James Crossley is a highly skilled Personal Trainer with a lifetime’s experience in optimizing his own, and his clients’, physical performance. Indeed, he arguably has one of the most broad ranging and diverse backgrounds of any personal trainer you will ever meet!
Originally a competitive bodybuilder, winning the title of Junior British champion when just a teenager, James learned at a young age many of the tricks of the trade when it comes to optimizing fat loss and muscle shape. It was this superlative physical condition combined with a very personable character, that lead to him be approached to join a brand new ITV show called “Gladiators”. Those of you who were watching mainstream Saturday night television in the 1990s will recognize James’s alter ego, “Hunter”, and this was a highly physical role that kept him in the public eye for almost a decade. During this time, and beyond, James devised new ways of conditioning to complement the rigours of the Gladiators tasks, presenting fitness shows and even branching out to the extent that he toured as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the USA.
In many ways his career has now come full circle as he has returned full time to his first love of training and helping people get into the best, and healthiest, condition of their lives. What stands out loud and clear with James is that he genuinely cares about all his clients and is very much what one would call “a people person”. However, don’t let this description fool you as he is also very much in the mould of all UP personal trainers, and he is here to help his clients work as hard as possible in order to achieve our motto of “maximum results in minimum time”!
A Few Words From Nick Mitchell:
“I took an instant liking to James when first meeting him, and the rest of my team felt exactly the same way. Its not just that he is an old bodybuilder from Yorkshire (exactly like me), but he has a very enthusiastic and warm presence that has over time proven itself to be a fantastic tool for helping our personal training clients feel secure and confident that here is a person who will go that extra yard to help them get results, without necessarily bringing a military boot camp style to bear! He is vastly experienced and has an array of tools in his fitness, fat loss, and muscle building box that help him to get results every time.”