Mel was encouraged to become a fitness instructor in 2000 by her gym buddy who had the foresight to see it would be an excellent career choice. Within a few months of qualifying, Mel had accumulated many studio classes and quickly went onto train as a personal trainer, as well as many other disciplines. As Mel’s portfolio of classes, clients and qualifications continued to grow, she was approached to become a tutor/assessor to train others to become fitness instructors.

Mel absolutely loves teaching. Helping people understand, become more competent as well as confident is her real passion and she feels truly blessed to be able to do this every day.

Mel especially enjoys training clients with disabilities or limitations. She believes that everyone can take part in structured exercise, it just have to be well tailored. She has worked with clients in wheelchairs having received brain injuries, people with Parkinson’s, MS and dementia to mention a few. The majority of Mels current (2024) timetable is taken up with session for “special populations”. She finds this work incredibly rewarding.

Another of Mel’s passions is anything involving water. She definitely was a fish in a previous life. She enjoyed swimming competitively for Surrey as a child and representing Sussex in synchronised swimming.  Today she enjoys swimming and synchro for pleasure, teaching water based exercise and when she took part in Hydropole (pole dancing in water) she thought life couldn’t get much better!!!

As a Pilates Specialist she takes pride in being “very picky” and doing her best to get her participants 100% perfect. She truly believes her classes have the most dedicated class members who are technically excellent. “My class participants continue to leave me stunned. Some of them having only just completed a 6 week beginner programme course are outstanding”

Mel continues to enjoy teaching Pilates for all levels and seeing the improvements it makes to people’s lives. “My job is so rewarding – what’s not to love?!”.

Mel was encouraged to become a fitness instructor in 2000 by her gym buddy who had the foresight to see it would be an excellent career choice. Within a few months of qualifying, Mel had accumulated many studio classes and quickly went onto train as a personal trainer, as well as many other disciplines. As Mel’s portfolio of classes, clients and qualifications continued to grow, she was approached to become a tutor/assessor to train others to become fitness instructors.

Mel absolutely loves teaching. Helping people understand, become more competent as well as confident is her real passion and she feels truly blessed to be able to do this every day.

Mel especially enjoys training clients with disabilities or limitations. She believes that everyone can take part in structured exercise, it just have to be well tailored. She has worked with clients in wheelchairs having received brain injuries, people with Parkinson’s, MS and dementia to mention a few. The majority of Mels current (2024) timetable is taken up with session for “special populations”. She finds this work incredibly rewarding.

Another of Mel’s passions is anything involving water. She definitely was a fish in a previous life. She enjoyed swimming competitively for Surrey as a child and representing Sussex in synchronised swimming.  Today she enjoys swimming and synchro for pleasure, teaching water based exercise and when she took part in Hydropole (pole dancing in water) she thought life couldn’t get much better!!!

As a Pilates Specialist she takes pride in being “very picky” and doing her best to get her participants 100% perfect. She truly believes her classes have the most dedicated class members who are technically excellent. “My class participants continue to leave me stunned. Some of them having only just completed a 6 week beginner programme course are outstanding”

Mel continues to enjoy teaching Pilates for all levels and seeing the improvements it makes to people’s lives. “My job is so rewarding – what’s not to love?!”.

Qualification	Level	Date Awarded	Awarding Body
Instructing Health Related Exercise to Children	2 *	July 2014	CYQ Fitness Wales
Pre and Post Natal	3	Nov 2013	CYQ Fitness Wales
Advanced Instructor (Gym)	3 *	Dec 2010	CYQ Fitness Wales
Advanced Exercise to Music	3 *	June 2008	CYQ Fitness Wales
Pilates	3	July 2008	CYQ Fitness Wales
Aqua	2 *	June 2003	YMCA Future Fit
Circuits	2 *	Dec 2005	OCR Fitness Wales
GP Referral	3	Oct 2005	Fitness Wales
Cardio Combat	2	May 2014	Fitness Wales
All Personal Training Modules	3 *	Sept 2001	AIM
Step	2	Sept 2006	OCR Fitness Wales
Body Pump	*	March 2002	Les Mills
Stability Ball	*	March 2006	Fitness Wales
Studio Cycling	*	July 2005	Fitness Wales
Diamond Pilates for the Pelvic Floor	4	June 2016	Cherry Baker Education
ETM part 1 and 2	2 *	Jan 2002	Future Fit
Gym Instructor	2 *	Jan 2003	OCR Fitness Wales
A1 Assessor		June 2006	City and Guilds
Pure Stretch	2	July 2018	Pure Stretch
Pilates for Orthopaedic Conditions	3	Sept 2016	C2G

Qualification	Level	Date Awarded	Awarding Body
Instructing Health Related Exercise to Children	2 *	July 2014	CYQ Fitness Wales
Pre and Post Natal Exercise	3	Nov 2013	CYQ Fitness Wales
Advanced Instructor (Gym)	3 *	Dec 2010	CYQ Fitness Wales
Advanced Instructor (Exercise to Music)	3 *	June 2008	CYQ Fitness Wales
Mat based Pilates	3	July 2008	CYQ Fitness Wales
Aqua	2 *	June 2003	YMCA Future Fit
Circuits	2 *	Dec 2005	OCR Fitness Wales
Exercise Referral	3	June 2019	CYQ Train Fitness
Exercise for the Independent Older Adult	3	Oct 2019	CYQ FITTco
Exercise for clients with disabilities	3	Oct 2019	CYQ Train Fitness
Dementia Awareness		Oct 2019	High speed training
Exercise and Mental Health		Oct 2019	MIND
Diamond Pilates for the Pelvic Floor	4	June 2016	Cherry Baker Education
Pure Stretch	2	July 2018	Pure Stretch
Pilates for Orthopaedic Conditions	3	Sept 2016	C2G
Pilates for Osteoporosis		Dec 2020	Cherry Baker Education
Gym Instructor	2 *	Jan 2003	OCR Fitness Wales
A1 Assessor		June 2006	City and Guilds
All Personal Training Modules	3 *	Sept 2001	AIM
Step	2	Sept 2006	OCR Fitness Wales