Alan Gordon began his career at the Royal Air Force School of Physical Training. After studying physiotherapy at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court in Surrey, he continued his studies at Loughborough University. The diversity and level of Alan's qualifications reflects 14 years of training alone, as well as a total of 41 years working as a professional exercise and nutritional consultant.
The scope of Alan's career has been vast, with his past and present profile including:
- Exercise Consultant to the Civil Service
- Exercise Director of the international corporate wellbeing organisation 'Feeling Alive'
- Recommended Personal Trainer in 'Harpers Bazaar' magazine
- Retained to review the health status of corporations like Hewlett Packard, Price Waterhouse Cooper and Bovis Lendlease International.
- Consulted by Channel 4, BBC2, QVC, BBC Radio and Discovery 1 television
- Author of the book 'Bodywise Flexibility'.
- Sports Presenter Sharon Davies' guest expert on BBC Radio.
- Long consulted expert source for journalists researching for articles on Exercise, Injury and Nutrition. For example, the Aug 26th 2009 Daily Mail article on inadequate personal trainer qualifications.
- Exercise Consultant to 'Runner's World' and 'Men's Health' magazines.
- For the past 11 years, retained to privately assess UK and European personal trainers for knowledge, competence and expertise.
- A 100% success rate with all his one-to-one clients for the past 18 years.
Alan is a highly advanced expert in improving strength, flexibility and tone, along with weight loss, activity/sport specific exercise prescription and increased self esteem. Some of his clients are over eighty years old at various levels from novice exercisers to advanced and some as young as 14. Age, weight, gender, present physical condition including dietary/physical and medical limitations are not the obstacle you might have thought. Realistically good to outstanding results in keeping with your genetic potential are always possible, right there in your own home!
His specialised knowledge of Exercise Biomechanics is extremely advanced, so a gymnasium or health club is totally unnecessary in order to achieve impressively good to truly outstanding results.
He doesn't do groups, classes and gatherings etc. What you have here is quite simply; a very advanced specialist in one-to-one personal training.
His qualifications include:
- Masters Degree - Biomechanics and Applied Human Movement.
- First Class Honours Degree - Sports Nutrition.
- Advanced Diploma in Clinical Sports Therapy
- Advanced Diploma in Clinical Stress Management.
- C.E.P.A. member - Clinical Exercise Physiology Association
- B.A.S.E.S. member - British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences.
- I.S.B. member - International Society of Biomechanics.
For the last 21 years Alan has maintained continuous contact with 27 international human performance institutes, and as a result, his knowledge and expertise credibly is, state-of-the-art.
Alan is based in Oxfordshire, but works with clients in Berkshire and Hampshire, whilst also travelling into London for specific projects and assessment work.
Please feel free to contact Alan by phone or e-mail in any matters concerning health, exercise, injury or nutrition.
