Meet Our Team

Matt Kay
Personal Trainer & Performance Director
Location: Chatsworth Gym

Matt is the founder of born2move, which was a natural career path following a lifetime passion for health and well-being. After spending almost 10 years within the industry Matt became increasingly frustrated with the lack of quality displayed by Personal Trainers and the nonexistent results their clients were achieving. The reality is there is currently no standard in the fitness industry to distinguish between a Personal Trainer that has spent their entire professional lives dedicated to excellence in well-being to help their clients achieve real results and those that have been on a 2 week course, do not deliver results and call themselves a 'Personal Trainer'. Matt developed born2move to help provide customers with a team of exceptional Personal Trainers and a model that delivers real results for all our clients.

After gaining his BSc (Hons) in Exercise and Health Sciences and competing for Great Britain in Triathlons, Matt developed his skills by learning from some of the greatest minds in the fitness industry including Paul Chek (HLC: L1 & L2), Charles Poliquin (PICP & Bio-signature), Sheri Dixon (MTEC: Advanced Metabolic Typing) and personally mentored by Gary Gray (GIFT: FAFS). Through this knowledge Matt developed a unique method for assessing, applying and achieving results based on the unique characteristics of clients called Born-Coding. Born-Coding is at the heart of what born2move stands for and is unrivalled within the industry.

Matt has developed a reputation within the UK fitness industry for being one of the leading minds and has subsequently mentored Personal Trainers, Strength and Conditioning Coaches and Physiotherapists nationwide in the application of functional performance. Matt has also presented for Great British Squads and the British Association of Medical Managers (BAMM), he is a TRX presenter, a Master Trainer and educator with Faster Health and Fitness and has consulted for luxury Spa's and supported the launch of leading Personal Training studios including the London based 25 Club.

Matt is very down to earth and has an inbuilt passion for helping people achieve their goals no matter what they may be. When you visit Matt or any of the born2move trainers you will be treated as an individual and your individual needs will be considered to the point that if we don't think we can help we will refer you to someone that can!

Are you a Personal Trainer?
Matt also offers a FREE mentoring service specifically designed to help other Personal Trainers get better results with their clients and earn more money. If you are a Personal Trainer and would like to take advantage of this excellent opportunity then click the following link to find out more or contact Matt direct:

www.earnmorepersonaltraining.blogspot.com 
telephone: 07967 839108
email: matt@born2move.co.uk  

Becci Kay
Personal Trainer & Group Exercise Director
Location: Chatsworth Gym

 

Becci formed the foundations of her knowledge at University where she studied a BSc (Hons) degree in Sports and Exercise Science. During this time she recieved awards for voluntary work and for her contributions towards sports development. In her spare time at University Becci went on to further develop herself as an Advanced Instructor and Personal Trainer and is currently REPs Level 3 qualified, she is also qualified in Bio-Signature Level 1 (Charles Poliquin), GP Referral and continues to further develop her technical skills.

Becci's passion is the great outdoors, come rain or shine she'll be there with a 'Wallace-and-Grommet' style grin. Becci specialises in Personal Training and group exercise; her imagination and inner passion for fun and enjoyment shines through in all that she delivers. She strongly believes in only doing the things that will truly help you become a better person and any barriers can be overcome with motivation, hard work and happiness, life's too short... make the most of it. Female fitness and total well-being coaching are other areas that Becci specialises in to help her clients achieve excellent result.

In her spare time Becci enjoys rock climbing, cycling, fell running, golf, cricket, tennis and generally having fun and being active with as many people as possible. Becci has spent considerable time competing in a variety of endurance events throughout 2009 and is continually looking for new challenges to push her physical potential.

'Find out what makes you happy and what you need to do to make youself happy and do it, there's always a way!'

Nina Hartley
Personal Trainer & Lifestyle Director
Location: Sheffield and Peak District (Synergy, Home-Based Training/Consultancy) 

Nina started her career as a fitness instructor and taught a range of classes in mainstream gyms across the country. After a few years she was a little frustrated and was looking for more. Being a well-proportioned 6ft with good stature another career opportunity arose. Nina started to work as a model in the plus size fashion industry in London where she relocated for 5 years.

As her modeling success increased her lifestyle of living in London along with the travel and social stresses caused Nina's wellbeing to deteriorate. This lifestyle also took its toll on her mind, body and spirit leading to yo-yo weight gain/loss and server loss of energy. As good skin and and uplifting manner are prerequisites for a model, it was vital for Nina to regain emotional balance and physical happiness. Nina was also influenced by her surroundings in the fashion world associated with women's body images and low self esteem. With all this building up over the years Nina threw herself into reading and studying to search for answers.
 
After meeting Matt (Kay) and joining the Outdoor Fitness Camps Nina's confidence grew and she started to realise that with her experience and knowledge she would be able to help others. Starting her studies again and following her own beliefs Nina now works as a Holistic Lifestyle coach for born2move to help clients balance life, achieve goals and live life to the full.
 
Nina uses her CHEK certification, HLC level 1 and 2 to help her Personal Training clients gain a balance of health and happiness in their lives. Along with being a level 3 reps qualified Personal Trainer and having completed a Level 2 certificate in Instructing Health Related Exercise for Children Nina now splits her time between training Adults and managing the born2move kids programme. During her time working within born2move’s kids programmes Nina has been inspired to use her experiences in the modeling industry combined with her own mental, emotional and physical journey and her passion for health to develop a very unique ‘body awareness programme’ for children of all ages.

Ali Crawford
Personal Trainer & Children's Exercise Director
Location: Chatsworth Gym & Synergy (Sheffield)

Ali has recently completed his studies at Durham University achieving a BA (Hons) Sport Degree. His Chosen degree course and joining of the born2move team is the result of a lifetime's passion for sport. Sport in any form, from tennis to rugby, has always taken first place in Ali's life and so when he became one of Matt's (Kay) clients in 2005, to improve his own core strength and muscular power for rugby, Personal Training featured heavily in his mind for a career.

Ali first met Matt when training to represent Scotland U18's rugby at the European Championships. Having then gone on to captain the Scottish Exiles U18 team, representing both his university and county Durham U20's on a national level, Ali has experienced many different physiological and psychological training techniques at a high standard. In conjunction with his international experience and the knowledge he has gained through his degree, Ali has acquired a vast knowledge base for psychological, physiological and motivational techniques to aide future clients.

Having completed his university study, Ali has now supplemented his skill and knowledge base by completing his level 3 certificate in Personal Training with Advanced Functional Trainer. He is now undertaking born2move's in house education programme under the guidance of Matt Kay to ensure his knowledge and training replicates that of the other born2move trainers. On completion of his training with born2move coupled with the breadth of his university teaching, Ali will be fully adept at helping his clients achieve their specific aims and targets.

Alongside the Personal Training, Ali will play a major role on born2move's corporate events and Childerens Initiatives. Having recently achieved a Level 2 certificate in Instructing Health Related Exercise for Children and having completed a number of business modules at university, Ali will be well equipped to manage & run successful child and adult courses.

Ali continues to compete competitively at a number of sports and is very enthusiastic about helping others achieve their exercise and health goals along with the rest of the born2move team.