Video: Michael Gove responds to 'fanatical personal trainer' comments Michael Gove laughed off the comments made by President of the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT), and referred to his less than Herculean physique, saying "you'd have to be a particularly fanatical personal trainer to take me on." Bernadette Hunter had earlier compared Mr Gove to "some kind of fanatical personal trainer, constantly urging us all to go faster, faster, higher and higher on a constant treadmill." Mr Gove also mounted a stout defence of his approach to education policy. One of things that I make absolutely no apology for is setting standards higher. "One of the problems that we've had in English education in the past is that we've had too low expectations for too many students," he said.