LaVanda Elite 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

Ken LaVanda

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 3 children Nicholas, Maddison, and Mackenzie is what matters most.

Get in touch with Ken, email ken@lavandaelite.com

Chris Ogle

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 training@lavandaelite.com