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A Body That Works

How you eat, how you move, how you sleep — the three things that decide how your body feels, and the three most men have never had explained by somebody who actually does them.

This is a programme, not a session. Six to twelve months. It starts with two or three hours together while you are here, and then it carries on at a distance for as long as it is useful.

I have no papers to show you, and there is a reason for it: nobody issues a certificate for this. There is no course you can take that puts it together. I do not put much faith in certificates in any case — I have met too many qualified people whose own body is not an example of anything they teach. What I have instead is twenty-five years of learning different styles and techniques, testing every one of them on myself first, keeping what held up and dropping what did not — and then, on top of that, the things I worked out on my own that I have never heard anybody teach.

So what you are looking at is not one method with a name. It is all of it in one place, and some of it exists nowhere else. Judge me by results, and apply the same test to anybody else. Behind it are the same twenty-five years of hands on bodies. That is what tells me where you are stiff, weak or already sore, so we work around it instead of straight through it. Nothing ends a man’s attempt faster than hurting himself in the first month.

  • the first consultation300€
Losing weight is not my objective. It is what happens on the way to a body that works.
Greg

Who this is for

You were told this is simply how it is now.

Forty, fifty, sixty. The weight arrived and stayed. The pills arrived and never left. Somewhere in there it stopped being a problem to solve and turned into a fact about you.

  • I have done this before, and I put every kilo back on.
  • I cannot train — my back, my knee, my shoulder will not let me.
  • I no longer know what is true. Every year it is the opposite of the last one.
  • It is too late. Not at my age, not with this body.
  • A specialist told me this part cannot be changed — and he had every certificate on the wall.
  • I do everything right for a fortnight, and then my life gets in the way.
  • I start on the Monday and I have stopped by the Thursday.

I have heard all seven, and not one of them is a character flaw. The first is the one that matters: almost every man who comes to me has lost weight before. Knowing what to do was never the problem. What was missing was the order to do it in, somebody checking whether it is actually working, and a reason to keep going through the month where nothing appears to be happening.

The second one I usually deal with in the first five minutes — not by treating anything, but by showing you where the pain is actually coming from, which is rarely where it hurts, and what to do about it yourself. Feeling it ease while you are sitting there is also the fastest reason I know of to believe the rest of what I tell you.

The ceiling

Every limit was certain until somebody walked through it.

69 days

In October 1903 the New York Times explained that a flying machine was one to ten million years away. The Wright brothers flew that December.

46 days

Everybody knew a mile could not be run in four minutes. Bannister ran it in May 1954. Six weeks later another man did too — and then it kept happening.

Greg, personal trainer, Playa del Inglés, Gran Canaria

Stop hiding behind the excuse that a body like this is no longer possible at forty, or at fifty. Look at the people who never accepted that, and understand that they are not built differently from you. Then stop asking whether it is possible, and start asking what it would take.

And when you start, it will require commitment and discipline — but definitely not long hours in the gym.

Greg

If you believe in certificates, go to somebody with certificates and learn from them. If you believe in pills, do that. It does not matter what you do — if it produces the effect you are after, an athletic body, without ruining your health, I will congratulate you. If it does not, it only means you need to change the strategy.

Greg

Nobody moved the human body. Somebody moved what people believed about it. I am not telling you that everything is possible. I am telling you that permanent is a word people use about things they have not managed yet.

What actually happens

It comes in two halves, and the second one is slower.

  1. The first weeks, and they are the easy ones

    A man carrying twenty, thirty, forty kilos loses a lot of it early and without much suffering. Glycogen goes, water goes, fat follows. I have watched it happen more than once. It is also the part nobody warns you about, because it makes you think the whole thing will feel like that.

  2. Then it slows down — and that is not the failure

    This is where every previous attempt of yours ended. The scale stops, nothing looks different, and it feels like it has stopped working. It has not. The job has changed. Losing fat and building a body are two different pieces of work, and the second takes months rather than weeks.

  3. The building half

    Weights, because nothing stimulates muscle the way they do — in the gym and out of it. This is the half that decides whether you end up thinner or end up strong, and it is the half that is still going at month eight.

How much, and how fast, depends entirely on where you start. It is realistic for many men to lose ten or fifteen kilos. If you are fifty kilos over, ten, fifteen, even twenty is very realistic, because there is that much to give up. If you are fifteen kilos over it is a completely different route and a slower one, and anybody telling you the same numbers apply is selling you something.

Six months is usually a big change. Twelve is usually a different body. I am not promising you either. I am telling you what I have seen.

Which is why we measure at the start: the scale, the belt, and one item of clothing that does not fit you today. Sometimes the weight sits still for a fortnight and the trousers move. Without something to measure against, month three feels like nothing is happening — and month three is where men stop.

Greg, personal trainer and nutrition coach, Playa del Inglés, Gran Canaria

The programme · six to twelve months

What is in it

Nine things. It starts with food, because nobody takes in nine at once.

I am not going to hand you the whole programme on a web page. This is what it contains, and the order it arrives in is decided by what you can actually carry at the time.

The nine

  • Nutrition — real food instead of what comes in a packet, what to stop, and the discipline to hold it. Alcohol is in here, and it is the one nobody volunteers
  • Posture — where the aches are actually coming from, and how to stop making them
  • Flexibility — stretching, so that training makes you stronger instead of injuring you
  • Self-massage and the tools for pain — twenty-five years of hands on bodies, and none of it is in an app
  • Training — weights first, in the gym and out of it
  • Breathing — for energy, and for getting stress out of the body rather than sitting on it
  • Meditation — a quieter mind, because stress will quietly undo everything else on this list
  • Sleep — how much, and how to actually get it
  • Sexual energy — what to do with it, and what happens when it has nowhere to go

More on any of these — open the one you want.

There is too much here to hand a man in one afternoon. He nods at all of it and does none of it. So the first consultation is food, with some posture and stretching alongside it, and nothing else.

Food alone does more than people expect. Take somebody off processed food and put real food in front of him, and the change is large and it arrives quickly — that one thing, on its own. I have seen it enough times to be confident about it.

It is also the part hardest to believe, because we have all been told for thirty years that what is in the packet is fine.

I ask you to do it as agreed for three weeks. Not forever. Three weeks.

That is roughly what it takes to break one habit and put another in its place, and it is long enough for the first results to show — which is what makes the rest of it possible to keep doing. Experiment as much as you like afterwards. Nothing tells you whether something works until you have actually done it.

A man who does not start straight away has already clipped his own wings. And if changing that much at once is not realistic for your life, say so at the beginning: I will spread it over a longer period and build it around the time and the money you actually have. What I cannot build it around is a decision you have not made.

Weights, because nothing stimulates muscle the way they do. That is as true at sixty as it is at thirty.

We go to the gym once together so I can take you through the programme and you can see how each thing is done. After that you have the whole list written down and you run it yourself. If you want more sessions with me in the gym, those are arranged separately.

And a good deal of it is not in a gym at all — the stretching, the posture work, the things you do at home. That half is what stops the other half hurting you, and it is the half most men skip.

You can do everything right and get almost nowhere.

I have had men follow the food, follow the training, and barely move, because their life was grinding them down the whole time and the body was busy dealing with that instead. That is why breathing and meditation are in this programme and not treated as decoration. They are not there to make it feel spiritual. They are there because a body under permanent pressure does not let go of anything.

If that is your situation, we deal with it early, and I will tell you so rather than let you spend six months wondering why it is not working.

It is here because it is part of how a body runs, not because it makes the programme sound more interesting.

Some men arrive with it going nowhere — no appetite for it, difficulty, or the sense that something quietly switched off. Others arrive with the opposite: hours a week disappearing into porn or into looking for sex, and nothing left over for anything else. Both are worth talking about, and both are usually connected to everything else on the list above.

I am not promising you anything here and I do not treat conditions. What I can do is show you what I do with mine. If the tantric side of it is what you actually need, that is a different conversation and I will say so — it is on the coaching page.

I will not put anything into your body to make it go faster. No performance enhancers, nothing of that kind. They take more out of a body than they put in, and whole health is the entire point of this.

The methods are often unconventional. They were tested on me first and on clients since, and they lean on what I know from bodywork. I suggest and I recommend. Every decision stays yours.

And I will not do it for you. I can give you the order, the method, and somebody checking honestly whether it is working. I cannot do the exercises.

Why you would listen to me

I am fifty-two.

I have defined muscle and, for the first time in my life, I can see the veins running across my lower abdomen. For a man of my age that is a real win, and it took me until now to get there.

I was never obese. I have done sport all my life and still spent most of it a long way from this, so I am not going to stand here and tell you I know what fifty kilos feels like. What I do know is every step of the road from ordinary to here, because I walked all of it, and most of it twice.

Greg holding a planche press-up, bodyweight strength training, Playa del Inglés

And I am not a poster. I have scars from the acne I gave myself experimenting with a vegetarian diet for years, and my teeth are the worst thing about me — antibiotics as a child, and they never came back. You will see both.

What I do not have, at fifty-two, is a single pill to take. Nothing hurts. I lift heavy. Whatever was done to me along the way, this body has dealt with it.

The acne is also where I learned this. I was handed prescriptions by the best doctors available — a five-minute consultation, and out of the door in five minutes. I put them in the bin and went to find somebody who would look at what was causing it instead. The process was unpleasant, but it took me to the root of it, and once I had that, the healing itself was straightforward. That is why I understand this from the inside rather than out of a book.

The pills

Most men here have been told this part is permanent.

The weight. The tiredness. The pills that arrived one year and never left.

I do not treat anything and I am not going to tell you what to do about any of it. What I can tell you is what I have seen. Take a body out of a toxic environment, give it real food, move it, let it sleep properly — and it starts doing things the man had stopped expecting.

One man came to me taking something that switches the appetite off. I showed him a different way to eat; he took it to his own doctor, and between them they decided he could stop. That was his decision and theirs, not mine, and that is the only shape this ever takes.

I have no certificates and I do not put much faith in them. Judge me by what you can see. Then apply the same test to anybody else advising you about your body: is the person telling you how to be healthy an example of it, and are they looking at what is causing this, or only at what it is doing?

Take what I give you to whoever you trust. What you decide after that is yours, and it always was.

Practical

How it runs.

  1. The first consultation, here

    Two or three hours together. We go through how you eat now and what is coming out of it, and I show you the breathing, the stretching, and where your pain is actually starting. You leave with the food settled and written down, something to measure yourself against, and three weeks of work in front of you.

  2. Three weeks on your own

    You do it as agreed. Then you tell me what changed and by how much. That report is what tells us both whether this is worth continuing — and whether I am the right person to help you at all.

  3. Then month by month

    We talk by video or on WhatsApp. I check what actually happened rather than what you intended, and the next piece goes in when there is room for it: the training, the sleep, the breathing, the rest of the list. There is one visit to the gym with me in there, to walk the training programme; further gym sessions are arranged separately.

  4. Six to twelve months

    That is what a different body takes. Six months is usually a big change. I would rather tell you that now than at month four.

  • the first consultation300€
  • each month after150€
  • six months, taken at the start1000€

Six months taken at the start is not a deal, it is a decision — and the man who commits to six months is the man who does the six months. It is the same reason I ask for the three weeks.

Everything is arranged directly with me. There is no booking system and nothing to pay online.

Starting

Ask me and I will explain how it works.

Tell me what your days actually look like — how you eat now, how you sleep, what you have already tried and what went wrong with it. I will tell you honestly whether this is worth your money, and if it is not, I will say so.

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