My ‘unfit’ background gives me a different outlook on the world of health and fitness compared to most of the fitness people I have worked with during my time as an instructor and trainer. Due to this somewhat different background I have first hand experience of the dread of going into a gym for the first time, I know what it feels like to be not picked for the sports team, and I know how hard it can be to change bad, unhealthy habits built up over a lifetime.
This type of understanding can’t be learnt in a class room and it is this awareness that has spurred me on into becoming a health and fitness coach, trying to help people like myself who were missed out of the school physical education programme, or people that have lost their way in all the information that bombards us about our bodies.
I have a great interest in what it takes for a ‘normal’ person to improve their health and fitness, concentrating on what kind of training works best in the real world, where busy lives mean hours cannot be devoted to the gym.
So if you need a little help losing a few pounds, shaping up a bit or getting a bit fitter whilst still enjoying yourself, feel free to get in touch and I hope I can offer some help.
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Hi, my name is Spencer Timson and along with running the health, fitness and weight loss holidays and NPC, I also work as a freelance trainer and coach, although that wasn’t always the case….
Unlike some personal trainers and fitness instructors my background has not been years spent playing a sport, or excelling at a particular athletic ability, quite the contrary in fact.
I was the sort of kid who at school tended to get picked last for sport, pretty much hopeless at most school ‘games’ sessions it could be said that I didn’t really shine at physical education. So much so that I doubt many of my old teachers would have put me down for a career in the health fitness industry!
I feel that my childhood experiences of sport and exercise had a very negative effect on my physical fitness, and as I grew up I found myself getting slowly more and more unfit. Beginning smoking as a teenager and later taking up a less than healthy diet of fast food and alcohol, my fitness didn’t really look to be improving. Nevertheless, mid to late 20’s I started for some strange reason to take an interest in my health and began ‘training’ at a local gym.
This over time made me more aware of how my body worked and over the following years I began to become physically more fit. This in turn led me to a change in my career, and I began studying to become a fitness instructor and personal trainer at college, once qualified, I moved on to working within the health and fitness industry.
