Personal Trainer/​Fitness Instructor

Bryn: When I was leaving school I was slightly overweight and I wasn’t too happy about myself so basically when I went overseas I took a gap year and spent three months and really worked on myself with losing weight. So doing a lot of running and a lot of gym work and over that time I lost over 20 kilos so I felt pretty good about myself. And, so basically using a personal trainer I obviously felt pretty good and I was like - well if I’m feeling this good then I wanted everyone else to feel the same and I got a good buzz out of training people and helping people achieve their goals.

My name is Bryn Morgans.

So basically I work here at City Fitness Newmarket as a fitness manager and a personal trainer on the side. So basically, my role is to get personal trainers up and running and to get them moving on as quickly as possible.
As a personal trainer there is only so many people you can help so now as fitness manager the more people I can help that are gonna help other people means I’m having a benefit on everyone’s lifestyle, so it’s great.

How did I fit my study in?

So, like anything it all comes down to time management and one thing I’ve learned being a personal trainer and fitness manager is that it’s all about making sure you set aside time for everything rather than leaving everything to the last minute – what I used to do at school and, you know, have to cram for an exam or something like that which isn’t going to give you the best result possible.

By going through Skills Active and doing courses it’s allowed me to have a better understanding of everything and when I went and did my course down in Dunedin that was good but that was three plus years ago so it’s been good and allowed me to refresh my memory and now set some new goals and be a bit more determined and focused on where I’m planning on being over the next three to five years.

Over the next couple months I plan on becoming a regional manager so that I can oversee a few more clubs which allows me to have rather than twenty trainers, I’m now looking at over fifty and then from there I plan to become the Director of Fitness. Obviously there’s a few people in the line, but, you know, that’s my next progression and that means, you know, twenty to thirty clubs by then if not more. With those amount of PTs helping those amount of people is just something I can’t wait to achieve, so yeah.

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