Sep 11, 2026 · 23 min · 10 segments
14 years ago, LEP Fitness looked very different to what it does today... I started out running boot camps... Training people with kettlebells outside my house... Handing out flyers trying to find…
So I always knew that when I started this business, I wanted it to be more than just the physical side of things.
I wanted it to be the mental side of things.
And this, to be honest, when I started the business, mental health was still quite a new subject.
I don't remember many things on mental health being discussed when I was at university.
It was probably maybe 10 years ago, maybe 2016, 2017 from the top of my head that I think things started to ramp up a lot more.
I certainly don't remember there being any people that I could really speak to at university if I was struggling, like none of my mates.
We'd have open conversations, but still it was quite surface level stuff.
And I just knew that there was a bit of a demand for it.
I knew there was other people out there like myself, people that maybe felt a little bit insecure about the body, people that would have dips and sometimes struggle with comparison syndrome and just find it hard to sometimes navigate a challenging world.
So with LEP Fitness, the reason why I called it Life Enrichment Program, it's very much about like mind, body and spirit.
Yes, going to do the training and look at the nutrition and stuff like that, but also to connect with another human being, to build relationships, to have deeper conversations, conversations that people just not used to having, you know, most people outside of their maybe close friends and family.
You say, all right, mate.
And they say, yeah, I'm good.
How about you? And that's about as depth as, you know, as deep as things go.
And even with friends and family, it can be sometimes very difficult to open up because we've never been taught how to do it.
And maybe our circumstances don't allow it.
So I suppose it's almost like movement therapy.
That's the reason why I called it Life Enrichment Program, but then I just realized that was a bit of a long title, so that's why I shortened it to LEP Fitness.
Even though the business has changed over the last couple of decades since I've been doing this, the core principles stay the same, putting the human being first.
I would hope that pretty much any client or most clients that I've worked with would actually say that, you know what? i feel like i i really trust nick i feel like he's got my best interest at heart i feel like i could have a conversation with him about a lot of different things and there wouldn't be any judgment there would just be open ears and a safe space to listen and it's something that i've always really prided myself on as a coach is to be more than somebody that's just telling people what to do So that's where the idea came from.
So I always knew that when I started this business, I wanted it to be more than just the physical side of things.
I wanted it to be the mental side of things.
And this, to be honest, when I started the business, mental health was still quite a new subject.
I don't remember many things on mental health being discussed when I was at university.
It was probably maybe 10 years ago, maybe 2016, 2017 from the top of my head that I think things started to ramp up a lot more.
I certainly don't remember there being any people that I could really speak to at university if I was struggling, like none of my mates.
We'd have open conversations, but still it was quite surface level stuff.
And I just knew that there was a bit of a demand for it.
I knew there was other people out there like myself, people that maybe felt a little bit insecure about the body, people that would have dips and sometimes struggle with comparison syndrome and just find it hard to sometimes navigate a challenging world.
So with LEP Fitness, the reason why I called it Life Enrichment Program, it's very much about like mind, body and spirit.
Yes, going to do the training and look at the nutrition and stuff like that, but also to connect with another human being, to build relationships, to have deeper conversations, conversations that people just not used to having, you know, most people outside of their maybe close friends and family.
You say, all right, mate.
And they say, yeah, I'm good.
How about you? And that's about as depth as, you know, as deep as things go.
And even with friends and family, it can be sometimes very difficult to open up because we've never been taught how to do it.
And maybe our circumstances don't allow it.
So I suppose it's almost like movement therapy.
That's the reason why I called it Life Enrichment Program, but then I just realized that was a bit of a long title, so that's why I shortened it to LEP Fitness.
Even though the business has changed over the last couple of decades since I've been doing this, the core principles stay the same, putting the human being first.
I would hope that pretty much any client or most clients that I've worked with would actually say that, you know what? i feel like i i really trust nick i feel like he's got my best interest at heart i feel like i could have a conversation with him about a lot of different things and there wouldn't be any judgment there would just be open ears and a safe space to listen and it's something that i've always really prided myself on as a coach is to be more than somebody that's just telling people what to do So that's where the idea came from.
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