Some said it wouldn’t last. Well, here we are 18 months on since first sitting down with my Personal Trainer – Matty Schmid – and I’ve just started a new training programme.

544 Days have passed since I first stepped into a gym for the first time in my life on 6 September 2023. Out of those 544 days I have visited a gym at least once in 462 days (usually two or three times a day) whether it be my local JD Gyms Thornton-Cleveleys, or training with Matty at Preston or Blackpool, an away day at Rugby, Derby or Newcastle-under-Lyme, or on holiday in Turkey or Lanzarote. That’s an average of 6 days a week in the gym over the past 18 months!

If anyone thought I’d be slowing down by now…

1 October 2023 – 6 March 2024 I spent 134 days in the gym

1 October 2024 – 6 March 2025 I spent 137 days in the gym