Nick Berners-Price

Nick has over 30 years’ experience in the fitness industry as a personal trainer and business owner. He created 4D Fitness in 1998 and since then he and his team have been delivering leading edge health and fitness solutions across the full spectrum of the population. He now works with some of the UK’s most influential people in Government, business and the Civil Service.

Nick has also had Multiple Sclerosis since 2006. This has created a very personal desire to find the best solutions available to help people with medical conditions. He uses the Marginal Gains technique – the system that Sir Dave Brailsford used to propel British cycling to world leaders at the 2012 Olympics and Tour de France. It is now commonly used in business, sport and performance, but rarely applied to managing medical conditions.

The method for the approach is simple. Find as many areas that have a proven, evidence-based benefit to any particular condition, or overall health, and implement as many of them as possible. When you stack up these benefits one on top of another, the potential resulting benefit can be life changing. He runs an online clinic for people with MS, Parkinson’s or Chronic Fatigue, helping them to implement the Marginal Gains approach alongside their medical treatment.

He has been working with people living with Parkinson’s for over 20 years. In 2022 his team launched 4D Life, an online programme for people with Parkinson’s, covering movement, nutrition, function and lifestyle.

This year they have launched the National Register of Parkinson’s Specialist Personal Trainers. The goal is to train and accredit Parkinson’s specialist trainers across the UK, and then make it easy for people with Parkinson’s to connect with them. Exercise is still the only disease-modifying therapy for Parkinson’s. ‘Connecting the dots’ to facilitate referral from the health service to our industry couldn’t be any more important, for people with Parkinson’s, but also for a wide range of other medical conditions.