About Martin

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I’m Martin, founder of MDA Personal Coaching.

I’m a Certified Oxygen Advantage® Functional Breathing Instructor and hold a Level 4 qualification in Nutrition for Sport and Exercise Performance.

I work with individuals who want to improve their health, performance, and wellbeing through practical, sustainable changes in breathing, nutrition, and sleep.

I’ve always had a strong interest in health, fitness, and sport.

Over the years I’ve enjoyed playing sports and being active, with regular hiking and running being a consistent part of my lifestyle. I regularly take part in parkrun each week and run for the enjoyment, how it makes me feel and the physical and mental benefits it provides.

Alongside running, I have been resistance training for over 10 years and regularly engage in HIIT-style training. Through this, I’ve experienced first-hand how powerful nasal breathing and controlled breathing can be in improving exercise efficiency, managing intensity, and supporting recovery.

I have a long-standing personal interest in prioritising health and wellbeing. I practised meditation consistently for over 10 years and experienced significant improvements in my overall health, stress levels, and day-to-day focus.

Before moving into coaching, I had experience of working in a corporate, high-pressure environment. Through that experience, I saw first-hand how valuable breathing techniques can be for maintaining focus, managing stress, and staying calm under time pressure. This is something I still apply personally and now support others with through coaching.

This personal experience led me to explore other areas of health and performance more deeply — particularly breathing, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.

My interest in breathwork developed further in 2020 during the Covid period, where I began practising the Wim Hof Method.

This introduced me to the wider positive impact that breathing can have on the nervous system, resilience, and overall wellbeing.

Since then, through further learning, my own personal experiences and my Oxygen Advantage® training, I’ve developed a deeper understanding that:

1. Different breathing methods serve different purposes
2. The key is knowing when, why, and how to use the right technique for the individual

Since completing my Oxygen Advantage® certification, I now use functional breathing techniques daily to:

• Support calm and nervous system regulation
• Reduce stress
• Improve sleep quality
• Enhance my running and training performance

I’ve seen first-hand how effective these methods can be when applied consistently and appropriately.

I also incorporate practices such as cold showers and occasional ice baths as part of my own personal routine which helps me, though I believe it is important to practise what works for you.

While I am at the early stages of my formal coaching journey, the practices and principles I coach are not new to me — they are things I have applied personally over a long period of time.

My coaching is:

Practical, structured, and realistic

It’s designed to help you build habits that fit into your life.

I focus on helping you:

• Understand what you’re doing and why
• Apply simple, effective strategies
• Build consistency over time
• Develop long-term independence

The goal is to help you create sustainable habits that support your long-term health and performance.

 Depending on your goals, I can support you with:

Breathing

• Improving breathing efficiency
• Reducing  breathlessness
• Developing nasal breathing habits
• Managing stress and promoting relaxation
• Improving  breathing during sleep and exercise
• Bringing attention out of your mind and into the present moment

Nutrition

• Improving fuelling for training and performance
• Building consistent, sustainable eating habits
• Supporting  weight loss or muscle gain goals
• Improving energy levels and recovery

Sleep

• Improving your current sleep routine, environment, and behaviours 
• Identifying current challenges and practical ways to address them 
• Key lifestyle factors that may be impacting sleep 
• Simple, realistic improvements to support better sleep quality 
• Breathing awareness to help improve sleep quality 

 I work with a range of clients including:

• Anyone wanting to improve their overall health, wellbeing and daily habits
• Individuals  looking to improve sleep, energy, and stress management
• Busy  professionals balancing work, training, and lifestyle
• Recreational and endurance athletes

You don’t need any prior experience with coaching to work with me.

I believe that small, consistent improvements in the fundamentals — breathing, nutrition, sleep, and recovery — can have a meaningful impact on both performance and overall wellbeing.

My role is to guide and support that process in a way that is:

• Clear
• Realistic
• Personalised
• Sustainable

This has shaped how I coach.