About Me - Personal Trainer Rob Dale BSc (Hons)
Personal Statement: I am a Physical Training Instructor (PTI) in the Royal Marines Reserve (RMR) and specialise in improving recruits endurance, strength and circuit training abilities so that they can pass the arduous Commando tests. I also perform regular training and physical selection tests for the Commando trained ranks to ensure that they are up to the physical standards required for operational deployments.
I now enjoy the challenge of helping people from all walks of life to improve their health and reach their full potential.
I worked as a freelance Personal Trainer at Fitness First Portsmouth for 10 months in 2005, carrying out inductions, fitness assessments, taking part in exercise classes and training people of all ages on the cardiovascular and resistance machines, weights and one to one circuits/boxing and kickboxing exercise. Due to my commitments within the RMR and the limited time that Fitness First allowed me for time off I decided to leave and concentrate more on house calls and outdoor training.
I was born and raised in Portsmouth and now live in Guildford with my fiancée Claire. I will still be doing my RMR training when I can which consists of 3-4 Tuesday evenings a month, 6-8 weekends a year and one 2 week course a year. I will be back in Portsmouth for that catching up with my friends and family and training my flexible long term Portsmouth clients when I am down there.
Specialities: Circuit training, fitness assessment and training programmes, exercise for specific populations, exercise physiology and nutrition, applied sports psychology, boxing / kickboxing exercise, outdoor running, walking, cycling and circuits.
Experience: Having a Sports Science background and with my time spent training with the RMR has developed my awareness and skills of how to train people to go that ‘extra mile'. Also my time spent working at Fitness First with many different clients and other personal trainers has increased my all-round knowledge of fitness training.
Interests: Sport, physical training, travelling, photography, music and cinema.
Places I have travelled to so far: Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, St Louis, Kansas City Missouri (5 months University Exchange), Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Perth, Singapore, Bangkok, Koh Samui, Phuket, Koh Phi Phi, Railey Krabi, Rome, Florence, Pisa, Venice, Norway, Ibiza, Borovets Bulgaria, Muscat Oman, Dar es Salaam Tanzania, Borneo, Cairo and Sharm el Sheikh.
