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Our Ethos

At Michael Rowe Fitness, our ethos is to support clients to establish a nutritional foundation that suites their lifestyle and preferences, upon which -  together - we can design a structure best suited to helping you achieve the results that you want.

Fuel Your Future

Employ our nutritional programming expertise to create a tailored plan with exciting menu options and variety, whilst ensuring that your body is fueled for maximum efficiency.

Choose Your Path

This is your journey, and we are here to help guide you. Whether you want improved flexibility and mobility, to lose weight and tone, increase muscle mass, or to improve your personal fitness for longevity, we create a programme tailored specifically to you.

Build Confidence

To the unfamiliar, the gym can be a daunting and confusing place. Being uncertain about the purpose of equipment, or of one’s appearance can often prove a barrier to many. Training with Michael Rowe Fitness, you can be assured that you will learn how everything works, you’ll train with  friendly, welcoming individuals - all you need to do is focus on your goals and we will coach you to become confident in the gym and to realize your goals. 

Forge Strength

Improve muscular strength, joint strength, correct and strengthen posture, but also watch yourself grow in confidence and self-assurance as time after time, you best personal bests, surprise yourself with your potential, and strengthen a resilience of mind.

Unlock Your Potential

With nutrition locked in thanks to our bespoke nutritional planning, and with our science-lead programming, you will soon discover that the limits you thought you had are no longer limiting factors. With continuing support, check-ins, and advice, you will far surpass what you thought you were capable of.

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Wisdom Forged in Science

  • Science-backed training – Every programme is built on established sports science and current evidence, not fitness fads or trends.

  • Research-led coaching – Training methods evolve alongside the latest peer-reviewed research to ensure safe, effective, and up-to-date practice.

  • Personalized programming – Every plan is tailored to your goals, experience, abilities, and lifestyle for sustainable, long-term results.

  • Safety without compromise – Exercise selection and progression are designed to maximize results while reducing unnecessary injury risk.

  • Always learning, always improving – Michael Rowe Fitness is committed to continuous professional development, ensuring coaching reflects the latest scientific understanding.

  • Evidence in action – Interesting research, practical insights, and topics from sports science and nutrition will be regularly shared here, demonstrating how new evidence is evaluated and incorporated into coaching where appropriate.

  • Results through reason, not guesswork – Every recommendation is based on evidence, experience, and what is most likely to help you achieve lasting success.

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  • Have a read of our blog ‘First Time at the Gym? Do This!’ , which tackles this exact subject! It offers advice on how to prepare, what to bring, and even provides a basic full-body workout to follow!

  • At Michael Rowe Fitness, we dont see the nutrition plan as a restrictive and imposed struggle. Its not about taking flavours and foods that you enjoy away, instead, it is about ensuring that you hit your body’s nutritional requrements, so that you can build a strong foundation upon which we can program exercise and get you the results that you desire.

    Once we have calculated your requirements, we can design a menu plan to your tastes, and understanding how to eat for your goals, will actually bestow far greater freedom to you, as you’ll be able to enjoy foods without the guess-work and the guilt.

  • Working out with one of our personal trainers will ensure that you stay focused, you’ll be guided and coached, so there is no need to worry about whether you’re using equipment correctly, have the correct form, or are lifting too heavy or too light.

    With experience and knowledge, so many of those worries usually disappear.

    Something that I think is very helpful to remember, is that everybody in the gym, be they body-builder, powering away on a rowing machine, performing seemingly inhuman feats of strength, every single person in that environment - including you - are working to better themselves. Most gym-goers pay little to no attention to others because theyre focused on their breathing, their set or repetition counting, or theyre simply in the zone for an hour or so, and theyre there to get the work done.

    Perhpas, see this not as a barrier to you, but instead as an obstacle that you can work on whilst you work on the rest of yourself. It might take a little time but, as with your goals, the results will come if you try and stay consistent with the effort!

  • At Michael Rowe Fitness, we are happy to adapt to what works for you. Our programming is not restricted to the gym environment exclusively. In the Exmouth and Exeter areas there are plenty of opportunities to make progress, we will just plan for this when we meet.

    When meeting for the personal training consultation, we can either meet at a gym if that is your preference, or we could meet at a locale in which you feel comfortable; a park, coffee shop, library. This can all be arranged when we make contact with you, so consider such things, and together we will find a comfortable solution.

  • We would firstly complete a consultation with you, make any adaptations if necessary, and tailor a programme to best fit your goals and capabilities; like with any client we take on. But, incorporated into that programming we would be certain to address overall fitness, building skeletal strength to offset osteoporosis and the like, and look at maintaining or improving mobility.