Strength training for beginners

Learn how to utilise your bodyweight, incorporate resistance training and eat correctly to improve your confidence, change your body composition and strengthen your joints and muscles. This ties in perfectly with master the barbell.

Work with me 1-2 times a week, you will get the most from your training and then, once you have built the confidence, you can drop to one coached session per week whilst completing the planned self-sessions on your own.

You will never make a better investment than the one you make in yourself.

Training people in their 30s, 40s and older.

This is a demographic I really enjoy working with and where my experience in training volume, intensity and recovery as an older athlete really comes into its own. 
As we get older, and less active, testosterone declines, our libido drops, sleep is negatively affected, cortisol increases and we gain fat around the abdomen.
Not only this, but our bodies start to break down, muscle mass reduces and bone density decreases making us weaker and more prone to injury and illness.
Strength training acts to reduce and slow down these effects, so there is no better time than now to start, and see an improvement in heart health, mental health, sleep quality, libido and body composition. You can regain the strength of your youth and enjoy a more active life with your children.
As we become more experienced in our training, progress can stall and injuries can become more frequent and take longer to recover from. This is where the right program can make all the difference, especially if you have long lasting injuries that you feel are stopping you from getting what you want out of your training.

Master the Barbell

It all starts with an empty bar, from here you will learn the 4 foundational lifts of strength training. The squat, the overhead press, the deadlift and the bench press. As well as these, I will teach you variations on each lift to help you develop strength and build the confidence to eventually train on your own.

Strongman training

I’m loath to use the word functional when describing any form of lifting, but strongman training for me is the one method you can use that has the greatest carry over to real life. With strongman, you learn how to lift, press, flip, carry and load odd shaped objects. It builds tremendous total body strength, you move through all 3 planes of motion and your cardiovascular conditioning will improve hugely too. The best thing about strongman, is that everyone can try it. At the Commando Temple, we have equipment that can be used by people of all strength levels, so even if you aren’t 6’5 and 160kg, you can still learn how to load Atlas stones and pick up cars, and if we’re honest, what’s cooler than lifting a car?

Competition and off season training

For the strongman or woman who wants to move up a level, or just wants someone to program for them and give them accountability, I offer two types of planning. 

• The first is the off-season work where the focus is on building a foundation of strength and fine-tuning technique with a rotating list of events to ensure you are prepared for any competition that comes around.

• The second is the competition specific coaching programming. With this, we look at the events, weights and timings that are coming up in your next competition and I help you peak for it.

Advanced technique training

This is aimed at the lifter who has been training for some time but has reached a sticking point or is continually getting injured. A lot of the time, when I see someone struggle to progress, it’s usually due to their technique not being quite right, so what I’ll do is watch your lifts, break down where they are going wrong and show you how to fix it.

A single session of either 60 minutes or 90 minutes is usually all I need for a single lift; however, you may want more as it could mean that we are trying to fix years of lifting in a certain way.

Pricing, One to One coaching

All prices are current for 2025, but will increase as of January 1st, 2026

Single sessions

60 minutes

90 minutes

Perfect for technique tune ups.

£82.50 per session instead of £90

1 x 60 minute session per week

2 x 60 minute sessions per week

3 months up front

Training plan included with monthly training packages, not included with single sessions.

Online coaching

Or the equivalent in your currency

This is  for clients who can’t get to me for one to one coaching, I provide the programme, fortnightly check ins and video reviews for technique tune ups and problem shooting.

If you are an actively competitive Strongman or Powerlifter, or a recreational lifter with different goals, contact me using the form below and we can get you started.

1 x 60 minute session + goal specific programming

You get the same planning and check ins as the online oaching, with the addition of a single, one to one coaching session.

Upgrade to a 90 minute session for an extra £35

Additional sessions can be purchased at £82.50 for 60 minutes or £122.50 for 90 minutes

All contracts are priced per calender month and offered as a minimum of 3 months.