About Move More for Health
How it started
I'm Richard Farrar, a personal trainer based in Ipswich. I established Move More for Health so that I could help people become more physically active to feel better about themselves, reduce their chances of experiencing ill health, and to live a fuller life.
Working with clients across Ipswich and online, I focus on helping you improve your health and wellbeing using a holistic approach involving movement, physical activity and behaviour change, all informed by evidence-based science.
Qualifications
Level 3 Personal Training Diploma
Level 3 Exercise Referral
Level 4 Cancer Rehabilitation
Level 4 Mental Health and Exercise
Level 3 Exercise for Older Adults
Otago Exercise Programme Instructor (falls prevention for older adults)
Level 2 Circuit Class Exercise Instructor
BSc (Hons) Biology
MSc Environmental Management
Post Graduate Certificate in Education
-First Aid trained (St John’s Ambulance three day First Aid at Work Certificate)
-Fully insured with £10 million liability
-Enhanced DBS checked (certificate 19 September 2026)
-Safeguarding trained
A bit about me
I am a Personal trainer in Ipswich and and a specialist in exercise for health conditions, combining my love of health and fitness with helping people. I am also a Senior Lecturer at the University of Suffolk where I specialise in teaching on degree programmes in the Life Sciences including BSc Nutrition and Human Health and BSc Biomedical Science. My research interests at the University include cancer prehabilitation - developing and evaluating ways to use exercise, nutrition and wellbeing support to help prepare people for the rigours of cancer treatment. I am a Senior Activity and Health Associate of The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA), and a Member of The American College of Sports Medicine.
Circumstances
In 2010 I was diagnosed with a blood cancer and was successfully treated using chemotherapy. Through this challenging time, exercise and time spent outdoors in nature really helped my physical and emotional health. Only a few years after treatment, I underwent major orthopaedic surgery following a cycling accident, which left me unable to walk for three months.
My recovery was long and demanding but was helped enormously through consistent physical activity and rehabilitation, and I am now fully recovered. I have experienced not only the physical but also the emotional and psychological journey of going through and recovering from ill health and am in a unique and privileged position to be able to use this in helping the people I work with.
