Toby

ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO

Achieved Royal Marines Selection

September 2012 I set myself the challenge of becoming a Royal Marine Commando arguably one of the toughest job going and home to a lot of fitness fanatics! I joined the gym for the first time and didn’t really have any structure or organization to my exercise routine. Sean came and introduced himself one day and gave me a couple of pointers, as I was flailing about on one of the machines and generally almost doing more harm than good! So I booked an appointment for the following week.

Sean really opened up my eyes and focused on what I could already achieve rather than the massive transformation and effort that was inevitably in front me. He is professional in a friendly, personal way, as well as being regarded an expert in understanding fitness and the human body but has a great attitude and even greater personality, who will always help you to strive to achieve your goals and teach you that with a bit of effort, commitment and brains anything you want is within your reach. It certainly would have been a much harder and longer road for me without Sean’ constant help and applied pressure when needed! He was never afraid to go that extra mile for me! Here are just some of my stats to prove this:

Started:
1.5 mile run: 9:40
Press ups: 36
Plank: 65 seconds
Pull ups: 2/3
3 min row: 869m

7 months later and accepted into the Royal Marines:
1.5 mile run: under 8:30
Press ups: 65+
Plank: 4 mins+
Pull ups: 8+
3 min row: 914m+

Given that my fitness when joining was that of the average beer drinking, burger-loving young man that could be outrun by his 56yr old boss! Sean must have performed a miracle! Not only can you see the difference in the stats but also visually as well, replacing fat with extra muscle and much leaner. This is only because Sean made me realise how important diet, lifestyle is as much as doing the exercise and hard work!

Whatever you want in life Sean can help you realise and achieve any goal!

Toby

ROYAL MARINE COMMANDO

Achieved Royal Marines Selection

Sue

HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE MANAGER

LOST 14lbs and 2 Dress Sizes

Patricia Brayere

BA CABIN CREW

Results Undeniable

Pierre Granjean

GAINED 14lbs+ of LEAN MUSCLE

Over my 53 years I have always tried to stay in some kind of reasonable shape by getting involved with a number of activities to keep me interested in exercise and diet. In particular for the past 14 years I have been actively playing with a veteran’s football team, which I plan to carry on playing in for a long time to come.

During 2010 I suffered a knee injury that looked like I wouldn’t be able to play again; after a lot of physio, rest, an operation in 2011 and more rest I did get back to playing eventually. The injury made me realise that I needed to learn more about so training I read a lot about exercise, diet and, resistance training for specific parts of the body. Following this I invested in my own Gym equipment at the beginning of 2012 and set myself some quite a comprehensive routines 3 times a week. Despite keeping the regular training going by the end of 2012 I was getting a little disillusioned with it all, the gains in fitness, strength and appearance was minimal at best.

To help combat this at the beginning of 2013 I was given a gift from my wife for a couple of sessions with a personal trainer, that’s when I first meet Sean Burgess. From those first two sessions I knew that this was the way forward for my training and booked another 10 hours straight away. Sean’s knowledge on strength and conditioning and nutrition coupled with his ability to design a dedicated programme for me to follow whist training on my own has led to some great successes. The compiled programs together with our regular weekly session has increased my body condition (fitness) both physically and aesthetically as i put on nearly 15 pounds in lean muscle across 2013. In addition my physical strength has increased on my 3 main powerlifts by at least 50% on each. I even held a plank for 1 minute recently with 70kg on my back; when I started I could do only my body weight for a few minutes.

At the time of writing I’m back playing football twice a week on astro and the occasional (every 3/4 week) 11 aside game on grass. For 2014 my new interest in weight lifting sees me in the gym 3 times a week as I continue to work towards achieving my set goals (excuse the pun). I still train with Sean regularly and without any doubt I would definitely recommend this very friendly, approachable and driven guy to anyone is already training but not getting the results they want. If you are thinking of dieting, getting fitter, lifting weights or any thing else to do with fitness booking a couple of sessions with Sean will no doubt get you on the right track.