I am a fully qualified and insured Personal Trainer (REPs Level 3 Advanced Instructor), Gym Instructor and BWL Olympic Weightlifting Assistant Club Coach based in Brockhall Village, near Blackburn, Whalley and Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley area of Lancashire.
I can also provide expert nutrition/weight management advice and postural analysis.
I really love teaching and coaching and am passionate about helping people of all ages and states of health to enjoy exercise and a subsequent improved quality of life through structured, challenging, but realistic and achievable programmes.
I have a varied educational and professional background, having worked as a TV producer, assignments co-ordinator and archive researcher (ITV, Granada, LWT, APTN, NTV) and as a university lecturer (media studies and ESL).
I studied Japanese to postgraduate level at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, am a qualified instructor of traditional Japanese Martial Arts, lived in Japan for a total of ten years and now organise and guide bespoke cultural and hiking tours through Japan Travelogue.
