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Joseph Webb in the Media

Joseph Webb is a Chartered Personal Trainer Senior Practitioner, Fellow of CIMSPA and Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. With more than 20 years’ experience, he is regularly featured in national media for evidence-based commentary on strength training, healthy ageing, mobility, performance and making exercise work in real life.

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Women’s Health: benefits of joining a sports team, with a football and red training bib.

Women’s Health: Benefits of Joining a Sports Team

Drawing on my own years in competitive team sport, I discuss how being part of a team can influence resilience, habits, social connection and wellbeing.

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Patient.info: Deep Squats for Mobility and Healthy Ageing, illustrated with an exercise mat and wooden block.

Patient.info: Deep Squats for Mobility and Healthy Ageing

A practical guide to using the deep resting squat to work on hip and ankle mobility, while maintaining comfortable, confident movement as we get older.

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Women’s Fitness: Train Your Breathing Muscles, illustrated with running shoes and airflow lines.

Women’s Fitness: Train Your Breathing Muscles

Featured in print and online with Women’s Fitness, exploring how training the breathing muscles could support endurance, recovery and performance across cycling, running and swimming.

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Joseph Webb’s Women’s Health expert contributor profile

Joseph Webb: Women’s Health Expert Profile

My Women’s Health expert profile brings together commentary on strength training, functional fitness, healthy ageing, performance and practical ways to make exercise work in real life.

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Stylist feature: Don’t sacrifice sleep for exercise, illustrated with a pillow, alarm clock and dumbbell

Stylist: When wellness habits add to burnout

I am featured in Stylist’s article exploring nine wellness habits that may worsen burnout, sharing why protecting sleep matters and how to fit exercise around real life.

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GQ: Is Your Posture Holding You Back?, illustrated with a foam roller, exercise mat and kettlebell.

GQ: Is Your Posture Holding You Back?

Everyday habits, breathing and movement can all influence how we hold ourselves. I shared practical advice with GQ on posture, performance and moving better.

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The i Paper: Why Enjoyment Is the Key to Making Exercise Stick, illustrated with walking shoes on a woodland path.

The i Paper: Why Enjoyment Is the Key to Making Exercise Stick

Enjoyment is often what separates short-lived fitness attempts from habits that last. I shared with The i Paper why finding movement you genuinely like can make consistency far easier.

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Metro: How Long Should You Hold a Plank for Your Age?, illustrated with an exercise mat in a studio.

Metro: How Long Should You Hold a Plank for Your Age?

Joseph Webb’s expert guidance for Metro on age-related plank benchmarks and why good technique matters more than chasing a longer hold.

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Women’s Health: Strength Training with Resistance Bands, illustrated with red and black resistance bands.

Women’s Health: Strength Training with Resistance Bands

Lightweight, portable and easy to use, resistance bands can make strength training far easier to fit around work, travel and busy days.

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The London Standard: Why Breathing Matters, illustrated with trainers and airflow lines.

The London Standard: Why Breathing Matters

Breathing muscles can be trained too. I discussed respiratory muscle training and how targeted breathing work may support endurance, exercise performance and breathing efficiency.

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Metro: How Fast Should You Run a Mile for Your Age?, illustrated with a stopwatch on a running track.

Metro: How Fast Should You Run a Mile for Your Age?

A mile can be a useful fitness benchmark, but age is only part of the story. I shared broad pace ranges with Metro and how running priorities should evolve over time.

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Women’s Health: Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman Workout, illustrated with red retro dumbbells, a towel and a resistance band.

Women’s Health: Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman Workout

I provided six modern alternatives to Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman workout for Women’s Health UK, including exercise guidance and a suggested session order to help readers build strength, power and fitness.

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Marie Claire: BOSU Ball Exercises for a Stronger Core, illustrated with a blue BOSU balance trainer.

Marie Claire: BOSU Ball Exercises for a Stronger Core

BOSU training can add instability and variety to familiar movements. I shared practical ways it can be used to challenge core strength, balance and control.

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LADbible: How Many Push-Ups Should You Do for Your Age?, illustrated with push-up handles and an exercise mat.

LADbible: How Many Push-Ups Should You Do for Your Age?

Push-up targets change with age, but the number is only useful when the repetitions are good. My Metro advice was later picked up by LADbible, with technique taking priority over arbitrary benchmarks.

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Men’s Health: How the Alligator Crawl Builds Core Strength, illustrated with a medicine ball, battle rope and dumbbell.

Men’s Health: How the Alligator Crawl Builds Core Strength

My Women’s Health commentary was translated and republished by Men’s Health Spain, examining how the alligator crawl challenges core stability, coordination and upper-body strength.

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Metro: How Much Walking Do You Need Each Day?, illustrated with walking shoes on a path.

Metro: How Much Walking Do You Need Each Day?

Twenty to thirty minutes of walking on most days can make a meaningful contribution to weekly activity, while strength and balance become increasingly important with age.

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Women’s Health: Kate Ferdinand’s Full-Body Workout, illustrated with battle ropes and dumbbells.

Women’s Health: Kate Ferdinand’s Full-Body Workout

From reverse lunges and rotational slams to bear crawls and battle ropes, I break down the strength, stability and conditioning demands behind Kate Ferdinand’s full-body workout.

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Women’s Health: 50 Shoulder Taps a Day for Your Core, illustrated with a red exercise mat.

Women’s Health: 50 Shoulder Taps a Day for Your Core

Expert commentary for Women’s Health on performing 50 shoulder taps a day, subsequently republished by AOL and Yahoo Life.

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GQ: Morning or Evening – When Should You Train?, illustrated with running shoes against dawn and dusk backgrounds.

GQ: Morning or Evening – When Should You Train?

The perfect training time matters less than most people think. Chronotype can influence performance, but consistency, recovery and finding a routine that fits real life matter far more.

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Women’s Health: Kettlebell Archer Lateral Raise, illustrated with a black kettlebell.

Women’s Health: Kettlebell Archer Lateral Raise

This unusual lateral raise variation makes lighter weights surprisingly demanding by increasing control, maintaining tension and making excessive momentum much harder to hide.

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CIMSPA: Becoming a Chartered Personal Trainer, illustrated with ascending wooden steps.

CIMSPA: Becoming a Chartered Personal Trainer

Recognised by CIMSPA as a Chartered Personal Trainer, reflecting more than 20 years of experience, professional development and impact across health, fitness and physical activity.

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Women’s Health: 4 Exercises to Age-Proof Your Body, illustrated with a kettlebell and purple mat.

Women’s Health: 4 Exercises to Age-Proof Your Body

Originally published by Women’s Health and subsequently republished internationally, exploring four functional exercises for lifelong strength, stability and independence.

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Women’s Health: Why Kneeling Improves Arm Workouts, illustrated with dumbbells on an exercise mat.

Women’s Health: Why Kneeling Improves Arm Workouts

Expert commentary for Women’s Health on why tall-kneeling exercises can make arm training more effective, subsequently republished by Yahoo Life UK.

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From ice hockey to natural bodybuilding, illustrated with a hockey stick, puck, dumbbell and weight plate.

From Ice Hockey to Natural Bodybuilding

From sharing the ice with former teammate Dan Marashi to later helping him prepare for natural bodybuilding competitions, this old press feature captures an early chapter of my coaching career.

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Women’s Health: What Your Balance Time Reveals, illustrated with stacked balance stones.

Women’s Health: What Your Balance Time Reveals

A one-leg stand looks simple, but it tests strength, stability and coordination. Your time can offer a useful snapshot of balance and how it changes with age.

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BBC Radio Berkshire interview on community fitness and boot camps, illustrated with a microphone, headphones and training cone.

BBC Radio Berkshire: Community Fitness and Boot Camps

Talking to BBC Radio Berkshire about our community boot camps, making exercise more accessible and helping local people and families become more active together.

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Winter Warmers: fitness supporting the homeless, with a donation box, blankets and a red scarf.

Winter Warmers: Fitness Supporting the Homeless

Our fitness community came together to collect warm clothing and essential items for people experiencing homelessness before volunteering at a shelter in Reading.

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Yateley boot camps: free family fitness, with adult and children’s trainers, cones and a kettlebell.

Yateley Boot Camps: Free Family Fitness

Free family boot camps gave local people a welcoming place to exercise together, enjoy being active and become part of a positive community around fitness.

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Women’s Health: The Cube Method for Strength Progress, illustrated with weight plates and cubes.

Women’s Health: The Cube Method for Strength Progress

Expert commentary for Women’s Health on using the Cube Method to break strength plateaus, subsequently republished by Yahoo Life UK and Netmums.

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Bracknell News: free community fitness, illustrated with cones, a kettlebell, exercise mat and battle rope.

Bracknell News: Free Community Fitness

Hundreds of local adults, children and families took part in our free Bracknell boot camps, helping make exercise more accessible, sociable and enjoyable.

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Bracknell charity 5K raising money for Youthline, with running shoes, a race bib and medal.

Bracknell Charity 5K: Raising Money for Youthline

A three-year series of charity 5K events in Bracknell brought the community together through fitness while raising thousands of pounds for Youthline.

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Pro Hockey News: Bracknell Go to Boot Camp, illustrated with a hockey stick, puck and training cones.

Pro Hockey News: Bracknell Go to Boot Camp

My 2012 off-season programme took Bracknell players from strength and conditioning foundations into more explosive work designed to prepare them for the demands of the new season.

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Women’s Health: Lucy Bronze’s Strength Workout, illustrated with a football and weight plates.

Women’s Health: Lucy Bronze’s Strength Workout

Elite football demands far more than endurance. I contributed to Women’s Health on the strength, speed and power work behind Lucy Bronze’s preparation for Euro 2025.

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Bracknell Bees strength and conditioning coach, illustrated with a hockey helmet, dumbbell and pucks.

Bracknell Bees: Strength and Conditioning Coach

Under head coach Gareth Cox, my work with the Bees continued with individual training, nutrition support and a strong emphasis on arriving properly prepared for the season.

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Bracknell Bees strength and conditioning for the 2009–2010 season, with hockey skates, a cone and weight plate.

Bracknell Bees: Strength and Conditioning 2009/10

During the 2009/10 season, I used my own playing background to support Bracknell Bees players with speed, reactions, conditioning and sport-specific physical preparation.

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Women’s Health: How to Master the Z Press, illustrated with a barbell and exercise mat.

Women’s Health: How to Master the Z Press

The Z press removes leg drive and back support, making your shoulders and core work far harder while exposing weaknesses in mobility, posture and control.

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Women’s Health: Aryna Sabalenka’s 20-Minute Workout, illustrated with a tennis racket, ball, dumbbells and resistance band.

Women’s Health: Aryna Sabalenka’s 20-Minute Workout

Speed, stamina and control all have to hold up when fatigue sets in. I broke down how Aryna Sabalenka’s 20-minute circuit combines conditioning, coordination and full-body strength.

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