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.

Stronger at 40

If you’re in your 40’s or older there is no better time to pick up a barbell and learn how to master your body, rebuild your strength and change your life. Of course, this is not just limited to men in their 40’s or older, if you’re in your 30’s, it’s also a great time to start strength training. In fact, the sooner the better.

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.

All prices are current for 2024, but will increase as of January 1st, 2025

Pricing, One to One coaching

Single session, 60 minutes

£90

Single session, 90 minutes

£135

Perfect for technique tune ups.

Per month

1 x 60 minute session per week

£280

Per month

2 x 60 minute sessions per week

£560

Per month

1 x 60 minute session + goal specific programming

£165

All monthly sessions are priced per calender month and offered as a minimum of a 3 month contract.

Pricing, Online coaching

This is a monthly subscription based service 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.

Numbers for this service are limited though, so the subscription is set to run a minumum of 3 months.

£105

Or the equivalent in your currency