A Different Kind of Personal Training.

Because your nervous system becomes part of the training decision.

Whether you're starting strength training for the first time, returning after injury or repeated setbacks, or simply looking for a more intelligent way to exercise, PHILLIPS FIT takes Personal Training beyond goals, biomechanics and exercise technique alone.

Using the PHILLIPS FIT Method™, your nervous-system response to exercise provides another layer of information that helps determine what you do, how much you do and when it's appropriate to progress.

You Want Results Without Constantly Starting Over

You want to become stronger, fitter and more capable.

But perhaps exercise hasn't always gone to plan.

You may have been injured while training in the past, even with a Personal Trainer. You may have completed rehabilitation, felt better and returned to exercise, only for the same problem to eventually come back.

After enough setbacks, it can become difficult to know what your body can genuinely tolerate, whether you should push harder or back off, or whether exercise itself is simply going to cause another problem.

And if you're new to training, you may simply want the reassurance of knowing that what you're doing is appropriate for your body from the outset.

Either way, good Personal Training should involve more than simply giving you exercises, watching you perform them, providing encouragement, and counting reps.

PHILLIPS FIT is designed to help you pursue your fitness goals in a way that is intelligent, individualised and sustainable, so that training can remain part of your life for the long term.

Personal Training, With Another Layer of Information

Traditional Personal Training considers important things such as your goals, exercise technique, biomechanics, strength and fitness.

The PHILLIPS FIT Method™ includes all of those things but adds another important question:

How is your nervous system responding to the demand?

An exercise can look technically correct and consciously feel completely fine while assessment reveals that your nervous system is responding unfavourably in ways that might otherwise go unnoticed.

That response becomes useful information.

Rather than automatically continuing because an exercise was completed, training can be progressed, modified, reduced or reconsidered according to what your body is actually demonstrating.

The response informs the decision.

The Difference — Four Examples of Traditional PT vs PHILLIPS FIT

Traditional Personal Training and the PHILLIPS FIT Method™ may use many of the same exercises.

But the difference lies in how the training decisions are made...

1. Daily Readiness

Traditional Personal Training:

"How are you feeling today — ready to train as planned?"

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The PHILLIPS FIT Method™:

"What does today's assessment tell us about your current nervous-system capacity, and how should that shape the session?"

3. Exercise Selection

Traditional Personal Training:

"Which exercises best suit your goals and biomechanics?"

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The PHILLIPS FIT Method™:

"Which exercises best suit your goals, biomechanics and your nervous system's current capacity?"

5. Exercise Response

Traditional Personal Training:

"Does the exercise look right and feel okay, and if not, what should we change?"

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The PHILLIPS FIT Method™:

"How is your nervous system responding to this exercise, and how should that response guide what we change, if anything?"

An exercise can look right and feel fine while still producing a defensive nervous system response. The PHILLIPS FIT Method™ assesses for what you—and your Trainer—may otherwise be unable to see.

6. Progression

Traditional Personal Training:

"Can we increase the load, reps or intensity?"

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The PHILLIPS FIT Method™:

"Has your nervous system demonstrated capacity for a greater demand, and when we increase that demand, can it still organise and tolerate it successfully?"

Train to your capacity. Expand what's possible.

What Does That Mean for You?

Train with greater confidence

Your programme isn't something you simply have to keep up with. Exercise and training demand can be adapted according to how your body is responding at a non-conscious/nervous system level.

Reduce unnecessary setbacks

If a particular exercise, load, range of movement or other demand isn't being well tolerated, we can identify the response and change the training decision and/or intervention accordingly.

That means not simply pushing through it, or automatically assuming that tightness needs stretching and weakness needs strengthening.

Make progress you can actually sustain

Getting stronger and fitter is only useful if each step forward doesn't repeatedly end in another setback or enforced break from training.

With the PHILLIPS FIT Method™, progression isn't judged only by whether you can lift more weight, complete more repetitions or perform a harder exercise. When the demand increases, we also reassess how your nervous system responds to that increase.

That helps us distinguish between "you managed to do more" and "your nervous system actually handled more successfully", so we can decide whether to keep progressing, adjust the demand, or address something else first.

The aim is to keep moving you forward without repeatedly knocking you backwards.

Build strength and fitness you can maintain

The goal isn't simply to help you achieve a short term result. It's to help you build the strength, fitness and physical capability to keep training, keep progressing and keep doing the things you want your body to be capable of for years to come.

Fewer unnecessary setbacks. More sustainable progress. A better way to stay FIT for life.

The PHILLIPS FIT Method™

Assess → Match → Expand

The PHILLIPS FIT Method™ provides the decision making framework behind your training.

Rather than following a predetermined programme regardless of how you're functioning, every exercise, progression and training decision is continuously matched to your current capacity.

Assess

Find out what your body and nervous system are ready to handle today, based on assessment, not assumption.

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Match

Match the most appropriate exercise, intervention and level of demand to you and your current nervous-system capacity.

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Expand

Determine the most appropriate strategy for increasing what you're able to successfully access and tolerate.

Never assume capacity. Assess it!
Train to your capacity. Expand what's possible.

Built on 6 Principles. Guided by 11 Decision Points™.

Behind Assess → Match → Expand sits a structured framework for making better informed training decisions.

The PHILLIPS FIT Method™ is built on 6 guiding Principles that shape how I approach your training, and 11 Decision Points™ that help determine what information we need to consider before deciding what happens next.

Together, the Decision Points consider daily readiness, training demand, exercise selection, training dose, exercise response, progression, movement capacity, strength & force production, sensory demand, state regulation and intervention choice.

The Principles guide how PHILLIPS FIT thinks.
The Decision Points guide what PHILLIPS FIT considers.
The Method brings them together to determine what happens next.

When The Obvious Intervention Isn't Necessarily The Right One

If something feels tight, the conventional response is often to stretch it.

If something appears weak, the response is often to strengthen it.

And if an exercise repeatedly causes problems, the solution may simply be to avoid it and find another one.

PHILLIPS FIT doesn't make those assumptions.

Tightness is a protective response produced by the nervous system. Simply forcing more range does not tell us why that protection was there, or whether the nervous system can successfully control and tolerate the additional range that may temporarily become available after that stretch.

Stretching is therefore not viewed as a matter of tissue length, but instead of nervous system safety, protection and threshold.

The same principle applies to weakness.

Reduced force does not automatically mean a muscle simply needs strengthening.

If the nervous system is inhibiting a muscle's contribution to a movement, traditional strength training or rehabilitation exercises do not necessarily remove that inhibition.

The body still has to complete the task, so the nervous system may redistribute the work to other muscles and movement strategies it currently trusts more.

Repeatedly loading that pattern can therefore make the body better at compensating, rather than restoring the contribution that was limited in the first place.

So rather than immediately asking:

"How do we stretch this?"
or
"How do we strengthen that?"

PHILLIPS FIT asks:

Why is the nervous system producing this response in the first place?

Assessment helps determine whether the appropriate next step is to train, modify the demand, change the exercise, or investigate the nervous system limitation itself.

Where a prediction or protective response appears to be constraining movement, force or another aspect of capacity, Neuro Reset Technique (NRT) provides a way of identifying and addressing that response before progressively returning to appropriately matched exercise.

Personal Training With Ryan Phillips

Experience. Assessment. Individualised Training.

I've worked as a Personal Trainer since 2004, helping people become stronger, fitter and more physically capable through resistance training and individually designed exercise.

Over the years, my approach has expanded through advanced study of biomechanics, Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT®), resistance training principles (Resistance Training Specialist (RTS)), and Neuro Reset Technique (NRT).

The PHILLIPS FIT Method™ brings those disciplines together — not simply as a collection of techniques, but as a framework for deciding what is most appropriate for the person in front of me.

Because the best exercise programme on paper is only useful if it is appropriate for the person actually doing it.

Right intervention. Right level of demand. Right time. Right person.

PHILLIPS FIT has been featured on:

Real People. Real Progress.

Building Strength. Restoring Confidence. Getting People Moving Again.

PHILLIPS FIT clients come with different starting points and different goals: from people exercising for the first time to those returning after years of recurring problems.

What matters is identifying what's limiting your progress, understanding how your nervous system is responding, and choosing the right intervention and level of demand to move you forward.

Jonny Mitchell - Love Island 2017 & Celebrity Big Brother 2018

Read more about how Jonny transformed his body for Love Island in just 12 days with the help of Ryan Phillips.

"I was ashamed of how I looked and there is no way I would have wanted to get my top off by the pool in the Love Island villa looking like that! I was amazed what I achieved in only 12 days when I stuck with Ryan's diet and exercise guidance"

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Your Training Should Fit You.

Whether you want to start exercising, get back to training after previous setbacks, become stronger and fitter, or simply take a more intelligent approach to your long term health and fitness, it starts by understanding you — including how your nervous system responds.

Train Smarter. Get Stronger. Stay FIT for Life.