LaVanda is an elite group of personal training professionals with over 20 years of passion, pride and commitment to the health and fitness industry. We offer the complete solution to your health and fitness needs, encompassing the body and mind to help you achieve the results you are looking for over the short to medium term.
Over the years we have seen a demand for a more knowledgeable, experienced and respectful trainer. Our vision is to service this market as one-on-one coaches, provide education for the corporate world, foster a more relaxed, healthy and productive workforce and offer our business model to existing personal trainers. Furthermore our team also consists of body workers, postural analysis coaches and a variety of specialised coaches (i.e: Boxing, Running, Tennis and Weight Lifting) to ensure that you receive the correct techniques to attain optimal results.
Through motivation, education and dedication, our team of specialists will help you realise how to achieve a higher state of physical health, professional efficiency and mental clarity. Our results-driven, personalised programs maximise your workouts with variety that keeps you and your muscles guessing and provide you with remarkable insight into the true world of health and fitness. Our one-to-one specialised training programs are challenging and designed to produce the maximum results.
We believe that in the near future there will be a LaVanda trainer in every health club following in our footsteps and delivering 5-star service in personal training.
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Profiles
Over the past 15 years Ken has been a gym and studio owner, training and development lecturer, strength and conditioning coach for an Australian sporting team, a masseur and a manager of 80+ Personal Trainers and Personal Training managers. He has worked with all levels of fitness, specialising in Strength & Conditioning, Functional Movement, Pre & Post Natal Pregnancy, Rehabilitation, Weight loss, Toning and Body sculpting. He also specialises in Nutrition and various Massage techniques including sports, remedial, trigger point, relaxation, therapeutic and craniosacral therapy. He has a special interest in Natural Body Building, competing over the last 5 years with personal achievements including; winning NSW& SA State Titles, Australian National Titles and a placing in the International Olympia.
Ken has a Certificate III & IV in Personal Training including special populations, nutrition and weight management, strength and conditioning, advanced programming and a current Senior First Aid certificate. Ken continually attends various workshops and courses to add to his professional developments with fitness and nutrition. Achieving various certificates including stability ball exercise, aqua aerobics, integrated correctional exercises, kick/punch pad and many more.
Furthermore he has been involved in a range of community initiatives including assisting with the Auskick program for outback students, Fitness and Development programs within outback Primary schools and initiating the first Personal Trainer Challenge at Fitness First to raise funds for local charities.
Ken thoroughly enjoys all aspects of the fitness industry and especially likes to assist people in achieving personal results and quality of life. Beyond fitness, Ken’s passion is his family. Spending time with his wife Lisa and 2 children Nicholas (16) and Maddison (3 months) is what matters most.
Get in touch with Ken, email ken@lavandaelite.com.au
Hailing from the United Kingdom, Darius has spent over 14 years in the Health and Fitness Industry and brings a fresh and elevated approach to the Australian shores of training. Having witnessed many training trends come and go, Darius maintains a simple and effective Back-to-Basics approach – a combination of cardiovascular fitness, weight resistance work and a lot of movement. Embodying the absolute view that health and well-being are from within and without, Darius trains not only the body but encompasses the power of positive mind, personal belief, correct nutrition and balanced spirit are all essential for long term results and thus embodies this in his training approach.
Darius has a global knowledge having widely travelled to learn from various Masters of sport and fitness. The knowledge he has acquired brings revolutionary techniques to his clients not commonly acquired by today’s trainers. A sample of his pursuits sees him as a qualified trainer in the Pose Method of Running and recently he has acquired the Pose Movement Level 1 – the only person in Australia. In addition he is a Latvian trained Kettle Bell coach and Nutritional advisor. This insight and knowledge has allowed him to develop his own long-term training model and uphold his belief that training is about educating and empowering his clients to long-term health and wellbeing as well achieving results!
Darius enjoys a relaxed, beach lifestyle. He enjoys the outdoors and quality time with close friends.
Get in touch with Darius, email darius@lavandaelite.com.au
Kris Cochrane is a Sydney based Exercise Performance Coach specialising in strength training, hypertrophy, fat loss and postural correction.
Kris is experienced with KettleBells, PoweBags, Battling Ropes and Cross Fit type exercise. He has a background in AFL and has been involved in the fitness industry for fitness for 10 years.
“There are 168 hours in the week, the average Australian spends 1.5 hours attempting some form of exercise. This means they have 1.5 hours per week to correct what happens in the other 166.5!? A quick look around the gym floor makes it evident that most people are wasting this time anyway..”
Kris is a no-nonsense Performance coach and is commited in getting the most out of every person.
Get in touch with Kris, email kris@lavandaelite.com.au
Chris is a well-established, fully-certified personal trainer who has spent his entire life playing multiple sports, his speciality being AFL. Chris spent all of 2009 on the Western Bulldogs AFL Rookie List, but decided at the end of the year that AFL wasn’t what he was most passionate about. Instead, Chris moved back to his hometown of Sydney and sought a career in the fitness industry, and has since never looked back.
Chris has quickly adapted to a training style whereby he educates his clients as quickly as possible on the fundamentals of exercise and a balanced lifestyle. His speciality lies in the fat loss department, but also utilizes his knowledge of elite AFL training during many of his higher intensity sessions. Chris aims to individualise programs around a client’s specific needs, whilst uncovering to them the training techniques used in one of the most elite sports in Australia.
Get in touch with Chris, email chris@lavandaelite.com.au
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