MSc nutritionists. First-class sports scientists.
Every coach completes weekly continued professional development, so whichever one you train with, you get the best.
Tyler
Founder
Founder of Real Life Health & Fitness. Coach for over 10 years, educator for over 3, and the driving force behind growing the brand to help over 20,000 people worldwide. Specialises in fat loss and hypertrophy, alongside flexible dieting.
Eric
Manager, Head Coach & Real Life Academy Tutor
First-class degree in Sports and Exercise Science, Level 2 Strength & Conditioning specialist, Pre & Post Natal qualified. Runs injury rehab, co-founded Real Life Academy, and qualifies every PT that comes through our doors.
Lucy
Personal Trainer
Our most experienced large-group PT coach, and our most experienced online coach too. Lucy's been with us for 4 years, and in that time she's never stopped developing: continuously upskilling and challenging herself to become the coach she is today. She specialises in fat loss for women, including women managing hormonal conditions like an underactive thyroid, PCOS and endometriosis. She lives with an underactive thyroid herself, medicated for life, and has still achieved her own incredible transformation, getting photoshoot-ready against odds most people never have to think about. She won't take any nonsense, but she's also empathetic and understanding with every client. Lucy's your coach if you want to take your physique to the next level, or if you just want to get strong.
Aimee
Personal Trainer
A true Real Life homegrown PT, trained in-house and qualified at our own Academy, under Eric and Tyler, and now smashing it on the gym floor for over a year since. Before that, Aimee worked in hospitals from a young age, always in professional, caregiving environments, and made the move into fitness to build the strength and confidence she'd found for herself. She's a young mum and a single parent, and manages to give her son the best upbringing possible while working full time and staying in incredible shape herself. Now she wants to show other mums how to do exactly the same.
Lily
Personal Trainer
Another homegrown Real Life PT, qualified by Eric and Tyler at the Academy and, as Tyler's daughter, she's got the added experience of having put up with him her whole life. Lily wants to help young girls navigate growing up in a healthy way, and be a positive role model for girls in a world that can be very confusing. She specialises in wellness, and is passionate about educating and inspiring people (especially young girls) on how to be safe in the gym, get strong, and grow in confidence.
Sam
Personal Trainer
Sam's journey started right here as a client: she trained with us for 3 years before qualifying as a PT herself, and is now 38kg down on her own weight-loss journey while managing PCOS. Sam is the true definition of Real Life: she came to us unhappy, needing a change, and not believing in herself, and she's proved everyone wrong since. Now, as the newest member of our team, she's helping young women overcome exactly the obstacles she once faced.
Priya
MSc Nutritionist
Our MSc-level nutritionist, specialising in nutrition therapy and helping women manage conditions like PCOS, endometriosis, thyroid issues, menopause and perimenopause, alongside typical nutrition coaching. Priya heads up our entire nutrition team, overseeing nutrition for every member we have, in the gym and online.
Where Real Life started
Real Life Health & Fitness was created to help real people: people in the struggle who’ve often felt forgotten, who haven’t had the best education or support, and have been left not knowing how to get the health, fitness and body they deserve. Real Life is proof to everyone that no matter what you’ve been through, where you’ve come from or what you’ve done, if you work hard, stay passionate, care about people and never give up, you really can achieve anything.
Tyler grew up in Longsight, in some of the poorest parts of Manchester, moving around through poverty and childhood trauma most people will never have to experience. He ended up in jail at 17, had three kids under three by 21, and lived through crime, violence and abuse with very little positive around him, until he found happiness helping people through health and fitness, and used that to completely turn his life around and open his own gym for people just like him: people who didn’t have a lot, didn’t know what to do, and were left unhappy in their own bodies.
We’ve always wanted this to be a brand for the people who need it most, which is why, to this day, we still run free kids’ classes and free community classes, even as we’ve grown into a genuine top contender, not just in the UK but across the world. We aim to keep growing, take our share of what’s out there, and make the biggest positive impact we possibly can. Ten years on, we’ve helped thousands of people worldwide, generated millions in revenue through positive contribution to our community, and we’re now qualifying PTs of our own (over 130 so far), each one spreading that same butterfly effect of happiness and positivity even further.
Our mission: giving real families the education to take control of their health, happiness and life, long term.