The Fitness Butler

BUTLER’S BOOTCAMP 🏃‍♀️🌳 🌧️ 🌲🏋️‍♀️
Come and join us next Saturday @ 9am for some team games, fitness challenges, circuits and core work! 💪🏻😁 kids are welcome! Well done today to everybody that came 👏🏻❤️

A MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS TO QUINN! 👏🏻
For Winning the July Gym Challenge “Fitness Connect 4” 🔴🔴🔴🔴 👏🏻 🥳 🎉

This month, clients had to complete exercises in a line of four on the whiteboard to win - clients were allowed to also block each other from completing their lines of four, just like the Connect 4 game! 😁

Quinn absolutely smashed this month’s challenge, not only being the first client to complete their line of 4, but also doing this within 2 weeks!! She has now officially set the new record for the *fastest time* to win a Client Gym Challenge 🏆 🤯 ⏰

I wanted to take the opportunity to not only congratulate Quinn on her win, but to also express how proud I am of her and how far she has come! 🙏🏻🙂💪🏻

It’s been my pleasure to train Quinn and watch her progress, and she now turns up to every session with a positive, can-do attitude! She has not only won this month’s challenge, but has also hit a huge milestone: completing her first 100kg Deadlift!!! 😱😅🏋️‍♀️

This is an incredible feat of strength and just goes to show the levels of effort and determination she has put in to achieve this - A massive well done Quinn, a truly well-deserved challenge win 🥇

We’re all proud of you!! Keep up the good work 😁💪🏻💪🏻 💯

This month Quinn Won a Gym Bag 💼, a Chili Bottle 🥤, A FREE ENTRY Voucher to any Boxing Class 🥊, and 2 different Whey Protein Flavour Tubs 💪🏻💪🏻😃

P.s. Scroll to the end to enjoy a photo of young Quinn celebrating her Challenge Win 😝🤣🤣🤣

Onto the August Gym Challenge 😜

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A massive congratulations to Chris for his second Challenge Win! 🏆 excuse my dad for photobombing Chris’ picture 📸🤣🤣

For the June Gym Challenge “Squat-A-Lot” clients were put against each other in 5 completely different Squat-focused challenges:
1. Squat the highest % of their body weight
2. Wall sit Squat for longest time
3. Most Jumping Squats in 2 mins
4. Most Goblet Squats without stopping
5. Fastest Time to complete Sumo Squat Game

Clients were scored 3 points per 1st place 🥇 2 points for 2nd place 🥈 and 1 point for 3rd place🥉

Chris finished the Challenge with 7 points overall, placing him securely in 1st place out of over 35 clients! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Chris displayed brilliant Strength, stamina and true mind-over-matter to come out on top for this challenge 🏆😁

This month Chris won a gym bag 💼 a gym bottle 🥤 a FREE ENTRY voucher 🥊 and a selection of protein bars 🍫

Well done Chris 👏🏻👏🏻 a truly well-deserved win!!! 🏅

Honourable mentions of course for Claire, and Sarah, who despite not winning this time, held their Wall Sits for 16 minutes and 10 minutes respectively!! Well done ladies 😁👏🏻👏🏻 we go again for next months challenge 😄

Summer Bootcamp!!! ☀️ 🏃 🏋️‍♀️💪🏻😄

Thanks to everyone who came along - absolutely wicked session today 😁

Drop me a DM if you’re interested in coming along 💪🏻

Thanks to for the exclusive discount on Coffee’s for all bootcamp members after class ❤️ ☕️

Thanks to everybody who came and visited my stand at Hatfest Yesterday!! ☀️ 💪🏻 it was great fun leading the Warm Up for the fun run and giving out the trophies for the winners at the end 🏆

And well done to everybody that took part in my push up competition! Lots of free class vouchers and taster sessions were given out to the winners! 🥇🤩

Swipe to see my horrific vest tan lines 😅😅🥲🥲

The first Butler’s Bootcamp was a SUCCESS!!! 🎉 🏃 🏋️‍♀️ 😄 ☀️ despite the lack of sun, there was certainly no lack of faces 😄 thank you so much to everyone to came 😁💪🏻

A massive thank you to Tracie & David for giving all Bootcamp attendees 20% off all coffees and smoothies after class 😄

If you’re interested in coming along, drop me a DM on either my insta page or The Fitness Butler page for more info 😁

This is a very special announcement for 2 very special Clients ✨😄
Please take a moment to congratulate the 2 joint winners of the May Gym Challenge “Punch Your Way To Victory” …
Aoife Futers (at 10 years of age, Aoife is the youngest client to earn a spot on the Hall of Fame) 🏆 & Claire Ridgewell (earning her 4th, yes 4th challenge win!!!)

The two finished in the Top 2 spaces out of 40 clients, with the highest scores and the fastest times and both fully deserved this win 🥇 👏🏻

Aoife has been training with me for 1-2-1 boxing and her confidence, strength and CRAZY punching power never ceases to amaze me! 😄👏🏻 Aoife is living proof of the Yoda quote “Size Matters Not” - she is a pleasure to train and becoming a great boxer at a young age! Well done Aoife 😄👏🏻👏🏻

Claire just cannot stop winning 😆🤪👏🏻 - now her 4th challenge win - she always pulls these wins out the bag, right at the last, when all hope seems lost - she smashes an incredible score, and sneaks the win 😛🏆🥇
Claire is always a beam of positivity, she always brings smiles into every room she enters and has progressed so much with her strength and fitness since we first started training over 3 years ago! 😅

Both these two should be seriously proud of themselves for what they’ve achieved, because I am certainly very proud of them 😄

Onto the June Gym Challenge 🏋️

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CLIENT APPRECIATION POST ✨
These are my favourite posts to make! Celebrating yet another fantastic client achievement! Take a bow everybody because the Pull Up Master is now officially in town… 😝

Well Done Lucy for mastering the “Chin Up” and doing your first ever UNASSISTED Repetition. 👏🏻 🎉 🥳

Anybody who weight trains will understand how challenging Pull Ups and Chin Ups are. They are the ultimate feat of upper body and core strength, being able to pull your entire body weight over a bar is hard work by anyone’s standards! 🥵💪🏻

After months of putting in the hard work and practicing religiously each week, Lucy managed not just one but multiple Unassisted Chin Ups and I’m so proud & pleased for her! 😄 starting with 10 plates (45kg) of assistance and progressively dropping the amount of assistance week by week, Lucy has absolutely smashed this target we set together and it is certainly something to celebrate! 🥳🍾🏋️‍♀️

WELL DONE LUCY 👏🏻 you have earned your trophy and place on the Hall of Fame 🏆

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HERE IS YOUR JANUARY GYM CHALLENGE WINNER: Mr John McGurran!! With his secret weight loss drink: Zero Alcohol Guinness 🤣 🍺
Coming in with his 4th challenge win, this is another well deserved trophy to add to the cabinet for John 🏆 🥇

Last months challenge was all about weight loss, self-control, will power and dietary discipline! Clients were weighed each week and awarded for weight loss, reductions in body fat %, eating clean and abstaining from alcohol consumption. John lost an incredible 9.9lbs in the month of January, and this was backed by his unparalleled disciple and will power, he removed any and ALL chocolate, biscuits, cakes, desserts, sugar etc from his diet, and even his lucky Guinness before each Liverpool game! 🍺 ⚽️

John has displayed a perfect example of how eating a clean, whole food diet, training 3-4 times a week and cutting out alcohol can really help you lose the weight you want to lose! 🥦🥕🍳🍌🥒🍗🍅🥬🥩🏃🏻🏋️‍♀️🏊
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This month John has won a branded Gym Log Book, 📕 a FREE ENTRY voucher to any fitness class, 🥊 a selection of protein bars, 🍫 and of course, a personalised Trophy 🏆 with his name and challenge win engraved on it 😄💪🏻

Well done John 👏🏻

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February Quote of the month & Fitness Fact of the month 😁💪🏻🏋️☀️❤️

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Had 3 cancellations this afternoon and spent the last 3 HOURS editing new Fitness Butler content, I feel like my eyes have gone square 🔲😵‍💫🤣 I thought that the Rocky IV sound track would motivate me to get the job done…. 😅🥊
After 3 days of filming shots, a day of writing video scripts and over 3 hours of editing, that’s 7 of the 20 new videos are complete 🥲 lord have mercy 🙏🏻🤣 if these new videos don’t get me 1 million followers, that’s it I’m quitting PT 😉

I am very tempted to upload a blooper reel of me trying to shoot the raw footage for these videos… there’s swearing, chicken impressions, falling over, farting… I’m not sure if you’re all ready for this 🤣🤣🤣

Hope you’re all having a good week… see you all soon 🔜💪🏻🏋️‍♀️

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Happy Sunday everybody! 😁 So, if you’re scrolling through your socials and have a spare 2 minutes, stop and take a look at these photos of 2 shopping trolleys.
The first one is a quick picture of mine from this afternoon, the second is one I found off of Google 😛 (cheeky) Now, I’m not trying to give you all a Primary School Style Lecture on the dangers of eating processed foods and refined sugars because you all know very well what these are, however this is more a post about how you fuel your body throughout the week. 🥦➡️🏃🏻

The simplest analogy I can offer is thinking of your body like your car. When the car’s tank runs empty after you’ve done a lot of driving, you then need to fill it up with good quality fuel so it can go again. When you are working day to day, weight training, walking, running, whatever your exercise of the week might be, you need the BEST quality fuel so that you perform optimally, sleep better, and have sustained and consistent energy throughout the day. If you don’t give your body (or the car) enough fuel, or crappy quality fuel, you won’t get as far and you won’t perform as well.

Whole foods such as white meats, fish, Greek yogurt, tofu, leafy greens, mixed vegetables, eggs, oats, berries, potatoes, rice, etc… these are HIGH quality fuels. ✅

Microwave meals, chocolate bars, biscuits, crisps, cakes, deep fried foods, greasy foods, these are LOW quality fuels. ❌

The food you put into the tank completely determines how you think, feel, act and perform each day, and can have a huge impact on things like your sleep, mood, s*x drive, energy levels, etc. 💯

Take a look at your trolley next time your out shopping. Does it look like the first one, or more like the second one? 🤔

Hopefully this post makes you feel just a little bit guilty about all the biscuits and chocolate in your weekly shop 😉 trust me, you don’t need it. Your brain 🧠 tricks you into believing you do, because sugar is ADDICTIVE! But you are stronger than that to cave and listen to your brain. You are in control. You can choose what fuel you put into your tank. Make the right choice! 🥦 🥕 🥩 🥚 🌽 🍆 🥒 🥗 🍗 🍣 🌰 🍌🫐🍓🍠

A belated CONGRATULATIONS to Sam!! for winning the December Gym Challenge 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🥳 🎉
It feels kind of weird posting about Christmas in January 🤣😅 but Decembers Challenge was great fun: (see photos🤪) The 12 Days of Christmas Challenge had clients completing 12 separate challenges, everything from strength tests, to blindfolded balance tests, cardio circuits and even a Christmas Ring Toss challenge! Points were scored for finishing 1st, 2nd or 3rd in any of the 12 challenges! 😁💪🏻

Sam scored the highest of all 40 clients that took part, and even finishing 1st place in 3 of the 12 challenges overall! 😁💪🏻

Believe it or not, this now makes a Hat-trick of Christmas Challenge wins for Sam, (thats right, she won the 2021 Xmas challenge, the 2022 Xmas challenge and now the 2023 Xmas challenge!) I reckon she’s just being kind and letting everybody else win for the remainder of the year 😝🤣💪🏻

This is a fantastic and well-deserved achievement for Sam and I’m glad she has been able to maintain her status as the Christmas Challenge Champion 🏆🎅🏼🤣

Well done Sam 😄 this month Sam’s prizes were: purple boxing wrist wraps 🥊 a free entry voucher to any fitness class 💪🏻 a personalised gym log book 📖 and a selection of protein bars and healthy snacks 🍫

And now the new year brings a January challenge 😎
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NEW GYM EQUIPMENT INCOMING➡️🏋️‍♀️

Great way to spend a Saturday morning 😬

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Creds to my little helper & photographer 😝🤣

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Eat 🍗 Sleep 😴 Train 🏋️‍♀️ Repeat 🔁

So what are your goals now for the new year?
Here’s some ideas for new Health & Fitness goals you could set for 2024:

•Hit 10,000 steps each day 🚶
•Limit alcohol consumption to only 1 night a week 🍷
•Aim to get to bed earlier for a minimum of 8 hours sleep a night 💤
•Undergo at least 2 x 30 minute moderate-intense cardio sessions each week 🚲 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🏊
•Try to lift 10kg more for your max lift on any given exercise: for example Squats, Deadlifts or Bench Press 🏋️‍♀️
•Aim to eat a minimum 3 x handfuls of veg every day 🌽 🥕 🥦
•Spend at least 3 hour of each day without your phone for less screen time 📱🚫

Hopefully some of these give you some helpful prompts to get you well on your way to a happier, healthier 2024. Goals don’t have to be impossibly difficult. Sometimes, small, realistic, obtainable goals are more sustainable than huge, overly ambitious ones.

Although goals are not the be-all and end-all, they can seriously help get you focused on where you want to be and ensure that you’re hitting the targets you’ve set for each training session that you do. Goals can be a fantastic motivator and provided you don’t become too obsessed with them, they can play a huge role in bettering your physical and your mental health.

Have a great weekend guys! Got a big video editing sesh tomorrow for new fitness videos I’ve been recording - can’t wait to share them with you guys 😄💪🏻

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January Quote of the month & Fitness Fact of the month 😁💪🏻🏋️☀️❤️

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“All progress takes place outside of the comfort zone”
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DM me for more info on online Gym Programs & Diet Plans 🏋️‍♀️ 🥦 🍗

Photo creds:mm

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A belated CONGRATULATIONS to Noellene 🥳🎉👏🏻💪🏻

For winning the November Gym Challenge: “Not for the Faint Hearted” 💔 🥵

This months challenge was all about who could complete a BRUTAL 10 exercise circuit in the fastest time. Noellene came out on top with an incredibly fast time of 2m57s! 🤯

Noellene is as tough as nails and always pushes herself in all PT sessions and classes alike. I’m SO impressed with all her efforts so far and I’m sure there’s many more achievements to come! 😁

Noellene is a pleasure to train and she can now finally join her husband Rich on the Hall of Fame with her well deserved challenge win!! 🏆

This month Noellene won an personalised engraved Trophy 🏆 a FREE entry voucher to any fitness class 🥊 a selection bag of healthy treats and snacks 🍪 🍫 and a Chilly Bottle 🥤

Well done Noellene 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🥳 🎉

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December Quote of the month & Fitness Fact of the month 😁💪🏻🏋️🧠 🎅🏼 🎄

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Photoshoot with dm .mm 📸 💪🏻

This guy is crazy talented! (at making me look bigger and way more ripped than I actually am) 🤣😅🙈

Trial shots ready for my Fitness Butler website and online gym plans coming soon next year 🤫😁

Premium Access should be ready for Summer 2024 - will keep you all posted 👍🏻😆

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A belated CONGRATULATIONS to Beth - winner of the October Gym Challenge 🥇 🎉 🥳 👏🏻

This month clients chose 3 randomly selected cards from the Exercise Deck and earned points, dependent on both the difficulty of the exercises and whether the client could complete the exercises.

Beth came out on top, not only picking some of the hardest exercises, but completing every single one, and finishing with the highest point score at the end of the month.

It’s safe to say, Beth’s cardiovascular fitness even puts me to shame!! 🥵 it’s great to see how far she has come with her strength, fitness and ability level since her first session with me well over a year ago…

I’m so impressed by the drive and energy she brings to each session, she is a pleasure to train, always a good laugh, and has become a good friend! 🙂💪🏻🏋️‍♀️

Well done Beth, a well-deserved challenge win for you. 🏆

This month Beth won a selection of protein goodies 🍫 a FREE ENTRY to my fitness classes 🥊 a box of chocolate dumbbells 💪🏻 🤫 and a deck of a exercise cards 🃏 (quite fitting seeing as she one the exercise card challenge!)

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November Quote of the month & Fitness Fact of the month 😁💪🏻🏋️🧠

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Loving training right now 🤩💪🏻🏋️‍♀️

For the first time in a long time, I’m loving every single training session 😍❤️

Setting goals is important, having a target to reach for, but ultimately enjoying the journey and the process is the key to having fulfilling exercise sessions.

Becoming too obsessed with where you want to be, means you never get to actually enjoy where you actually are right now.

If you think of your training journey as a timeline, from beginning to end, the “end goal” is that final 1% and the 99% in the lead up to reaching that final goal, THAT is the part you should be relishing, the JOURNEY. All the stepping stones you took, all the hard work and the graft. If you only allow yourself to feel happy and satisfied once you reach your goal you’re only giving yourself 1% of your training timeline to be happy. Totally disregarding 99% of your time and your efforts, and all it took to get you there.

I’ll be dead honest, I’m not sure I’m even training for a “goal” at the moment. I’m just enjoying each session. Feeling the benefits of weight training, cardio, boxing, stretching, and the rest.

At the end of the day, exercise is supposed to make you feel GOOD. 😄 so don’t lose sight of this. Be grateful for your body and everything it can do!!

On a side note, check out my funky breakfast - Matcha, Dark Chocolate and Acacia Honey 😅 trying a few new things out for my diet - will let you know how it goes 😅😅

Happy Thursday guys - enjoy the rest of your week 💪🏻😁

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A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to LYDIA!! - The Official Winner of the September Gym Challenge 🎉🥳👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻

This challenge was a killer! 🥵 Clients were tasked to complete 5 different exercises back to back (without rest) in the fastest time possible: 25 Battle Rope Slams, 20 Squats or Push Ups, 15 calorie sprint on the Bike, 10 Barbell Deadlifts and 5 Ab Wheel or Leg Raise.

Lydia completed all 5 of the above in 1 minute 34 seconds 🤯🤯 🏃🏼‍♀️🏋️‍♀️ 🚴 🥵
This is an unbelievably fast time by anyone’s standards, and a well deserved win 🥇 🏆

Lydia has the BEST attitude to training and exercise: she’s always positive, always hard working and always open to giving anything a go! 😁💪🏻

Even after just a few months training together I can already see a massive improvement in Lydia’s strength, endurance and her physique! Arm muscles looking pumped 💪🏻💪🏻😁

Lydia is a pleasure to train and has earned her place on the Hall of Fame for this challenge win 🏅

This month the prizes were a FREE ENTRY Voucher for one of my Boxing Classes 🥊 a chilli bottle 🥤 a selection of protein bars 🍫 and of course, a personalised trophy with her name engraved on it 🏆

Well done Lydia 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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October Quote of the month & Fitness Fact of the month 😁💪🏻🏋️🧠

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Perfect Day for Butler’s BOOTCAMP 😁☀️🌳🐶

All ladies group today! Come on Gents you’re letting the side down! Where were you all today 😝

Thanks again to Bootcamp Brad the Cavapoo for the motivational speech and technique tips 🐕 🏋️‍♀️

Have a great weekend everyone ❤️😁💪🏻

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Evening everyone! I hope you’re all having a smashing week so far!😁

So I’ve been a little crap at posting on my socials of late, but I had a spare 15 minutes (for once) this afternoon and thought I’d use this time to write out a small Client Appreciation post. 🙂

I am SO grateful for each and every one of you guys who come to see me on a weekly basis. There’s nothing I enjoy more than seeing each of you succeed and enjoy your fitness journey. ❤️

These last few months have been extra special. I’ve had clients trying out new healthy diet plans I’ve set for them with excellent weight loss results early on (girls, you know who you are😉💪🏻). I’ve had multiple clients getting closer and closer to their first ever unassisted pull up (the hardest body weight exercise IMO!). I’ve had clients hitting new personal bests on exercises, winning challenges and achieving things they never thought they could. 👏🏻👏🏻

To summarise in a short quote: 💬
“STRENGTH doesn’t come from what you can do. It’s comes from OVERCOMING the things you once thought you COULDN’T.”

I am SO proud of all of you guys. For real, even just turning up for a PT session is hard enough. You guys finding time in your busy lives to train with me and work towards a happier, healthier, fitter you is something that motivates me on a daily basis. 💪🏻

Thank you for allowing me to shout out you and make your body sore on a weekly basis🙈🤣

The Fitness Butler doesn’t exist without you lot, you are the heart and soul of this business and you are all KILLING IT 💯 🔥

Keep doing what you’re doing, and thank you, as always, for training with me ❤️

See you all soon 🔜😁💪🏻

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