Hello, and welcome to my site. My name is Miles, and I’m a personal trainer, strength coach, and holistic health practitioner; using energy & sound therapy.

I’m the founder of Five Element Fitness a training concept discussed on another page on this site, and my qualifications and experience span across various fields. Which involve lifestyle coaching, corrective exercise & rehabbing clients through injury, as well as working with people and having great success with putting type 2 diabetes in remission and obesity. I’m also an instructor for a multiple sclerosis charity; have been a strength & conditioning coach for a rugby team, and work with clients and athletes involved in a variety of sports including: golf, boxing, powerlifting, hockey, cycling, triathlons, and horse-riding. 

I also practice and teach using many energy systems from different cultures including China, Japan, and Egypt. Covering Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Reiki, and Sekhem; as well as being a Sound Practitioner using specially designed tuning forks at different frequencies to access & treat the body via the acupuncture points & meridians.

I’m based in Upminster with my own private gym and 1-1 facility, and work locally doing various classes & workshops. I’m mobile as well for the surrounding areas and London, and can take most of my practices online too. 

The person in the photo below to the far right of the other two, was me in my former life when I used to have a full time job as a Sound Engineer & Designer in Soho.

Back then without realizing it the busy months and years had flown by and I had become unhealthy and overweight, as certain lifestyle choices had slowly crept up on me. I decided to turn it around and developed a simple diet and exercise programme for myself, whilst still holding down my full time job in London, and I lost over three stone in four and a bit months. 

Becoming a trainer & coach after struggling with common weight and lifestyle habits - makes me empathise, and understand the time difficulties and pressures that my clients have when trying to lose weight and do the same. We all tell ourselves excuses like "I'm not in my twenties anymore", "I would be slim if I didn't have kids", "I'm just too busy to put in the time that's needed" - so I love being able to help clients reach their goals, however big or small they are, because with a little bit of hard work and dedication, they can easily be achieved without having to live like a monk, or spend all day doing it.

95% of my clients have gym memberships but hire me to work at their homes or locally when time is short, or to work on areas and pieces of equipment that they don't feel comfortable doing in a busy gym environment.

On the left this is a picture of my client Jon: Who lost 8.7 stone in 8 months with me, and came off all his 6 pills and medication for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol.

This is my client Suzanne who joined my ‘Ladies Who Lift’ programme and lost 4 stone in the process whilst lifting her own bodyweight off the floor in the deadlift at age 53. (Age after all is just a number, and the benefits of strength training at any age are numerous and unparalleled.)

I’m also fully DBS checked and work with children and teenagers - training them in weightlifting and boxing to build confidence and improve their strength and stamina.

Recently, enjoyed being interviewed live on the radio answering various female health related topics, like: hormonal disruption that causes gluteofemoral (muffin top) fat accumulation. How to get abs to show, the problem with current diet trends and how to make lifestyle changes to combat them.