About James Landman

James Landman was born in 1962. As a child he was a fanatic Judoka and in his teens he started Tai Chi.

At the age of nineteen, after being ill for three years, he was left with only 59 kg of bodyweight at 5 ft 9. This encouraged him to start Body Building. Strength Training was already familiar to him as both his father and his uncle were weight-lifters. He really got a taste for it and within 1½ years was working out 6 times a week and his body became strong, healthy and athletic.

His love for the Martial Arts remained and after a couple of years he started to practice Jiu Jiutsu and Iaido. Besides the physical aspect of the sport James was always intrigued by the mental aspect of it as well.

Having practiced many sports himself, James started to guide others. And with the amount of experience he had accumulated, he soon got a clear idea of the limitations the way fitness was taught at the gyms in general.

The training guidance often will be given solely through the experience of the Personal Trainer. The sports guidance is given in a very standardized way and is not customized towards the individual needs and wishes of the person and the goals they would like to achieve. The result is that sports training is experienced as something one has to do (e.g. because you would like to lose or gain weight) and not as something that is fun to do.

Therefore James has developed his own vision and personal training program centered on the individual where sports can be experienced as enjoyable part of everyone’s daily life. He works with an wide scope of sports and different possibilities for each individual. Combining various sports is something that is not foreign to James’ training philosophy. For example a combination of strength training, yoga and meditation adapted to your goal and fitness level will challenge you not only physically but also mentally.

He has worked with trainers such as Ton Leenders (DSB Skating team), Jim McCarthy (TVM Skating Team), Karl Noten and Michel van Halderen and has found his mental inspiration with Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson and Genpo Roshi. At the moment James is still actively practicing weight training, yoga, ice-speed skating and outside sports such as biking and in-line speed-skating, a combination that fits best to his current life-style. He integrates his acquired insight into his daily life and therefore also into his personal way of training.