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.
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!
Personal Training Enquiry Form