Paul Booth

Company director

Age: 37

Fitness qualifications: Premier Training Diploma in Personal Training, sports massage, injury therapy & nutritional advice. REP's level 3 advanced instructor.

Competition History:

• 2003 Cosgroves Mr Northern UK middleweight & overall champion
• 2006 UKBFF North East Middleweight Champion
• 2006 UKBFF British finals light heavyweights 6th place
• EFBB/UKBFF British finalist on six separate occasions

Well known for his meticulous approach to diet & training, and for achieving a very high standard of conditioning on stage. He now advises several other champion bodybuilders on diet & contest preparation.

As a Personal Trainer, he has worked with international athletes, bodybuilders, sport specific athletes and with gym members looking to improve their health & well being through exercise.

Brief History

In his youth, he was a racing cyclist but at age 22 found bodybuilding & went from a skinny 130lbs to a lean 210lbs and has not looked back since. He began training at Kerry Keyes' famous gym in Denton, Betta Bodies, with no real aspirations to compete, he just wanted to achieve a physique he could be proud of. After a few years Paul was encouraged by Baz Bardsley of the Powermill gym in Middleton (where he was then training) to prepare for a bodybuilding competition. This was to be a pivotal moment for him and he qualified for the British finals in only his 2nd competition. He progressed from competing in the lightweight classes, through the middleweight ranks and is now a light heavyweight competitor. Under the expert guidance of John Hodgson & Kerry Keyes, Paul has earned a reputation for getting in fierce condition to compete, and was the 2003 Cosgroves Mr Northern UK overall champion, and the 2006 UKBFF North East middleweight champion.

After a career in the motor trade & insurance industries, Paul realised that he was simply not cut out for a desk job. In 2004 he decided to follow his passion in life which was his training. With 15 years of training already under his belt, Paul studied for, and passed, a diploma to allow him to become a full time personal trainer. Since then he's spent time in various clubs, some small privately run establishments, some large commercial chains. The general standard of knowledge he encountered with the staff & personal trainers in these clubs left him with no doubt that there was a niche in the market for a club built on quality, expertise & integrity (Paul frequently found himself training the PT's themselves!). He had always had a dream of owning his own club, and indeed, this has been suggested by many people over the years. All Paul's clients had achieved a noticeable change in their appearance after a short time training with him so he thought why not offer this level of service on a bigger scale? The rest as they say, is Evolution ..