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Who Are AJ Fitness? |
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| AJ Fitness is a specialty personal training business that has been helping people realise their goals since 2006. Based in Carina, only 10 minutes from the CBD in Brisbane’s south eastern suburbs, its convenient and our clients results speak for themselves. AJ Fitness tailor their services to you, the customer and has helped hundreds of people achieve their fitness and weight goals. AJ Fitness has a number of personal trainers under the guidance of the founder and Head Trainer of AJ Fitness, Andy Jeffery. Andy is a fully qualified and insured Personal Trainer registered with Fitness Australia. A Message from Andy Jeffery (AJ) As a kid playing rugby for the Sunnybank club, our coach devised a method to test if we had been doing our daily sit-ups. Our whole under 12’s team would stand around in a big circle as the coach came around and punched you in the stomach as hard as he could. Those who doubled over in agony never needed it explained to them that their fitness needed improving. Some years later, 1984 in fact, Tony Booth, my long distance running coach at Churchie gave me this piece of advice after deciding to push us through a few more 400m reps of a sprint session ‘If you’re going to throw up, don’t get any on my shoes’. Experience really is a great teacher, and I wouldn’t trade the fantastic experiences of my youth for the world, but thankfully fitness training methods have moved on and core strength assessments no longer require you getting hit. I grew up here on Brisbane’s southside doing all the things that kids did in the days before Playstations and surfing the net, when transportation was a BMX. I played rugby for 11 years with the Sunnybank Rugby Club, attended Scouts and also Venturers achieving the top award of Queen Scout, rowed and also ran cross country. Every Christmas holidays we’d go camping on Straddie to spend time surfing, (that’s with the board not the Internet). Except the year I went on a youth exchange to the USA, learnt to ski in Colorado, and have been addicted to skiing ever since. So the question of how I got into the health and fitness field is a bit hard to answer because I can’t really remember a time when fitness in some form or another wasn’t a big part of my life. After finishing high school I studied Sports Coaching. I loved the courses at college but after graduating in 1987 I found that real paying jobs in fitness were a bit hard to come by and Brisbane was still a way off embracing personal training. While fitness training remained a hobby, the diet and nutrition side of things did provide a career. I trained as a chef and spent 9 years working in North Queensland including 5 years running my own restaurant. The cooking business took me to Europe for 3 years and Melbourne for another 3. When I arrived back home in Brisbane I decided it was the right time to start a fitness training business. So it was back to school! I tore through all the text books and the latest sports science journals reading and trying out everything I could. Then with all the latest certifications in hand AJ Fitness Personal Training was born. Now, some dream jobs turn out to be anything but… Not this one! I love every minute of my day, I have helped hundreds of people to actually lose weight instead of just wishing they could. Getting brides and grooms looking amazing for the big day coming up, inspiring and motivating people to overcome their challenges and turn their lives around for the better. I’d love to help you achieve any goals you have…I’m looking forward to training with you… Cheers, AJ |
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