A love for exercise that turned into a Personal Training career
Born and bred in Melbourne, Demi has found her favourite place to live with her partner and dogs in Pascoe Vale and has started her Fitness Enhancement Franchise in and around Pascoe Vale, Essendon and surrounding suburbs. Since Demi was little, she has been into boxing; her dad was a professional kickboxer and was teaching Demi pretty much from when she starting walking. Demi has always loved exercising, but as a teenager and young adult she struggled with her weight. After learning more about health and fitness she lost 10 kg and wanted to be able to help other do the same. Demi has completed a Tough Mudder, a grueling 21 km obstacle course, which she says was by far the most challenging but also most rewarding experience.
From financial planning to her own Personal Training franchise
After 7 years working in financial planning, Demi pursued her dream of making her biggest passion into her job; she left the corporate world, took a plunge and completed a Personal Training course. The course taught her about the anatomy and science behind the exercise and different workouts, and after completing the course she knew that she wanted to help others gain more confidence and to be a part of their journey. After beginning her own business and gaining experience as a Personal Trainer in Essendon she realised how difficult it could be to run a successful small business well enough to replace her day job in finance. Her research for a better way led her to Fitness Enhancement and after months of shopping around and investigating us and every other option, she decided to purchase a Fitness Enhancement franchise.
Being part of the Fitness Enhancement team is another great step for Demi in her journey to help people with changing their lifestyle. A couple of weeks into her new business and she’s already getting more clients than she ever did on her own, and having a bigger impact on more lives. Demi’s training style is a mix of functional training, boxing and high intensity interval training; and she is always looking for new exercises that the clients haven’t tried before to keep the sessions fun and filled with variety.
Five questions with Demi Allan:
What’s your biggest achievement as a Personal Trainer?
What’s your biggest achievement as a Personal Trainer?My biggest achievement is being able to do what I love and call it work.
What’s your most memorable training session?
Any training sessions where a client is having fun and trying a new exercise they haven’t tried before.
What’s your favourite exercise as a Trainer?
Jump squats.
What’s your favourite exercise or sport outside of work?
I love running and high intensity workouts, also rock climbing – anything that makes me dripping in sweat really!
What’s your favourite quote?
Don’t count your days, make your days count.
Want to book a session with Demi in Essendon?
Or not in the Essendon area and want to book in with any of our other amazing Trainers across Australia? Give us a call on 1800 PT for U, that’s 1800 783 678 to chat with us. Demi’s normally busy with clients so our head office Personal Trainers work with Demi each day to fill up her schedule and answer any queries.
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Check out some of our other trainer bios; our first Sydney Trainer Sue based in Bondi, Brisbane Franchisee Eli in North Lakes, and our first Melbourne Franchisee Matt.