MEET THE TEAM
Empowered Fitness is a personal training service in south Bristol offering you guaranteed results in a fun and empowering way. The expert team of personal trainers here are passionate about helping you to achieve your goals and to experience the life enhancing benefits that health and fitness will bring you.
Kev Foley - Owner
Kev is the owner of Empowered Fitness and has been working in the fitness industry for 20 years in a variety of roles including a gym instructor, group exercise instructor, and self employed personal trainer. Kev has owned multiple fitness businesses and has worked with business owners all around the world as a fitness business coach.
Kev specialises in Boxing training, Kettlebell training and Over 40’s fat-loss
"I’m motivated by seeing improvement and development in others. I love to see our members losing weight and improving their health and lifestyle."
When he's not working he's normally spending time with his wife and three children, playing golf or watching the footy or boxing.
'Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional and mental states.'
Vittoria Caselgrandi - Personal Trainer
Vittoria loves making exercise accessible and fun. Her mindful approach to personal training centres clients’ individual preferences and fitness levels to deliver sessions that are enjoyable, safe and effective. She believes in always meeting people where they are to support them as they build positive habits.
As well as a personal trainer, Vittoria is a group exercise instructor and yoga teacher. Past clients have said her sessions helped them feel more confident with exercise and appreciated her compassionate and attentive coaching style.
When she is not working or teaching classes, you can find her in a yoga studio, or having a night in with a good book or movie.
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Matt Hill - Personal Trainer
Matt loves training people and helping them achieve what they never thought possible. Even before becoming a personal trainer he would regularly get family and friends to train in the gym and cook healthy meals to show them the positive effects that health and fitness can have on the mind and body.
Matt has had personal experience of lacking in confidence so used the gym to build his mind and body to become a more confident and outgoing person.
“I believe exercise is one of the most basic human needs, so it's brilliant to see when people can bring that back into their regular lifestyle and feel amazing for it.”
Matt loves lifting weights in the gym and doing any crazy fitness challenge that is thrown his way. He also enjoys going for nature walks with his family to rest his mind and spend time with friends.
Qualifications:
Level 3 Personal Trainer
Advanced Fitness Testing
Functional Resistance Training
Group Cycling Instructor
Bootcamp and Circuit instructor
Oli Bates - Personal Trainer
Oli is a full-time personal trainer here who specialises in strength & conditioning, mental health & wellbeing and overall helping people overcome that initial barrier of getting into fitness and working towards a better version of themselves, whatever that may be.
He has been involved with fitness and the gym since a young age, having now worked in the industry for 4 years. He competes in powerlifting which gives him a great understanding of lifting weight not only efficiently with clear progression but also safely to make sure longevity is maintained. Looking after our bodies should always be in the for front of training priorities after all.
He has experience working with total beginners to people wanting to compete in strength sports to Paralympics. If someone wants to work on themselves, and towards a goal, whether it be purely physically driven, or as a means to improve their mental well-being through self-confidence and being happier in their own skin,
Ana Manassieva - Client Care
Ana is our Client Care specialist. She loves interacting with people and has a keen passion to help others and make people feel valued and at ease, as well as having a drive to stay organised and on top of the day to day tasks at the studio.
She has a strong passion for languages, a big nature fan and loves learning from other people.
''In 12 weeks, we’ll show you how to drop a clothing size, take back control of your health, and fall in love with exercise so you never have to start over again''