Hi, I’m Russ.
I’ve chosen to spend my whole life around barbells and dumbbells, both personally and professionally.
My fitness journey began when I was just 9 years old, when doctors discovered I had a rare bone disorder which had gone undiagnosed for many years. That condition resulted in me having two hip operations, a metal spike inserted into my body, and a few years in a wheelchair.
But despite their slim expectations of me being able to walk again, my Granda decided to push me along to the local gym to see if we could reverse the process by learning how to strengthen my body.
That was way back in 1990 (yup, I’m ancient), and I’ve been in the weights room ever since!
I eventually reached a stage where I no longer needed the wheelchair, and as I entered my mid-teens my focus shifted to training for appearance, so that I could chase the look of my idols Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, etc.
I spent most of my days either in the gym, or sprinting on the local track, or with my face buried in the pages of fitness magazines as I poured all of my attention into the latest developments regarding new training styles and cutting edge supplementation.
In 2002 I attented Newcastle College to earn my fitness qualifications so that I could turn my hobby (/obsession) into a full-time career as a personal trainer.
I spent the next 22 years working as a PT, helping a wide scope of clients which included pro athletes, actors, business execs training in their lunch break, and busy parents letting out all of their frustration by smashing theiron.
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 chunk my programs down into a series of “do this – not that” instructions which anybody could understand, and made use of my hidden superpower as an absolute fucking nerd to learn how to separate fact from fiction in the often confusing world of fitness research.
The result is that my PT clients were able to simply turn up to the gym, follow my advice, and get the results they wanted.
I became known as “Russ Howe PTI – The Fat Loss Guy”, and in early 2011 I decided to launch this website.
It initially started 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.
More and more people discovered the site, so I began adding workout programs and diet plans for them to use, and the website actually overtook my PT job as our family’s primary source of income during the “lockdown” period in 2020.
Here are some of the places my work 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 to show you that you’re in good hands.)
As the site continues to grow, I left my gym so that I could focus on helping people from all over the world rather than purely those in my local area, and that’s what I do right now!
And this brings me to YOU.
Hello, friend.
Whether you found my via word of month, social media, Google, or anywhere else, 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 work as I do for my affordable price I charge, and I plan on keeping my website at this low cost FOREVER to enable as many people as possible to use it!
There are 1000s of people PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU currently getting great results with the programs on RussHowePTI.com and all of them were once reading this page, just like you are now.
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.
