The Triumph of a Client – What Happens When You Merge Personal Training With True Nutrition
- Nov 3, 2025
- 7 min read
Written by Bradley Abbott, Personal Coach
Bradley Abbott is known for his wholistic approach to personal coaching merging fitness training with nutritional therapeutics. Author of the e-books A How-to Guide in Developing Functional Strength, Power and Adaptability, and The Cussing Coach, both published in 2024.
Back when I was around the age of 20 years old, I used to think like most people do, that people’s health issues could be solved by solving the genetic code that is shrouded in some mystery, and it was that mystery that got me intrigued in the first place. Not only was I interested in learning genetics, but I remember becoming enthusiastic and excited about the complexity of it. I wanted to learn as much as I could about it. Then a year went by, and I began to delve into sports nutrition and learned how to put together sports nutrition plans for elite athletes as part of my foundation degree. Although I began to get interested in nutrition itself, putting together an 8-week sports nutrition plan for athletes quickly got tedious. I remember staring at a computer screen for hours assembling every part of the plan and explaining why it would work.
"Every species of animal and human that dies of natural causes dies of a nutritional deficiency disease." – Dr. Joel D. Wallach
A few years went by, and I enrolled in and passed my Personal Training qualification in late October 2014. I quickly became an active and licensed PT at Pure Gym in Sunderland, and in my spare time, I became increasingly interested in nutrition related to health issues. I watched long and in-depth documentaries on the NHS, Naturopathic Medicine, Nutritional Trends of that time, and learned so much. I even tried going fully raw vegan for 24 hours as a test and realised quickly that this was not going to work. I learned shortly after why it was not going to work.
I came across one doctor on these documentaries that seemed to make the most sense out of all of them, Dr. Peter Glidden. Think about it for a second, we are in a time period where we are the most able, we have the most sophisticated technology, and the best minds working on every possible scenario to try and help people recover, and we could reverse chronic diseases or symptoms? Something just did not add up. Then I learned shortly after watching all these documentaries and reading online articles that we were using the wrong dog for the hunt.
Every single person and animal that dies of natural causes dies of a nutritional disease. Alzheimer’s is a cholesterol, essential fatty acids, and cofactors deficiency that occurred because of cholesterol and fat bashing with no help from Ancel Keys. Varicose veins are a simple copper deficiency. Copper, particularly colloidal copper, is required by the body to manufacture and strengthen the elastic fibres around blood vessels, skin tissue, and other bodily tissues. Obesity is a multiple mineral deficiency that causes pica and cribbing in animals and the munchies in people. The body craves minerals, so when people claim they crave food, they really just crave the minerals they hope the food will give them. Diabetes is a chromium, vanadium, and lithium deficiency. Chromium and vanadium in particular are required by the human body to metabolise sugar within the cells. Cancer is caused indirectly due to a selenium deficiency because selenium is required by the human body to recycle the body’s own antioxidant, glutathione. Rheumatoid arthritis is a calcium, magnesium, and cofactors deficiency with an infection of Mycoplasma spp., which can be dealt with by correcting the mineral deficiencies, the absorption of your gut, and by administering tetracycline.
Of course, there are other factors at play here, such as increasing your likelihood of getting these diseases by consistently consuming the bad foods that cause inflammation and cell death, also known as apoptosis.
I was always interested in exercise and performing like an athlete myself, but when I came across this information, so profound and so revolutionary, it was something that I could not ignore. Why would anyone want to? Not only that, it is information that would help my clients recover and achieve optimal performance years later upon my return to Pure Gym, Sunderland.
The layout
The idea of a healthy lifestyle is actually easy once you know where to look and which information to extrapolate.
Eliminate the bad foods
Replace them with the good foods
Supplement with all 90 essential nutrients for your body weight and level of severity of the symptoms
Hydrate the body with filtered or reverse osmosis water to reduce unwanted chemicals in the water
Get 7 to 9 hours of high-quality, uninterrupted sleep, 8 to 10 hours if you are an athlete
Perform light to moderate exercise daily
Get fresh air daily
You could even take this a step further and eat for your nervous system type, more on this in a future article
The barriers and false notions
The issue with this theory is:
It is overcomplicated and interfered with by an outdated concept perpetuated by the allopathic medical profession
Big pharmaceutical companies make way too much money from people getting sick, for example selling over-the-counter prescriptions, to even consider slowing down their system
Some people are ill-informed about what the good foods actually are. I once worked with someone who thought mayonnaise, or even light mayonnaise, was good for you. Mayonnaise is nothing but free radicals, atoms that have lost or gained an electron, they will stick to anything including your cells when you consume them, causing apoptosis, also known as cell death. This type of regular, frequent consumption increases your risk of heart disease and cancer exponentially over the years.
These types of issues have been ingrained in us for so many years that we accept them as normal, and there are not many people asking why. What is worse, in this context, is that not only are people genuinely scared to change their habits and leave their comfort zone, even if it is harming them, but they will actually go out of their way to defend it if you try to question them. I genuinely believe that this defence mechanism is birthed out of fear and understandably so. Still, you should never lose your ability to be open-minded, especially when it can save your life and many years of suffering.
What to do and how to do it
Through my years as a Fitness Instructor, Lifeguard, Personal Trainer, Youngevity Associate, and yes, even as a short-term assistant in delivering presentations on wholistic medical nutrition, I have seen many people and clients turn their health around dramatically through exercise and wholistic nutrition. I have even experimented with various programmes to see what works best and had dramatic positive changes myself.
I have personally had clients reverse their symptoms almost completely through dietary changes, supplementation, regular exercise, and little dietary hacks that help speed up the healing and recovery.
One of my clients had stomach issues, which her local physician prescribed lanzaprozole, a stomach acid blocker, rosacea, sciatica, and high blood pressure, which her doctor had prescribed blood pressure medication for, and low energy. Within three months, after going through the exercise and nutrition program I recommended for her, and the client relaying the information of the changes back to her physician, she was off her lanzaprozole and her blood pressure medication. What a turn around. Her rosacea almost completely reduced, and her energy sky-rocketed. Unfortunately, there was a shipping issue with her supplements, so her sciatica was not resolved. Sciatica, like any muscle and bone related issues, is a simple deficiency in calcium, magnesium, boron, strontium, sodium, potassium, and all other cofactors.
The other client who she attended my Personal Training sessions with had low back pain for years, low energy, and was told by her local physician she was at risk of high blood pressure and was almost placed on the medication for it. Thankfully, that never happened. After three months of the program, this client’s energy sky-rocketed also, and her risk of high blood pressure was reduced to zero. In month four, she supplemented with the Gluco-Gel, which contains all the necessary raw materials to rebuild cartilage and bone tissue, Gelatin, collagen, chondroitin sulphate, glucosamine sulphate, and manganese, and saw the back pain she had for years completely reversed. I was so proud of both of them. Once you know the method, you can accomplish anything.
Train and exercise
The exercises that my clients did were a combination of light to moderate cardio, such as various stepping sequences on a stepping bench and slow to moderate pace on the treadmill on a hill-type setting. They practiced mobility of the hips and spine, such as torso rotations with a cable or by using their own body weight, and by practicing body-weight squats. They also used isolated resistance machines because it was easier on their joints, especially in the beginning.
As my clients progressed, they added light weight to their mobility movements and increased the weight slightly on the isolated resistance machines. Remember, their goals here were not to build a big frame, but rather, to build functional strength, increase their range of motion, ROM, and to increase their overall energy levels throughout the day.
As they got further into their program, we agreed that it would benefit them to practice more circuit-type sessions involving various movements, such as the step-up, the assault bike, battle ropes, weighted carries, and other exercises that would help them increase their cardiovascular output and energy levels.
Disclaimer: The advice given in this article is not intended to treat or cure any disease. Further, the advice given in this article is not intended to replace the advice given by your doctor.
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Bradley Abbott, Personal Coach
Bradley Abbott is a personal coach and author. Known for his wholistic approach to training merging naturopathic principles with fitness training, he has managed to reverse the symptoms of his clients almost completely, and raise their energy to heights they never thought possible. He is the founder of Phoenix Phorm Online and uses these platforms to educate and inspire a larger audience.
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