MarkGarlick

Private coaching · Practised since 2009 · Westminster and London

Move better.
Build strength.
Change your body.

The method is consistent: mobilise the body, apply progressive overload, target nutrition with precision, and hold the mentality the work requires.

Sessions are one to one, at a boutique gym in Westminster or in your home across London. What we work on stays between us. When injury or movement limitation is present, rehabilitation is built into the same plan.

Mark Garlick, sport scientist and private coach

Why people come

Something is not progressing as it should.

Most people come to me after training hard without seeing the changes they want, managing pain that keeps returning, or finding that a body which has to perform under pressure no longer responds as expected.

These issues should not be viewed in isolation. The way you move governs what can be loaded. What can be loaded governs strength and composition. Nutrition, recovery and mentality decide whether that work survives a real week: travel, dinners, a diary that cannot stop.

My role is to understand the full picture and apply a method around what your body needs, what you want to achieve, and the life that has to continue while the work is done.

The outcome

A more capable body.

The purpose of training is not simply to complete sessions or leave feeling tired. It is to create physical changes you can see, feel and use.

01

Move with greater freedom

Improve mobility, control and confidence so that training and everyday movement feel less restricted. The body has to be mobilised before it can be loaded well.

02

Build strength that matters

Develop strength through better execution, appropriate loading and a clear increase in demand. Progressive overload is the point of the session, not fatigue.

03

Change how your body looks

Bring training and targeted nutrition together to reduce body fat, build lean muscle and create change that can survive a real week, not an ideal one.

These outcomes are connected. A better moving body can be loaded. Progressive loading changes how you look and what you can do. Targeted nutrition and a serious mentality keep that change in place when the week is not convenient.

The method

Four disciplines. One standard.

The work is not a collection of sessions. It is a method, applied with the same care in Westminster or in your home, and held to the same standard whether you are an athlete or someone who simply wants their body to work better.

01

Mobilise

The first task is to restore the range and control your body needs in order to train. Mobilisation is not a warmup ritual. It is the condition that makes progressive work possible, and it is coached with the same seriousness as strength.

02

Progressive overload

Strength is built by increasing demand as capacity allows: load, range, density and complexity, advanced with intent. Nothing is added for theatre. The work should be demanding enough to create adaptation, and precise enough to remain safe.

03

Targeted nutrition

Nutrition is written for your body and the week you actually have. Precise enough to change composition and recovery. Flexible enough for restaurants, travel and an irregular diary. There is no performance of restriction.

04

Mentality

Physical change does not survive a week that is poorly thought. Mentality here is not motivation. It is the standard, honesty and consistency required when the diary is full, the travel is constant, and feeling like it is not the point.

When the body requires it, rehabilitation is integrated into the same work. The programme evolves as you do.

How I work

A clear process. Visible progress.

Progress should never be based on guesswork.

Every coaching relationship begins in conversation: where you are now, what may be limiting you, and what you want the body to be capable of next. The method is then applied in private, and progress is measured.

  1. 01

    Understand

    We begin with a detailed conversation about your goals, training history, lifestyle, nutrition, previous injuries and any pain or limitations you are currently experiencing. If the enquiry has been made on your behalf, that context is equally useful.

  2. 02

    Assess

    I assess how your body moves and responds. This may include posture, mobility, joint function, movement control, strength, body composition and any specific areas relevant to your goals.

  3. 03

    Prioritise

    The assessment gives us a clear starting point. We identify what requires immediate attention, what will create the greatest improvement and how mobilisation, loading, nutrition and mentality should work together.

  4. 04

    Coach

    The method is then applied in private sessions: mobilise, progressive overload, targeted nutrition and mentality. Technique is developed, demand increases as capacity allows, and rehabilitation is integrated when the body requires it.

  5. 05

    Reassess

    Progress is reviewed regularly. We measure what has changed, adapt the programme and establish the next priority. You will always understand what we are working on, and why.

You will always understand what we are working on, why it matters and how progress will be measured.

Selected results

Progress that fits real life.

The stories below are published with permission. Much of the work is not published at all.

01 Before02 After
Natalie before coaching, photographed from the shoulders down in a home setting.
Natalie after coaching, photographed from the shoulders down in a home setting.

Natalie

14.7 kg lost. A plan built around real life.

38% to 18% body fat · 12 months · Two sessions per week

Natalie works in commodities and travels frequently. Through two home sessions each week and nutrition adapted around work, restaurants and travel, she achieved a significant transformation without putting the rest of her life on hold.

Consistency, not perfection.

Read Natalie’s story
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Ollie before coaching, photographed from the shoulders down against a plain wall.
Ollie after coaching, photographed from the shoulders down against a plain wall.

Ollie

10.9 kg lost. Training built into the working day.

28.7% to 18.1% body fat · 3.5 months · Three sessions per week

Ollie trained with me three times each week in his workplace gym during his lunch break. Through structured full body training and a clear nutrition plan, he achieved a significant transformation without needing to reorganise his working life.

Use the time you have.

Read Ollie’s story
Mark Garlick, sport scientist and private coach

About Mark

A long practice. A private standard.

I have worked full time since 2009, first in Zimbabwe and then in London. That is not a claim of fashion. It is the length of time required to know what holds, and what does not, when the body is under real demand.

Cricket and rugby taught me the value of strength in performance. Competing as an amateur bodybuilder in Zimbabwe and the UK showed me where discipline can lead, and deepened my interest in how the body adapts to training and nutrition.

After moving into private and boutique studios in London, that work expanded into biomechanics and rehabilitation. I have coached footballers, Olympic sprinters, bodybuilders, gymnasts and private clients who require the same standard and the same care.

What began as a fascination became a responsibility: to give clearer answers to the physical hurdles in front of someone, and to keep that work between us.

Read my story

Where we train

A boutique gym in Westminster. Or your home.

Sessions are coached one to one at a boutique gym in Westminster, or in the privacy of your own home across London.

Your name and your progress stay between us.

Power racks and lifting floor at the Westminster gym
Open gym floor with cable machines and strength equipment
Training floor looking through to an adjoining studio
Boutique gym, Westminster

Enquire about private coaching

Start with a conversation.

Tell me what you would like to achieve, and what has been preventing you from getting there. If you are writing on behalf of someone else, say so.

I review every enquiry myself.

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Preferred coaching location

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