Martin works since mid 2002 as Personal Fitness Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor in various gyms, fitness centres and corporate settings in the greater Dublin area (mainly South Dublin and Dublin City Centre). He opened his own Personal Fitness Training studio in October 2009 in South Dublin.
He started to work in 2002 in a small fitness centre in South Dublin, Stillorgan – Benildus Health and Fitness Club. Went on to go down the self employed route in 2005 and taught various types of exercise and fitness classes in businesses like Vodafone, Ericsson, BMC Hanby Wallace, the Equality Authority, First Active, Ulster Bank.
Further experience was gained through providing personal fitness training and group fitness classes in the Dublin Nutri Centre, Friarsland Health and Fitness Centre Clonskeagh, the Fitness Dock in Dublin 2 (Dublin City Centre) and via teaming up with the TCD Trinity College Dublin – Rowing Team for one season.
He qualified initially with the National Training Centre NTC in Dublin in 2002 and kept adding additional qualifications to his CV, e.g.
- Pilates Instructor – Beginners Level (Pilates Institute Ireland NTC – 2003)
- Energise for Exercise – Nutrition Course with the University of Luton / London UK – December 2002
- Pilates Instructor – Intermediate Level (Pilates Institute Ireland NTC – 2005)
- Walking Leader Qualification -November 2005 – Irish Heart Foundation –
- Fitness and Health for the Elderly (NTC)
- Pilates on the Ball (Pilates Institute Ireland NTC.
- Gymstick Instructor Qualification (Gymstick Ireland)
- Gymstick Train the Trainer Qualification (Gymstick Ireland
- Sales Course FETAC – Harvest Training 2007
- Business Development Course FETAC accredited – Level 6 Minor Award January-April 2010 (Grade – Distinction).
- Kettlebell Instructor Course – FFI – Functional Fitness Ireland 2011
Other qualifications
- BEng Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer 5 year degree course (in Germany) plus 5 years experience in the Information Technology industry in Ireland, Belgium and the USA.
- NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Practitioner Qualification January 2004 (5 month long course)
Other Skills – self taught – Web Design, SEO etc. :
Interests:
- Psychology (Sport and General)
- Diet and Nutrition
(at some stage I might add a diet and nutrition related qualification to my CV) - Creativity – Thinking – Neuro & Brain Science – Mind Mapping
e.g. work of Edwards De Bono, Tony Buzan …. - Continuous lifelong learning and broadening my horizon
Self and Time Management - NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming
- Juggling
Sport and Fitness Background 1989 - today. Other Skills - Self taught - Web Design, SEO Social Media Facebook, LinkedIn etc.
