I’m Dan Foley and I created 66 Days Fitness. I’m a certified Personal Trainer and my my career has focused on bridging the gap between physiotherapy and strength training to help parents in their 40s and beyond build strength and mobility.

I’ve studied with the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) and am accredited with their Corrective Exercise Specialisation. I’m a certified Functional Range Conditioning specialist. These qualifications mean I’m trained to teach you how to rebuild movement and strength safely. I’m a certified calisthenics coach with WSWCF Academy. Calisthenics include bodyweight exercises such as pull ups and are the ultimate expression of fitness for people who have solid foundations in movement and strength. This gives me a unique ability to provide you with prehab/rehab coaching so you’re not just getting a personal trainer pushing you through endless reps, you’ll have a coach who will assess your movement and help you to optimise it, with the experience and expertise to help you achieve athletic goals.

Whether you are looking to start your fitness journey and are being held back by aches and pains, or are looking to take your training to a higher level and move with power and precision, I can assess your movement and create a training programme for your specific needs.

Your assessment will take in your training history, lifestyle and work so I understand your background. I’ll take you through a series of movement screens which will uncover any limitations in your posture, alignment and ability to move dynamically. With this information I will create a training programme designed to get your moving and training better than ever. Contact me today and find out how you can move and feel better.

I had always enjoyed being active, playing sports and being outdoors – I first qualified as a gym instructor in 2013. But the indestructible feeling of youth was giving way to the reality of getting older. I was all too aware that as  40 year old man, my body was naturally starting its decline and that muscular strength, bone density, cardiovascular health and pretty much every other function start to atrophy.

I quit my job to look after my family and myself, to take a break from the downward spiral I was in, mentally and physically. During this time I was able to better look after my health, exploring exercise, nutrition and rest, and how they impacted my mental and physical health. I read, studied and gained my diploma as a personal trainer, making me qualified to create training programmes for individual and groups, to teach a wide variety of exercise methods and techniques, as well as recovery and nutrition advice.

Throughout this process I have learned what makes me healthy and happy, and how I can build those habits into a full, busy life. I started 66 Days to help other dads who are struggling with their mental and physical health. If you want to find out more, there’s more info about the 66 Days Programme here and you can contact me today.

Listen to me being interviewed by Sam Delaney on his podcast, The Reset, on the player below. We talk about my story and how I went from struggling with fatherhood, how I failed to look after my mental and physical wellbeing, right up to how I got better and came to launch 66 Days to help people who have had enough of being unhealthy.