Lazarus PT

I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone over the past year who has signed up at any stage to do Personal Training with me. When i started this last March I really wasn't sure if it would work but if it did the aim was always to get a space made up my back that would allow me to build a gym big enough to offer a great variety of workouts for my clients while still keeping prices as low as possible. Thankfully it has paid off and a good bit ahead of schedule. For whatever reason I never wanted to really work for a gym, pay their rent and then have to pass them prices on to clients, for me this was always the way around that.

The goal going forward now is to turn this shed in the next week into a fully functioning gym that will constantly improve as time goes on and to then offer a service that will deliver the best results possible in everything from weight loss, muscle gain, performance but most importantly improvement of health. From the start to now I've changed my thoughts many times on what I believe works and what I believe doesn't work, this gym will be filled with the equipment that i feel gets results and about the nutrition I know works to allow me to deliver the best results for people.

So again thank you to everyone who has signed up over the last year allowing me to move forward with the business and also to those that helped me with the clearing of the garden and the setting up of the base right through to the building of the shed and laying of the concrete.

Thank you.

Some benefits of personal training

1. Get more from the time you spend working out, it’s easy to skip a workout or do a little less when no one is standing there pushing you on and holding you accountable for it. A personal trainer can improve the efficiency of the time you spend working out as well helping you maximize your results. Everyone has personal goals from exercise and personal trainers are not only able to tell you what to expect from the workouts and longer term, but also will be able to optimize a workout program and each and every session for your specific goals.

2. You will be able to train safer as a personal trainer is going to be watching your form as you perform each exercise to make sure you are not going to hurt yourself performing any exercises incorrectly.

3. A personal trainer can help prevent you from stalling with your results by changing routines, varying intensity and adjusting schemes that will always allow you to get the most from every session, achieve your goals and build on new goals. They also take care of the workout programs, count your reps and log everything for you leaving you only having to focus on the exercise.

4. Good personal trainers will always be updating their knowledge on both exercise and nutrition and what they learn will be passed on to their clients during every session. This means you will be taught things that have been researched and proven to work while saving you time by avoiding exercise and nutrition that don’t work and actually hinder your goals.

8 Weeks before and after fat loss, strength & muscle gain

Testimonial
"I started with Robert mainly to gain muscle and strength and have achieved both very quickly. I have seen muscle gains as well as fat loss and my strength gains have been insane. I'm hitting just over bodyweight in bench press, barbell rows and squats and just over double bodyweight in deadlifts in a very short space of time." - Ryan

6 week before and after weight loss
Before weight 10 stone 6lbs
After weight 9 stone 5lbs

Testimonial
"I had been trying to lose weight on and off for quite a few years and always found it hard with an under active thyroid. Finally I give it another go new year and started to train with Robert. I began a diet he had wrote out for me and also began exercising twice a week while also taking his advice to walk a little bit every day. For the first time in years I lost the extra weight. I currently weigh 9 stone 5lbs in the middle of February 2016 down from 10 stone 6lbs which i had weighed at the start of 2016. My joints feel better from the exercise and from the weight lost and my energy levels are considerably higher" - Hilary

Testimonial
“I started with Robert back in April, he was beginning to get into personal training and offered to train me as I wanted to lose weight. I always seemed to either be gaining weight or losing weight but it was never steady. I was never in control of it and I thought it was just the way things were after having kids, my strength was poor and I had a pain in my lower back for years. I didn't like the idea of going to a gym and I was nervous about the idea of even training with Robert but I wanted to lose the weight so I gave it a go and paid for a separate diet plan that turned out to be a booklet with diet examples and explaining everything."
"After training one session with Robert my nerves towards training were immediately gone, he jokes, he laughs and he doesn't make you feel self conscious but gives reasons for doing each exercise, what parts of the body they work and how to do them safely. Only a few weeks later the pain in my lower back had gone completely but I was also seeing results with weight loss, within months I was fitting into clothes I hadn't fit into for years and things I thought I knew about exercise and about food had completely changed"
"He said from day one to not weigh myself constantly on scales but to judge more by the inches lost and by looking in the mirror and weight myself monthly. Now over a year later I have lost over a stone, my weight is stable and I fit into clothes that I never thought I would again, My whole way of eating is different, my health is improved and I can lift and do things I would have never believed before that I could” - Leigh

Testimonial "I had been going to the gym for a few months (and hated it!). I wasn't making much progress in the weight loss department but did feel a little better for doing some exercise. Then I was diagnosed with Fatty Liver disease last November and my liver function tests were really abnormal. After seeing a specialist I started a low carbohydrate, high protein diet and also starting training with Robbie. As well as training me he also made out diet sheets for me which really helped me plan meals. If anyone had told me last year I'd be doing weights and actually enjoying it- I would have laughed at them. But here I am 7 months later and I'm still training twice a week and really enjoying it. The benefits for me have been: - Weight loss: over 1and a half stone so far - Toned muscles: look more toned and less flabby - Energy levels: feel better after doing training and miss it when I don't - Joints less stiff: my knees used to be really painful and stiff- not any more - Liver tests are levelling off and haven't gotten any worse - Confidence increased: I'm wearing clothes I never thought I'd be able to fit into again- feels great!!! Robbie has a great way with people- he is very chilled out but puts you through your paces and every time I train he has a varied programme ready for me so no two sessions are ever the same- less chance of getting bored! He has a great sense of humour- which comes in handy when I shout at him for making me work too hard. I would recommend him as a personal trainer to anyone who wants a relaxed, private and individualised approach to training with the benefits of weight loss, toning up and cardio." - Sharon Nurse