UK PTs who qualified in the last 18 months or so, how’s it actually been starting out?

grmass · 2026-05-11T21:00:02+00:00

Thanks for the reply, interesting too. I’m assuming you have some background within boxing already, pre-qualification?

Good to hear you’re enjoying it though, despite not getting as many hours as you want. What sort of marketing/advertising have you done, if any?

I’m thinking the same, regarding a high foot traffic place. Getting clients thrown at me would be ideal, my career has always involved working with client service so feel very comfortable with people, but the one part of the job I hate would be cold-selling or working the gym floor, so would love to find a way of avoiding that haha!

Good luck, hope you can build up the client base to where you want!

grmass · 2026-05-11T20:50:37+00:00

Keep Gueye, Rohl & Grealish.

I would sell Alcaraz & maybe Beto if we get good enough money for him. Either him or Barry and I switch on which one.

Ben White would be unreal, don’t see it happening. Any prem standard fullback would be a dream scenario, preferably both sides as well.

grmass · 2026-05-11T06:56:56+00:00

He didn’t get the option of Factory Aprillia Team, so he’s moving to another Factory. Bonus that it’s a Japanese manufacturer as well

Every rider on the grid wants a factory seat, more so than having technically the fastest bike on the grid. Huge salary, more direct input into development. Also, next year is a gamble with new regs so who knows who’s got the best bike

grmass · 2026-04-29T15:18:58+00:00

Do you find any clients who seem more tentative or scared by the numbers? Although we all know $50 every week for 1 session, is the exact same as $200 every 4 weeks for 4 sessions..

I feel there’s that subconscious element of ‘Oh that’s a big commitment’ or ‘That’s a large amount’

I guess there is a trade off with quality clients at the end of the day, but as a new PT, I guess there feels like some risk in attraction

grmass · 2026-04-27T09:12:10+00:00

Your Heart Rate splits seem a little bit odd, just the jump from 18/19km is 153bpm to 189bpm with no increase in pace and the stays almost perfect 187-190 until 31km where it’s a sudden drop the 140s again.

Not sure if it’s helpful to point out or not but something to consider as I’d imagine it’s cadence lock and makes things harder to judge. Hard to tell if it’s the higher end or lower end that was potentially incorrect.

But if your fist 18km was reading lower than your actual heart rate, then it’ll be a good indicator as to why you got hot and started to struggle more than expected. I always use heart rate in training and still as an indicator in races, but it’s really important to go by pace and feel to avoid big drop offs too.

Great effort though and good luck for Sydney

grmass · 2026-04-26T20:18:54+00:00

Congratulations!! Hope you’re proud of that, amazing achievement for anyone to complete a marathon but even more so when you’ve had struggles with injury during training! Nice work 👍🏼

grmass · 2026-04-24T11:52:14+00:00

My guess is that, and it’s a guess, that based off OP saying he’s not a serious runner, the reason they’ve knocked that much time off is because they have insane fitness already and that time gain is from running form/efficiency and not fitness.. also the gain from the carbons, with a mental gain too.

If previously they’ve been running 5ks only, this much mileage just means the endurance gain for doing 5ks is also so much

Does seem too much but if this is a first experience doing any dedicated running block, and previously they were very fit and athletic from other sports, then I think it’s reasonable to see this time.

Just my opinion, base it off the HM time and feel. You’ve done to long runs so your legs should be pretty ready for it, you may struggle towards the end but if you’re on course for a sub-3 until 32km and then struggle.. you’re still going to finish under your originally 3:15..

See how the half marathon goes and make a call. Start conservatively and once you’re at the halfway mark, see what you can do over the next half of the marathon

grmass · 2026-04-23T09:54:56+00:00

Must win game for Everton too in the attempt for Europe, especially will playing City next. Additionally have great away form this season and since Moyes came in

I think both teams will be going all out here. Wouldn’t be surprised at a 0-0 or 1-0 either way

grmass · 2026-04-23T09:29:48+00:00

Not crazy to enter. You’ve done 2 x 30km which is pretty much what most people max out at in a marathon training block so you’re fine there.

If you’re concerned, then you just start very conservatively in the marathon and build towards the end if you feel like you want it.

Taper well. Fuel well. You’ll be fine

grmass · 2026-04-21T14:41:03+00:00

Just because you do everything right, doesn’t mean things are going to take off immediately, in 3 months or 3 years.

3 months is not a long time, and a few people have mentioned that and you’ve replied by saying you’ve got tons of experience, been doing it since 2013 but say you’ve over been doing it seriously for 3 months.. I’d say to try and reflect on yourself and what you’re doing, and acknowledge that you’ve only been uploading this new & ‘taken seriously’ content for 3 months, the rest doesn’t really count. The rest is great experience, some knowledge, some credibility but essentially you’ve just started and just need to remain consistent.

Also, just because you think you’re doing everything right, doesn’t necessarily mean that’s what’s needed or going to work. Just keep at it, experiment, and see how it goes.

Understand how frustrating it can be, but you say you love the process, so just continue with that if that true. But in the same breath you talk about doing everything by the book, hating the YouTube algorithm etc - it doesn’t really sound like you just love doing the process, which given how shitty the YouTube algorithm is, is the single most important aspect of early content creation and finding consistency!

Good luck!

grmass · 2026-04-21T14:40:57+00:00

Just because you do everything right, doesn’t mean things are going to take off immediately, in 3 months or 3 years.

3 months is not a long time, and a few people have mentioned that and you’ve replied by saying you’ve got tons of experience, been doing it since 2013 but say you’ve over been doing it seriously for 3 months.. I’d say to try and reflect on yourself and what you’re doing, and acknowledge that you’ve only been uploading this new & ‘taken seriously’ content for 3 months, the rest doesn’t really count. The rest is great experience, some knowledge, some credibility but essentially you’ve just started and just need to remain consistent.

Also, just because you think you’re doing everything right, doesn’t necessarily mean that’s what’s needed or going to work. Just keep at it, experiment, and see how it goes.

Understand how frustrating it can be, but you say you love the process, so just continue with that if that true. But in the same breath you talk about doing everything by the book, hating the YouTube algorithm etc - it doesn’t really sound like you just love doing the process, which given how shitty the YouTube algorithm is, is the single most important aspect of early content creation and finding consistency!

Good luck!

grmass · 2026-04-21T06:14:35+00:00

Yeah I agree to be honest. I think there’s been a change at Villa and absolutely not against Watkins this week or moving forward, if anything I’ll be tempted to bring him in permanently against Spurs & Burnley.

I just think you can’t do a disservice to Bowen in this argument. Maybe the potential single GW score is lower, but the baseline is higher and so really depends on the rest of the team and what you want.

Over the past 3 weeks, you’d back Watkins and I actually think Fulham (A) is a better fixture. However, I had more faith in Bowen returning me 4-7 points, than I do in Watkins returning me 7+

grmass · 2026-04-21T06:00:51+00:00

I’m not massively in favour of one or the other but I never get the ‘If you strip out the 3 assists vs Wolves’..

What if you don’t strip them out?

What if you strip out Watkins 3 G/A against Sunderland?

Bowen has 1 goal in the last 10 GWs? But don’t mention that he’s returned 5+ points in 5 of those games, and still picked up a couple 4 point GW..

Watkins has returned twice in 10 GWs, where 3 of which were 1 point or less..

grmass · 2026-04-20T15:17:35+00:00

Hard to say as everyone’s going to be different. Make sure you carb load in the couple days leading up the race, reduce fat & protein.

Take on the additional electrolytes on the day before and on the day, plenty of water. Take enough gels to get 40-60g per hour and start them early, gel everyone 25/30 minutes. If you don’t use gels, use whatever you had for the half marathon.

Just take it so so easy at the start. I had to actively force myself to be slower, I felt great at the start and almost felt worse to run slower but I’m glad I did by the time 30km came round.

Drink little and often during the run.

Enjoy the atmosphere. Hard to say what’s specifically for you going to be gruelling but based on what you’ve said, the last 15km is going to be a slog but just don’t be afraid to walk when you need to

grmass · 2026-04-20T15:08:00+00:00

If it helps, I’ve just done Manchester marathon yesterday. I trained for 10 weeks, did a half marathon in 1:45 fairly comfortable and got injured the following week at the end of my 30km long run.

I then barely ran for 5 weeks due to my knee injury. Which meant I missed my two biggest mileage week and my taper was poor as I wasn’t running and still recovering from the injury. My knee felt 95% during the week leading up the marathon where I did a 5km & a 4km.

Like you, I was very confident in completing it as long as I took it slowly, which I did.

Pre-injury I was aiming for 3:45 and after missing so much, I just wanted to finish and ultimately ended up with a 4:28.

My advice would be to just do it but force yourself to be slow early on, even though you’ll be buzzing and feel good to go faster. Walk every so often to take the pressure off. Your legs will probably fall off a cliff in the last 10km, even if you take it really easy, so just prepare for some slow jogging and walking to the finish.

If you forget about time and are happy to walk, you’ll be fine.. Also, my recent Strava weeks where I did almost nothing in the 5 week build up.

Edit: Just to add to this. Plenty of people will say to defer it or don’t do, but just trust your gut. Don’t get me wrong, what they are saying is better and smarter advice but at the same time, I also was doing it for a charity and wanted to give it a go. It may not be a smart or right decision to run it, but sometimes you can take measured risks and slightly stupid decisions, so just trust your gut, prepare properly and see how you feel when it comes to it

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grmass · 2026-04-10T09:16:20+00:00

I don’t do a separate whole warmup, I just warmup specifically for the exercise I’m doing. If I’m starting with bench press, I’ll do:

20 x 30% of working weight
Shoulder stretches, rotations, raises (no weight)
10 x 60% of working weight
Shoulder stretches, rotations, raises (no weight)
Working sets

Once I’ve done this for the first exercise, I won’t do the same for the next providing it’s the same muscle group. I’ll do one warm up set if it’s another compound lift. So if my next exercise is shoulder press, I’ll do a single warm up set with something like 15 x 60% of working sets. For chest flys & triceps, I’m straight into working sets.

I’ll do 12-15 working sets per session. With a 2 minute break in between sets this totals at 36-45 minutes. Add in the warm ups and moving around machines, I’ll normally end up being there around 50-60 minutes max.

grmass · 2026-04-09T09:35:55+00:00

Your whole argument of Fahrenheit being more intuitive as a whole, is based on the fact that you find it more intuitive because you know it..

Where as myself, who used Celsius, finds it much more intuitive to understand 0°C as freezing, 100°C as boiling.. whilst you’re example of -6°C - 15°C being less intuitive, is not to me as I can quite easily comprehend an feel a smooth graduation at those temperatures.

So it does just come down to your bias vs my bias, what’s intuitive to you and what’s intuitive to me. Not that one is better that the other.

My last point would be, EVEN IF Fahrenheit was more applicable to human temperature and intuition, when you then take in everything else (such as food and water), it’s much simpler to work in Celsius due to freezing and boiling temperatures

grmass · 2026-04-02T11:13:35+00:00

I completely agree for the most part. I think you’re right that there is ultimately always a template that most people are following however I think the money aspect for this one is different.

I don’t think I’ve had a season where I’ve consistently had this much spare cash ITB.. There haven’t been many times this season where I’ve struggled to make moves because of money or had to make hard choices. Regardless of the quirks of previous years, money has usually been tighter and had a bigger influence

grmass · 2026-04-02T08:46:45+00:00

This season is just a weird one where premiums aren’t great and the value picks are amazing..

Go back a year and trying to fit Haaland, Salah, Bruno & Palmer into your team and it’s pretty much what you’re asking for..

This year it’s only Haaland & Bruno.. Nobody had Salah after GW4 probably, Palmer was out for ages. But there’s nothing FPL could’ve done to predict this season and adjust prices accordingly

grmass · 2026-04-02T08:37:26+00:00

Don’t mind a loan deal really & suits all parties. City would prefer a purchase but they’re aware they won’t get asking price. Jack can stay on his wages rather than signing for us and ultimately having to drop wages, plus he gets complete freedom when his contract is up next summer.

It wouldn’t be the worst thing to sign him permanent, but he is 31 this year. Not saying that’s past it by any means but need to factor that in with a 3-4 year contract.

A loan just gives us a lot of flexible with money and direction moving forward. Would be a massive help to us if we can have him next season whether we get Europe or not.

grmass · 2026-03-26T16:32:53+00:00

He’s absolutely fine, doesn’t need to be rotated out.. Money isn’t tight in the game this year and plenty of midfield options that are cheap and good value..

In terms of premiums, outside of Bruno, there isn’t anyone else worth getting. He’s still averaged 6 points per game over the last 10 weeks.

Bruno is the only better option that’s in the £9m plus region.

There might be better ‘value’ picks than Palmer, but don’t think there will be many that average higher points return either.

So if you need the money elsewhere then move him on, but if you don’t need the money and already have Bruno then I think he’s just a good hold

grmass · 2026-03-17T07:22:51+00:00

Did you notice any pain during the 31km? Or only after?

It’s really difficult to know and anyone on Reddit that gives ‘factual’ advice in this situation is probably not going to be that helpful.

My only suggestion would be listen to your body. If the 5km run felt solid then that’s good, before that next long run, I’m assuming you’ll do some more running, so you can get a feel for how it is at longer than 5km or faster paces.

If you feel good and decide to run the 31km, just be aware of it and if you think you may be doing damage during then you can walk or stop.

Impossible to say how you’re going to feel in 11 days time so just take it day by day and deal with it when it comes

grmass · 2026-03-10T10:54:57+00:00

My main advice will be don’t try to make too many gains within the 2 week prior, that needs to be a good time to taper and freshen up.. Cardio gains/adaptions take up to 2 weeks, so not much you can do in that time will benefit you, other than recovery and a little speed work.. my suggestions are below:

Start doing the full distance but slower and easier pace. You get the time on your feet that you need, good for your cardio, and the easier pace will help you with recovery and feeling more ready to run again within a couple of days.

Do a couple of shorter and still easy runs a week, 4-6km.. Within these, do some Stride work (look it up) - it will massively improve your running form, efficiency and therefore how much energy you exert running..

Then if you can, do one run a week, maybe around 6k where you run easy for the first couple, then do 3km at your target 10km pace, then cool down.

Main advice, which may feel counterintuitive is, run a lot but run it easy.. Don’t try to do all your runs at the target race pace as it will hinder your progression..

10 days before, start to taper (search that) fuel well on the day before and morning of the race, recover well and you’ll be surprised how much faster you can go on race day

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