We have a collective 30 years’ experience in the field of health and fitness, and have worked alongside a diverse range of individuals from all walks of life including professional athletes, busy mums, grandparents, aspiring young sports enthusiasts or those suffering from degenerative or life altering diseases, to name but a few. It is this valuable experience which has taught us the value of personally tailoring a programme to an individual in a way which suits their way of life and not the other way around.
Through our endless studying and our practical experience, we have established the methods that truly work. Training with us will leave you with no doubt that your effort and determination will pay off and you will achieve your goals.
Ben is one of the most highly-qualified coaches you will find and has experience working with a huge variety of different clients. He uses his wide base of knowledge to carefully tailor packages to suit each client’s individual needs.
Ben’s passion for health and fitness led him to launch Elitas Fitness, with the aim of using cutting-edge scientific principles to improve the quality of life of as many people as possible. What this involves is different for each individual. Improving markers of health and reducing the risk of disease later in life, improving body composition for a more attractive physique, improving sporting performance, and rehabilitating and recovering from illness and injuries are all examples of this.
Ben has experienced the health and fitness industry from many angles. He spent a year working within the strength and conditioning department at Gloucester Rugby Club, coaching the senior squad day-to-day and spending his evenings working with academy players. He has also worked in a regular gym, coaching and writing programmes for a wide variety of people. Ben has also spent time working with physiotherapists in sports settings as well as hospitals and Multiple Sclerosis Centres in Gloucestershire and Berkshire.
Contact Ben if you would like to see real results. He provides personal training, strength and conditioning and soft tissue therapy services. Whatever your individual circumstances and requirements, get in touch to negotiate a package.
David has distinguished himself as one of the few fitness and nutrition specialists who practises what he preaches. Leading by example, his infectious enthusiasm and passion for fitness is rivalled by none.
He believes that the benefits of being fit and healthy extend far beyond the confines of a gym or a training session, but branch out to improve every aspect of a person’s life. This belief has grown from the years of experience working with a broad range of people from many walks of life, including parents, young athletes, grandparents, those with serious or debilitating medical conditions, as well as individuals serious about fitness looking to shred body fat, build muscle or gain strength.
David has worked within the fitness industry from an early age, as it was clear from the very beginning that this was his dream. Throughout this time David has built an extensive knowledge of all things health and fitness, pursuing advanced qualifications from the likes of world renowned coach and health expert Charles Poliquin and ex-international athlete Derek Woodske. He dedicates his free time to study, read, learn and apply this knowledge from a multitude of subjects ranging from nutrition, fat loss, health and mobility to name a just a few. This extensive, on-going knowledge acquisition ensures that no stone is left unturned in the quest for results for his clients.
David believes that personal training and sports coaching should be a hands-on and enjoyable experience and co-founded Elitas fitness with the intention of offering people the very best fitness has to offer. This allows him to offer superior, results-oriented training and nutrition to the individual, a far cry from a regular gym where each person is a number on a client database and not a real individual with personal goals and desires.
Lydia is a Level 4 Personal Trainer and Sports Massage Therapist on a mission to get people moving better, feeling better and looking better in order to truly thrive and make the most out of life. After having her son and retiring from the British Army, Lydia brought her knowledge, expertise and infectious passion for all things health & fitness to civvy-street and has been facilitating life-changing results among men and women since 2013.
Lydia considers herself a lifelong student, striving to stay up to date with current evidence on nutrition and exercise science and places emphasis on her continuing professional development, constantly seeking more knowledge to optimise her clients results.
Lydia utilises a holistic, no b.s, but friendly approach, incorporating bespoke, pragmatic advice that encourages long-term positive habit formation and sustainable results.
In her spare time, Lydia is a Roller Derby skater for the Portsmouth Roller Wenches, a prolific reader and is always itching to get outdoors.
Owen is a strength and conditioning coach and personal trainer who has worked with a diverse and varied client base. Having spent the majority of his early career working as a strength and conditioning coach for some of the most successful professional rugby teams across Europe, as well as a number of Red Bull athletes, he has more recently turned his attention to personal training. An accomplished Olympic weightlifting coach and keen sportsman, Owen has a passion for improving lives through structured training and wellbeing protocols.
Owen is a highly qualified coach, having completed his degree in strength and conditioning science in 2011. He has continued to attend various seminars and workshops with some of the industry’s leading coaches and athletes, with many of the things he has learnt still prominent in his training programmes today. Owen has a robust training philosophy based on movement quality and structured progressive overload principles which creates a framework for positive results.
More recently Owen has worked to improve people’s body composition and wellbeing. He provides body transformation training and the “wedding-day-ready programme” for the bride or groom to be. Owen has taken many of the cutting edge training principles from professional sports and implemented them into effective personal training sessions.
Book in with Owen if you are looking for a results driven approach to your training or you want to take your sports performance to the next level.
Owen lifting the Italian Super 12 trophy with Mogliano in 2013
Aaron is a personal trainer and strength and conditioning coach working out of the state-of-the-art strength training facility, Elitas Fitness Oaklands. Aaron’s previous experience travelling, training and studying at world-renowned facilities (such as Defranco’s gym in New Jersey), combined with his extensive experience working with National League level athletes, naturally led him to his current role as a Physical Preparation Specialist.
Aaron currently has a varied portfolio of clients whose goals vary from fat loss and muscle gain to rehabilitation and performance enhancement. His knowledge, experience and drive for continual development make him extremely well-equipped to help his clients work towards their goals.
