Why I Prefer Training Females To Box

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Why I prefer to coach women to box?

By Neil Perkins

 

That statement always gets a reaction! It’s provocative, challenges stereotypes and is 100% true. Stereotypes are associated with female boxers, especially amongst the male fraternity – of course gents all female boxers must be homosexual?

 

I’m not a feminist and I am not politically correct – why are they my preferred boxing clients?  They haven’t said I’m their preferred coach.

 

With respect to the female boxer stereotypes, I have coached my fair share of lesbians. That been said lesbian boxers are in the minority of female boxers based on who I’ve worked with.

 

As a coach you need to discover the reason why they’re doing it? That is the strongest driver and it’s how you get people to achieve their outcome. Especially when you are going to put them through a gruelling fight camp. So, one of the first questions I ask someone?

 

“Why do you want to box”?

 

This is where everyone tells you a lie! The first reason is never the truth. The female’s that you coach will reveal their reasons later – even if they don’t directly tell you, men will always mask their reason with their ego. I think this is where stereotypes work against men? I’ve come full circle and I can tell you with a clear conscience – I do mind been punched in the face. I am unaware why when men feel the need to tell me ‘ I don’t mind been punched in the face’. Is this ‘fact’ or do they think they say it enough times that they will start to believe it – If it is fact, they haven’t been hit hard enough. Men are presumed and portrayed to be club swinging and sabretooth battling. What would this primitive ‘man’ do when faced with a threat, say like a 7 foot tall Sabre Tooth Tiger – attack him head on of course wouldn’t we boys? This is where your ego creating an illusion of a male stereotype is rather foolish. Primitive woman would tell you that when your primal response will be flight ‘the rabbit’ or fight ‘the chimp’ your small amount of time with your analytical and cognitive self would say ‘Sabre Tooth Tiger has stronger assets than me so we will trigger the rabbit (flight) to come out when your adrenlin starts pumping, you will survive another day and come back when you have a spear! – gents they make better decisions under pressure than we do, even if they question it with lots of overthinking. We jump straight in and look to the chimp – look where that can get you (Prizefighter 3 2010)

 

You only need to stumble onto the dance floor anywhere in the UK on a Saturday night to see that women move far better that we do gents? (With the exception of me drinking Stella Artois) This is not a sexual come on (although I am huge admirer of the female form), but boxing is all rhythm and movement, it’s far easier to teach rhythm and movement to a women.

 

Telling me ‘You don’t mind been punched in the face’ is either lie or shows that you’re delusional. Neither are good traits in my world. I need to know that when I set you things to do, that you’ll do them and don’t lie to yourself and half do them. My mum (and everyone of your mums) still passes the steering wheel the same way (10-2-10-2) when they turn the corner – The same way when they passed their diving test in 1967? Females will do everything diligently and be willing to repeat until it’s perfect, men won’t – they’ll adapt (watch a man tun a steering wheel compared to a woman)

 

So, when we’re are military school drawing the battle plan and tactics you will be listening? You are absorbing where to attack and when to throw and how to counter. You know when you’ll have to make up points, when it will be nasty and when your pants (even if they aren’t a thong) will suck up your arse with fear – and yes, it may leave a stain. You realise I have ‘experience in the trenches’ and I know what battle will feel like and how you can win? Gent’s in this lesson in class you’ll be looking out of the window looking at the sky daydreaming about your KO finish. When it get’s nasty and you feel your lungs burn for the first time, you don’t recall me telling you how this would feel and how your first 1 minute in the corner will go in 10 seconds and that you’ll stand up off your stool and your legs will never have felt that weak before. Ladies, you listen to battle plans better, you understand that task in hand and what you need to do to win.

 

Now gents, it’s like 300 when Leonidas talks and roars to his men and declares battle, they cheer before diving in ahead of him to have the honour of being first to die in battle. Ladies, have a word please. Did no one question Leonidas plan? Was battling really the right thing to do? There is a reason why he has an army full of men! Women boxers will question the plan with you multiple times and ensure its right, when they’re running into that first conflict they won’t question the plan on the moment of impact – they’ll have questioned it and ‘stress tested’ it 1000 times already, with the coach and in their head – they will truly buy in.

 

Of course, I’m a genius and I never get it wrong? I’m a man, that’s my ego talking! Men, you might buy into me, you might listen and you might be onboard – guess what it might start going wrong! Our female combatants will have learned in military school, questioned the plan and then implemented it – but they’d have questioned it that much that they’d already have a second and third exit planned and thought through on every level – they’ll have the instinct to make adjustments when they need to.

 

Celebrating female boxers I’ve had input to, all special for different reasons. The First Lady, The Bad Ass Anaesthetist, The Box Cup Gold Medal Winner, The 67 Reasons Why I Can’t, The Lazer Focused Script Writter and so many others.

 

I’m glad that you learned what you were capable of, and that you used me for what I was good for – that’s a turn up for the books. Ladies you will know that when it comes to coaching female boxers, it is one area of my life where I always get a women to peak at the right time.

 

I am scared of rollercoaster rides, don’t like needles, hate aeroplanes, have nightmare after horror films (won’t watch them), I get bullied by children below and I do mind been punched in the face. Gent’s I’ll train you to, leave your ego at the door.

 

Neil Perkins, The Ladies Man

Complacency leads to downturns – it all started in Stoke!

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Complacency leads to downturns – it all started in Stoke

By Neil Perkins

 

On Friday March 27th, I would have been running my 47th White Collar Boxing Show – March Madness. After this I had a bumper year lined up with our July show ‘Summer Sizzler’ October we were at the ICC with Barratt & David Wilson Homes and the big one – the 50th show in November, that one was going to be special.

 

I jokingly told many of you the story of my drive to Stoke and the ‘judgement’ served upon me, this was at the end of January. Not even I knew the judgement would go this far!

 

I own three companies – Henrietta Street Gym, Fighting Fit Events and Neil Perkins Property. On the 4th January the gym was less than 30 members off capacity (Gym), I was finishing the onboarding for new team members meaning I was never required ‘operationally’ and my March show (events) was looking like been a stacked card. I was venturing up the M6 to my favourite place in the world to buy not one, but two properties. I’d pre agreed prices and was just giving the second one a first viewing having seen the other one prior. I’d lined up some investors, was putting my own money in and on paper this was a great investment.

 

I was winning at life, I pulled over at the services as I was early for my 10.30am first viewing. With my new clothes on (I am not one for material things), I catch a glimpse of myself in the refection in the window at the service station. I have been training regularly, sleeping well (I’m no longer opening my gym at 6am and locking up at 9pm every day) and I’m eating better. Plus, I have not got money in the bank – I’ve got money in every account, with zero’s on the end – I am looking good! The Streets played in my head, you know the song? – ‘fit but you know it’.  I stroll into the Starbucks and order a coconut milk cappuccino, the attractive young girl serving me embarrassingly asks for the £3 something it was, I hand over a crisp a £20 note, she gives me a £10 note, a £5 note and some change with a pound coin in it. I pour the coins in her hand, smile and tell her she can keep that. She looks at me and smiles, I strut out with my coconut cappuccino like a dog with ten dicks.

 

I arrive in Stoke for my 10.30am viewing, early on I realise this is not going to be my day. The estate agent (who I know) is shaking her head at me. There is an immaculately dressed man on his phone next to her, he gets in his car and drives off. He has offered the asking price on both the properties whilst viewing them. I sulk around Stoke for another two hours waiting for another viewing, the agent was 45 minutes late with intermittent phone calls to say ‘they’re 10 minutes away’ this one had ‘minor structural damage’ – a crack that ran up the side of the house that you could fit your hand in. Running late, I got in my car and drove home, without any new properties in the empire and having spent £5 on a shit a coffee from Starbucks – it was overpaid for so I could engage in some poor flirting with a girl who on paper was young enough to be my daughter. Stoke on a good day is sub 60 minutes door to door, this journey took me two hours. The journey back I had five significant phone calls.

  • Phone call one: a fighter is having to withdraw as he has torn his bicep – he would be one of the headline bouts.
  • Phone call two: a fighter (a huge ticket seller) has sparred at another gym and has a suspected fractured sternum
  • Phone call three: a trainer was late for his morning class and we are getting emails in complaining as it is a repeat occurrence.
  • Phone call four: a fighter has injured himself playing football and won’t be able to box
  • Phone call five: expect an email off the members as they’re unhappy about some of the classes and the new coaches.

I get home bursting for a piss, the shit coffee had got to my bladder and I’d just done 2 hours on the M6. After nearly wetting myself (just) I burst through the door and have the most relieved piss in the world. From the downstairs toilet, I walk in the back room to find the dog who I’d left longer than I expected had shit in his crate – this wasn’t a good day.

 

Over the next week I started delving into the problems with the gym. I have some informal responses and everyone is been very politically correct. I fire and email out to the members asking for feedback with a direct email back to my personal email, like the fisherman casting his line out, I then sit and wait for responses. The fish were biting, within 48 hours I’d had 38 ‘constructive feedback’ responses. This was painful, in the following week I had more ‘constructive feedback’ fed through directly from fresh sources. It appeared that I had a few problems. There was disparity in levels of coaching, disparity in the level of delivery and a high degree of complacency from the established team members. With the cushion of multiple income streams, I start strategizing, not panicking, but I’m aware I need to fix issues with a long-term solution. I think what are my primary issues and how am I going to solve them?

 

The route of the problems stem from clarity of my expectations to the team, coaches not understanding organization culture and not engaging with our community. My issues came from me not providing adequate training, not communicating expectations with Key Performance Indicators and not leading consistently – everything that goes wrong under my roof is my fault. My biggest issue was complacency.

 

With a cohort under of boxers training for the March 27th show I decide not to take any immediate action yet. One team member who had received a fair degree of ‘feedback’ antagonises a member again and I remove him immediately, the rest of my issues can wait until after the show. The feedback is reinforced when my figures come in for January, a gyms busiest month of the year – we’ve shrunk by 8 members. I sit and observe the gym over the next few weeks as the dust settles. Habits of complacency of the team creep back in and I observe the ‘feedback’ and start looking at the problems and planning resolutions.

 

Boxing taught me that you can give away around as long as you win the fight. One thing people fail to realise about me is that when I am a calm exterior, I’m the most frantic on the inside. Like the duck effortlessly gliding along the water, my feet are paddling like mad beneath the surface.

 

Early on in February, I’d lost interest in our March show. I use funds from my events company to pay for my holidays. I’d planned both Turkey (summer) and Jamaica (winter) this year with the bumper card throughout the year– our March show might have made enough profit to buy me a drink at the after party. I was planning beyond March. The Monday (23rd March) prior to the show, I was contacting the team and booking one to ones where I would discuss…

  • Clear expectations and KPI
  • The issues that I had with respect of their performance
  • The direction we were going as a gym

 

I’d prepared a new timetable, with the start of a new financial year I had new contracts in place for the team and I was phasing in a couple of new team members. After hearing the feedback at the end of January, I’d spent February planning and the countdown was on to March 27th where we start again. We’d get this chapter done and then race out of the blocks coming back better than before.

 

During the final weeks of preparation of the show, I was confident in my plan moving forward with respect to the team. I remind myself as I often do, that I am in control of everything that happens in my life, my outcomes are dependant on my actions. With this mindset, I’d started to observe our March show a lot more closely and dare I say it – I began to become excited about it. The characters had started to reveal themselves through the fight camps and the stories and personal development of the participants was starting to unravel – this one albeit not a financial barnburner, was going to be a good night. There were some great contests and it would be a significant event not only for the established members for their social night out, but also to showcase to recent members what we can get them to achieve – all this builds our unbelievable community. March 27th wasn’t go to signify the end of a bad quarter, it was going to be the start of an exciting new quarter. With this mindset, my February figures come in, we’ve grown by 2 members – whilst I still feel we’re underperforming and I have issues to resolve. I now have 36 spaces left for new members isn’t too bad when a month ago it feels like your world is falling apart and your business still isn’t performing how you feel it should be.

 

The reality of looking at yourself in a reflection and getting a false sense of security is something I have done before, Stafford services wasn’t the first time I’ve done this. The key is learning to click back into reality and to take action. 15 years of running a business has shown me repeatedly that complacency leads to downturns in performance, you then re-plan, regroup and come back better than before. As a boxer, my 4 losses (amateur and pro) came off the back on stoppage or KO wins – when you start to believe your own bullshit.

 

I’ll just have to wait a little longer to put my plan into place. Now I’m ready to be first out of the blocks and do everything bigger, badder and better than before. The moral of the story. Never tip at a service in Stafford and flirt with a woman half your age.

 

I love running shows and watching people evolve through the process. On the morning of every show I have the same playlist that I always listen to whilst in the shower. The first song is topical with the current climate and it’s the same song I’ve played in the shower on the morning when I was boxing.

 

Here is the link to the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwXhI0I2iaM

 

We’ll be back, better than before.

 

Neil

Henrietta Street Gym Home Workouts Covid 19 Never Gymless

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Henrietta Street Gym Home Workouts Covid 19 Never Gymless

Welcome to the 2020 Corona apocalypse. Ladies and gent’s, we will get through this. In under 48 hours I will have designed and launched a training programme for you to complete from the comfort of your own living room. Whilst you were worrying about Corona, I was worrying how I’m going to get you through it.

We will have a home training #hsghometraining section where we look at things you can use in the house to assist you in your workouts. For the members at Henrietta Street Gym, who picked up all of our weights, functional kit and kettlebell’s on Saturday, this will be of great use to you. For those that don’t have access to kit, our ‘HSG Home Training’ page on Facebook will show you how innovative we can be.

 

Who is this programme for?
We have catered and put adjustments in so that it is for EVERYONE! Exercise releases endorphins (happy hormones) which will reduce anxiety and stress. It will strengthen your connective tissues and improve your muscular tone. You will get stronger, you will feel empowered and the programme is structured so that you can see quantifiable improvement. If you (like me) are crawling the walls, cooped up with partner and/or child, you can use it as some escape time or you can train in pairs– why not get the children involved in a healthy regime? With a structured nutrition plan*, this programme will be the catalyst to fat loss and set up a healthier you.

To clarify, this programme can be adapted for all levels from the elite level/ professional athlete to the grandmother at home who wants to keep some sanity during house arrest!

*We are giving all HSG members a free personalised nutrition plan with this programme. This is not profiteering or upselling, I am not signing up members whilst we are closed and I do not have the time to implement beyond my own database. My advice with any nutrition – eat real food. If it grows out the ground, swims in the sea or runs on the land it’s a good bet. And drink lots of water.

How the programme works
There will be Blue and Red workouts. Blue workouts are strength-based workouts and Red are going to be HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) based. For those who are deconditioned I would advise only completing the Blue workouts. For those who don’t want to follow a programme and are just after some innovative ideas and endorphin releasing workouts then our Red workouts will be ideal if you want to challenge yourself and mix up your own routine.

Blue Workouts – Strength Endurance Based (don’t be sacred by terminology)
Every week we will provide a Blue Workout A and a Blue Workout B. You should look to complete workout Blue A & B at the minimum of once per week. Depending on your time commitments and your fitness levels. Below is an example of four options, you can adapt this programme and it’s workouts to suit you. You can scale up the volume and intensity of workouts as you get stronger and fitter.

Blue workouts will be a maximum of 1 hour (more likely 45 minute) including warm up, mobility and stretch off (all covered on the Facebook channel)

 

Example 1
Mon: Blue Workout A

Thu: Blue Workout B

 

Example 2
Mon & Fri: Blue Workout A

Wed: Blue Workout B

 

Example 3
Mon & Thu: Blue Workout A

Tue & Fri: Blue Workout B

 

Example 4
Mon, Wed & Fri: Blue Workout A

Tue, Thu & Sat: Blue Workout B

 

Scaling Blue Workouts
We have designed the Blue workouts so that they can be completed by all levels of participant. On week 1, they will be based on ‘time under load’ (the time carrying out the exercise), this will vary as the programme evolves.

 

Deconditioned:  20 seconds time under load
Intermediate: 30 seconds time under load
Advanced: 45 seconds time under load
Athlete: 1 minute time under load

 

As part of the ‘using your head’ section on the Facebook page – If you are a deconditioned, but a strong 100kg male and you do not have access to sufficient weight (you only have access to a bag filled with 4 bean cans) to make an overhead press challenging at 20 seconds time under load, then work that movement for 40-60 seconds. Using your head is exactly that – using common sense.

Red Workouts
We are basing all of our HIIT workouts on high intensity interval training. This is ‘top end’ fitness. For those that took our rowers and assault bikes – your solution if there for you, this will be easy. For those who we need to get a bit more creative, we have an abundance of solutions for your – clear your workout space, brew a black coffee, slap yourself in the face, crank up the music and get ready to sweat.

If you have high blood pressure, knee injuries or lower back pain then stay away or modify (use your head). If you are performing HIIT training how it should be performed, then it will smash your central nervous system. It is HIGH INTENSITY training. Make sure it is High Intensity. HIIT training should not be easy, if you are not swallowing your sick then you are not doing it right!

We will be posting a variety of Red Workouts with body weight and equipment.

All HIIT workouts including warm up and mobility will be sub 40 minutes.

 

Example 1

Mon & Thu: Blue Workout (Strength)

Tue & Fri: Red Workout (HIIT)

 

Example 2
Mon, Wed & Fri: Blue Workout  (Strength)

Tue, Thu: Red Workout (HIIT)

 

Example 3
Mon, Tue, Thu & Fri: Blue Workout (Strength)

Wed & Sat: Red Workout (HIIT)

 

Example 4
AM Workouts – Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat: Blue Workout (Strength)

PM Workouts – Mon, Wed, Fri: Red Workouts (HIIT)

Additional work for the complete programme
We are looking to source some content for yoga/ mobility sequences. If anyone can help, let me know? I’d always encourage you to get fresh air and where responsible with respect to social distancing perform low intensity cardio outdoors. Remember you can work mobility two to three times per day – flexibility/ mobility is the one component of fitness that will improve quicker than anything else. It’s that easy, get down and stretch.

Examples of low intensity cardio

  • Walking (jogging for fit persons)
  • Cleaning the house (vigorously including mopping, vacuuming and polishing)
  • Steady state skipping (for fit persons – it’s HIIT for deconditioned)

Example 1

Mon & Thu: Blue Workout (Strength)

Tue & Fri: Red Workout (HIIT)

Wed: Walk/ Jog

Sat: Yoga Sequence

 

Example 2
Morning Workouts: Mon, Wed & Fri: Blue Workout  (Strength)

Morning Workouts: Tue, Thu: Red Workout (HIIT)

Morning Workouts: Sat: Yoga Sequence

Afternoon Workouts: Mon & Thu: Walk/ Jog

 

Example 3
Morning Workouts: Mon, Tue, Thu & Fri: Blue Workout (Strength)

Morning Workouts: Wed & Sat: Red Workout (HIIT)

Afternoon Workouts: Mon & Thu: Walk/ Jog

Afternoon Workouts: Tue & Fri: Mobility Sequence

 

Example 4
AM Workouts – Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat: Blue Workout (Strength)

Afternoon Workouts. Mon, Wed, Fri: Red Workouts (HIIT)

Evening Workouts: Mon, Wed, Fri: Mobility Sequence

Evening Workouts: Tue, Thu, Sat: Walk/ Jog

How to get involved with the programme
We are running everything through the HSG Home Training Facebook group. It is a private group, but we are inviting all persons to join free of charge. We can share stories, feedback, video’s and content on this page. Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/865438507214300/

For the HSG member we are running another group for nutrition: HSG Optimal Performance Nutrition Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/652631642162957/

I am overwhelmed putting this together and I am prioritising the elite members first with regards to nutrition. Again, if you can use this to share recipe ideas, solutions and feedback. Don’t be surprised if we monitor access to this more stringently and if you are joining as an alias, please email the gym to let us know so we accept your request.

What we are asking for in payment?
There is no charge for this programme. We ask that all persons partaking to do the following.

  • Engage on our social media pages where they can assist others.
  • Behave responsibly during social distancing. This will cost HSG a minimum of £40,000. That is all for nothing if we don’t follow protocol. Yours and my finances are irrelevant to any potential loss of life to anyone connected to my community – behave responsibly.
  • A promise that you will support independent business where and when you can, now and when this has blown over.
  • Follow the programme, lose some weight, get fitter and tell everyone how great we are!
  • Keep smiling and stay positive.

We hope you enjoy the content that we are creating to keep you engaged. Even those of you currently outside of our community, we invite you in and hope we can bring some joy to your day in this stressful time.

Stay Safe.

Neil Perkins

Henrietta Street Gym.

Learning to be quiet in the noise

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Learning to be quiet in the noise

By Neil Perkins

I don’t know if business taught me about boxing or boxing taught me about business? I suppose that fighting is just something that you either have an appetite for, or you don’t? On the contrary, when you learn strategy and that boxing is about skills and controlling emotion as opposed to getting mad and ‘having it’ – anyone can learn to fight. Anyone who has ever run a business will tell you of the battles. In boxing you rationalise that everyone has two arms, one head and they can bleed. In business you learn that as long as your numbers stack up, your systems and process are good and you have the right people that you’ll be fine. In reality, both are a little more complex and require action to make you succeed. I am more scared of a spread sheet than I am of a world champion.

Boxing has an ability to unsettle you. If ever you watch a ‘fit person’ spar for the first time and they get ate up by nervous energy and incessant heavy breathing. Their primal instincts of ‘Fight, Flight or Freeze take over. When someone is panicked their body language changes, their disposition changes and as I refer to it ‘the noise’ takes over. There is a reason why man has dominated the globe, we are vindictive and capable of utilising our intellect for our self-gratification. I am not in the mood for debating the theory of evolution, but under pressure we resort to our primal instincts – Fight, Flight or Freeze. Letting your primal mind take over in a boxing ring is never a good idea – it’s a sure fire way to get you sat on your backside. Yes, our body may release the inner chimp and attack, but against someone who knows what they’re doing, it will end in a bad outcome.

It’s a perplexing situation when you’re been peppered with punches. Your ribs are sore, the bridge of your nose is swelling and you can taste the blood on the inside of your mouth that’s seeping into your mouth guard. Initially releasing your inner chimp feels good, we can use it to bully lesser men, but the real game comes when your chimp will get you sat on your arse. When your head keeps rocking back you realise that brain not brawn are the best way to overcome an obstacle. There is nothing better than making someone do what you want and setting traps, it’s better when the shot lands to closes the show. Under the pressure of combat and amongst the noise you have to find the peace in the noise to execute the shot. That’s the art of boxing.

Learning to be quiet in the panic of the noise, to pick my punches and close the show is one of the unique life skills that boxing has taught me. Someone asked me what I do for a job the other day, my response was simple

‘I make people better versions of themselves’

As part of business coaching, I have partaken in regular exercise and meditation to quiet my mind. Boxing taught me to make my mind quiet under the most intense noise. Learning to be quiet in the noise is a skill that I am grateful to have learned.

Looking forward to 2020

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Looking forward to 2020
By Neil Perkins

It has been a roller-coaster 12-months at Henrietta Street Gym. I am as excited as I have ever been about the direction we are taking and the foundations we’ve put into place to continue our upward trajectory for 2020 – watch this space.

 

At the start of 2019, everyone was mentioning Anarchy 45 and F45. I was resolute that as long as we keep our building fresh and equipment updated that these designer studio’s will struggle to keep up with us. What separates us from other gyms isn’t our equipment, showers or changing rooms – it is our service and our team, this is where we have took a leap forward in 2019. Anarchy 45 are long gone and as for F45 – you’re welcome to pay twice the price for half the quality if you need a fresh environment to train in.

 

A business is like a long-term relationship, you have moments when you are madly in love and moments when you are indifferent to it, the last 12 months have re-kindled my love with fitness and with my business. I am open to admit that the team we launched Henrietta Street Gym with in 2017 and into the start of 2018 was woeful. The consequence of a disgruntled owner who was facing battles in his personal and business life meant the gym lacked leadership and direction. From the tail end of 2017 I have not only become a better human being I have become a better business owner.
I had to acknowledge where I was, get a direction on where I wanted to go, leverage assistance where I needed it and take responsibility for everything that went wrong – the buck stopped with me. Waifs and strays in the coaching team do not last long and we have clear direction on what we can expect our members to achieve and what I expect my team to deliver.

 

We have collected a team of coaches who are goal driven and are the lifeblood of the brand. For anyone that has ever managed a team or staff, it can be challenging. I am embracing it now and celebrating their development as much as the gyms.

 

Anthony Rogan continues to inspire, an ultra-marathon in the Namibia desert finished his fitness filled year. Ste Foster was the man people said couldn’t run a PT company – he has had more success stories than some PT’s have clients and his programming for Barbell Club has kept members progressing all year. Paul Caldbeck will be missed when he goes to the USA, the short chapter he spent with us, Raw HIIT Cardio was one of the many positive impressions he will leave on us. Arron Seera and ‘H’ have slotted in and found valuable places in the team add their own dimension to the gym. Dan Husdon is like the song from The Streets ‘fit but you know it’ has mastered coaching people for boxing and is now expanding his diary above his five-star boxing coaches into S&C work. This year Jamie Cahill runs 100 miles in 24 hours – again he continues to inspire.

 

One of our main words for 2020 is personal development. All of the above have demonstrated this, but the one that truly signifies that is Dan Tucker. Originally the ‘runt of the litter’ of three apprentices, he was cast aside and left to work on a freelance basis with limited experience. He has developed into a top boxing coach and is a valuable member of the team – you couldn’t imagine the gym without him now.

 

I have always maintained that when you hire a coach you should always hire someone that has achieved the goal that you are trying to reach or has guided someone else on the journey. All of this forms personal development and your goal may change, but your desire for personal development should always be there. All my coaches are continually striving to become better versions of themselves.

 

In 2020 we will continue to develop our own apprentices, we’ve already lined two more to join the team at the mid-point of next year, watching them develop is a key point. I have three new Strength & Conditioning coaches coming on board, again I have leveraged my experience of ‘lessons in the trenches’ and taken young hungry coaches who are keen to develop and learn – not egos that no better and unfortunately that the fitness industry is flooded with. What is key to their development is the right community and with our existing team how can you not be inspired to be a better version of yourself when you work in this community? Community is my second word of 2020.

 

It is our community that encourages people to develop and we appreciate that this goes beyond a burpee jump. I’ve set a goal of four external races and four internal fitness games to be added to our schedule for 2020, this is to enrich our community. With these offering something above and beyond those who wan to box on a show, we will continue to bring like-minded and goal driven people who want to achieve personal development into our thriving community.

 

Our pilot schools boxing project gave me an insight to the social inequality that exists in our city. Within a stones throw of the gym there are multiple schools who face issues with disenfranchised children, our schools project pilot was a huge success and the newly formed Jewellery Quarter Community Boxing project will offer these children a lifeline for community integration and social change by providing them with an after schools project – this will work with three educational establishments and run five days per week. This will be the default charity for all gym events and will ensure that this wonderful building and inspirational coaching team are open to all.

 

Mick Maguire is still heading up the amateur boxing team – Jewellery Quarter Boxing Club. This year we have become a real force in boxing with the crowing of a national champion. Linked to the Jewellery Quarter Community Boxing project, again we are providing direction for the young men and women who want to become the best that they can be.

We start the year at 281 members and have space for 39 more. I look forward to nurturing the right members and staff to enrich our little slice of the Jewellery Quarter. Thanks to an amazing team and an inspirational cohort of members for a memorable 2019.

Some people would call what I do work, with what I am surrounded with every day, I would call it an honour. Self-development all the way in our kick-ass community for 2020.

Understanding your inner ape

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Understanding your inner ape

By Neil Perkins

Our link to our ancient ancestors seems to dominate the thoughts of modern man. Nutrition is all the rage and paleo and vegan are two popular food choices that are surprisingly closely related despite their apparent differences as they are based on eating like our ancestors. Whole foods, raw foods and organic seem to be buzz words in nutrition. Thankfully regards to training, things like the Primal Blueprint are promoting heavy lifting, basic movements, HIIT training and ‘raw’ movements – I am glad the fad promotes the truth.

For those keen on personal development above and beyond your physical being (the two should go hand in hand) best selling books such as the Chimp Paradox and Sapiens give an insight to the development of man. Both relate to our animalistic nature.

 

With the growth of Henrietta Street Gym and Fighting Fit White Collar Boxing I’m starting to find ‘financial freedom’ for the first time. I still chose to ‘fight’ everyday, but I can assure you that money does not bring happiness – it only offers you choices. I am realising that simpler things bring happiness.

 

I am forever SWOT analysing my business and I understand why Henrietta Street Gym and Fighting Fit White Collar Boxing are enjoying such successes. To understand fully, you must understand a person’s inner ape.

 

Like the primal blueprint, we offer training that is raw and effective. When your focus is on combat training, lifting heavy weights and HIIT training you can not get more in tune with your inner ape. Our HIIT classes involve jumping, crawling, slamming, flipping and striking – what is more rewarding. Our Barbell Club promotes heavy lifting, massive adrenaline surges as you move raw heavy weights in compound movements. Combat training and boxing offers an inner peace that only persons who’ve done it can appreciate. Once the fear reduces so that your anal sphincter no longer sucks your pants up your backside, you’ll find a therapeutic inner peace as you realise ultimate concentration. Imagine the Palaeolithic man stalking a dear in the woods, nothing except catching the dear is on his mind – that is the level of concentration required from boxing, the satisfaction of landing the perfect shot must be how are ancestors felt when their spear penetrated the dear.

 

The ultimate reason for our success is an intangible asset that correlates with man’s ability to dominate the globe – it was when we formed bonds and encouraged tribes to work together. Our community is second to none. Our team and our members promote fitness and lifestyle, they share a goal and from bonds that go beyond exercise. Barbell Club is group led and engages a community, sparring is about developing and learning and our HIIT classes group focused. We enjoy so many people achieving their goals – boxing on a show, becoming fitter than ever before, lifting unprecedented weights and transforming their physique, we have the blueprint to make you achieve any of the above. We understand the support needed to achieve these goals and understand that these physical achievements are irrelevant to their physiological benefits to the person achieving them.

 

We’ve had three budget gyms open within a 1 mile radius, been hit with unprecedented numbers of ‘White Collar Promotions’ launching and even Brexit (if it ever happens) – yet we are busier than ever.

Company directors, solicitors, property developers, barristers, recruitment consultants, police officers and even a few ‘road men’ – all form our unique and successful community. The tribe is growing as are the people who champion the brand.

 

To everyone in the community, we thank you for making this a truly wonderful place to spend the week, there is no other tribe I’d prefer to co-ordinate.

 

The Alpha

Managing Fear

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Managing Fear

by Neil Perkins

 

Fear is an emotion that will result in one of three primal responses – Fight, flight or freeze. The fear we get from been involved with a conflict situation (a fight) will evoke the same neurological response that the fear we will face if we may have a redundancy at work – neurologically they are the same. Fear causes the release of adrenaline for a neurological super response of fight, flight or freeze. Think back to the days of the caveman, he was out foraging for berries in the bush and Sabre Tooth Tiger comes out to eat him. His body goes into fear mode, it secretes insulin and for the fight, flight or freeze response – he may choose to fight the sabre tooth, he may chose to run from the sabre tooth or he will freeze in the occasion and become the fourth ‘F’ (F****d).

For those of you ever involved in a car accident or conflict situation, you’ll recall the aftermath of shaking legs and trembling? I still recall a fight I had with someone (non-boxing) coming back to find I’d secreted (back end) in my previously glowing white Calvin Klein boxer shorts – your body does strange things under pressure. These are involuntary actions and primal – neurologically we are all the same.

Fear isn’t nice and the power of your mind can make the outcome far worse than the reality of the outcome. I recall fear once been described as

‘The minds chaotic projection of future events’

I recall a punch that pushed my bottom teeth through my lip in a spar resulting in 6 stitches, I can say that it didn’t hurt at all – my fear of needles and lying on a bed facing a doctor stitching me up, was a little more daunting. The fear of this would have been far worse than the outcome.

 

The words ‘comfort zone’ and are thrown around a lot, but this is true of fear. I was exceptionally scared of two things – aeroplanes and needles. I say two, I have been forced to overcome my fear of needles through rational thinking and routine jabs and occasional stitching has helped. I couldn’t run or freeze from needles, I would have to face them. Aeroplanes I have got far better at. I have contemplated doing a parachute jump, but my rational head says why would I need to? I can avoid that fear, who knows one day maybe?

 

There are three things you should do when faced with fear.
1. Think/ Strategy
Strategy is key to get you out of your situation. Here mentoring or coaching is key, I refer to ‘experience in the trenches’ get someone who has faced the same battle you face, they’ve experienced your obstacles and overcome them. There is a person that is better than someone who has faced their own fear – that is someone who specialises in getting others to overcome their fear and achieve.
2. Take Action
This must be complied with strategy. Take one step forward and take action. The reason why your ‘primal fight’ needs to be controlled can be explained by the caveman. He may be aware that he can’t run from the sabre tooth, so fight is his only choice. He needs to take action, but with strategy. He doesn’t fight the Sabre tooth with his bare hands? He pulls out his knife, picks up a stick and arms himself for battle – the strategy is slightly different because he rationalised his fear and thought about his foe.
3. Evaluate. Learn Your Lessons – you never lose, you only learn
Bankrupcy, a defeat in a boxing ring or not loosing as much weight on a body transformation might seem like the end of the world – all are can be overcome. Celebrate your losses, learn from them, dust yourself off and go again. The more battles you face, the more you learn and who knows one day you can be the coach who helps devise a strategy for other people’s success. Never enjoy ‘losing’, never role over and don’t let things trample on you – celebrate your losses and love your wins, they all form and enrich you.

 

Signing Off
I hear the words ‘comfort zone’ thrown around a lot in the fitness industry, the biggest muscle a gym should work is your mind. Exercise should transform the way you look, make you achieve things you didn’t think possible and push your comfort zone. This may be for health benefits, but these are related to how you feel. Set yourself realistic targets in the gym, push your boundaries and celebrate your losses and love your wins. Learn to go into battles, face them and overcome them. If you don’t get the desired results then take a step back, evaluate and go again – you never lose, you only learn. Remember, fear gets bigger if you run away from it, but gets smaller if you run towards it.

If its not working, invest in coaching

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If its not working, invest in coaching

By Neil Perkins

 

It was 14 months ago that I invested in some business coaching, this turned out to be money well spent. I was embarrassed that I was seeing a coach for guidance on running a business. Like all ‘Consultants’, you know what to expect?

Someone who is going to highlight all the things that you are doing that is wrong, tell you that you shouldn’t be doing it and then charge you a premium for it?

At the end of 2017, my energy levels had diminished, and I was burnt out. Flying solo, my emotional management with impulsive new strategies wasn’t working. I had got my gym to a break-even point and was paying myself a ‘wage’ every month with little profit left over – I was not ‘succeeding’. Along with my poor mental state, long hours and stress ensured that I was physically deconditioned too. Three budget gyms opened within a 1-mile radius and their aggressive marketing coupled with my operation still having weak links took its toll on my membership numbers. After a boom 3-6 months after opening, from July 2017 to November 2017, our membership numbers and revenue were shrinking month by month.

The reality of ‘business coaching’ was very different to what I expected and like a counselling session it was nice to vent to someone who was not emotionally attached to my business.

I still recall the meeting with a note pad and colouring pens to demonstrate weird and wonderful diagrams. For those of you who know my affliction to mind mapping and colouring pens, this could have been mistaken for a nursery school art lesson for someone looking in. Fuelled by Saint Kitchen’s coconut milk cappuccino’s we worked through our notepad’s each making notes in bright coloured felt tip pens.

Lesson 1. There are three things you must manage to succeed in business

  1. Know your numbers
  2. Your systems and processes
  3. People and how they relate to 1&2 – both staff and customers

I realised on lesson 1, that I knew nothing of my numbers. My systems and process where questionable and that I couldn’t quantify their success because I didn’t know my numbers. What do I take from this – KNOW YOUR NUMBERS.

These rules have been the blueprint to a 12-month transformation. I recall an exercise that we carried out in relation to my team. As I had no quantifiable data to support my reasoning (didn’t know my numbers), this exercise was based on emotion. I was asked to give every member of my team a 1 to 10 score with 1 been awful and 10 been a top-rated member. This could be applied to different aspects of skills required, so someone delivering Personal Training might offer have a higher score than the same person running group sessions. When I explain this exercise to people, they naturally start thinking of their own work environment and score their team or co-workers? Have you just completed this exercise in your head???

Now it is time for the catch, you can’t give anyone a 6 or a 7 – they must be a 5 (poor) or 8 (very good) – This exercise separates the men from the boys. You are looking for team of 8’s (very good), 9’s (outstanding) or 10 (exceptional)

It highlighted a few kinks in my arsenal, I identified a team member as a 5 and alarming me from a front of house perspective me as 2 in dealing with customers. I got to know my numbers and my hunch of my coach who scored ‘5’ was proved right with poor attendance in classes that I monitored over the next 3 months ( I knew my numbers) and I removed myself immediately from all front facing enquires – instead opting to utilise the skills of others who are far better to suit the role.

Putting a strategy in place from someone who knew more about running successful businesses was key to me evolving and progressing. I paid for this expertise, but I chose the right mentor and leveraged someone else’s knowledge for my own personal gain. The results far outweighed the financial cost. The knowledge ‘gained in the trenches’ and the systems and process that I applied transformed my business. I am very fortunate to have built up a network of people that has enabled me to leverage their knowledge for my own enrichment – some of it I have paid for and some of it I have extracted freely.

I can safely say now that my team is firing on all cylinders – the numbers proved it. Recently I’ve employed someone full time to market both businesses, I will know of the success of this acquisition because I can quantity the data. A combination of knowing my numbers, putting the rights systems in place and using this knowledge to identify the right people for these systems. I now have a community of flowing knowledge that is transforming the way people look and feel – I am truly grateful for the paid and free knowledge that I have acquired that enabled me to realise this ambition.

My recent catch up with Mike (business coach) enabled me to plan my next 12 months. My focus is on guiding people through white collar boxing shows, this is my specialist area and I love the journey I take people on – for this I score an 11 (god like)

My life has truly benefited from two major things – community and coaching, this is something that both my businesses (Henrietta Street Gym and Fighting Fit White Collar Boxing) excel in. If you want to change, you need to decide what you want to achieve and then find the right mentor/ guidance/ coaching to get you there. Ensure the person who guides you has either done it themselves or guided other people to realise your ambition.

I give thanks to a memorable 2018, I connected with some wonderful people, acquired some great persons in my businesses and strived towards success. I am moving forward rapidly and I am grateful to do something that I truly love. I am excited for 2019, as Mcfadden and Whitehead ‘There aint no stopping us now’. If you want to change your life, your body or your mindset the right coaching is worth investing in. Choose your mentors wisely, ensure that their success and desires match you ambition and keep taking one step forward.

Winners Mentality

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Winners Mentality

By Neil Perkins

There is a fine line between competing and winning. Having coached boxers at all levels from recreational to professional, the mindset of a person will very often dictate the outcome of a contest. I am talking about boxing, although I am sure this transcends to other sports and all aspects of life.

The world needs competitors so that we can assess where we stand in the pecking order of life. As humans we have evolved to compete, I am aware that despite been retired from boxing, I am still very much a ‘fighter’ – if someone tries walking past me in the street, I treat it as a race.

 

Boxing is the most primal sport of all. Competing in boxing for most indicates a massive personal achievement. Having guided over 350 people through this process I have seen many people learn to compete. Competition is about going through the process of preparation (training), battling the nerves in the build-up, showing up and giving an account of yourself and achieving the goal of competing. Competing itself is an achievement, the very fortunate will win on skill alone and will beat someone with a ‘winners mentality’ who lacks the necessary technical ability (‘coasters’ I call them) – Rocky was a falsify and wouldn’t have happened in real life. The exceptional have the winners mindset and sporting/ athletic talent. The mentality of winning is about the time in life when you must show your soul!

 

Winning is something that someone does at all costs, who refuses to lose and will go and go again. A winner will push beyond their comfort zone, not make excuses and will push on, a competitor is happy to have competed. Sports like ‘CrossFit’ show the mentality of winners and the ‘balls to the wall’ mentality needed to compete. I admire CrossFit athletes for their desire to push, but equally emphasise that they couldn’t succeed in a real sport (Crossfiters you can take that as a back handed compliment) I have lost count of the number of times I have looked at a boxer either at the weigh in, backstage before a contest, prior to the opening bell or during the contest and watched them switch from a ‘winner’ to a ‘competitor’ – equally I have also seen ‘competitors’ become ‘winners’ either down to exceptional coaching intervention or a pivotal point in a sporting contest – that bit of luck.
As coaches we look at our athletes at all levels and look how we can implement a winner’s mentality. Equally how we can stop our athletes talking themselves out a programme, fight or lift – ensuring they believe they can win and instilling that winner’s mentality. I have the joy of working with a talented coaching team I can recall the numerous occasions we have one rep max tested someone in Barbell Club and very often found they’ve added 20,30 or 40kg to a lift, only for the coach to come back and say, ‘there was more in them!’

 

Our white-collar boxing shows are some of the best matched shows I have seen (biased opinion I know) The theatre of putting two well matched individuals in an environment outside of their comfort zone and matching them up against each always brings excitement. I liken it the film ‘Trading Places’, but as opposed to the two Wall Street stockbrokers seeing if the street kid can survive in their world, I take the Wall Street stockbrokers and see if they can compete in mine. All of them compete and we have had occasions (more than one) where one has had to show their soul – the winners mentality.

 

Boxing Examples of Winners Mentality
Top athletes can sense this themselves and in boxing a refer to it as the ‘Fuck you’ mentality.

 

Anthony Joshua v Wladimir Klitschko was great example of this – wobbled, out on his feet and in danger of been beaten. AJ’s account of thinking to himself ‘you don’t want this more than me’ as he sat on his stool. He went on to knock Wlad out.

 

Lennox Lewis v Vitali Klitschko was an epic contest. Out jabbed, getting caught and out boxed. Lennox used one of his most overlooked assets – bravery and desire to win. He went toe to toe with Vitali, walking through solid jabs with the belief that the opponent would be stopped when he connected. Lewis was relentless.

 

Carl Froch v Jermaine Taylor. Froch never lost the belief that he could win this contest and trailing the contest got nearer the opponent and let barrages of punches go to force the stoppage.

 

The above three have a superb winners mentality, I believe that exceptional coaches (not athletes) can not only influence an athlete’s technical ability, but their mindset. Learning triggers responses and how to influence events are key in the coach’s arsenal. In a sporting contest, that ‘bit of luck’ can change the outcome of a contest, equally a tactical intervention or ‘whisper in the ear’ can see an athlete go from the mindset of ‘competitor’ to ‘winner’. Here are three of my favourite examples of coaching interventions…

 

Angelo Dundee. Sugar Ray Leonard v Tommy’s Hearns – ‘You’re blowing it son’, the influencial words of Angelo who rallied his man to the cause. A good talking to and Leonard comes out like a new man and stops Hearns to win the contest.

 

Kevin Sanders. Nigel Benn v Gerald Mclenan – ‘You’ve got him Nigel’ Overlooked due to the catastrophic outcome of the contest. Nigel Benn ‘the dark destroyer’ and been outgunned and knocked through the ropes in the opening round by the hyped American and one of the most feared ‘punchers’ on the planet. As he gingerly sat on his stool with wobbly legs Sanders in the corner wasn’t offering sympathy or defensive advice – ‘You’ve got him Nigel, his legs are gone, and he’s fucked, go out there and give it him’ Benn describes how he went from feeling trepidation and the worst fear in his life and in seconds had transformed to him saying to himself ‘wait till your feel one of mine’. Saunders re-ignited Benn’s natural ‘Fuck You’ mentality for a sensational comeback.

 

Teddy Atlas. Tim Bradley v Brandon Rios – ‘We are fireman’ A strange speech which had clearly been echoed through the strategy of fight camp. If you see how the boxer responds well to the ‘we are fireman speech’, watch the eye contact and relationship between the two – it surged Bradley to victory.

“The fire’s coming. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen!” Atlas exclaimed. “The heat doesn’t bother us; we live in the heat. We train in the heat.”

 

The winner’s mentality must exist in all top-level competitors. It was Muhammed Ali that once said
Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They must have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”

 

Equally another great quote if from Teddy Atlas again. This sums up the difference between competitors and winners.

 

“There comes a time in a man’s life when he makes a decision to just live, survive, or he wants to win. You’re doing just enough to keep him off of you and hope he leaves you alone. You’re lying to yourself because you’re gonna cry tomorrow. You’re lying to yourself and I’d lie to you if I let you get away with that,”

HSG 8-Week Photoshoot Transformation

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HSG 8-Week Photoshoot Transformation

Get yourself in the best possible shape and record your transformation with a professional photoshoot with Simon Howard (SNHFOTO) at the premium space that is Henrietta Street Gym. Partake in an experience of a lifetime, gain confidence, achieve happiness and join the list of top fitness models and athletes who’ve utilised our space to capture un-paralleled images of their physique looking at its best.

Under the tutelage of leading body transformation coach Nic Edgerton, you will be guided with personalised training plans and nutrition plans for you to attain the body of your dreams. You may not have the knowledge, but if you have the desire, we will make you achieve. These plans and this journey will engage our community vibe as we’ll support you to transform your physique over an intense 8-week period. We will nurture you throughout and ensure that you stay consistent and achieve your goals. This is not aimed at Fitness Models, this transformation if for everyday people who lack the knowledge and motivation to achieve their goal of a dream physique. This journey will peak with a premium professional photoshoot at our amazing gym.

Your package will include.

  • Personalised Nutrition Plan with adaptations
  • Personalised Training Plan with adaptations
  • Unlimited on-line support Q&A
  • 3 weekly Facebook live chats per week where any questions you or the other competitors have are answered in detail.
  • A full photoshoot at Henrietta Street Gym (we usually charge a minimum of £200+vat for a half day non-exclusive shoot)
  • Images taken from leading fitness photographer Simon Howard (SNHFOTO) (Minimum charge of £250 per shoot)
  • The option of discounted Personal Training from Nic Edgerton if you’d like that extra push through your programme – sessions from £30 per hour exclusive for photoshoot clients.
  • Transformations will be judged by leading fitness model TBC. We also have one of the many leading fitness clothing and/or supplement brands who’ve used the gym donating huge prizes for the best transformation (not the best physique)

Cost

  • Henrietta Street Gym Elite Members: £297
  • Regular Members/ Online clients: £327

This shoot is open to non-members, you do not have to train at Henrietta Street Gym.

Please note enrolment does not include access to Henrietta Street Gym. Only persons with a gym membership can use the facilities for their training regime.

Last enrolment on this transformation is June 9th. Training programmes and nutrition plans sent across on WC June 10th, the 8-week transformation begins Monday 18th June, with the photoshoot taking place on Saturday August 11th from 10am till 6pm.

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Henrietta Street Gym as a shoot location

Our Javelin Block built space with reanimated and recycled features and industrial look has proved popular as a shoot location. Birmingham based clothing company P&Co had a small shoot to promote a new range of hipster style clothing prior to our opening. It was the P&Co promotional shoot that caught the attention of leading fitness photographer Chris Bailey. Chris was due to work with top Men’s Fitness Model Ryan Terry who was due to compete at the Arnold Classic. He contacted us and arranged for a promotional video shoot. Ryan won the Arnold Classic – the video went viral, people in the fitness community where impressed with the space and we became inundated with requests for shoots. We regularly hold shoots at Henrietta Street Gym

Fitness Models Who’ve Shot At HSG

Ryan Terry, Obi Vincent, Sergi Constance, Michelle Brenan, Tom Coleman, Joey Swoll, Ross Dickerson

Brands/ Companies

Gym Shark, Apple, VQ Fit, P&Co, The Gadget Show, USN, Nocco,

 

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About Simon Howard SNHFOTO

Simon is a leading fitness photographer who has shoot a scope of fitness models from virtually every leading fitness brand across the UK.

Website: http://www.snhfoto.com/

Nic Edgerton personal shoot with SNHFOTO

Nic’s Transformation client with shoot SNHFOTO

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Transformations By Nic Edgerton

Ash in prep for a fitness show

Sagona looking for rapid weight loss. 24lbs in 8-weeks!

Kyri dropped 25lbs in 8 weeks

 

Nilufar 8-week show for the bikini masters (40+) category

Farooq in show preparation for ‘Men’s Physique’

Tracy’s Transformation

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