SHIFT
training for movement
SERVICES
There are a range of services to suit your training. Scroll down, click a pic and take a look.
PERSONAL TRAINING
You've made the decision to find out more about personal training, which could well mean you've reached a plateau or sticking point in your current routine, or simply would like to know more about what personal training is all about.
Our aim is to help you identify your training objectives, translate these into a set of goals then design a clear path to work towards those goals.
Your medical history, current activity and fitness levels are taken into consideration from which a programme is then put together.
Importantly, your safety is paramount, which doesn't mean you'll get an easy time when training. Being challenged is important to create new stimulus and encourages development and improvement, but we do all of this on a backdrop of intelligent and appropriate exercise choices.
GROUP TRAINING
PILATES
Pilates provides a total body conditioning workout through controlled movements, with emphasis on core stability and balancing the muscular structure supporting the joints. This helps to increase workout efficiency and prevent injury.
Pilates provides an ideal complement to cardio, weight training, or other mind-body systems such as yoga and is excellent for sports conditioning by enhancing strength, stability and neuromuscular coordination.
We utilise matwork, with machines (Reformer, Cadillac and Chair) to develop and refine core control, and provide even greater addition to functional strength training.
Shift Pilates instructors are fully qualified Stott Pilates instructors, training and gaining experience from London, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Singapore, and fully integrate their own training methods with this unique workout system.
Training goals can be easier to reach when someone else, other than a trainer, is there to experience it with you; push each other, beat your training partners, develop camaraderie, and forge a team spirit.
If you have a need to train as a group; perhaps you’re part of a running club, rugby team, martial arts club, and you’d like to understand how you can maximise your training as a group, I am available to design and deliver sessions with attention to your goals.
PRE & POST NATAL
With extensive experience of pre and post-natal clients, we can help design an effective programme that puts you and your baby’s safety first, and post-natal bring you back to your previous levels of fitness again with your safety as paramount.
Posture can be adversely affected from carrying and feeding your child. You can return to training in as little as 2-6 weeks after the birth, and take part in a personalised programme.
Resistance and fitness training helps to strengthen the body to stand up to the increased demands of pregnancy and child birth.
During pregnancy, hormone changes promote flexibility in the joints and muscles, and as a consequence care must be taken to not strain muscles and ligaments. Controlled resistance and fitness training during pregnancy leads to easier labour and a faster return to fitness and your pre-pregnancy body.
Returning to exercise post pregnancy depends on your fitness levels and it is important to listen and understand your body, in addition to receiving medical clearance. Controlled resistance training and in particular, practising Pilates, is the safest and most effective way to define your core abdominals and improve your posture.
INJURY REHAB
Injuries can often a result from faulty movement patterns repeated over a prolonged period of time, or an unexpected event or trauma in your life. They happen; it's a fact of life.
Shift instructors have extensive Injuries and Special Populations experience to help with programming a strength training regime to aid with a faster recovery.
Where we are able, we will work with your medical team to understand your condition and together design a realistic rehabilitation roadmap to bring you back to functional fitness.
MARTIAL ARTS
With extensive backgrounds in martial arts training, successful Team GB Karate (Kyokushin) representation, and sound knowledge in the development of speed, agility and quickness,
Shift instructors are qualified to deliver world-class fight training, providing all the benefits to increasing your metabolic rate, burn fat, and with programming good enough for elite-level athletes.
For those looking to learn and practice a martial art in its entirety, we also offer 1-on-1 private tuition in the unique style of Kyokushinkai Karate.
Our instructors are affiliated to the British Karate Kyokushinkai (BKK), a member of the International Federation of Karate (IFK)
