Personal Training in Leicester

Here what some of my clients say about me.....

Kai Cresswell 

  I have been working with Jamie since June 2008, specifically with the aim to lose weight and gain strength for snowboarding, skiing and kiteboarding. The improvements I have found have been fantastic. I have lost a stone in weight, and my fitness levels increased significantly which enabled me to do a lot more of the sports I love so much. The fitness work from June to December for snowboarding let me start the season from where I left off a year ago and I could stay on the slopes all day from day one. The stretching and foam rolling kept me fresh for the next day and this season I managed four weeks of full days on the snow.

I can recommend Jamie 100% for his great attitude, knowledge and support if you really want to improve yourself.

Jennifer Clegg  

In the year since I started working with Jamie some minor health problems caused by middle-aged spread have disappeared: I have become 2 stone lighter, stronger and more agile. I am growing used to friends saying “Goodness, you look well, how much weight have you lost? How did you do it?” Usually I declare “Iron discipline!” then moan about how much it is costing me in new clothes.

The truth of this life-change is that it has indeed required some discipline, but weekly personal training for the past 8 months has been crucial too. The seemingly infinite variation of PT is a real help in maintaining my interest, but Jamie’s approach to sessions is also important. Four aspects of the way he works suit me well:

• The early focus on relaxing tight tendons stretched me out. This simple but important transformation made me feel as if I walk with a ballet-dancer’s ease, irrespective of the way it looks to an observer.

• I am impressed by his depth of knowledge: it makes me trust what I am told, not least when Jamie says he doesn’t know something.

• Jamie is always organised and purposeful but he also seeks feedback, invents exercises that address particular concerns, & engages with whatever new device or practice I’ve just read about.

• I don’t need to be goaded into doing more, I just injure myself. Jamie’s subtle approach to motivation energises without invoking a counter-productive competition with myself.

My long-term project is shifting away from weight-loss towards grace and balance. I will soon go to watch the ballet in London, with renewed admiration for the way that the dancers stand on one leg.

Sarah Treanor

After a great holiday down under last December, I looked at my holiday photos. I was unhappy with what I saw, bits I thought were a un-toned, were now flabby, areas I thought were a bit large were now massive – I had to take action!

I’d been a member of a gym for a while but each time I had a schedule drawn up it keep me going for a few weeks before ‘something’ cropped up and I started to miss sessions and get back into the old habits.

I answered an advert for personal training with Jamie and came to meet him. We chatted, talked through things I was unhappy with about myself, my goals, where I wanted to be in timescales, what I liked/what I didn’t like and what the next step was. I felt he understood my goals and had plenty of ideas to keep me from getting bored or losing my motivation, like so often in the past. I decided to try it for a month and decide after that whether we would carry on.

I was weighed, measured and we chatted again through areas I wanted to improve, knowing how flabby you really are in cm, does help motivate I can assure you!

We worked through January and into February and on into March and after 3 months, we re-measured. I’m pleased to say things have changed shape for the better, I’ve lost a stone since January, I can now do weights and exercises I never thought I would enjoy and most of all, I now like coming to the gym, rather than viewing it as a chore, its fun, I feel better afterwards and I’m starting to push myself with Jamie’s help! I’ve only missed 3 sessions in the 6 months I’ve been having sessions due to illness which for me is a record! Jamie always tries to fit in sessions around my working day which can change a lot and I’ve never not been able to find a time I can train.

I would definitely recommend Jamie and personal training as a way to lose weight, improve your health and change your body for the better!

Janette Streener

I’ve worked with Jamie about 6 months now having previously decided that my best intentions of keeping fit were going nowhere.  Since then:

• I’ve dropped a dress size
• I’m fitter than I have been for the last 10 years

and I can honestly say it has been great fun!  

His friendly and easy going manner really motivates you, while at the same time he is using all that clever professional stuff that he knows to get the best results for you in the shortest time possible.  I’m going to continue to work with him next year as I have set my sights on taking part in a couple of events as a challenge to myself – a 5k race and a novice triathlon – neither of which 6 months ago,  I would have seriously thought of contemplating let alone doing. 

Ali Monaghan

 "I've been really impressed with the results from using the Power Plate. I am so much more toned and feel really supple. None of this would be possible without the professional guidance and support Jamie offers - he really knows his stuff! I would highly recommend Power Plate or indeed any form of personal training with Jamie Duggan."  

 Maureen Addinson 

I have been attending the Grace Road fitness suite under the watchful eye of Jamie, for a number of months. I can most certainly recommend Power Plate for toning and feeling great after a session.