Personal Training Brisbane

What is Personal Training?
Personal Training means you have a mentor and coach who oversees your exercise. Your Personal Trainer will work with you towards achieving your goals. He or she will provide motivation and ensure that your technique is the best it can be. Personal training will definitely help you achieve what you want sooner.

Who would benefit from Personal Training?
People with goals such as:

• want to do their exercises correctly
• weight loss
• increase in muscle size
• toning flabby muscles
• injury rehabilitation
• increasing bone density
• people training for a specific event or sport
• increased fitness
• achieving specific goals

Or people who need help with

• motivation
• attendance
• direction

Phone for apppointment to discuss your specific needs 3261 1249

Trevor’s Story – "How I lost 80kg"
Arrived in the normal way (not hatched as some would suggest).

Overweight all my life by what I now believe was a combination of poor diet, poor eating habits and a lack of regular exercise.

By the time I was 15 years old I was 100 kg’s. As a child, Mum had me on all the diets etc. The doctor’s tried tablets to suppress my appetite but they tasted so bad I would eat and eat to get rid of the taste. At 15 I started in the railway (not my first choice but because of my size I was unable to get my chosen apprenticeship) Over the years my jobs became less labour intensive and my weight continued to increase with no medical problems except social acceptance. About 1995 I started to develop high blood pressure and it continued to climb. By 2001 I was on 3 tablets a day and still climbing. My GP said he believed I would be dead or worse a stroke within 12 months. He was recommending I see a surgeon for a complete stomach bypass but in the psychiatric evaluation it was considered I was a good candidate for Gastric banding, a less intrusive operation. George Fielding (the surgeon) said "Survive the operation and I will make you lose weight".

That statement brought me to the Green Apple for the first time. It took about a week to get up the courage to walk through the front door. Jason spoke to me and showed me around. I told him I was having the operation and needed all the help I could get to get through it. I explained he only had 6 weeks. Victoria and Jason drew up a program. I had a perfect operation (surgeon’s quote "text book procedure").My health fund approved 14 days in hospital but thanks to Dr Fielding and the gym I was home 21 hours after major stomach surgery. I was then on a liquid diet for 4 weeks, staples were out on day 10 and on day 14 I was back in the Green Apple. For the next 18 months my size reduced thanks to the surgery; my fitness and life slowly changed for the better thanks to the Green Apple and staff.

Then my job gave me the ultimate test, they asked me to go back to the old way which is 12 hours plus a day, 6 days a week. I can report after 6 months it is a failure. The money is great, but I miss the gym and the other exercise I was doing. Fortunately I had not put on any weight.

So back to the Green Apple, but as I was working 55 hours plus per week and I was depressed, Victoria suggested and explained the benefits of using a personal trainer. So poor Daniel then got the job of getting me on the way to making my goals happen. I explained to Dan that as I had not been able to go to the gym I had taken up bike riding to help with the weight loss and muscle toning. I loved the bike riding and was working on getting to 150 km per week, but with the hours I worked it was hard to achieve. I am aiming to achieve my personal goals for bike riding and other things, including the big one that in June at my annual check-up the surgeon will say that it’s time for some loose skin to go.

After some testing I am off and running (well after some cutting will be) with a full week of bike riding and 2 one-hour weight sessions that Dan has manipulated around my work. Dan’s encouragement even when I don’t what to be at the gym has got me back on the way to where I want to go now. After some weeks I can see some changes happening; the belt is in a couple of holes, the mental motivation is coming back. I now am looking forward to each session to see if I can better the last effort and with the help of Dan as a personal trainer I continue to learn the correct way to perform each exercise and I learn why I am doing that exercise. With a personal trainer I can push myself to the max, knowing that I am doing the exercises correctly, allowing me to achieve my goals and under Dan’s instruction these goals will be achieved.

The use of the personal trainer is one of the more satisfying parts of my new life as I am not just exercising for my improved health but I am learning as well.

At 40 years old, I’m lighter and fitter than I was at 15!

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