’ve trained and competed across multiple disciplines including running, Muay Thai, strength training, spinning, Krav Maga, mountain biking, and endurance sports.

In my early 20s I started training in Muay Thai. Before long I was teaching classes,coaching technique, strength and conditioning, weight management, and fight preparation.

That developed into over 20 years of coaching fighters alongside working a full-time career.

Over the years I supported fighters competing in the UK and internationally, assisting with training camps, weight cuts, conditioning, and event preparation while also continuing to compete and train.

I also came to teach spinning, helping set up multiple spin studios. After more than 25 years of endurance training and conditioning, qualifying as a spin instructor felt like a natural step.

none of this was ever about becoming a fitness instructor or influencer. I just liked helping people.

I was teaching & training with:

Full-time work

Business pressures

Party life

Travel

Mental health struggle

Real-world responsibilities

Real life is busy.

After taking redundancy from JD Sports, I focused on my own training again. Soon, a few people asked if I could help train them too.

It started with bootcamps in a field.

Then a garage gym.

Then a gazebo during lockdown.

And during that period I realised something important:

You don’t need fancy equipment, expensive memberships, influencer culture, or perfect conditions to become fitter and stronger.

You need:

Consistency

Support

Effort

Good people around you

I wanted to build something for the local community around Haworth, Oakworth, and Oxenhope — a gym where real people could train without ego, pressure, or judgement.

A place for:

Busy parents

Shift workers

Beginners

Runners

Fighters

People rebuilding confidence

People improving mental health

Kids wanting to become fitter and stronger

Just a place where people could quietly improve themselves.

TRAX Gym was built on simplicity.

No gimmicks.

No nonsense.

Just real people putting the work in.

building a COMMUNITY during covid

why trax became the unseen

I noticed something about the people training at TRAX. They weren’t interested in showing off.

They trained consistently. Quietly. Without needing attention or validation.

Some trained for: Weight loss, Running, Strength, Mental health, Confidence, General fitness, Simply coping better with life

But nobody needed to turn training into a performance.

No fake stories.

No influencer culture.

No pretending life is perfect for social media.

Just ordinary people doing the work.

Unseen.

That’s when TRAX Gym evolved into The Unseen Fitness Co.

Because the name reflected exactly what the community already was:

Real people doing real training for real reasons.

Not for likes.

Not for patches or medals.

Not for social media attention.

Just becoming healthier, fitter, mentally stronger, and a little bit better over time.

Together.

Quietly.

Consistently.

Through whatever life throws at you.

Real Training For Real Life

No gimmicks.

No influencer BS.

No pretending life is easy.

No fitness trends.

Just honest coaching, real support, and helping everyday people become stronger mentally and physically while balancing work, stress, family, setbacks, and real life.

What The Unseen Means

Training shouldn’t be about:

Competing with everyone else

Likes and followers

Showing off

Leaderboards

Fitness trends

Creating content for social media

It should be about becoming stronger for yourself and for the people around you.

Your goals.

Your pace.

Your life.

Some days success is an ultra marathon.

Some days success is surviving the week, getting to the gym, and keeping your head together.

It all counts.

The story isn’t about numbers.

It’s about consistency through chaos.

ABOUT ME

I’m not elite.

I’m not an influencer.

I’m not really even a coach

I’ve spent nearly 40 years running, training, competing, teaching, battling injuries, mental health, illness, career pressure, family life, and everything else life throws at you.

Just for me.

Not for show and not for likes or kudos.

I understand the hardest part isn’t the training. It’s fitting training into real life.

Early YearS

Sport has always part of my life.

Karate competitions, football for Silsden, squas, tennis, cross country, fell running, BOFRA races, English Championships, track events, daily sessions, hills, drills, laps & weights from a pretty early age.

Earliest memories of running around 7 years old and for various clubs though the years.

I represented Yorkshire and West Yorkshire even England on the fells m, uk champ a few times though training with a top coach, John Woodcock.

From a kid I was managing asthma alongside heavy training loads.

My training taught me discipline and consistency early.

The 90s — Chaos & Survival

The 90s were different.

Raves, drinking, smoking, partying, poor decisions, mental health struggles, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, medication, confusion.

But even during the chaos, I still trained.

I still ran.

Still played football.

Still worked out.

Exercise became fundamental to me before I even realised it.

I learned early that life isn’t always clean and organised. Most of the time people are fighting battles nobody sees.

That’s why I never judge where someone is starting from.

2000–2010 — Building

This decade was about pressure, growth, and responsibility

Building businesses.

Career progression.

Buying and renovating houses.

Working constantly

At the same time

Mountain biking
Running
Gym training
Muay Thai
Krav Maga

I stopped drinking around 22–23 and shifted fully into Muay Thai.

Over the next 20+ years I coached fighters competing around the world, helped with weight cuts, event preparation, and cornered athletes at major competitions — alongside competing myself.

At the same time I spent around 20 years training Krav Maga with ex-special forces and elite self-defence specialists.

Not for ego.

For development.

I was learning how to balance real life with discipline.