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My name is Taroub. I was born in 1962, and I now do a couple of non-executive directorships and otherwise live a life of leisure. I began training at DMC Fitness around 2015.

The reason at that time was that I’d started sailing and you really need quite a lot of upper body strength to be an assistant to a sailor and I had very little upper body strength at the time, so I was quite keen to develop some and I knew that I didn’t know how to do that myself. My son had been here for a while and he recommended that I might get a sort of individualised training programme to help me with that.

Now I am immeasurably stronger and fitter than I’ve ever been previously in my life. As a teenager I played a huge amount of sports and then I went on to have some quite big jobs and raise a family and had very little time for myself. So it was also a way of building up some time for myself. So I think physically I’ma pretty fit person now. My stamina is really good. And personally that has opened up new opportunities for me to do different things with friends and family.

I’ve enjoyed coming here enormously. There’s a wonderful atmosphere here. It’s very much sort of bespoke and I really appreciate that. I’d always had an image of gyms being in a particular way, and that didn’t appeal to me at all. I’ve never been a gym bunny, but coming in here people work very much at my pace but also push me out of my comfort zone and I really appreciate that.

I had quite a serious shoulder injury a few years ago and I thought that was it. I thought, I’m not going to be able to train anymore. Both Davie and with Pablo’s help, have been absolutely amazing and have managed to work around it and worked with it. My shoulder has come back from sort of being on the brink of surgery to mostly working really well. And if I have a hiccup or a setback and I have the confidence that I know it’s fixable. So in that sense, it’s made an enormous difference to me.