BIOGRAPHY

Stu Matthews is a fully qualified and certified level 3 Personal Trainer, Advanced Kettlbell Trainer, and strength and conditioning coach, and also a member of The Register of Exercise Professionals (REPS) at its highest level. Stu has over 8 years experience in the fitness industry. His passion for fitness and training comes from his Army background where he served as a soldier for over 4 years, with this role physical fitness was a necessity. Serving as a soldier Stu was faced with physical and mental challenges and these experiences are what he needed to find his passion.

Stu Specialises in Kettlebells, Fat loss, Boxing and Functional Fitness. The kettlebell is Stu’s number one choice and is one of the most popular forms of training for Fat loss, total body strength and immense physical fitness. Stu consistently demonstrates extraordinary results; he achieves this through a combination of passion, motivation, guidance and most importantly the ability to change the client mindset.

Stu’s Knowledge and training experience are both supplemented by his target setting and ability to create and deliver training programmes with realistic results, through his extensive training, Qualifications and “Real World “experience and dedicated research into exercise science. Stu continues to study with some of the best international and UK Kettlebell tutors and has recently competed in his fist Kettlebell (Girevoy)Sport competition.

Stu has a first class attitude with his clients and has always believed in building a trusting rapport making him approachable and easy to talk to. He makes sure that he has a “your goal is my goal” focus so he is just as motivated to reach that goal as the client is.

Stu has a proud client base which ranges from the exercise beginner, weekend warrior to Elite Athlete, even other Personal trainers have been trained by Stu.

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QUALIFICATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Qualifications

  • YMCA Personal Trainer Diploma (Advanced Level 3) Including Exercise Nutrition and Circuit Training

  • Nutrition and Weight Management

  • Extreme Kettlebell Instructor (EKI) - Optimal Life Fitness

  • Advanced Extreme Kettlebell Instructor (AEKI) - Optimal Life Fitness

  • Kinetic Chain and Movement Dynamics (KMD)

  • Performance Boxing Coach - Optimal Life Fitness

  • Boxercise Instructor

  • First Aider

  • Register Of Exercise Professionals (REPS)

  • Olympic Weightlifting - Optimal Life Fitness

  • International Bulgarian Bag Confederation Instructor - Optimal Life Fitness