About Russ
Hi, I’m Russ.
I’ve chosen to spend my whole life around barbells and dumbbells (both personally and professionally).
My fitness journey began at 9 years old, when doctors discovered that I was born with a rare bone disorder which had gone undiagnosed for too long. This led to two hip operations, a metal spike to hold everything together, and a few years in a wheelchair.
Yep, the suck was hard.
But here’s the weird thing…
It was also the best thing that could’ve possibly happened to me!
For these early years of struggle ended up leading me to my love for the weights room, and eventually led to me meeting you right here and right now.
I have my Granda to thank for this.
You see, despite the doctors’ initial warning to my family that it would be unlikely I’d ever walk again, he refused to accept that nothing could be done. As soon as I was out of hospital, albeit wheelchair-bound, he pushed me along to the local gym to see if we could learn how to strengthen my muscles with a view to improving my quality of life, or perhaps even fixing the issues.
This was way back in 1990 (yup, I’m old!), and I can still remember it as clear as day.
I was fucking terrified!
But as I gazed at all the complex machines, the glistening biceps, and of all the luminous leggings, I realized I had found my home.
I would spend the next few years of my life applying the advice of the experts around me, and through a lot of hard work I eventually powered my way out of that damn wheelchair.
Fast-forward a few more years, and I’d reached a point in my late teens where my focus began to shift from training for pure funtion to training for an aesthetic appearance. I was chasing a similar look to that of my heroes on the big screen, like Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, etc.
All of my free time was taken up by a) the gym, b) the local sprint track, and c) with my head buried inside the pages of fitness magazines, as I poured all of my attention into finding out about the latest developments in the world of training, nutrition, and cutting edge supplements.
And then, in 2002, I enrolled in a course at Newcastle College which would help me achieve my first ever fitness qualifications, so that I could begin changing my hobby (/obsession!) into a full-time career as a personal trainer.
I spent the next 22 years working as an in-gym PT.
During that time I helped a wide scope of clients, which included pro athletes, actors, business execs who were training in their lunch hour, and busy parents who wanted to let off some steam by smashing the iron.
My days ran from 6am-10pm.
I’d go home covered in chalk, with calluses on my hands, and a sore throat.
Man, I fucking loved it.
And as I racked up all of this experience, I was able to develop a training system which got results every single time.
I figured out how to make use of my superpower of being an absolute fucking nerd by learning how to separate fact from fiction in the often confusing world of fitness research, and broke down my training advice into a series of “just do this, not that” instructions which anybody could understand, and anybody could get results with.
My PT clients seemed to love this, because they knew if they turned up at the gym and did what I said they’d get fantastic results – no jargon, no bullshit, no confusion!
I became known as “Russ Howe PTI – The Fat Loss Guy”, and in early 2011 I decided to launch this website.
My website initially began as a handy resource which I could give to my clients so they could do further reading on the stuff I was getting them to do in the gym, but it has grown so much since those days.
As more and more people started discovering it, I began adding workout programs and diet plans for them to use, and the website eventually overtook my PT job as our family’s primary source of income during the “lockdown” period in 2020.
This led to me going full-time with running the site, which is where I am right now.
Here are a few of the places my fitness advice has been featured:
- Men’s Fitness
- Women’s Health
- Personal Trainer Magazine
- Myprotein “Best Website” Nominee
- Huffington Post’s “Best Fat Loss Coaches In The World”
(I don’t say this to brag, of course, but rather to show you that you’re in safe hands!)
And this brings me to YOU.
Hello, friend.
Whether you found my via word of month, social media, or Google, I am glad you’re here and I look forward to helping you build your best body.
I pride myself on the fact that there isn’t a single trainer in the world who provides as much high quality material as I do for the affordable price I charge, and I intend to keep my website at this low cost FOREVER in order to enable as many people as possible to use it!
Right now there are 1000s of people PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU achieving awesome results thanks to the programs inside RussHowePTI.com, and all of them were once in the exact same spot as you, reading this page.
You have my word that if you do the workout programs and follow the nutrition advice contained within RussHowePTI.com you will achieve amazing results, and I’ll be by your side every step of the way as your “PT”.
You can join here or send me a message here.
