I've had Cedi as my personal trainer for 3 years, once and sometimes twice a week. At the beginning, I wanted to join the army, and so my goals were to increase my upper body strength and general fitness. Cedi used the army fitness requirements as a guide, but also adapted the regime to my personal goals. He also prepared workout routines for me to use in my spare time. I found that Cedi's enthusiasm and attention to detail to extremely helpful, especially during times when I was struggling to find the motivation. He never gave up, and he knew when to push me and when to focus on stretching or to try something different. 

Over the next few years, my fitness goals have shifted towards equestrian sports, but with Cedi's flexible approach, I  regularly increase my fitness to new levels. I owe the considerable gains I have made to my upper body, the flexibility of the core, and the reduced risk of injury when running to Cedi's guidance. Cedi has a large range of exercises and modifications under his belt, and he adapts to new developments or goals. A client who stays with Cedi will appreciate the steady and apparent improvements to their fitness and health, whilst enjoying the fact that each session is varied and interesting. A good example is when I told Cedi I wanted to improve reaction times to reaching the ball when playing polo. Cedi incorporated tennis exercises into sessions, which have had a definite impact on my ball sports. 

I consider Cedi to be a first-rate PT instructor and use him as the benchmark against which others are measured.

I started twice a week gym sessions with Cedi in March 2017 and throughout this time he has been a pleasure to work/train with. He has an ability to motivate through encouragement, patience and realistic objective setting. He has a maturity that belies his years, an impressive understanding of the technicalities, mechanics and psychology of fitness training and ways to communicate these through his articulate tutelage and easy going manner.   

I started sessions with Cedi following knee replacement surgery. My movement was restricted, I had become sedentary and put on excess weight. I had never set foot in a gym before and had reservations about its effectiveness and my own determination/motivation to do more than a few token visits. The gym is an intimidating place for a late middle-aged newcomer but Cedi was able to structure my programme to demonstrate that by progressing at my own pace I could start to achieve levels of strength and conditioning I hardly thought possible. I was particularly impressed that he read up all about knee surgery and its post surgical challenges and tailored my regime around these.

When I started with Cedi I was unable to ride a bicycle due to the restricted movement in my leg so he immediately set getting back on the bike as a goal. Similarly, I had previously enjoyed hill walking but had stopped – again, another goal. I was properly cycling after a couple of months and similarly back in the Lake District and Dartmoor by the end of the year. These achievements were wholly attributable to Cedi’s effective planning and his ability to motivate an initially unwilling and skeptical partner to realize these goals. The fact that I was still attending the sessions after over two years is the most eloquent testament to Cedi’s character, personality and teaching I can give.

Following a heart surgery, I needed somebody to install in me an enthusiasm to look forward to returning to the gym, with the aims of stabilising my weight and to commence running outdoors again. I am pleased to report, my weight has reduced and I am now achieving 5 km runs 6 months after surgery.

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Without Cedi’s tuition as to how to adapt the strains and stresses on my body to achieve this following my operation, it would have not been possible.

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I have to say that these goals are far easier to obtain if the personal trainer is able to create an atmosphere of enjoyment at the same time.

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Cedi has these qualities. I would have no hesitation in recommending him as an excellent personal trainer.