My journey in to personal training, and later strength and conditioning, started back in 2010. After a year of training as a Personal Trainer (often abbreviated to PT) at Loughborough College, I shortly became successful in obtaining a role as a Personal Trainer on a cruise ship. Fantastic. 25 years old, sailing the seas, using my passion of improving health and well-being to help everyone from around the world. Unfortunately, that vision ended rather quickly. After moving to the cruise ship training school in Watford, I quickly realised that the vast majority of the role was selling pills to cruise ship clientele. They wanted me to go as far as performing a presentation explaining that the reason why they struggled to lose weight, was due to them having "too much of an acidic bloodstream". The cure to this? Well, the little pills of seaweed (which is a high alkaline compound) that we had on offer. All we needed was £600 of your hard earned money, then we'll give you the pills and the weight would be flying off of you. It's Sales 101. Create a problem, sell the cure. You see, even so early on in my career, I was already beginning to become obsessed with learning everything about the human body. I knew that even if the body was too acidic, it had remarkable resources to help even out and return the body to homeostasis - all naturally without even needing one measly pill from the £600 batch you've just bought. In fact, research has demonstrated that the fad of "Alkaline dieting" was nothing more than smoke and mirrors. High alkaline foods did nothing to your endocrine system other than simply being edible food (a very expensive choice of food in this case). I raised my concerns to the instructors at my training school in Watford to which I was told to either "sell the pills" or "there's the door". As a man of integrity (I like to think so anyways), I opted for the exit. I simply hated bullshitters too much to become one of them myself.