\n Paul Cullum is a Personal Trainer and also runs Swindon Higashi Karate Kai.\n<\/p>\n
\n After struggling with his own mental health, Paul decided to set himself a \u2018challenge\u2019 \u2013 to share small parts of his life that have shaped the way he coaches, every day, for a week.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI find social media quite a challenge, at times. And people put on a mask. They show people what they want them to see, and I find that there\u2019s a lot of people who don\u2019t necessarily show themselves.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo, I thought I would take the opportunity to just try to show people a little bit of who I am as a person, and what works for me, in the hope that I can reach out to other people,\u201d said Paul.\n<\/p>\n
\n In his posts, Paul shares \u2018the moment he nearly gave up\u2019 being a Personal Trainer (and why he didn\u2019t), why he coaches the way he does, and \u2018The Truth Behind the Coach\u2019 \u2013 who he really is as a person.\n<\/p>\n
\n The aim of these posts are to encourage people to open up more, and try to be themselves \u2013 an important message to send, particularly this month.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWith a lot of my personal training sessions, sometimes the blockers can be mental\u201d, said Paul.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWith Movember, which is partly to do with men\u2019s mental health, I wanted to put my story out there and to show other people that everybody goes through these things, and you\u2019re not alone.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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\n Paul\u2019s personal struggles inspired both these posts, and his career as a Personal Trainer.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cA lot of it started throughout the pandemic, to be honest. At the time, I kind of needed something to help rebuild myself.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAnd the way I found to recover myself was either going to the gym, doing exercise, or training. I found that such a powerful way to rebuild myself and reidentify with who I am again. And it\u2019s almost like a new beginning for me.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo, I like to get to work with people who are struggling like that. I was glad to find something that could help people.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Paul became a Personal Trainer two years ago, having run karate classes for nearly a decade.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI decided I wanted to be the best karate teacher I could be. I inherited my karate club from my instructor.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMost instructors, they know how to do the martial art, but they don\u2019t necessarily know how to teach. It\u2019s a skill that doesn\u2019t really get taught in the martial arts world.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSo, I decided to do a personal training course to try to work out how to work with people, and to get the best out of them,\u201d said Paul.\n<\/p>\n
\n Swindon Higashi Karate Kai is held in Eastcott Community Centre and Drove Primary School, and offers classes for both children and adults.\n<\/p>\n
\n To get in contact with Paul directly about Personal Training, visit his Facebook<\/a> page.\n<\/p>\n \n To find out more about more about Swindon Higashi Karate Kai, visit their website<\/a> or Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Cullum is a Personal Trainer and also runs Swindon Higashi Karate Kai. After struggling with his own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-287626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}