The Warrior Programme helps busy professionals and business owners, who struggle with finding the time and motivation to exercise consistently without feeling guilty. We help our clients move from…
Having bad posture – to great posture that commands respect and creates presence
Aches and pains – to feeling powerful and strong, in life and in sport
Poor sleep and low energy – to in control and feeling alive
Feeling weak and not into the usual gym mentality – to building muscle in a sustainable and efficient way
The Warrior Programme is an independent gym and coaching business, based in Bristol, and working with clients all around the country virtually. Featured by Red Bull in 2019, celebrating our unique approach to getting stronger, which is not all about being 25 and super lean.
We’re about real people; real strength that changes your life.
How long have you been doing what you do and how did you get to be an expert in this? (told in Amy, the owner’s, voice)
The best way for me to answer this is for me to tell you my story in brief. I used to work in an office, long hours at a desk and started to get back, neck, shoulder and hip pain. I ignored it for a good while, until it got worse. At its highest intensity, I was demonstrating a squat for a client (a move I repeated 1000s of times) and wasn’t sure if I was going to get back up.
I styled it out and did get back up. The next day, I couldn’t get out of bed using my legs. I had to press myself up off a water bottle with my arms. A few days later, I was diagnosed with a bulging disc.
To be completely honest, it felt like my life and my career was over. How could anyone take me seriously when I was ‘this badly injured’? Would I ever train like I did again?
After a few serious talking tos, from myself and loved ones, training without touching any weights for 3 months, a load of rehab and a real change in lifestyle and mindset, the nerve pain/ sciatica which had beset me, started to fade away.
I chose to push myself deep into all of the things that had caused first the relatively benign, yet annoying, aches and pains, and then later, the serious debilitating pain and loss of movement.
I’ve studied and experienced so many things, not just as an academic or at university, but as a real life body living through them. Feeling what worked, feeling what didn’t. Experiencing when it felt like someone had real value to offer and was as passionate about my genuine recovery as I was. Also experiencing when someone was just fobbing me off or withholding the real tools from me to get me to become a long term client.
I’ve built an adaptable and comprehensive box of tools that empowered me to take control of my own journey with pain. Changing my mindset from ‘I’m broken’, ‘I have to see x not to be in pain’ to ‘I can do this’ ‘I am in control’.
I know how shit it feels not to feel in control of your body. To not be able to do the things you want to do. To feel held back. Like you’re not truly reaching your fullest potential. That feeling literally kills me and it’s my life’s purpose to get you out of there.
Since then, I’ve worked with tens of clients who were exactly where you are now and got them to where they want to be. I’ve created The Warrior Programme®’s process to be able to repeat these results time and time again.
Who are your clients exactly?
We work with people just like you – busy, stressed professionals who struggle to find the time and motivation to exercise consistently. Who have regular aches and pains in their back, neck, knees, hips or shoulders. They’ve been to see a physio or chiropractor in the past, but they still have the problem.
They often feel tired and sluggish, running out of energy at 6pm on a Friday. They know the desk life isn’t doing them any good. They know it’s important and it’s not going to get any better if they don’t do anything about it.
They’re in their 30s, 40s and 50s and they want to get stronger, perhaps even more so than they were at 25.
We work with clients all around the country too, via video conferencing.
How are you different from other ‘personal trainers’?
We’re different because this is what we do. We don’t do weight loss, before and afters, bikini bodies, military style fitness, circuits, aerobics, spin or any other fitness methodology. We help people just like you and that’s it.
We’re here to do one thing and do it to a world class standard.
We treat you as the individual that you are. Everything we do is completely bespoke to you. Which means you get the results that you want. Not that which the coach wants you to get, or that which will make their Instagram feed look the most impressive. It’s all about you.
What results can I expect?
You can expect to:
1. Get stronger – than you ever have before.
2. Discover why you experience back, neck, knee, shoulder or hip pain.
3. Get rid of it.
4. Learn to move heavy objects with ease and control and reduce your risk of injury.
5. Learn to run without pain.
6. Improve your flexibility – perhaps touch your toes for the first time ever.
7. Feel more confident.
8. Breathe easier.
9. Get great posture – and the presence that comes with it.
10. Feel more alive and energised.
11. Concentrate and focus better.
12. Feel more in control.
13. Build a stronger core.
14. Build glutes and hamstrings that work properly for you (especially if a physio has told you you don’t have that right now).
15. Get leaner, lose the body fat that you want to.
16. Build muscle.
17. Sleep better.
18. Feel less stressed and more calm.
19. Feel more powerful.
20. Improve ‘flat feet’ or flat arches – perhaps even get rid of your orthotics.
21. Create new goals for yourself every 90 days, so you’re always improving and not declining with age.
22. Understand how to eat in a way that supports what you want out of yourself, without it being a ballache.
23. Change your mindset about yourself – achieve more in every aspect of your life.
Let me tell you about David, one of our clients. David is a partner in a law firm, working long hours and used to have back pain most of the day at work. David used to play rugby in his 20s, but stopped as work and family understandably made more demands on his time. Before he started working with us, he was concerned that he just had to live with the aches and pains and as he was getting older, he wasn’t going to feel as strong as he did again.
Fast forward to taking the right action consistently, David can now lift over 100kg off the ground, complete more continuous pull ups and press ups than he’s ever been able to and has gone a year without any back pain.
He has great posture, for the first time in a long time, and feels stronger than he has since his late 20s… which was 15 years ago.
Because of our approach, our clients reach lifetime personal bests in their 40s and 50s, have posture that is better than they ever imagined they could have and regularly prioritise themselves, around work and family, with ease and without guilt.
If you’d like to know more, I’d love to invite you to book in a complementary call by clicking this link/ the link enclosed – https://10to8.com/book/thewarriorprogramme/select-staff-and-location-if-needed/?service=1097784&prevent-change-service=true.
Our clients have the best posture, consistent exercise routines, reduced aches and pains and can pick up between 60kg & 135kg off the floor.
They feel powerful, in control, respected and proud. If you’d like to feel like that, perhaps we should talk?
For more information:
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07999750387
The Warrior Gym, Unit 1, Boxworks, Clock Tower Yard, Temple Gate, Bristol BS1 6QH