In addition to having full access to the gymnasium, you can book a free one hour personal training session with a fully qualified instructor when staying with us at Blaenfforest Cottages.

Subsequent instruction is charged at £25 per hour per adult and £10 per hour for minor’s from 5 to 15 years of age.

Trainer qualifications

• Level 2 & 3 Advanced gym instructor for resistance/weights and cardiovascular training.
• Level 3 personal trainer.
• Level 1 & 2 England Amateur Boxing instructor.
• Nutrition and weight management certified.
• Level 3 sports nutrition.
• Safeguarding & Protecting children certified.
• Enhanced DBS criminal record checked for coaching children and vulnerable adults.
• Kick and Thai Boxing instructor for 15 years until 2007.
• Full-contact karate instructor for 20 years until 2001.
• Specialised in female self-defence for high-risk environments, assault, abduction and kidnap.
• First aid at work and paediatric first aider.

In addition, we can give individual body analysis including blood pressure, accurate resting heart rate, body fat, visceral fat, BMI, and muscle percentage measurement with a tailored periodised training program to suit the individual’s unique level of fitness.

Competing in various martial arts for decades until injury forced retirement, our instructor has a wealth of experience so that each student is guaranteed first-class instruction. No matter if you're a raw beginner or an advanced athlete in a specialist area, the knowledge and care given to each individual is tailored according to ability but most importantly, made enjoyable.

Coaching specialties include advanced strength and conditioning, cardiovascular work and improving VO2-Max using high intensity training (HIT) measuring recovery rates with accurate heart rate monitors. Mixed martial arts and boxing: please note we do not allow head sparring.