Gavin will work with a client at home or she will go with them to a gym and supervise them there. Some want to lose weight, others to tone up, others to rehabilitate after an accident or injury. "Clients get individual attention, I devise a very focused programme for them alone and because the one-to-one relationship tends to encourage motivation I generally get good results and get them faster than someone training on their own in a gym."Ĭlients use Gavin for a variety of fitness needs.
"I'm not cheap, but I'm very good value," she says. Gavin also maintains that having a personal trainer is not as expensive as it sounds. You don't need masses of room, just a clear space where we can work," Gavin says. Basically I can walk into someone's house and train them with the contents of their kitchen press! Give me a couple of tins of beans (to act as weights) and we can make a start. With most of my clients we're talking about a desire to tone the body and to improve flexibility and strength rather than getting involved in aerobics workouts or heavy sessions in the gym. "Because I'm older and I've been out in the world I'm able to empathise with their needs and fears and I have no problem tuning in to them and finding common ground to chat about during the sessions. She subsequently became a sales rep with Canon and worked with a signage company before joining Wang. However she found it impossible to survive financially on wages of £2.50 an hour and she was forced back into mainstream employment. Gavin qualified as a fitness instructor in 1985 and thought she had achieved her goal when she was subsequently appointed manager of a Dublin health club. "There was nowhere to go in Ireland to train in fitness as opposed to PE at the time so I found out about courses in Britain and carried on with the day job while doing my fitness training through Britain," she says. "When I left school I did what was expected of me - I signed up for the permanent and pensionable job but I was always sport and fitness mad and would really have preferred to have gone down that road," she says. She realised her ambition in January this year when she "let go of the river bank", and left Wang to set up Amazon Fitness Consultants.Ī former bodybuilder who represented Ireland in international competition for five years, Gavin began training as a fitness instructor in the early 1980s while she was working in an insurance company in Dublin. But underneath she had a burning desire to give it all up to become a personal fitness trainer. She loved her job and on the surface her working life seemed ideal.
This time last year Dubliner Joyce Gavin was sales manager for computer services with Wang Ireland.
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