Fitness Training & Support On Your Terms

Our Guildford-based team at Total Personal Training offer fitness training and support on your terms.  We are fitness, weight management and fat loss experts with experience in the industry collectively spanning several decades.  Our qualifications across the board are exemplary, but we also pride ourselves on our passion and ability for helping people meet their individual goals and for building relationships of mutual respect and trust.

Operating in Guildford and all surrounding towns and villages, our team at Total Personal Training constantly work with a variety of clients whose training needs are different.  Our job as personal trainers is to understand each person’s limitations and potential and work with them to achieve the best results possible.  We’re realistic, but we’re also optimistic, and we believe what sets us apart from other personal trainers is a nurturing and encouraging approach that respects our clients’ individual comfort zones. We want you to feel good about choosing us.

Why Bother?

Many people have spent years battling with their weight, or haven’t found a form of exercise that suits them (or that they enjoy). Faddish diets and conflicting advice often confuse the matter still further.  Total Personal Training exists to change all that.  People want to see results; they want to feel fitter and they want to lose fat and manage their weight once and for all – and keep it that way. Our Total Personal Training team of weight management and fat loss experts get to the heart of what works for each person. We put together fitness schedules that allow clients to feel great, reshape their bodies and tone up the wobbly bits whilst gaining strength, flexibility, endurance and self-confidence.

What are the services?

The first step is a consultation.  Following a thorough health assessment that includes movement patterns, a unique exercise programme is designed.  Again, the plan for everyone is different and will depend on an individual’s circumstances – whether it be returning to training after an injury or reaching a long-term goal. Whatever the situation, our Total Personal Trainers will find a way of working together that’s motivating, inspiring and enjoyable – and brings about results.  However long clients choose to involve Total Personal Training in their fitness and health goals, the foundations will stay with them for life.

Many people are fearful of exercise and shy away from such activities as this is the easy option. Our Guildford-based Total Personal Training team create a relationship that is built upon trust and encouragement – two vital factors in achieving long-term success!

Pregnancy and Post Natal Exercise Specialist

Francesca Saccone

Hello my name is Francesca and I am a Personal Trainer with Total Personal Training, who specialises in pregnancy and post natal exercise, as well as being a mum to a very energetic four year old girl.

Sport and fitness have always been part of my life.  However I only become a Personal Trainer after I had my daughter.  At the time of my pregnancy I was working in retail as a Manager of a very busy shop in the middle of Oxford Street, London, coming home late at night, sometimes in tears, suffering from leg swelling, and upper and lower back pain.  And little I knew about the benefits of exercising, as my doctor had only advised me to swim.

The birth was probably the worst experience in my life so far, as I endured 36 hours of labour and an emergency C-section, and although I was  exhausted, suffered from lack of sleep and energy let alone had time to exercise, I just wanted to get back into shape as soon as possible.

So here I am!

I have embarked on the most exciting and fulfilling career:  helping other mothers, (expectant and new), to stay fit and healthy before, during and after the pregnancy. 

For more information about the benefits of exercise during pregnancy and beyond, click here.

My life experience has given me that level of empathy, which in `my mums` eyes`, is the most important qualification, recognising the need to bring my knowledge of fitness, massage and nutrition together to provide a unique approach to managing their health and lifestyle. Taking into account the backdrop of life and its realities, my aim is to take all my mummies through FUN exercise routines and balanced nutrition programs all the way through their 3 trimesters.

Exercise Backed by Decades of Experience

Exercise with one of our Surrey personal trainers and get support that is backed by decades of experience!

If you are looking for a helping hand with your fitness or weight loss, our team of Surrey Personal Trainers is the place to start.  With us, you get peace of mind in knowing that your investment is one well-spent.  Why?  Our small team is backed by Mike O’Shea MBE, a highly respected figure in the fitness industry whose credentials very few can rival.  We have hand-picked our team from a vast network of personal trainers because of their passion and professionalism in this tough industry.

Adopting and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating sensibly with a goal to losing weight, and accommodating a realistic, enjoyable exercise regime as part of your daily routine can feel like an insurmountable challenge. It doesn’t have to be that way!  Our team at Total Personal Training, pledge to help you transform your life and restore your self-confidence. We believe exercise should be uplifting, energising and fun.

  • Have you battled for many years to lose weight on unsustainable fad diets?
  • Have you wasted vast amounts of your hard-earned money on gym membership for very little return?
  • Are you looking for that ‘edge’ with your training?
  • Are you confused about where to turn next, wondering whether there’s any point in continuing the fight against feeling sluggish and heavy, or even embarrassed and exhausted?

Our Surrey personal trainers guarantee improvements to your fitness, weight management and fat loss. Our dedicated team have the benefit of cutting-edge and widely recognised qualifications, but most importantly, we care about our clients. Starting with an initial consultation and health assessment, which is free of charge and included as part of your training package, our Surrey personal trainers offer support and practical advice as well as a sympathetic ear. With their encouragement, and your determined effort, you’ll begin to see the results you deserve as you begin to feel fitter and more positive than ever before.

Together we’ll create safe and effective exercise in surroundings that work best for you; whether it’s at home or in the park, we’ll find the time and the place where you are most comfortable, relaxed and happy. We can give you:

  • Weight management and fat loss without following a ‘fad’ diet
  • Increased ‘functional’ strength and muscle tone
  • Aerobic training programmes whether it be a 5km run or an endurance marathon
  • Rehabilitation following an injury

Ultimately we know that you want, and should expect, results that are sustainable. Our Surrey personal trainers will guide you through fitness and weight loss schedules that guarantee to make you to feel great, reshape your body and tone up any wobbly bits whilst gaining strength, flexibility and endurance in the long term. We want you to leave each personal training session with a smile on your face and a spring in your step!

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