About LMD Fitness
What is ‘RULE FREE’ Fitness?
My aim is simple – to encourage everyone to take control of their lives, take ownership of their health and achieve their fitness goals by making healthy living more realistic. For me that means ‘Rule Free‘! Flexible, hearty and healthy living is what I thrive on. I have over 12 years of fitness training experience, and a massive desire to share that experience to help you achieve your fitness and lifestyle goals in today’s busy world.
What Are My Achievements?
We focus a lot on qualifications and certificates, so what have I achieved that shows you that I am serious about healthy living?
- Running: Qualified UK Athletics Running Leader. Marathon PB 02:52:15, a 5k PB 15:52 minutes.
- Swimming: 3.8km Open Water swim in 1 hour 13 minutes. 100m in 1 minute 22s.
- Condition: Maintain <10% body fat and resting heart rate of less than 50 beats per minute.
These are just stats and the way for me to demonstrate my passion is by bringing you great content on LMD Fitness.
What Kind of Physique Appeals?
More important is what’s going on inside my body? I would hope it is a reflection of my healthy lifestyle. Whilst a lean and functional physique happens to be a nice by-product of living healthily and working out hard! I think we should all be proud of our bodies regardless (otherwise you’re going nowhere!). I aim to keep myself in lean, functional and masculine shape. The bottom line: There are no shortcuts in life – Work hard enough and you will get your results!
LMD Fitness – NOT Just Another Fitness Website!
I want the benefit of LMD Fitness to be its SIMPLICITY. I am not condoning strict diets or calorie counting but personally I find such ‘rules’ boring and restrictive. Yes, they work for some people in the short term but I believe that if I can stay in shape without these rules then so can everybody! My lifestyle is not perfectly healthy. I lead a balanced lifestyle, that is shaped by real life and all of its interruptions, including a full time job. Most importantly, I have discovered and developed the ‘Rule Free’ fitness tools that give me flexibility and enable me to have a more balanced and happy lifestyle.
With life becoming increasingly frantic, healthy living does not need to be complicated or scientific. I know how precious time is to everyone. I want LMD Fitness to benefit you by offering simple, flexible, health and fitness tips and suggestions without taking up too much of your personal time.
Hopefully I Have Your Attention, So Here is a Little More of My Story…
I have experienced first hand the positive impact that achieving your health and fitness goals will have on your life. I was once an overweight child (tipping the scale at 13 stone as a young teen, whereas now at 6ft3′ tall, it’s more like 11.5 stone, <10% bodyfat). I always enjoyed sport but was diagnosed with asthma, and growing up as a studious kid in the computer generation, who ate too much of the wrong food, this greed and poor lifestyle could not be undone by playing a bit of sport.
One day I returned home from school to watch ‘The Big Boss’ starring Bruce Lee. Bruce lept out of the screen and into my life, such was his dynamism. This was my ‘Karate Kid’ moment! I started turning my life around. I left the excess fat and constantly poor diet choices behind, and my asthma also disappeared! Ever since, there has been no turning back. Like most things in life – all it took was a little inspiration and lots of effort!
There is another twist as I got sucked in to the fitness world and gave up too much of my time to the gym. In some ways, this was almost harder than being overweight! Fortunately, I was lucky to meet my fiance, who helps me to balance out my fitness fanatics. I made the right decision and put her first instead of the gym. I still workout regularly but I now take a more holistic approach to my fitness, so that it fits with my lifestyle…
The key message for me is that you can find happiness in healthy living! A balanced lifestyle is the key, so spending your life obsessing about fitness is not the way to do it. We should integrate fitness and health into our everyday living so that it complements who we are.
I hope that you take part and enjoy LMD Fitness because healthy living can be fun, easy and achievable for everyone!
PLEASE always feel free to contact me.
I can only speak from personal experience. I am a qualified UK Athletics Running Leader but do not hold any other health or fitness qualifications. Please always consult the relevant qualified medical practitioner before acting upon any exercise or nutrition tips or plans.