Personal Coaching
Physical Culture for a Life Well MovedCoaching is offered in kettlebells and traditional physical culture from my home in the village of Lower Quinton, overlooking the edge of the Cotswolds, or within my fully equipped garage dojo.
Skill, Rhythm and flow – the Long Game Advantage for Body and Mind.
Discover an approach designed to build strength, coordination, and resilience that lasts a lifetime. Using a combination of kettlebells, Persian meels, Indian clubs, Indian gada, and movement mastery, where every session focuses on technique, rhythm, and flow. The result is a body that moves with power, control, and ease — energised, calm, and ready for life today and decades from now.
Guided online personal coaching available HERE
The Long Game Advantage
- Sustainable Strength – Build power and endurance without joint strain
- Rotational & Grip Resilience – Shoulders, elbows, and wrists stay healthy
- Technique First – Every movement prioritises control and efficiency
- Timing & Coordination – Enhance rhythm, balance, and body awareness
- Circular intelligence – Using clubs, gada and kettlebells: Big arcs, compact pendulums, figure 8 osciallations. Different scales, same principle
- Tendon & Joint Health – Gradual loading promotes elasticity and stability
- Calm & Energised – Finish sessions centered, not exhausted
- Adaptive – Adjust load and flow to your own rhythm
- Ancient Principles, Modern Practice – Persian meels, Indian gada, and kettlebells combined for lasting results
Philosophy
- It’s about durable power rather than peak output
- Develop capacity without agitation, while movement remains smooth
- The volume can be high but intelligently distributed, so strength, coordination and conditioning accumulate without joint debt and injury
- Nothing is trained to failure; everything is trained to continuation
- Prepare, refine, express and settle
- Embodied practice – knowing is not understanding, you must do. It’s kinetic not intellectual
- You stay capable, responsive and hard to break – strong enough to impose force, supple enough to absorb it and calm enough to keep going
Experience
- England’s first IKFF Master Kettlebell Trainer, shaped through direct mentorship with the late Steve Cotter, founder of the IKFF
- IKFF Certified Kettlebell Trainer CKT; Coaching kettlebells with depth and dedication since 2010
- NASM Certified Natural Fitness Trainer, with certification under NBA strength coach Jon Hinds
- English Open Kettlebell Pentathlon medalist (2017)
- Indian Club Trainer, steeped in the teachings of the Indian Club Swinging Teaching Institute
- Fifteen years of practice in Judo, as a competitor and instructor
- Fully insured
The Door to Practice
Pay per session:
£40
Pre-pay:
5 x 1-2-1 coaching sessions:
£175
Pre-pay:
10 x 1-2-1 coaching sessions:
£300
Pre-pay:
20 x 1-2-1 coaching sessions:
£560
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Get in touch with Mike.
United Kingdom
Phone: M: 07754 569353