Her career began in the British Army where she was one of just a few women who graduated from the Army School of Physical Training to train soldiers for peak fitness and combat. She spent more than 8 years in the PT Corp as a Physical Training  Instructor, training male soldiers for combat fitness and performance.

BATTLE FITNESS: Conducting REAL Boot Camps and Assault Training, JJ ran a tough programme that quickly turned unfit men and women into super fit soldiers.

After leaving the army, she built her own personal training business, which quickly grew to a sixty-four member strong personal trainer team. JJ personally coached all her trainers and began a fast-growing new trend “Personal Training” in health clubs and gyms.

Her company trained 1,000s of clients and members, everyone from celebrities to housewives, in several gyms and health clubs. Many top athletes and professionals have benefited from her company’s unique brand of training.

In a practical example demonstrating how effective her techniques of acceleration learning and super-study system, JJ earned a Master of Sports Science degree in Exercise Physiology from the prestigious United States Sports Academy (USSA) where she graduated with (4.0 GPA) honours in half the normal time.

JJ continues to provide training and business resources to Personal Trainers and Health Professionals through PT Resources (originally formed in 1995). PT Resources is one of the most comprehensive sites of its kind on the web, for all the forms, electronic metrics and associated tools today’s trainer needs.

Having completed the ACSM Health Fitness Director (the highest Exercise Physiology and Health Management Industry Certification available at the time), JJ went on to run ACSM Certification Courses. It was a concentrated effort to raise the industry standard. It was a concern to JJ that poor qualifications were popping up everywhere, diluting the competence of trainers in the fitness industry.  Later, JJ found other ways to influence industry standards as you will see along this timeline.

A trainer to trainers, JJ is the former Program Director for the National Personal Training Institute in New York. She led a team of instructors, who delivered and certified trainers in one of the first 500 hours, six-month schools in the US. JJ  became an intricate part of the expanding company, influencing the curriculum and was a leading instructor for the New York and New Jersey Schools.

JJ first became involved with New Leaf technology to provide metabolic testing and accurate metabolic 5 zone training prescriptions for her own trade of professionals and consumers.

She then joined New Leaf’s training arm, providing training for those who had purchased metabolic testing equipment but did not know how to use it.

JJ used her scientific knowledge to train sports science and performance institutions, trainers, medical and health professionals so they were able to apply the technology for diagnostics and incorporate it into prescriptions for health, weight loss or sport and athletic performance.

Based on user interest in PT Resources, JJ decided to develop the Metabolic Training Expert Series. This new series included tools for ACSM accelerated training, VO2 & MET calculations, heart rate precision training, advanced metabolic calculations, exercise science, a library of fitness forms, a complete ‘real body age‘ test and a tool kit.