A bit about Charles
If you could have a superpower what would it be?
That’s an easy one, I’d be invisible. Then you could do whatever you wanted!
What would your specialist subject on mastermind be?
Breaking Bad Seasons 1-5
Favourite type of coffee?
Black Americano
One item of food you would never want to live without?
Sorry, got to be pizza. But not Hawaiian, obviously.
Leaving uni in 2017 I really didn’t have any idea what I was going to do with myself when it came to work. Luckily I knew there was one thing I loved. Fitness. I think from my background in sports I had developed a thirst for competitiveness, and also had a strange obsession with pushing myself to new limits. CrossFit satisfied both of these. I had started teaching myself how to olympic weightlift in a commercial gym near campus in 2016 from watching endless videos of Rich Froning.
After months of being asked to put my shirt back on, and being asked not to handstand walk up and down between the treadmills it was time to join a CrossFit gym.
To make a very long story short- joining a CrossFit gym was the best decision I ever made, and I have been hooked ever since. It’s introduced me to so many new, amazing people who I otherwise would never have met. It’s taught me a lot about myself, educated me on how to be a better person and coach, and finally carried me to a place where I now own my own gym in the heart of London allowing me to wear shorts and a t-shirt to work everyday. Not something I could have ever imagined for myself a few years ago.
After becoming a coach late in 2017 I worked tirelessly to gain more qualifications and practical coaching experience. I wanted to work with everyone and anyone to help them progress their fitness and help them to reach their specific goals. I worked in as many gyms around London as I could to learn from some of the best coaches around and continually pushed myself to be better. Alongside my coaching I also did my best to keep up my own CrossFit training as I believe there’s no better way to learn how to coach someone a new skill or movement than by learning it yourself.
And that brings us to now- still learning, still progressing and still giving everything I have to help my members and clients become the best versions of themselves.
- CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2)
- Kids Trainer
- Aerobic Capacity Certificate
- Coaching Fundamentals Certificate
- Dumbbells Certificate
- Gymnastics Certificate
- Lesson Planning Certificate
- Nutrition I Certificate
- Programming Certificate
- Running Certificate
- Scaling Certificate
- Spot the Flaw Certificate
- Teaching Movement Certificate