Personal training

Nothing beats the inspiration and motivation of having your own trainer.

Personal training is a one on one workout with one of Aquarena's highly trained and qualified fitness professionals. Your own trainer will provide you with hands on support, guidance and encouragement. They will also motivate you to achieve your individual goals and help you to get the most out of your work out time. Whether you are just starting to exercise or are currently training competitively, you will immediately recognise the physical benefits of having your own personal trainer.

Outdoor Personal training

Personal training outdoors adds a huge amount of fun, variety and new challenges to your workouts. Power walking, running, jogging, boxing, or cycling, the opportunities are endless as you enjoy training with your personal trainer in the great outdoors. You and your trainer can use any of Aquarena's facilities, including the health club, group exercise room, outdoor heated pools and more, to vary your training and keep you motivated.

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The benefits of Personal Training include:

  • Receive an extra push from a fully qualified fitness professional
  • Achieve faster results and reach your goals sooner
  • Have your own coach
  • Improve muscle tone and posture
  • Break through training plateaus
  • Receive advanced training techniques
  • Receive more frequent guidance
  • Maximize every session
  • More comprehensive dietary guidance
  • Lots of hands on support and encouragement

Our Trainers

The personal training team at Aquarena are renowned for their level of expertise, qualifications and commitment to helping clients achieve real results. All trainers have extensive experience working across a wide range of fitness interests and attend ongoing workshops to stay up to date with all the latest health & fitness information.

Darrin Maslen - Personal Training Coordinator

Darrin has been working in the health and fitness industry since 1999 and joined the Health Club team at Aquarena in September 2004 on a fulltime basis as the Personal Training Co-ordinator. Darrin is a highly qualified and experienced Personal Trainer who combines his knowledge and skills of functional training, core conditioning, corrective postural training, sports specific training, strength training and training for fat loss to create a fun and challenging sessions to achieve your goals. His background has mainly involved sports particularly basketball which he has been committed to for 20 years as a coach and as a current player in the V.B.L (Victorian Basketball League)

Molly Brocksopp

Molly completed a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science at Deakin University and is currently completing Masters of Clinical Exercise Physiology with the aim of becoming an Accredited Exercise Physiologist. She enjoys regularly running and would one day like to complete a marathon or triathlon. She believes exercise provides numerous health and wellbeing benefits and hopes she can pass on some of her knowledge to you and create individual and challenging exercise sessions relevant to your needs and goals.

Brad Bullock

Brad has completed a Certificate III & IV in fitness/personal training and a Certificate IV in Sports Massage and has been working in the health industry for over five years. He is experienced in outdoor group training sessions, run coaching, cycle training, endurance conditioning and circuit work. Brad's knowledge of anatomy, kinesiology and exercise physiology enables him to individualise your training program and offer you something new every time. Brad is passionate about exercising, helping his clients to get moving, achieving their goals, having fun and feeling great. He approaches every training session with your needs in mind, a high level of enthusiasm, motivation and variety - which means you get a challenging workout and results to match! Brad's other great passion is triathlons (swim/bike/run). He is an elite tri-athlete and has recently fulfilled one of his childhood dreams by qualifying for the Hawaiian Ironman World Championships in October 2011. Ask Brad today about the sport of triathlons and how you can get involved.

Alanna Sheard

Alanna is highly qualified member of our team with a degree in Human Movement, majoring in Exercise Science & Health Promotion and a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Nutrition. Alanna has worked in the corporate health sector which escalated her desire to become a personal trainer and gain further hands on experience in health promotion and preventative health care at a local level. Alanna is passionate about educating and empowering people to reach their goals by passing on her knowledge and passion for health and fitness.

Beth Chiuchiarelli

Bachelor of Exercise Science, Human Movement and Sport Administration

Beth has completed her Undergraduate degree in Exercise Science and Human Movement and is currently completing her Masters of Applied Science for Exercise Rehabilitation in order to qualify as an Exercise Physiologist. She is also at the VIS in their Sport Science department working with various elite athletes from many sports (Soccer, Netball, Cycling, rowing) to help increase and maintain their performance. Beth plays netball at VNL level and also enjoys keeping fit and healthy and motivating people to reach their specific goals!

Daniel Pobjoy

3/4 in Fitness/PT Level 1 Strength and Conditioning Coach

Daniel has completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise Science) at Deakin University. His main area of interest lies in strength and conditioning. Daniel is committed to helping clients achieve their health and fitness goals and provides enjoyable and fun sessions. He enjoys working clients hard and adds variety into each of his sessions.

Jacqui Allen

B.App.Sci. (HM), VicFit (Cert. 3 & 4)

Jacqui excelled in her human movement degree completed at RMIT and Penn State University (USA). Her extensive experience includes 10 years in the health and fitness industry and she also specialises in pre and post pregnancy training, functional training, fat loss and strength training. Jacqui is encouraging, supportive and has the ability to relate to everyone.

Mark Cosgriff

Cert. 3/4 in Fitness / Personal Training

Mark is a fully accredited and highly trained personal trainer, who possesses a friendly nature with a positive outlook on life. Mark prides himself on providing the most effective and efficient session to ensure you are performing at your optimum potential. As a keen learner of sports in general, Mark has been involved in many sports since a young age at many different levels ranging from football, cricket, hockey, netball, athletics and triathlons. Mark is committed to assisting you, motivating you, and monitoring your progress as you strive to reach your goals

Paul Manuel

Cert.3/4 in Fitness/Personal Training

Paul has been a fully accredited Gym Instructor/Personal Trainer for numerous years working in various corporate YMCA's in the city as well as his own business. He has played football since he was at a young age and has completed a couple of marathons. He recently began as our boxing circuit Instructor which has seen the class booked out each session. . He is highly motivated in seeing people achieve high standards of fitness. Each session with Paul is different ,fun and hard work. His philosophy is "YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR WEALTH"! Paul is very motivated trainer and loves seeing people pushed to their limits!

Dee Sheffrin

Cert III & IV in Fitness, Level 1 Mat Pilates Instructor, Boxing, Outdoor PT Cert.

Division I Nurse: Respiratory Nurse Cert, Asthma Educator, Cert's in Cardiac & Respiratory Rehabilitation & Chronic Disease Prevention.

Dee moved into the fitness industry from a 30 year background in general nursing. As a mother of adult children she's gained life experience in dealing with situations at work and outside; she is easily able to relate to people from varied backgrounds and cultures. Still active in rehabilitation nursing this greatly assists her when dealing with people's health & fitness. Dee is now a Senior Circuit Instructor & has fun whilst motivating the participants to get fit.

She has been involved in competitive sports since childhood having twenty years experience in distance running including VA road & X Country running. She has two marathons under her belt and completed 3 yrs of Triathlon competition. Currently trains with the Doncaster Dolphins Masters Swim Club & competes at National & World Masters level. Dee aims to inspire members at Aquarena to reach their own goals whether they be fat loss, sports orientated, recovering from surgery or just to improve their self esteem & be healthy.

Tristan Joss

Advanced diploma of sports therapy/ remedial massage, Cert III & IV in fitness/ personal training

Tristan has completed an advanced diploma of sports therapy/ remedial massage and Certificate III & IV in fitness/ personal training. After over 12 months in the health industry as a remedial massage therapist, Tristan commenced working with the other passion in his life in fitness. He has a sporting background in Football and baseball but loves learning about sport in general. Tristan is committed to helping people improve their health/ fitness goals and all-round wellbeing.

Personal Training Enquiry

If you would like to find out more about how our personal trainers can help you achieve your individual goals and which trainer is best suited to your needs, then please call the centre on 9848 0000 and speak to any of our customer service staff.

Alternativelly, you can complete and submit the form below which will go directly to our Personal Training Director. They will then contact you within two working days to discuss how we can best meet your needs, and match you with a skilled trainer best suited to helping YOU achieve your individual goals!

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Personal Training Enquiry Form