Maybe you’ve decided it’s time to get on top of your health and strength? Maybe you’re getting married soon and want to get into ‘great shape’ for the big day? Maybe you’ve realised you’ve let yourself slip over the past couple of years and want to move better, feel stronger and fitter?
Perhaps you simply want and need to transform your relationship with food, your waistline and your strength and fitness.
If this is you, let me introduce the Amazing 12.
The Amazing 12 program delivers all the above mentioned outcomes with methods you will never see in any other gym or the internet. While the exercises may be familiar, the 12 week program is incredibly smart, NOT a beatdown, NOT a starvation, juicing, pills or potions program – just a great program that will not only deliver the physical results but help you create a healthier outlook on exercise and nutrition.
ARE YOU COMMITTED TO YOURSELF 100%?
Below are pictures of Jamie (48) and Vivienne (46) from Albany Creek. Both completed the A12 program with ease, Jamie losing 11kg he never knew he had whilst improving strength and fitness dramatically despite elbow problems. Viv lost 4.5kg and found herself feeling so much more confident and stronger in her day to day life. In fact, during the program she increased her 5 rep max squat to her 30 rep max squat!!!!
I am accepting applications from people who are ready to commit 100% and make a change to their life.
YOU will need to train three times a week for 45 minutes – that’s all.
As the coach, potentially your coach, I am 100% committed to guiding you though every stage of the program, both in the gym, and via online nutritional support.
To read more information and to book a FREE consultation, CLICK on over to the Amazing 12 Brisbane.
Maybe you’ve decided it’s time to get on top of your health and strength? Maybe you’re getting married soon and want to get into ‘great shape’ for the big day? Maybe you’ve realised you’ve let yourself slip over the past couple of years and want to move better, feel stronger and fitter?
Perhaps you simply want and need to transform your relationship with food, your waistline and your strength and fitness.
If this is you, let me introduce the Amazing 12.
The Amazing 12 program delivers all the above mentioned outcomes with methods you will never see in any other gym or the internet. While the exercises may be familiar, the 12 week program is incredibly smart, NOT a beatdown, NOT a starvation, juicing, pills or potions program – just a great program that will not only deliver the physical results but help you create a healthier outlook on exercise and nutrition. Previously run in Brisbane Australia, the Amazing 12 has now been brought to Limerick.
ARE YOU COMMITTED TO YOURSELF 100%?
Below are pictures of Jamie (48) and Vivienne (46) from Albany Creek, Australia. Both completed the A12 program with ease, Jamie losing 11kg he never knew he had whilst improving strength and fitness dramatically despite elbow problems. Viv lost 4.5kg and found herself feeling so much more confident and stronger in her day to day life. In fact, during the program she increased her 5 rep max squat to her 30 rep max squat!!!!
I am accepting applications from a small number people who are ready to commit 100% and make a change to their life from early 2023.
YOU will need to train three times a week for 45 minutes – that’s all.
As the coach, potentially your coach, I am 100% committed to guiding you though every stage of the program, both in the gym, and via online nutritional support.
To read more information and to book a FREE consultation, CLICK on over to the Amazing 12 Limerick.
Okay, so the A12 is a 12 week program… what happens at the start of week 13, or in 5 years time?
The program is so wonderfully constructed by Paul McIlroy with minimal quantity, maximum quality, that switching between the A12 Express and the A12 Classic is a very reasonable option.
An A12 Classic graduate can down shift and follow the shorter A12 Express for 12 weeks. Conversely, an A12 Express graduate will finish their program with new-found skills, strength and fitness that will give them the perfect condition to own the A12 Classic.
A change of pace is another possibility. FitStrong Strength & Wellness offers a comprehensive program schedule where graduates can follow a Powerlifting / Strength plan, or a kettlebell program, maybe a calisthenics program or an Animal Flow routine. An escape from barbells and kettlebells is always an option, and that’s when a Movnat natural movement fitness program can be followed.
The most important consideration when following a program is considering ‘what can I do next to continue to grow and progress?’
To start the Amazing 12, you don’t need any experience. The program is a fantastic way to project your strength and fitness, confidence in yourself and confidence in the foods you choose. It will boost your confidence to try other things. Maybe you graduate and decide you want to tackle a 5km race, or get into kettlebell training, take on a personal strength challenge or heavens knows what. The world of strength and fitness is your oyster when you graduate the Amazing 12.
Why not call over for a chat about how we can take you to super-you 🦹♀️🦸♂️ Jamie
Being able to negotiate the world around us shouldn’t be taken for granted, despite living in an apparently safe, manufactured world scape.
Having the skills and aptitude to jump over something or out the way of something, skip, catch yourself if you trip, balance over partially submerged kerbstone during a rain storm – are all just a few examples of physical aptitudes we may encounter.
More to the point, my point here, it is incredibly rewarding, fun and a bit challenging to train for just such events, whether they are made up scenarios or practice for actual routine events.
I like to take myself off into the bush every now and again. Weekly if I can. Far from a walk in a park, a bush walk can throw an abundance of physical challenges apart from just walking.
Often times there’s a short climb up a rock face, a balance walk over a log laid over a creek, slippy trip hazard tree roots popping up when least expected.
Now, even if you never take yourself off on a bush walk, moving your body the way it is designed IS a daily or at least a weekly preoccupation. Got kids? Grandkids? A garden?
All these have a side of physicality that you can prepare yourself for. Is it not better to be prepared rather than at the mercy of inability?
Here’s just a short video example of:
balance
practicing landing after a jump or a trip
crawling for when you have to get down low
Just three activities to demonstrate how real world agility and strength can be really quite different to most gym exercises.
Got questions? Fancy trying a natural movement training session?
At this time of the year it’s an easy trap to fall into; the all or nothing exercise and diet trap. Hitting the exercise hard and jumping onto the most popular diet fad is the all too common solution when there is actually a smarter and simpler option.
“Last spring we launched a new program to help clients lose some kilos and add some strength and fitness. To support my wife I joined in, expecting to maybe drop a couple of kilos myself. By the end of the 12 week program I had lost 11kg. I didn’t know I had that to lose! My squat strength took off, I found muscles I didn’t think a near 50 year old man could find and my cardiovascular fitness hit a level I hadn’t felt in years.
It wasn’t just me, my wife did lose 4.5kg herself whilst doubling her squat and other strength moves.” Jamie said.
More than the physical enhancements though, Jamie and his wife Vivienne discovered how to appreciate simple home cooked food and value looking after themselves. They said they found the real them that was previously buried under the stress of fad diets, poor habits and undervaluing their own beliefs and value system.
The Amazing 12 program has now been rolled out to other local people who have all rebooted themselves and discovered their own super abilities, values and great new lifestyle habits.
“The program and the diet were surprisingly achievable even after a tiring day at work. I was so happy with how the results gave me more confidence in my appearance and loved the compliments I received. I look forward to doing the program again to see what else I can achieve.” – Vivienne, FitStrong client
The program is actually quite special. It was designed by strength and conditioning genius Paul McIlroy in Ireland who has himself transformed 10000+ people over 15 years with this same program. The program entails none of the expected all-out efforts and unrealistic diets but instead uses optimised programming to gradually expand each trainees comfort levels until new levels of strength and fitness are achieved.
“I have been a trainer for over 25 years, and while I’ve employed many great strength and movement programs, the A12 is by far the most over-delivering program. The results are just amazing!” – Jamie Hunter, owner operator of FitStrong Strength & Wellness
Wanting to look slimmer or wanting to lose unwanted body fat is great in my mind. A drop of unwanted body fat is healthy, lowers risk of many diseases and improves quality of life. For most men, a body fat of 15 to 18% is healthy and attainable. For most women, a body fat of 20 to 24% is healthy and also attainable. How to get skinnier is a not a question I like. Anyone can starve themselves skinny, but that will result in a loss of strength, function, longevity, health and a host of other benefits that being strong and fit brings. The question I prefer is, “how do I get stronger and leaner?”
Of course the answer is to exercise and eat better but there is more to it.
A suitable exercise plan must involve strength training before interval training. If all you have is 2 hours a week, that time needs to be prioritised on getting stronger with the safest movements that stimulate the most amount of muscle mass. No ‘isolation’ exercises. Think big hitters like squats, bench press, pull ups, and some tricep and bicep specific movements (can’t forget the arms!)
If more time is available, then interval training can be added. To encourage the body to burn as much stored body fat as possible, the correct style of high intensity repeat training should be employed. Yet again, this must be the safest choice of exercise to get out of breath with.
Eat Eat Eat…
Nutrition must be the most contentious subject when we start to talk about fat loss. However, the most effective solution is also the simplest. Eat real food. Eat for your goals. Nutrient dense vegetables in abundance. Fruit is not evil. Seriously, no one ever has become obese eating strawberries or tomatoes! Protein in all its variation should be eaten often. The exact quantities depends on the individual.
The Amazing 12 Brisbane is a finely tuned program that delivers all the above. Exercise selection, nutrition and programming is optimised for the individual, for every single week and session of the 12 week program.
The results deliver not just fat loss, but athleticism in every participant.
#1 Optimisation of Exercise Technique – We’ll show you step-by-step the optimal (and required) techniques and their subtleties to master each exercise and minimise risk of injury even as you progress through higher and higher strength levels.
#2 Optimisation of Nutrition – The food you eat is very personal and if you battle through hunger or if your body craves something that’s missing, you will suffer needlessly. And then you’ll stop and eat what you want. The stakes are higher when it comes to fitness programs because the diet versus exercise debate has traditionally accepted the view that “It’s 90% diet.” We’ll teach you how the reality is that it’s actually 90% training when it comes to a body TRANSFORMATION (sounds bogus we know, but look at our results…we’ve proved it and we’ll prove it again and again).
#3 Optimisation of Exercise Programming – Great technique and great nutrition are not enough. For optimal results, you need optimal programming. And since the vast majority of programs out there do not get results (and most fitness coaches fail to deliver results for their clients), something is clearly broken with fitness programming. The main problem is the accepted view of “no pain, no gain.” It’s inspiring talk, but it’s no way to get long term results and is physiologically counter-productive. The reality is “Any pain, no gain.”! To perpetuate progress we shouldn’t leave our comfort zone…we should EXPAND it until it envelopes our previous limits.
Check out the Amazing Upper Back development on this client.
Want to know more? Want to get Amazing? Want to get stronger and leaner? Get in touch.
Wanting to look slimmer or wanting to lose unwanted body fat is great in my mind. A drop of unwanted body fat is healthy, lowers risk of many diseases and improves quality of life.
For most men, a body fat of 15 to 18% is healthy and attainable. For most women, a body fat of 20 to 24% is healthy and also attainable.
How to get skinnier is a not a question I like. Anyone can starve themselves skinny, but that will result in a loss of strength, function, longevity, health and a host of other benefits that being strong and fit brings. The question I prefer is, “how do I get stronger and leaner?”
Of course the answer is to exercise and eat better but there is more to it.
A suitable exercise plan must involve strength training before interval training. If all you have is 2 hours a week, that time needs to be prioritised on getting stronger with the safest movements that stimulate the most amount of muscle mass. No ‘isolation’ exercises. Think big hitters like squats, bench press, pull ups, and some tricep and bicep specific movements (can’t forget the arms!)
If more time is available, then interval training can be added. To encourage the body to burn as much stored body fat as possible, the correct style of high intensity repeat training should be employed. Yet again, this must be the safest choice of exercise to get out of breath with.
Eat Eat Eat…
Nutrition must be the most contentious subject when we start to talk about fat loss. However, the most effective solution is also the simplest. Eat real food. Eat for your goals. Nutrient dense vegetables in abundance. Fruit is not evil. Seriously, no one ever has become obese eating strawberries or tomatoes! Protein in all its variation should be eaten often. The exact quantities depends on the individual.
The Amazing 12 Limerick is a finely tuned programme that delivers all the above. Exercise selection, nutrition and programming is optimised for the individual, for every single week and session of the 12 week program.
The results deliver not just fat loss, but athleticism in every participant.
#1 Optimisation of Exercise Technique – We’ll show you step-by-step the optimal (and required) techniques and their subtleties to master each exercise and minimise risk of injury even as you progress through higher and higher strength levels.
#2 Optimisation of Nutrition – The food you eat is very personal and if you battle through hunger or if your body craves something that’s missing, you will suffer needlessly. And then you’ll stop and eat what you want. The stakes are higher when it comes to fitness programs because the diet versus exercise debate has traditionally accepted the view that “It’s 90% diet.” We’ll teach you how the reality is that it’s actually 90% training when it comes to a body TRANSFORMATION (sounds bogus we know, but look at our results…we’ve proved it and we’ll prove it again and again).
#3 Optimisation of Exercise Programming – Great technique and great nutrition are not enough. For optimal results, you need optimal programming. And since the vast majority of programs out there do not get results (and most fitness coaches fail to deliver results for their clients), something is clearly broken with fitness programming. The main problem is the accepted view of “no pain, no gain.” It’s inspiring talk, but it’s no way to get long term results and is physiologically counter-productive. The reality is “Any pain, no gain.”! To perpetuate progress we shouldn’t leave our comfort zone…we should EXPAND it until it envelopes our previous limits.
Check out the Amazing Upper Back development on this client.
Want to know more? Want to get an Amazing transformation? Want to get stronger and leaner? Get in touch.
I’m always happy to answer your questions, so get in touch.
I lost 11kg I didn’t know I had, my wife lost 4.5kg and proving the programs worth, other gym members have trimmed up heaps too but on top of the tightening waist lines, muscles grew and strength enveloped previous levels.
The training of the Amazing 12 ‘Express’ is not a bust-a-gut bootcamp or a daily 1 hour plus gym slog, just 35 minutes of a well planned optimal strength and conditioning program, and only three sessions a week.
I’m going to say there was NO diet, because the nutrition side of the program was NOT a Diet. The nutrition focusses on optimal macronutrients for energy, recovery and adaptation. No low calorie suffering. Carbs, fats, proteins, fruit and heaps of vegetables are on the table. Processed foods and treats can be reserved for a weekly ‘cheat day’.
New year resolutions fail mostly because there is no plan or system, just a wish.
The keys to success in this program and any program is being consistent to build new sticky habits and having support and guidance. The A12 program is set up to support each other throughout the 12 weeks at any time, even mid way around the weekly grocery shop when contemplating one product over another.
The Amazing 12 Express continues in 2022 with bookings available now for free consultations and applications.
It brings me great pleasure in sharing the graduation photographs and success of Bashier.
Bashier joined FitStrong in 2019 to add strength and conditioning to boost his mountain biking fitness. An untimely bike crash in Winter 2020 and a broken collar bone brought bike riding to a halt but that didn’t stop Bashiers gym time. Within a week of surgery Bashier was back in the gym, arm in sling and he followed a special program I put together for him to maintain his power and strength.
A year later, a new challenge arose when I introduced the Amazing 12 Express to FitStrong. Bashier jumped at the opportunity to lose some weight and gain some new endurance and skills. By the time of graduation Bashier had lost 7kg and added some new muscles too. His Squat 5 rep max became a 30 rep sub max, but 5kg heavier! His Pull-ups increased from a messy 1 to a strong 4 and his Bench Press 5 rep max increased by 64%. Remember that shoulder injury? Wow! All this with just three 45 minute sessions a week and having never touched a barbell before! So impressed is Bashier with the Amazing 12 that he has signed up to follow the program as soon as the gym reopens after New Year. I can’t wait to see what Bashier does next time. Great results to come. My next wave of the Amazing 12 will start early January. To learn more, head over to The Amazing 12 Brisbane.
