Meet the trainers: Gary

Recharged Personal Training is a tight team of trainers who live fit and active lives in tandem with you. Choose a personal trainer who you like but who also trains in a way you respond to. Today we are talking with Gary about his fitness journey.

How did you become a personal trainer? What other careers have you contemplated?

I’ve always been a lover of sport and fitness. At the age of 20, while driving a courier truck for a construction supply company I heard a radio ad for he Australian Institute of Fitness. Within a week I was enrolled in a 12-month full-time course.

What is your biggest fitness/sporting moment?

Running a marathon was one of the most physically and mentally demanding moments of my life. So after three of them in consecutive years I needed a break from them. Five years later, I’ve signed up for my fourth in mid 2021.

What has been your most challenging physical experience? 
Marathons.

How do you motivate clients who are struggling to complete/ commit to a workout?

Building trust in each other. Our clients start on all different fitness levels and we need to train at different intensities. After a few weeks of regular exercise we find the sessions begin to flow well, one our clients get an understanding of what we’re about, and their induvial fitness/ strength can handle it.

What have you learnt in the last 12 years of training other people?

Every person is different, and every person has something they are dealing with in life. Exercise and feeling good within yourself helps them face adversity. Consistency is key with becoming fitter, stronger and healthier. Maintaining a safe, clean and professional space for all of our clients makes everyone feel like they can be themselves and never judged. May of our clients a nervous when they begin this journey, so we make sure they feel welcomed right away.