About Healthy Joe’s
Healthy Joe’s was founded by Joe Petherwick, Personal Trainer and Strength & Conditioning Coach.
Train the person in front of you
People differ in their goals, experience, physical capabilities, preferences and circumstances. Effective coaching therefore requires more than simply giving everybody the same workout.
At Healthy Joe’s, we use Fundamental Movement Patterns as the basis for training and apply General Physical Preparation principles to give it structure and direction for how those movements and physical qualities are developed over time.
Our approach
We generally want people to earn complexity rather than start with it. We build control, balance, stability, coordination and an appropriate range of motion, then progressively develop muscular capacity and strength. When it supports the individual’s goal, training can then move towards greater force production, power, ballistic movement, force absorption/deceleration and eventually more specific preparation for a sport or event.
The sequence is a framework rather than a rigid checklist. Progress is based on readiness and purpose. An easier variation is not a failure, and a harder variation is not automatically better. Training is progressed, regressed or adjusted according to the person and the intended adaptation. Quality and intent matter more than simply accumulating repetitions or making a session look hard. The goal is to provide enough stimulus to produce adaptation while preserving the reason the exercise is there in the first place.
We want the people we work with - and the people who use Healthy Joe’s resources - to understand the principles behind what they are doing rather than simply follow instructions. The overall aim is to make health and fitness more understandable, practical and sustainable without making it unnecessarily complicated.
Healthy Joe’s
The objective for Healthy Joe’s isn't to promote extreme exercise, punishment workouts, quick transformations or one-size-fits-all rules. It is to help people feel stronger, fitter, healthier and happier while developing the knowledge and confidence to take greater ownership of their own health and fitness via a principles-led approach.