Aaron Le-Flay

I'm Aaron, I'm the head coach and founder of Kaizen Health and Fitness. I’ll take this opportunity to say a heartfelt thank you for your interest in Kaizen, and for taking the time to go through the website. I hope you get in touch and I hope to see you in the gym. Below you’ll find out a bit about me, and what led me to opening my own gym.

 

My fitness story starts in 2009 after realising I’d gotten into a rather unhealthy state - I was overweight and unfit, which came as a real shock to me as I’d always been slim and I’d always been fit. The problem was I’d given up playing sports - something I'd done all my life - to be more flexible for my job at the time as a retail manager, and the long hours and stress and reduction in exercise had obviously taken its toll.

 

Long story short(er) I spent nearly 2 years working with a personal trainer to bring my weight down (from 17st to a much more comfortable 13st) and to increase my fitness. It worked so well, and I enjoyed it so much that I ended up training to become a personal trainer myself, and slowly began devoting more and more of my time to being fit and living healthy.

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I’ve spent much of the past 10 years working in gyms as front of house staff, and on gym floors as a personal trainer. I’ve enjoyed it all, much more than any retail job, but I knew that working within the boundaries and structures of other organisations wasn’t what I wanted to do. I could see flaws in what mainstream fitness was proving and I wanted to change that.

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The spring of 2020 gave me, and the rest of the UK, time and space to think about my life. I decided that I no longer wanted to have an employer, and switched to working as a freelance personal trainer. The next 18 months were some of the most exciting and nerve wracking as I began setting up Kaizen Health and Fitness.

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A gym designed to offer more coaching, more insight and more good times than any gym I’d worked in or trained in before. We’ve succeeded in creating a wonderful environment and a brilliant community of people - and we’re not done yet.

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