Fitness Column

Steve Pafford

The Fitness Column will be regularly updated with modern fitness approaches and nutrition guides by Steve Pafford.

As well as being a part-time model, Steve Pafford is a freelance journalist, author and copy editor, specialising in the entertainment and lifestyle industries, as well as the online business sector. His work has featured in numerous publications such as The Sun, Daily Mirror, Q, QX, Record Collector and MOJO.
As well as being informed by the collective knowledge of our top class team of personal trainers, Steve will also be penning articles based on his own first-hand experience at Personal Training Studios W10, where he has been training five times a week since it opened, hence his first article being based on his own transformation.

Before

During

After

After looking at various personal trainers in the Queens Park area, I hired Robert Bray in early 2005, initially as a result of an impending modelling assigment for a lifestyle magazine.

I had been an occasional, often half-hearted gym-goer for a few years but always knew I wasn’t pushing myself anywhere near enough.

I always felt that personal trainers were a luxury but it soon became clear that having one was really making a big difference in a relatively short space of time. Robert helped me achieved my goal of losing body fat, building lean muscle and increasing fitness in a quite dramatic fashion. So much so that I decided to hire him on a permanent basis.

Since he established his new business, Personal Training Studios W10, as an answer to a high demand for a private training studio in Notting Hill, I’ve been training with Robert more than ever, several times a week.

A one-to-one booking can really help to keep you focused and hungry for change. Our sessions including a mixture of heavy weights, circuit routines and intense cardiovascular programmes.

Having a personal trainer is a great way to keep motivated as well, as they act like a coach, constantly encouraging you and pushing you to do better. Robert has also shown me the importance of a good, balanced diet and the right supplements in order to help build a
strong, healthy body.

Now I’m well on the way to having the body I always wanted, and this has a knock-on effect of increased confidence, as well as many more modeling jobs that I may not have been offered if I still had the body of old.

In short, a personal trainer can help you transform yourself into the creature you always wanted to be. It’s worked for me. I’m happy, you can be happy too.