INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLING FITNESS AUTHOR
BOOKS FOR REAL PEOPLE. WITH REAL LIVES.
Fitness, fat loss, mindset and the occasionally inconvenient business of making all of it work around an actual life.
I’ve written and contributed to a fair few books over the years — covering everything from body transformation and training to habits, mindset and making the whole bloody thing practical.
Some are now out of print. These are the ones you can still get your hands on.
IF YOU’RE NOT SURE WHERE TO START
A STRONGER BODY. A CLEARER MIND. A HAPPIER LIFE.
Rise Above is about what happens when you stop treating fitness, food, mindset and everyday life as separate problems.
It brings the pieces together into a practical approach to feeling stronger, thinking more clearly and building habits that can survive the weeks when life is considerably less cooperative than the plan.
If you want the book that most closely reflects how I think about health and fitness now, this is the one I’d start with.
Available in paperback and Kindle editions.
READ IT. OR LET ME READ IT TO YOU.
THE BUSY GIRL’S HOT BODY PLAN.
A practical fat-loss and body-shaping guide built for women who want results without needing their entire life to revolve around getting them.
It combines short workouts, practical nutrition and a realistic approach to fat loss for women who want strong results without reorganising their entire life around fitness.
If you’d rather listen than read.
TWO MORE FROM THE SHELF
DIFFERENT BOOKS. DIFFERENT WAYS TO GET UNSTUCK.
QUICK, PRACTICAL BODY TRANSFORMATION READ
THE 7 VITAL BUT OFTEN OVERLOOKED KEYS TO DRAMATIC BODY TRANSFORMATION.
Before you worry about the perfect workout or the latest diet, there are a handful of fundamentals that decide whether any of it is actually going to work.
This book pulls those fundamentals into one short, practical read: nutrition, goals, your environment, resistance training, motivation, accountability and support.
FEATURED CONTRIBUTION
HEALTHY HABITS FOR A HAPPIER LIFE.
I joined 22 of the world’s leading experts in health, fitness and weight loss for this Amazon bestselling collection, contributing a chapter tackling one of the fitness industry’s most persistent promises: targeted fat loss.
My chapter explains why you can’t choose where your body removes fat from — but also why targeted strength work can still change the shape and appearance of the areas you care about most.
THE STORY BEHIND THE BOOKS
MOST OF THEM STARTED WITH A REAL PROBLEM.
I never really set out with a grand plan to become an author. Most of the books happened because people kept asking the same questions, running into the same problems, or telling me they needed something I hadn’t written yet.
MEN’S HEALTH FORUM ERA
IT STARTED WITH QUESTIONS.
When I was Fitness Editor for Men’s Health, the internet was still young enough that message boards felt revolutionary. For the first time, instead of publishing something and waiting for letters to arrive, we could see what readers were actually talking about in real time.
And the same themes kept appearing. A lot of men wanted to lose fat, but had absolutely no enthusiasm for endless “aerobics” or living on rabbit food.
“The no-aerobics, no-celery-sticks weight loss plan for men.”
THEN READERS KEPT ASKING
ONE BOOK BECAME A SERIES.
After the first book, the obvious next question started arriving: “Can my wife do this?”
That led to Sculpting the Perfect Waistline II for women, then Sculpting the Perfect Hard Body, built around phased body transformation and real case studies taken all the way through to photo shoots.
Then came Efficient Muscle Building, continuing the idea that productive training did not have to mean living in the gym.
THE STUDIO YEARS
THE BOOKS BECAME MORE PERSONAL.
After moving to Worthing and opening my studios, I stopped writing books for a while — although I never actually stopped writing. Articles and blog posts carried on in the background.
Then came The Busy Girl’s HOT Body Plan, and that one was built almost entirely with the people around me: clients, photographers, friends, business owners, studio members and the busiest women I knew.
It wasn’t just written for busy women. In a very literal sense, busy women helped build it.
THE 7 VITAL KEYS WASN’T ORIGINALLY FOR AMAZON.
The book began with a late-night, sugar-fuelled idea to gather some of the best things I’d written over the years, update them and put them together in one place.
But the original purpose wasn’t to sell it.
I had copies printed for a client appreciation party, sat down with the entire stack, and wrote a personal message inside every single one before handing them out to my studio members as gifts.
IT ONLY BECAME A PUBLISHED BOOK LATER.AND APPARENTLY I’M STILL NOT DONE
FROM COLLABORATIONS TO RISE ABOVE.
The Women’s Trouble Spot Solution followed, then I joined a collection of leading health, fitness and weight-loss experts for the Amazon bestseller Healthy Habits for a Happier Life.
And then came Rise Above — probably the clearest expression yet of how I think about health, fitness, mindset and real life as one connected thing.
There are already more books planned in that world too, so it turns out my retirement from writing books was every bit as successful as expected.
That’s been the starting point for most of the writing ever since.