Nutrition & Personal Training

Disordered eating is often something people need specialist support with – and that’s not something we’re qualified to do here at Fitness Lab. However, we’d be more than happy to work alongside any professional medical advice you receive to help you put together an eating plan as part of your treatment

Yes. People of different genders almost always need different eating advice – especially when it comes to menstruation, becoming pregnant, and recovering from pregnancy – as well as approaching and going through the menopause. As well as having a diverse team here at Fitness Lab, we each also have areas of specific expertise – so we can offer expert advice on the specific kind of nutrition that will work for you.

Specific digestive issues (like coeliac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and other auto-immune conditions) will often need dedicated medical advice to help you understand the root cause of the problem and how food affects your health. Trained medical dieticians will sometimes even need to put together special diets to help you manage your issues. We don’t have these facilities at Fitness Lab – but we can absolutely work alongside medical professionals to support your needs.

No, we do not. A dietitian is a qualified health professional who can help you with special diets designed to help with diagnosed medical conditions. We don’t have those facilities here at Fitness Lab – but we’re happy to help you implement and specialist requirements you have into your personal training or eating plans.

No, we don’t offer food intolerance testing – but do understand exactly how different foods and food types can impact gut health and clash with health optimisation. We’ll often work with clients to keep a food diary and look at how different foods affect your training, fat loss goals, muscle building efforts, and much more. If you feel like food intolerance testing is something you’d like to explore, we can help you understand the results you get back and build an eating plan around what you learn.

Absolutely. There are very real scientific connections between your physical and mental health – and since eating is a significant part of changing your physique, you’ll often find it positively impacts your mental well-being too. Of course, mental health is something people often need specialist medical support with – and while we don’t offer that, we’re happy to help you implement and diet or exercises changes that medical professionals think will help.

Since food is the number one source of fuel for our bodies, it’s absolutely incredible what even just a few diet changes can make to a huge range of conditions. From managing skin health, thyroid health, and conditions like diabetes and irritable bowel syndrome, right through to hormone imbalances that come as a result of health issues like polycystic ovarian syndrome – the right kind of nutrition can often be life-changing. We’re happy to work with the advice you receive from specialist nutritional therapist to put together an exercise and eating plan to help.

Yes! Even looking at the label that comes on a shop-bought salad is enough to give most people a headache – and with lots of contradicting advice found online, it’s very hard to make sense of all the different terms and phrases used. In reality, healthy eating for weight management and other similar goals comes down to a few basic rules – and people that dress those rules up are usually trying to make money! At Fitness Lab, we’ll help you understand what you’re putting in your body, what the different numbers and phrases mean, and how to use the information to transform what you see in the mirror.