Your Trainer

Your Trainer – Christian Warren

As a personal trainer, I am extremely passionate about not only my clients’ fitness, but also my own. I firmly believe a personal trainer should be someone who inspires their clients and should lead by example, as this can definitely provide great motivation for clients to push themselves and give that little bit more effort. A trainer who is of a high fitness standard simply has an additional level of awareness about how hard to push people to an appropriate level. I do NOT agree with pushing people until they feel sick, it completely contradicts my philosophy of enjoying training! Training clients is a huge buzz for me, and it is a great feeling to see someone achieve their goals, or surprise themselves by completing an event or challenge they thought impossible.

As mentioned before, I strive to push myself further and further. I am myself a passionate runner, and this can be seen in the events I have completed including:

Sydney Marathon (3 times)
Melbourne Marathon
Hunter Valley Marathon (2 times)
Hunter Valley Ultra Marathon
Gold Coast Marathon
Sixfoot Track Ultramarathon
North Face 100 Ultramarathon (4 times)

I am competing in the GNW 100 mile event this year (it is actually 175kms) and hope to finish it in order to qualify for the UTMB in 2015 (a 160km run around the French, Swiss and Italian sides of Mont Blanc).
As you can see, my own training is very much endurance based,and I strive to push myself faster, longer and harder – in the hope that this provides additional motivation for my clients! Although my main hobby is running, I also have a passion for endurance and body weight based resistance training – after all, why do 15 push ups when you can train to do 100? I am also a big fan of boxing style workouts – the skipping rope, speed bag, heavy bag and floor to ceiling bags are superb for building endurance and stamina and greatly improving co-ordination. Plus, they are great cardio workouts, and also great fun!

Lastly, I have to mention my family who are a huge part of my fitness/PT journey. I want to make them proud and be a good example to my children to stay fit, active and healthy. Here I am celebrating Sydney Marathon with my beautiful daughter who cheered me on at the finish!