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“I cannot stress enough how much my relationship with food and exercise has changed! With Scott, everything seems manageable and fits within a full-time worker mom life. The results are FANTASTIC, my body has changed A LOT!”
“Scott’s program has been absolutely brilliant. I’ve done a lot of training in my time both competitive and recreational and I’m getting better results in a fraction of the time.”
“Easy-to-follow bespoke plans each month tailored to your skill level, needs, and ambition. If you’re looking for holistic lifestyle changes that yield remarkable results, this is the plan for you.”
It’s not lost on me that you’ve likely tried a workout program or diet plan in the past, only to be disappointed either by a lack of results or because you’ve not been given the tools to maintain your achievements moving forward. I’m confident in making that assumption because it’s what 87% of my clients report when they first join my program.
The biggest reason people struggle with health & fitness is that they follow programs that are technically sound, but contextually inappropriate for their lives. Which means lasting results were never really on the table. So after weeks and months of restriction and relentless effort, most people find themselves right back at square one at the end of a program.
If this sounds familiar and you want a permanent solution to your fitness challenges, let me tell you a little more about how we can do things differently this time.
If this sounds familiar and you want a permanent solution to your fitness challenges, let me tell you a little more about how we can do things differently this time.
Typically, workout programs are created by, or take their cues from bodybuilders, fitness models, athletes, Hollywood celebrities and influencers. In other words, people preparing for a specific event with a clear deadline and end point, like a physique competition, a photoshoot, or even a film role.
These scenarios typically call for near-daily workouts, caloric and carbohydrate restriction and rigid execution. Now, does this short-term approach work? Yes, but the crucial distinction is that they were never intended to be sustained, and everyone involved knows it. In fact the whole point is to overclock the system for a number of weeks to reach a particular ‘peak’ level of performance or conditioning. The implicit implication then, is that it cannot be maintained. That’s literally what peak conditioning means, it’s a fleeting moment in time, with a drop off on both sides, just like a mountain. A worthy ambition for sure, but not an everyday reality, not for a model, a bodybuilder an athlete or a film star. So why are you being offered their training regimes as long-term solutions?
You see, once a fitness photoshoot is over, a film wraps and an athletic event reaches its conclusion, those involved fall back to their everyday regime, which already includes regular exercise and well-proportioned healthy eating.
You were only privy to their peak training, not the years of consistency it took to put them in a position to be able to handle that short-term red-lining process in preparation for a deadline. But if you are simply trying to make exercise a maintainable habit, what would you fall back on once your intensive program is over? You’d basically be starting again from scratch, at least as far as habits are concerned, and it’s the consistent implementation of the fundamental healthy habits that are the key to success in fitness.
So hoping these extreme programs can solve your fitness challenges for the long term, would be like running your fastest mile then multiplying it by 26 and thinking that would be your marathon time, it might make sense on paper, but it’s completely inappropriate for real-world application.
Even when working directly with a fitness coach or influencer, you’ll often receive a program that works well for them.
Which is great. Until you view life through their lens. Fitness may well be what their life revolves around; they typically work in a gym, they do fitness competitions for fun, and they love to talk and read about fitness. Basically working out is both their hobby and their profession. They would be lost without exercise, whereas you are looking to make it a consistent habit, perhaps for the first time in your life.
As a busy professional you’ll be facing everyday challenges like stress, lack of sleep, family commitments, limited free time, and a schedule prone to change at short notice.
Don’t get me wrong, technically speaking, you’re likely receiving an effective program, just one that doesn’t meet you where you are. You’d need more energy, more time, and more conditioning to implement it. Making it completely ineffective at helping you achieve your goals or solve your long standing challenges around making exercise stick.
This misalignment leads to unrealistic expectations about what it’s actually going to take to achieve sustainable fitness results. Too many people exercise excessively and eat too little because they’re following a program built for someone else.
This leads to an all-or-nothing mindset. Whereby you think you’ve either got to dedicate your life to working out to see results, or you do nothing at all because you don’t think what you have time and energy for is enough to make a difference. Inevitably creating a chain of start-stop attempts at rigid programs.
To make things worse, you lose energy, and enthusiasm on each failed attempt, so you are more vulnerable to work stress and general fatigue which can easily lead to burnout. So jumping back on a program that expects you to lift weights every day, eat 1200 calories, or run 50 miles a week is only going to end one way…(and I’ve seen programs that ask for all of this at the same time)
There is a better way to do fitness…
The key to success in fitness lies in context and consistency. After 14 years as a personal trainer I’ve now built over 10,000 custom exercise programs and success leaves clues. You need a program that meets you where you are. It’s that simple. When calibrated well with efficient workouts, you really only need to be working out 3-4 times per week for about 30-40 minutes, and your diet needs to follow basic healthy first principles whilst offering a healthy dose of flexibility if you’re to stand any chance of maintaining it. And if a lack of time is a factor, studies have shown that both resistance training and HIIT workouts can be effective in as little as 10 minutes.
So if the efficacy of a well-calibrated program is not in doubt, (and I can tell you it’s not, because results in fitness are predictable) and time for exercise is no longer a problem. Then the real question is, if you had the perfect exercise program, could anything still stop you from implementing it?
This is where accountability plays a crucial role, as having the support and attention of a dedicated professional can be the defining factor in establishing and maintaining new, lasting lifestyle habits and staying motivated.
Imagine fitness fitting seamlessly into your life rather than consuming it, where getting shape isn’t about a drastic lifestyle change, but simple, effective habits that stack on top of one another and aggregate to transformative change over time. That’s how we do things here and you’re welcome to join us.
“Scott Laidler is a highly respected exercise professional with a diverse and varied skillset. With over 10 years’ experience in the sector, he wears many hats, including but not limited to celebrity personal trainer, corporate wellness consultant, fitness writer, and online personal trainer”
“Just like a face to face personal trainer, Scott adjusts programs, nutrition advice, and intensity according to a person’s goals. Scott Laidler does a great job of making meals healthy AND enjoyable”
“If you want to get in shape fast, Scott Laidler offers a six-week training plan – including a meal planner – to help. Tell Laidler your needs and he’ll design a program specifically for you. The meal plan details the exact macronutrients you need, taking the difficulties out of diet ”
“Clients sign up for personal training and nutritional programmes tailored to their individual needs from a man who has trained everyone from athletes to Oscar-winning actors”
Book your consultation call so that you and I can discuss your goals, establish a mutually good fit for coaching, and create an initial strategy for your fitness program.
Based on our initial call, you’ll be in a great position to decide which of my online personal training packages best suits your needs. Once you’ve chosen I’ll send you a comprehensive intake form to bolster the notes I’ll take on our call.
I use the information I gather to build your custom program on my 28-step process of personalisation. It’ll take me 3-4 days to prepare it for you. We then schedule your onboarding call on which you and I discuss your program and mutually sign off on your ability to implement it, initiating the accountability dynamic between coach and client.
In a sea of fitness content online, fraught with conflicting opinions it can be difficult to distinguish between a fitness influencer and a professional personal trainer. In my observation, an influencer focuses their lens inward on themselves, whereas a coach focuses outward on their clients.
Typically Influencers share what’s working for them. With the implicit message that it’ll work for you too. Of course, their stories can be inspiring but aren’t always to be taken literally, as personalised fitness solutions. Doing as they do can lead to unhealthy comparisons and a lot of wasted time and effort following plans that are out of context for your lifestyle, fitness level, and goals.
In contrast, a professional personal trainer or vocational fitness coach draws on both their education and experience delivering results for previous clients to create a tailored strategy for the individual. Removing guesswork and establishing a plan that not only delivers short-term results but equips clients with the knowledge and tools that will allow progress to be sustained.
Before following what you see on social media, ask yourself whether you’re being shown the whole truth or a curated version of it. Consider whether your favourite influencer’s workout program, diet, and lifestyle are truly the perfect fit for you as well.
I’ve spent the last 14 years working as a fitness professional. A career that’s taken me from simply trying to solve my own fitness frustrations to working in person with members of European royal families, Oscar-winning actors, chart-topping musicians, high-flying executives, Hollywood film producers, and consulting with blue chip companies on their wellness culture.
I created my boutique online personal training service in 2015 to bring professional fitness coaching to the digital realm. I go through the same level of meticulous planning and personalisation thats allowed me to work as an in-person trainer at the highest level.
I have been fortunate to be considered among the best fitness coaches from the U.K., and to have this online fitness service regularly considered among the best in class internationally. Why not enlist me as your online personal trainer and have 14 years of experience and expertise on hand at the touch of a button as you navigate your fitness journey.
Conflicting opinions and information overload can lead to analysis paralysis. You can find yourself working out for weeks, months or even years without ever really knowing if what you’re doing is right for your body and your goals. A custom-made training program from an experienced trainer solves this overnight. Once you have faith in a tailored program all you have to do it implement. Most people don’t realise that getting results in fitness is 100% predictable, especially when you’ve built successful programs for thousands of people as I have. So why waste your time, energy and money guessing?
Many people overestimate what it takes to get results and underestimate the impact of efficient training. Perfectionism kills progress, my program guarantees results on just an 80% compliance rate. This means your program is built to fit with your life, rather than consume it. Waiting for the perfect time to get fit because you need to get it spot on isn’t realistic, you’ve no doubt got a busy life, just like every one of my clients, and a workout plan shouldn’t stop you living it. If your training structure fails you during your most chaotic times when you need it most, it’s not really a solution.
I know you could do this on your own if you had to, but even Michael Jordan had a coach. I believe investing in an online fitness program is a sign of self-efficacy. You’re taking your future into your own hands. Sometimes to capitalise on that positive intention it helps to have someone rooting for you and checking in on your progress. Ensuring you stay motivated and on course. You won’t need it forever, but having support in the form of dedicated accountability to reach your cruising altitude could be the difference between making a healthy lifestyle stick and repeated failed attempts at getting off the ground.
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Online personal training is a fitness coaching service delivered via the Internet. It enables you to receive a workout program calibrated to your fitness level, providing a linear route to your goals. The personal training software the program is built on is in the form of a fitness app that makes workout planning and tracking effortless. I’ve built this service with the intention of making it a best-in-class service for those looking to make serious lifestyle change and approach fitness in a sustainable way. I will build your workout program specifically for you, you’ll then be able to access tailored fitness programs, instructional videos, and meal plans. The service is bolstered by personal accountability, featuring regular check-ins and feedback with your dedicated personal trainer.
Spaces on my online personal training program are limited, I’ll only ever work with a restricted number of clients at any given time. This allows me to maintain a high level of service to both new and existing clients.
To ensure that I can personally get behind your fitness goals and vouch for your results it’s crucial that we discuss what online coaching would look like for you. Once I understand the motivation behind your goals and your journey so far in pursuing them, I’ll be in a far better position to help you achieve them. Putting you in a great position to decide whether I’m the best online personal trainer for you. In my experience, this is best achieved on an initial consultation call.
This is a very interactive coaching service and we’ll be in contact near daily for the next 8 weeks, so it’s in both of our interests to make sure we have a rapport and align on a strategy for your goals. Where this program excels is it’s departure from diet culture, quick fixes and short term measure, this all involves working in a steady with with the intention of building long-term habits, a consultation call allows me to confirm that you are onboard with this approach before we get started.
Typically speaking, those that are in the best position to succeed with the program are those who are looking for a permanent solution to their health & fitness challenges. This will require a willingness to work in a moderate, maintainable way, resisting short-term fixes and restrictions.
I have created a comprehensive list of the types of individuals and scenarios that have historically achieved the best results with my online coaching service, and those that may not be a great fit for the way I work. You can view my findings here.
Flagship online personal training service
My online coaching service is essentially having your own fitness blueprint architected toward your goals, and then having accountability from an expert personal trainer to help you implement and stay motivated throughout the program.
It involves me building a tailored workout plan for you. Based on my own 28-step process of personalisation. That covers everything from your fitness goals to your individual lifestyle and circumstances. If guesswork and not knowing what to do is your major challenge, then I will guarantee your success on the program if you follow it to 80%.
This personal training course positions me as your virtual personal trainer, holding you accountable to the program to ensure you stay motivated, consistent with exercise and on track. Perfect if accountability has been your biggest challenge and you’d benefit from having an online PT in your corner. This service will propel your fitness journey as it perfectly combines self-efficacy and accountability, setting you up to maintain what you achieve long into the future.
It’s also where concierge service meets online fitness coaching. I allocate extra resources to allow me to adapt your program daily as your travel and circumstances change. You’ll also be able to send my nutritionist menus as you eat out and need help making healthy food choices.
This tier of coaching is best if you want to take all decision-making out of health and fitness or have had your progress de-railed by travel and logistics in the past.
The intention of this program is to offer the Rolls Royce of online fitness coaching. We keep close internal feedback mechanisms with our customers to ensure we’re delivering on that goal. Many of our clients and press reviews share that sentiment.
My signature online workout programs are built on the success of my custom workout plans, in that I’ve kept 14 years worth of data and comprehensive notes on the best workouts and strategies to achieve specific fitness goals. Allowing me to build a proven fitness program that solves a specific challenge, in a predictable way.
The main difference between online personal training and my signature workout programs is that the signature workout programs are fixed in nature. They were created to solve a particular fitness challenge in a comprehensive way. They reliably do this, but unlike my online personal training service are not built to be modified and adapted over the course of the program. Essentially on the signature programs you’ll be pursuing a certain goal on a pre-determined path, whereas on my online personal training service everything is built on a custom basis and can be modified and re-imagined as your circumstances change.
For this reason it’s important to check that you meet the pre-requisites for your chosen signature program. These can include fitness equipment, frequency of days available to exercise etc.
Yes, the online personal training service includes a custom-made, nutritionist-designed meal plan. What you eat plays a huge role in both how you feel and how successful you’ll be with your online fitness coach. So I have teamed up with qualified nutritionist Dr. Katie Turianytsia to offer a professional nutrition plan alongside your online coaching program. This way you have the expertise of a fitness professional bolstered by access to professional nutrition coaching.
I also offer a meal plan-only service for those who already have a fitness program in place elsewhere and are simply looking for a nutritionist-designed meal plan to want to know what to eat to help them achieve their fitness goals.
I started my career an in-person fitness trainer. Actually this is how I spent the first 10 years of my career, having become a qualified personal trainer with Premier Global NASM, which is endorsed by active IQ.
Back then as a certified personal trainer, you worked in person only, often starting your career gym instructing and then learning to work more comprehensively, adapting a training program for potential clients with personalized workouts calibrated to the appropriate fitness level.
There was no such thing as an online personal training course, in terms of a course you could take to train people online. I started work as an online fitness coach to deliver on requests from my in-person clients as they travelled the world to meet media obligations or work obligations and often needed a training session they could do on their own while they were away. This worked really well and as a result, I decided to open the service up online via this website. In the decade I spent working as an in-person fitness professional, I delivered over 10,000 training sessions, to people from all walks of life and have consistently delivered results, leading both my in person services in London and this online coaching service being considered amongst the best in class.
In my early career I worked as a personal trainer in London, operating in different gyms and running outdoor boot camp style group classes in local parks. Over time my results began to get noticed and I was invited to Hollywood to work with a high profile client in the TV Business. Since then I’ve been fortunate enough to train clients all over the world.
This led to me writing for numerous news, health, and fitness publications, as well as a number of TV appearances as a health expert discussing everything from strength training to improving body composition and setting up a winning mindset to achieve any fitness goal.
I’ve also had the opportunity to work on big budget Hollywood film productions getting the cast in shape for their movie roles. Now, aside from a few special requests, I work solely with my online PT client base.
To learn more about my coaching philosophy, I host a fitness podcast where I speak to athletes, leading fitness industry personalities, and thought leaders on everything from the nuance of strength training, and muscle building to recent breakthroughs in sports medicine.
If you would like to take a deep dive into my methods, my coaching service or the wider team here please read through our about pages.
It depends on what your goals are, and at what stage you are on your fitness journey. Some of my clients are simply looking to improve their self-esteem and establish healthy habits. Others are seeking muscle building or fat loss as part of a body transformation.
No matter the initial goal you would like me to help you pursue, I would expect you to finish your initial program with improved body composition, greater energy levels, and the ability to maintain the results I’ve helped you achieve. In this way, my intention is that your coaching experience will be transformative. To give you a better idea of whats possible, please have a look through my results and testimonials
Online personal trainers work a little differently to gym instructing or delivering a training session in person. It’s best to think of online fitness as more of a personal fitness blueprint that you follow in your own time alongside dedicated accountability and support. Of course, there is also an over-arching methodology to the way we coach.
Absolutely. I encourage potential clients to book a consultation call before signing up. You’ll speak with me personally to make sure we have a mutually good fit, and I’m the best online coach to help you along your fitness journey.
One of the benefits of online training is that your training plan can be built to work for you in any scenario, whether at home in gym or even in multiple locations. I build personalized workouts as part of my custom 8-week online personal training course. This means gym membership or not, you can stay consistent with exercise no matter how chaotic life gets. All you need is access to your fitness app and the support I’ll deliver on it.
Your fitness program is delivered as an iOS/Android fitness app. It is purpose-built personal training software with plenty of features that make the process of online coaching simple. So following and tracking your training plan is simple and provides me excellent oversight as your coach.
I recognise that you may have found my service during a challenging time in your life, in fact, 74% of my inbound clients report that the period before they signed up with me had been more stressful than usual. A further 11% reported that they were recovering from a particularly traumatic circumstance, which was often the trigger for starting a health initiative or program that could help them turn things around. So I’ve built my service with that in mind. Both in terms of building you a plan that meets you where you are and in the level of support and accountability I’ll provide throughout the coaching process.
I’ve built this service to be transformative. In that, yes, you’ll have achieved excellent fitness results by the end of the program, I think thats a given. Perhaps more significantly, you’ll also have a better relationship with exercise and food moving forward. I’m confident in that because you’ll have the knowledge, mindset and established habits that will allow you to maintain everything you achieve.
On a personal note, I understand what it’s like to be frustrated by my own fitness results or to feel burned out from work pressures, simply wanting to feel like myself again. So I’ve built my entire fitness strategy around solving the real-world problems busy people face because after solving my own fitness challenges and developing methods to stay in shape whilst running a business, I walk in shoes more like my clients than my contemporaries.
This isn’t going to be about a photoshoot, a fad diet or a social media trend. It’ll be about building a healthy life in which you have the energy you need, feel confident in your own skin and are strong and fit enough to do any activity you want to try your hand at. I’m not out to reinvent the wheel, I want to help you consistently implement the fundamentals, prioritise self-care and develop the kind of resilient mindset that means you’ll show up even on the days you least feel like it. If I can help you establish a framework around health & fitness that still works no matter how busy life gets, you’ll be free of your health & fitness challenges and in control of your weight, body composition and energy levels, perhaps for the first time. If that sounds like a good fit and goal you can get behind, you’re in the right place. The next step is to book a consultation call, let’s do fitness the right way.
Healthy Regards,