A collage of nine photos featuring a man attending fitness and running events. The photos include the man at a gym, receiving certification, working out with others, participating in a race, celebrating with a friend, and at a race finish line with medals.

The journey so far…

In 2017, I qualified as a Level 3 Personal Trainer and soon after launched Orca Personal Training, working with individuals and small groups. I had done this for a number of years before starting to work online in 2021.

It became apparent that the traditional model of personal training wasn’t able to help many of my clients with their struggles and what they wanted to achieve. In 2021, I launched Orca Online Coaching to give me a platform to coach my clients remotely and be able to address the issues my clients were facing.

The accountability, round-the-clock support and education that the online coaching service provided meant my clients were getting the results they deserved.

Orca Online Coaching evolved into Black Blade Fitness in 2023 and I started working online with an increasing number of people in their late-forties to early-sixties.

We use our Plan, Protect and Perform framework to help our clients make the changes they want, educate them on how to protect those changes and then help them undertake their E.P.I.C.

How I work

The Plan, Protect, Perform framework

  • Diagram illustrating a process of changing habits and mindset. The left side shows a cycle with red circles labeled "Same habits" and "Same mindset," with arrows looping back between them and labeled "Same results." The right side shows a progression with green circles labeled "New mindset," "New habits," and "New results," with arrows connecting these stages to represent positive change.

    Plan

    Everyone starts here.

    In this phase, we make the change.

    Whether that is losing body fat, improving fitness or implementing healthier habits, I’ll guide you through what tweaks and adjustments we need to make and then provide the accountability to make sure you are doing what you need to do, to make that change happen.

  • A split image with the left side labeled 'Old you' in red text and the right side labeled 'New you' in green text, separated by a vertical black line.

    Protect

    Once we have completed the plan phase, we move to the protect phase.

    We want the positive changes you have made to be permanent.

    I’ll coach you through the skills and tools you need to develop, to help protect those changes for the long term.

  • A staircase graphic with the phrase "New you" at the bottom and "Your epic" at the top, symbolizing personal growth or transformation.

    Perform

    (This phase is optional)

    Some clients make a positive change and focus on protecting it for the long term. Others want to take it further: they’re now leaner, fitter, and happier.

    Using this new-found confidence, we go on to define your E.P.I.C (Every Person’s Individual Challenge). That might be a 10k race, a Tough Mudder event, a triathlon, a marathon, climbing a mountain or something similar.

    Whatever the challenge, I can help you prepare for it.