Equilibrium Meet the team
Alasdair Lane
Sports Performance and Strength & Conditioning Coach
Alasdair began his health and fitness career as a Physical Training Instructor (PTI) in the Army. After leaving the Army he gained his experience by working for two of the leading health clubs and personal training centres in London. Whilst working for Matt Roberts Personal Training he was privileged to work with some of the world's biggest celebrities from the fashion world such as John Galliano and Tom Ford. However, the majority of his clients now are senior executives working for large corporations or those seeking to get an edge on their sports performance. He has written for a number of papers and magazines such as The Sunday Times, Zest Magazine and he regularly contributes to GQ Magazine.
He practises what he preaches and being a keen endurance athlete he has completed the Marathon des Sables (MDS), the UK Half Ironman (70.3) and has done over 10 marathons and numerous Triathlon races.
He now works as the Fitness Coach for Brentford FC (Coca-Cola League 2 Champions 2008-09) but still trains a number of personal fitness coaching clients. He feels this is a work balance that he benefits from hugely as he has developed many coaching techniques through working with many different individuals and he continues to enjoy the variety. His philosophy is the training of movements, not individual muscles and there by taking into consideration each individual's differences, yet still helping them to achieve their goals and aims, whilst reducing their injury potential.
To add a different dimension to his personal training he completed his Mountain Leader (Summer) award and Single Pitch (Climbing) award and now regularly takes his clients into the British mountains to climb and walk so they can test their fitness and see how what they do in the gym can be applicable to normal life.
Alasdair holds an MBA, is accredited by both the UK Strength & Conditioning Association (ASCC) and the National Strength & Conditioning Association (CSCS), and is also a British Triathlon Federation Level 2 Coach.
To further his education, Alasdair is currently studying for an MSc Biomechanics at Roehampton University with his research focusing on how impact characteristics of professional footballers, during running, change after an 8 week combined weightlifting/plyometric intervention.
To check Alasdair's availability or ask him a question, please send an email to him at alasdairlane@ehfsolutions.com.
Martin Watkins
Martin's picture used for the front cover of Men's Health Oct 2005.
Martin Watkins - Personal Trainer and Strength & Conditioning Coach.
Martin has just completed an MSc in Biomechanics, specialising in golf where he carried out a successful 8 week intervention improving the X-factor. If you play golf, you'll know the importance of that! This was achieved through a dynamic movement screening followed by specific functional movement conditioning. If you're inflexible he'll improve it; if your weak he'll make you strong; if you're slow he'll make you fast; if you're fast he'll make you faster!
Martin's background highlights a life long passion for all things relative to strength and conditioning. However, this is achieved through a philosophy which is focused on movements, not muscles, objectives not fashions or fads, strong postural basics, not falsely stabilised machines. He qualified as a British Amateur Weightlifting Association (B.A.W.L.A) trainer in 1992 and has been personal training in London for the past 5 years. He is currently completing the UKCSA qualification. He is also experienced with professional athletes having worked with premiership football and rugby clubs including Westham, Reading and London Irish.
Martin has competed previously in amateur bodybuilding, but now puts his energy in competitive rowing down in Putney. He likes to practice what he preaches, and his goal is to train from the inside out, ultimately leading to lifestyle changes educating the client to ensure their results are for life.