ABOUT:
As a former Royal Marine and with a Diploma in Fitness Training and Sports Therapy, Jason has over 30 years of fitness training experience. Including personal training, owning and running a boot camp business and designing fitness training sessions for sports teams.
Jason ensures that each of his clients receive the attention and support they deserve by designing exercise plans appropriate to his clients' age and goals.
'' At 53 I believe that age should never be a barrier to leading an active and healthy lifestyle and I make that belief a reality for all my clients''.
Jason's interest in physical training started when he was just 12 years old when he first started doing press ups and sit ups. Then at the age of 13 he discovered weight training and bought his first set of dumbells (which he needed the help of his mum to get them home). From here, Jason's fascination for strength and fitness and what he could achieve physically grew and grew.
Why focus on training men over 50?
I've always been dedicated in helping people to become something better, something more, something that sometimes words can't explain. To me, exercise is as natural as breathing and walking, yet the more clients I've helped the more I noticed that this isn't the same (at all) for most people. And more so for the older generation. Over the past few decades of instructing personal training and group fitness sessions, I've also noticed that men are the least likely group to ask for help when it comes to improving their health and fitness and more so those men over the age of 50.
Some older men may find exercise boring or inconvenient and are intimated when going to the gym where most of the gym users are of a younger generation. A lot of men feel that exercise has to be very strenuous and uncomfortable for an exercise routine to be effective, keeping some older adults from even considering exercising.
Also statically this demographic are facing more barriers than most people realise, such as depression and anxiety, self consciousness , lack of determination. lack of knowledge, Lack of social support and cost. Community structure can also be barriers to exercise.
Whats ironic is that exercising could improve or reverse the conditions that keep older men from exercising in the first place. Other barriers would be physical challenges such as chronic illness, disability and joint pain etc. These are common health problems that can keep older men from exercising. They may also fear pain, further injury or sickness, or simply assume that they can't physically do the exercises.
The great thing about personal training is that it offers such a time saver and can overcome all the barriers above as I'll be focusing on what the client as an individual CAN DO, rather than what they can't do
