Our Team

Meet The FitAsylum Instructors

GET TO KNOW US

Get to know our team here at FitAsylum. We're a helpful and happy team with a wide range of skills and knowledge that I'm sure you can put to the test, we won't buckle!

Meet The Founders

DAVE

Name: Dave...never David

Location: All over the North West!

  • I served 10 years with 1st Royal Tank Regiment and was an Army Physical Training Instructor. I followed this with 10 Years as a Police Specialist Trainer, delivering Public Order, Self Defence, Handcuff & Baton Skills and Physical Training. Then moved to delivering Sports & Fitness Qualifications for Colleges before co-founding FLM Training and FitAsylum™.

  • I’m Company Director, but I still have a passion for (and involvement in) training and delivery! My day-to-day job is mainly developing and maintaining customer partnerships.

  • Most of my hobbies revolve around sport. I’ve competed in many triathlons and other sports from Swimming to Tug of War. I hit the gym at least 4 times a week, working as a PT for friends. I also enjoy spending time with my son and watching him play Rugby.

GARY

Name: Gary, sometimes referred to as Gaz or Gazza

Location: Wigan / FitAsylum™ Office

  • Started out on construction sites working all over England and Germany (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet) then ended up in Prison….. as a tutor/assessor, not an inmate! Then I progressed onto the Management of Government funded Apprenticeships, training programmes and courses, before co-founding FLM Training in 2013 and more recently FitAsylum™.

  • Finance, bid writing, government contracts, as well as making brews for (and generally getting a hard time from) the girls in the office.

  • I love travel and holidays, from the Caribbean to caravanning in Cumbria. I also enjoy taking part in and watching sport, including cycling and triathlons as well as watching my youngest play rugby & football. I also enjoy eating good food and drinking good wine and the odd real ale!

AMY

Name: Amy

Location: Liverpool and surrounding area

  • I started out as a beauty therapist and progressed onto Sports Massage. I am a level 5 Sports Massage Therapist and work with a range of clients from the elderly to professional athletes.

  • I work as a holistic and Sports Massage Therapist alongside teaching.

  • I have a husband, 2 children and a dog so my hobbies include watching paw patrol and dodging stray Lego on the landing. I also love a good cuppa and catch up with friends.

CAZ

Name: If my mum was writing this it would be Carolyn, but I much prefer to be known as Caz!

Location: North West, mainly Blackpool

  • I started out as a PT after Uni then moved into an Assessor role, specialising in the areas of Business Skills & Management.

  • After taking my two children to school & picking up a strong coffee, I set off on my travels to see my learners either on a one-to-one basis or on a group delivery basis for knowledge days.

  • I like to spend time with family and friends. We have two children who keep us busy with their football, swimming and gymnastics! Sometimes we take a well deserved break from this and eat out with friends, enjoying some nice food and wine, though it doesn't happen too often..... it does pay to have an ex-Chef for a hubby at home! I’m Currently saving up for a trip over to Oz to see my bro and family... he thinks the highlight is seeing them but I’ll let you in on a secret- I’m more looking forward to a trip to the Neighbours set in Melbourne (avid fan for 30 years... sad I know, but I just love it!).

CHLOE

Name: Chloe, also referred to as Shirley :-)

Location: Wigan/FitAsylum Office

  • Too young to have a background, haha, I started working at FitAsylum when I was 18, and I’ve now been here 3 years. Still the youngest & coolest.

  • I currently work in admin, and I’m also the data coordinator. I’m also the team brew maker.

  • Professional napper and professional eater. Oh and I love a holiday. Oh and a cocktail or two

CHRIS

Name: Chris

Location: Warrington

  • I have worked in the fitness industry since 2010, starting out as a Fitness Instructor before moving into personal training and sports massage therapy. Part way through my fitness career I decided to study sport and management at university which led to me moving into education in 2016, teaching sport and business to learners aged 16-19. Although teaching takes up the majority of my time, I still run a mobile sports massage business part-time.

  • Teaching Business Studies and Sports Massage.

  • When I'm not working I enjoy being outdoors and active. This includes anything from walking/climbing to mountain biking, and I try to get into the gym at least 3 times a week.

DAN

Name: Dan

Location: Warrington & Bolton

  • I have taught sport and exercise science for 12 years, working with students from level two, all the way through to degree level. I am qualified in Personal Training and Gym Instruction, Corrective Exercise Specialist, Advanced Sports Performance Trainer and Level 4 Sports Massage therapist as well as having a degree in Sport and Exercise Science. I am also a football coach and lead on the Football Programme at the college where I work. In addition to Tutoring for Fit Asylum and Teaching I am also a Standards Verifier and Examiner for BTEC courses.

  • Teacher of Sport and Exercise Science, Head of Football and Level 2 Strategic Manager.

  • I have a wife and five year old son who both keep me very busy, and my hobbies include playing football and futsal as well as socialising with friends!

DANNY

Name: Dan, Danny, or Daniel if I’m in trouble.

Location: Across the North West

  • I left school to become a Footballer, and after retiring from the beautiful game at a young age, I went into the Fitness Industry Coaching, Teaching Classes and Personal Training. I took a break from fitness and joined the Police to fight crime and lock up subhuman scum. After a while decided it wasn’t for me and got back into another branch of fitness with Teaching and Assessing.

  • Since switching from an Assessors role, I now look at teaching and developing the training programmes and courses that we deliver, as well as aiming to increase all business areas and highlight new potential courses. In a nutshell… I make the stuff we do better and get more people into training.

  • I’m married, with 3 kids and a little dog, so my life is not my own… easily bottom of the food chain in my own house, but wouldn’t change it for the world! I absolutely love teaching fitness classes and connecting with a variety of people. I like to think I have a good sense of humour and always joke about. I’m big on films and love any opportunity to listen to music.

DECLAN

Name: Dec

Location: All over the UK (I’m an online tutor)

  • I specialise in personal training/coaching and have over 11 years experience. I’m a former powerlifter and owned 2 gyms. I have a degree in sports excellence(a fancy way of saying sports coaching). I also have an array of coaching badges and qualifications in cricket/weightlifting etc

  • I’m an Assessor and tutor for FitAsylum™. This involves me imparting my wisdom and experience regarding personal training. An essential part of my day is coffee.

  • I love all sports, I currently have a goal to compete in weightlifting, I also play cricket, football, golf and occasionally squash. I’m also a massive fan of food (this is why my girlfriend is Italian).

EDDIE

Name: Eddie

Location: All over the North West but mainly Liverpool, Lancashire and Manchester

  • I hold a BSc in Sports Rehabilitation and MSc in sports therapy. I specialise in neuro-related rehab including neuro-muscular repatterning. I work a lot with tri-athletes.

  • I’m an Assessor, internal verifier and Sports Massage tutor for FitAsylum™. This involves teaching groups on courses. I worked as a rehab instructor in the RAF for 12 years before leaving to become a University lecturer, having taught sports therapy and sports, fitness and management. I still run a private practice delivering musculoskeletal therapy alongside working for the football association as a doping controls supervisor and educator.

  • I enjoy fell-running and spending what time I have with my family.

HARRY

Name: Harry

Location: All over the North West but mainly Cheshire

  • I’m a Bsc in Sports therapy. I worked in Professional Rugby League for Warrington Wolves and Samoa during the 2013 World Cup, providing first team Sports Massage. I owned my own clinic and now I’m taking a lead in education.

  • I am the Operations Manager for FLM, this involves managing staff, supporting students and working with our customers within the leisure industry.

  • I play rugby for Holmes Chapel and enjoy cycling. I have a young daughter who keeps me pretty busy!!

JAMIE

Name: Jamie

Location: Wigan, North West

  • My main area of expertise is within the fitness industry. Initially I was a Strength & conditioning coach / sport scientist for the Wigan Warriors for 3 years, from 2013-2016 and finishing with a Grand Final win at Old Trafford.

  • However, since then, I have decided to run my own business and work with the generic public rather than professional athletes in order to gain more experience within the fitness industry and learn new training methods. Alongside this, I am also a course tutor in sports massage and PT level 2 and 3 which I enjoy helping others try not to make the same mistakes I did! Plus I get to learn some new things from the learners along the way!

  • I try to lift some weights when I can and compete on the odd occasion with my friends, but I mainly do this for the food that occurs afterwards.

JASMINE

Name: Jasmine

Location: Cheshire (but I work with students all over the UK on an online basis).

  • I began working in the fitness industry in 2006, and I joined FLM Training/Fitasylum in 2020. I have extensive industry-based experience having started my career working for a national gym chain in an active role on the gym floor, working 1:1 with gym members, teaching classes, and gathering an insight into operations, management and sales.

    I then moved on to work in the luxury fitness sector establishing a role as a personal trainer, and continuing with side-roles within sales and member relations whilst completing an Honours Degree in Business Management. The bulk of my working years were then spent self-employed running my own personal training business, with an aim of one day moving towards education and mentoring other personal trainers.

    I would say my areas of speciality and strength are programming, exercise correction, communication, sales and business development.

  • Currently, I am a tutor and assessor for Level 2 Gym Instructing and the Level 3 Personal Training Diploma. I am also studying to complete a Level 4 in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment (processes and practice) and Level 5 Diploma in Education Training.

  • I mostly enjoy being at home with my Fiancé and our 3 dogs (I LOVE dogs!).

JON

Name: Jon

Location: St Helens / North West

  • Worked in the leisure industry for 15 years, attaining management level before retraining in health and safety, as well as Sports Massage Therapy, which I used to gain employment in the education sector and assessing.

  • Assessing future Sports Massage and Fitness Instructor practitioner's.

  • I play rugby for Holmes Chapel and enjoy cycling. I have a young daughter who keeps me pretty busy!!

LEE

Name: Lee

Location: Liverpool and around the North West

  • My background lies within the fitness industry- I’ve worked as a Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer, Assessor, Internal Verifier and Quality Manager for twenty years. This should tell you that I am pretty old.

  • As a quality manager my typical day involves ensuring that teaching and assessing is of a high standard. I can be seen travelling around the North West for this, trying to uncover the whereabouts of our assessors and tutors who will more often than not, go out of their way to avoid me. Fortunately for me I have secret access to their electronic calendars.

  • Most of my spare time is spent searching for assessors and tutors who are hiding from me in car parks, toilets and under tables. When I do get some time away from this I enjoy live music, training and trying to avoid having to watch Emmerdale.

MARCUS

Name: Marcus

Location: Based in Leeds but work across the North West, Manchester/Cheshire

  • My fitness industry journey began working as an Army Physical Training Instructor which led onto gaining a BSc (Hons) Degree in Sport and Exercise Science and a PGCE teaching qualification. My love of health and fitness took me to work as a personal trainer at Champneys Health Spa Resorts where I was embarrassingly featured in a 6-episode BBC documentary called ‘The health farm’. This led to opening and managing an independent gym. I’ve worked as an officer safety trainer delivering trainer courses in self-defense, baton, handcuff and conflict management to police officers. I have trained security personnel for Manchester City and for the 2012 Olympic games. I have assessed and quality assured PT courses for the Fire Brigade Union, taught entry level to degree level sports qualifications in colleges and own a Pilates business. However, one of my favourite jobs was a bingo caller “2 little ducks” at a Scarborough holiday camp.

  • Currently my time is split between working within a quality department at a college dedicated to raising the standards of all tutors that teach there. Teaching evening Pilates sessions, personal training clients and delivering and assessing PT courses for Fit Asylum.

  • My family would argue that my favourite pastime is to look for opportunities to take on even more work. But I feel I do attempt to balance this out with world-wide holidays, trips to the gym and have recently discovered the addiction of watching boxsets.

MICHAELA

Name: Michaela. Also known as Kayla, Mic or Mitch, depending who's company I'm in!

Location: North West / FitAsylum™ office

  • I've mainly worked in the leisure sector, developing my skills and experience over the years to cover a few different job roles. I then decided to branch out into education, gaining my quals to join the FitAsylum team as an assessor. I've now moved more into the digital marketing side of things.

  • I'm usually in the FitAsylum office, creating social media posts, writing blogs and trying not to snack too much.

  • I love tea and travel. I would say I'm quite active but, if I'm honest, that's declined a bit since buying a house that needs work! What else, oh I'm a HP geek and I have a sweet tooth!

MIKE

Name: Mike

Location: North West based in Cheshire

  • BA(Hons) in Coaching and sports development. I have coached a range of sports to different levels, mainly hockey and swimming. I worked as a duty manager and have 20 years experience in the health and fitness industry.

  • I am an assessor for FLM training. This involves teaching apprentices all over the North West.

  • I enjoy outdoor pursuits like climbing, cycling and running. I also enjoy going to watch live music, if anyone has a spare Glastonbury ticket let me know! But my main passion is golf. Fore!!

MIKE

Name: Mike

Location: Manchester and surrounding area

  • I have worked in the fitness industry for 14 years now. I started out as a fitness instructor and group exercise instructor, then progressing on to a personal trainer, before going to university to complete a Professional Diploma in Education. I then moved over to the education side of the industry and have been teaching/assessing courses for the past 9 years.

  • I am a freelance tutor and assessor for FitAsylum teaching and assessing on the level 2 Gym Instructor programme and level 3 Personal Trainer programme.

  • I'm married and have a 3 year old son that keeps me on my toes most of the time. I love my Rugby League and am a massive Salford Red Devils fan, attending as many games as work allows. I am also a Strength and Conditioning coach for Wigan Warriors Women's Rugby League team and I have my own Sports Massage business.

NATHAN

Name: Nathan

Location: Wigan

  • Initially trained as a Sports Therapist before transitioning into teaching. I have taught in colleges, delivering sports and fitness qualifications, and apprenticeships.

  • Tutor for Gym Instructing, Personal Training, Exercise Referral and Sports Massage.

  • Love to live the life of someone much older. Outside of work, it’s reading, cooking, or walking the dog…and maybe a whisky here and there, it is the water of life after all.

PHIL

Name: Phil, unless I'm playing scrabble and then it's PhillipWesleyWright #triplewordscore

Location: Yorkshire

  • After a number of years in the military I realised my passion was in health and fitness and have now been working in this incredible and slightly bonkers industry for well over 10 years. Starting out as a PT, I've managed to squeeze a lot into my time in the industry including teaching, assessing, setting up and owning a large gym and running multiple boot camps. My passion however will always be helping people on their journey in fitness.

  • I currently teach, assess, write articles and run a remote athletic coaching programme.

  • I have two amazing daughters and a big family who we spend a lot of time with. I love spending time outdoors, being a big kid and drinking coffee.

SEÁN

Name: Seán

Location: East Lancs, Blackpool and Greater Manchester

  • I served for 7 years as an Army Commando, leaving in 2013. I went from a training soldier to working with children - not too dissimilar in some ways! After 3 years as Training Manager for an Education Company, I decided it was time to get back in the thick of it and joined the FitAsylum™ Team.

  • Meeting learners to carry out assessment's and observations and generally helping them to complete their work, to teaching Fitness Based Qualifications including Gym and PT. I also work on the FitAsylum™ video content.

  • I like to keep busy. Olympic Lifting, CrossFit and owning Extreme Bean Coffee Company.

SIMON

Name: Simon

Location: Manchester, Liverpool and Blackpool

  • I’ve been a sport science lecturer for 12 years and have been an assessor and internal verifier across a range fitness qualifications for 18 years. I specialise in gym, personal, training, GP referral, lower back pain and massage.

  • Lecturer and assessor in gym instructing and personal training.

  • Travelling with my Fiancé, walking our dog Dougal, a season ticket holder at Blackburn Rovers (don’t hold it against me) and an addiction to watching most sports.

STEVE

Name: Steve

Location: Manchester/Salford

  • I started out in Leisure as a teenager whilst at college; I then joined the Police Service and served for 3yrs before deciding to attend university where I studied sports injury. At the same time I worked for the local community Leisure centre as a Lifeguard with a view of progressing more specifically into gym environment as I was very keen on strength and conditioning.

  • My aspirations came to fruition and I constantly wanted to increase my knowledge and education within the fitness area. I currently work as a full time instructor which incorporates a GP Referral scheme. I conduct Boot Camps 3 times a week and HIIT sessions as well as strength and conditioning. I’m a keen cyclist to which I set myself targets to raise money for cancer research, the last being the Manchester to Blackpool.

    My future goal and aspirations are to become a permanent Assessor/Tutor and pass on my knowledge and experience.

  • I love animals; I have 3 dogs, 3 guinea pigs, 3 Degus and 8 Chickens. I’m a film Buff and there’s not much I haven’t seen. I’ve been married 11 years and I’m still alive....Joking oh and I love tattoos.

VIKKI

Name: Vikki

Location: Wigan / FitAsylum™ Office

  • I've worked in Training for 20 years, progressing from an Administrator to Contracts Manager. Currently do a little bit of everything at FitAsylum™, I am apparently the company’s ‘funding guru’, my mind is full of useless information!

  • Contract Administration, coordinating courses, speaking to learners, assessors and tutors and generally trying to organise everyone!!

  • I spend most of my weekends on either a Football or Rugby Pitch watching my little boy play, following this I generally require a glass of Prosecco or Gin! I also like to catch up with friends and family. I enjoy my holidays and try to go on as many as is humanly possible!!

Check Out Our Courses

At FitAsylum, we offer various quality courses providing hands-on expertise training and support every step of the way. Check out our fitness and personal training courses, and start doing something you love.

Our Partners

  • FitAsylum Partner, The Gym Group
  • FitAsylum Partner, Kane Training
  • FitAsylum Partner, Pre Script