Jake Reynolds

Hi, I’m Jake Reynolds

I’m a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach with over 12 years of experience helping everyday people — not elite athletes — build stronger, healthier bodies without making fitness their entire personality.

I started Health Fitness Blog because I was tired of the noise. Too much content online is designed to sell you something, scare you into buying a programme, or make fitness look effortless and Instagram-perfect. That’s not reality. Real fitness is built one consistent session at a time, fuelled by honest nutrition, and sustained by habits that actually fit your life.

Everything I write on this site is grounded in exercise science, backed by peer-reviewed research, and filtered through more than a decade of real-world coaching experience. If something is uncertain, I’ll say so. If the evidence is mixed, I’ll tell you that too.

Credentials & Training

My Coaching Philosophy

After coaching thousands of people over more than a decade, I’ve seen the same patterns repeat. The clients who get lasting results are not the ones who train the hardest in week one. They are the ones who find a sustainable approach, stick with it through the hard weeks, and make incremental improvements over months and years.

I believe in progressive overload over punishment, protein over restriction, and consistency over perfection. I believe recovery is training. I believe that sleep, stress management, and sustainable nutrition are not optional extras — they are the foundations that everything else rests on.

Most importantly, I believe that fitness should enhance your life, not consume it. You should have more energy for the things that matter to you, not less. That’s the standard I hold every programme and piece of content on this site to.

What You’ll Find on This Site

Health Fitness Blog covers the full spectrum of fitness and nutrition, always from a science-first, practical perspective:

• Workout guides — home workouts, gym programmes, dumbbell-only training, cardio plans, and more, written for real people with real schedules
• Nutrition advice — evidence-based guidance on protein, meal prep, eating sustainably, and fuelling your training without obsessing over food
• Recovery content — sleep, stress management, active recovery, and the often-overlooked factors that determine whether your training actually pays off
• Honest myth-busting — I regularly debunk fitness and nutrition misinformation, because bad advice wastes your time and can genuinely harm your health

Every article is written with a pre-publish checklist: Is it accurate? Is it practical? Does it respect the reader’s intelligence? If it doesn’t pass those three tests, it doesn’t get published.

My Approach to Evidence and Research

Fitness is a field where well-meaning advice and outright pseudoscience often look identical on the surface. I try hard to be specific about the quality of evidence behind any claim I make.

Where research is strong and consistent, I’ll say so clearly. Where evidence is emerging or mixed, I’ll note the uncertainty. Where something is based on clinical experience and practical coaching rather than peer-reviewed research, I’ll be transparent about that distinction.

I cite primary sources where possible. I don’t cherry-pick studies that support a pre-determined conclusion. And I update articles when new research changes the picture — fitness science evolves, and good content should evolve with it.