Personal trainer in Sandbach · Online coaching worldwide
I'm Tom. I've coached people in Sandbach since 2014, and the diets they've tried before rarely go wrong in the first week. They go wrong on a Friday night, or in the week everything gets busy, when one bad day turns into "I'll start again Monday". I build your plan to get through those weeks as well as the easy ones.
In person at Bodypower, on Zoom or by phone. If coaching isn't the right thing for you, I'll tell you.
The same coaching system sits behind all three ways you can work with me. What changes is where you train, how much contact time you get and how bespoke the programme is to you.
In person
From £179 a month
Anything from 1 to 5 sessions a week at Bodypower, including your food targets, a weekly progress report, a direct line to me for support between sessions and your own private training app to keep a record of your progress.
Best if you train better with someone there keeping you accountable and want your technique checked and refined there and then.
Anywhere in the world
From £149 a month
Your training and food targets in the TETraining app. I review both each week against your progress, your feedback and your goal, and update them as needed. You get a video or voice reply from me after every check-in.
Best if you've got a gym or kit at home and need the plan and the accountability.
Group programme
Round 8 dates announced soon
Eight weeks of fat loss, then two weeks bringing your calories back up to maintenance. Your own nutrition targets, a training programme that has already got results in previous rounds, a weekly check-in with written feedback from me and a private group doing the same round. Your programme, check-ins, feedback and education library are all in one app.
Best if you'd like the structure and a group going through it with you, for less than 1-to-1.
Online and 1-to-1 coaching are priced monthly. We'll pick the right coaching option and session times on your free call, based on what you need.
Each of them had something that kept getting in the way. That's what we built the plan around.
Years of back problems
She'd been told she might never lift weights again because of her back. We started with a thorough assessment and built up gradually. She's since deadlifted 115kg in competition and entered her first strongwoman event.
Midwife on long days and nights
Katy rowed at British level, so she knew she did her best work with something to aim at. We'd already taken her from a beginner in powerlifting to the top 15 in Britain, with a 170kg deadlift in competition. The photoshoot was the next goal. She went from about 75kg to about 60kg, with her training built around a midwife's rota and an old injury.
Always trained, weekends undid it
"Drinking on a weekend is the worst for me." His weekdays ran to a routine, so we banked calories there and gave him more room at the weekend, when the meals out and nights out happened.
"At the end of our time working together I was in the best shape I have been in for over 10 years. The best endorsement I can give Tom though, is that since we worked together I've managed to maintain this condition thanks to the lessons learnt and advice given."
Most people I coach already know what they should be doing. What they haven't had is a plan that survives a rough week, and someone who notices when a week's gone wrong and knows how to adjust.
The number of sessions is set by the time you've really got, and the programme works around any injuries. You'll always know what you're doing when you walk in, and you'll see your lifts go up as the weeks go on.
There are no good or bad foods, just pros and cons for different goals. You'll learn enough about practical nutrition to go for a meal out, enjoy a weekend or go on holiday without it pulling you off track, because all of that is in the plan from the start.
I read every check-in and reply within 24 hours. When a week goes badly, we find where it started and you restart at the next meal, not on Monday.
At Bodypower, on Zoom or by phone. We talk about what you've tried and what's got in the way.
A week where I get to see how you really eat, move and live. It means your plan starts from the best place for you and takes the most direct route to your goal, with no guessing and no hoping it works this time.
Your training and food targets are set, then reviewed every week, to make sure your efforts are being rewarded with progress towards your big goal.
I grew up an overweight child in a family where Friday was takeaway night and every birthday meant your favourite restaurant. My first attempts at dieting meant cutting all of that out. It made me miserable and it didn't last.
I wanted to be an art teacher, got a Fine Art degree, found kickboxing at university, and quit my job at Tesco as soon as I qualified as a PT. I've coached in Sandbach since 2014.
Now I'm a dad who eats toast most days and whose family goes out for food whenever we can, and I still keep a fit and healthy physique. That's because I learnt to build plans for people whose lives don't go on hold for a diet, and that's what I coach.
Take the 3-minute Fat Loss Leak Finder. You'll get the one thing most likely to be stalling your progress, and a personalised report by email.
Anything else, message me on WhatsApp.
1-to-1 coaching at Bodypower starts from £179 a month for one session a week, with food targets, check-ins and WhatsApp support included. Online coaching starts from £149 a month. We'll pick the right option on your free call.
At Bodypower Strength & Fitness on Millbuck Way, Sandbach. Clients come from Sandbach, Elworth, Wheelock, Middlewich, Crewe and Holmes Chapel. Online clients train at home or at their own gym, in the UK and abroad.
No. Most people start after a long break. The first sessions are built from what you can do now, and we work around any injuries.
No, you don't have to track calories to lose fat. It is a very useful tool at the start, though, for learning about calories and protein and how to stick to your targets, and it gives you some accountability with your food while you're learning. The goal is always to move away from needing to track.
For the first week or two you won't see much in the mirror, especially in the places you keep checking. Around weeks 4 to 6 your clothes start to fit differently. From about week 6 you'll notice changes in places you weren't even looking. A watched pot never boils, which is why we track your waist and photos as well as the scale.
No. You pay monthly and you're only committed to the month you've paid for. I do ask for a month's notice if you want to stop, where possible.
It's the same system either way. In person suits you if you want someone there checking your technique. Online suits you if you've got somewhere to train and mainly need the plan and the accountability.
Twenty minutes on where you are, what you've tried and what's got in the way. If coaching fits, I'll tell you which option I'd pick. If it doesn't, I'll tell you that too.
Tell me which days and times tend to suit you and I'll reply, normally the same day, to confirm a time. In person, on Zoom or by phone.