- 15 years fitness industry.
- Owner Catch Fitness since 2006, providing over 180 workshops.
- Head Body Trainer and Physical Exercise Tutor at Circo Arts from 2007.
- Professional Practice Tutor at CPIT from 2008.
- Lecturer on Personal Training Short Course at AUT since 2010.
- Presenter at FitEx and Business Grow.
- Winner 2010 New Zealand Fitness Industry Lecturer’s Award.
- Finalist 2010 Bella Fitness Mentor Category.
- Winner 2011 Fitness Industry Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry.
I still take a Seniors exercise class in Sumner, Christchurch (same class for 14 years) and am proudly part of theActive Canterbury Network which consists of a bunch of inspiring people pulling together to make positive changes for our community.
Catch Fitness is now going into the 9th series of The 20 Weeks Body & Lifestyle Competition, a project aimed at getting more people in our community training with more PTs. A win win for everyone, which has grown every year since its inception and by a whopping 40% in 2011.
So far so good so we just keep going
Please click here to view more information about our very fabulous team.
The long story - Catch Fitness workshops started at Olympus Health and Fitness Centre, in Christchurch, where gym instructors, personal trainers and group fitties would get together for up-skilling by presenting to each other on different topics for 5 or 10 minutes . We’ d also get in the sales team, or the owners, or a local physio or a fitness trainer from another gym to present. The sessions were so helpful that it seemed only natural to grow that concept to incorporate all fitness professionals in Christchurch, especially to those in small to medium sized facilities and so begun the Catch Fitness seminars, workshops and even a couple of two day full on events. All in all we’ve now run over 200 workshops utilizing some of the best experts in and associated with our industry.
We always had a dream of providing these workshops for free to fitness professionals so we were super chuffed when in 2009 the Active Canterbury Network began funding the workshops for those in Canterbury and Skills Active came to the party as well funding us to take workshops to Dunedin and to subsidize others to come to our existing ones in Christchurch. It was the biggest pat on the back we ever could have got, acknowledging all our efforts and carrying us forward into the future in a way that we only dreamed would be possible.
Meanwhile I had trialled the 20 week competition with around 18 people and I was stoked with the results. Here was a vehicle that we could use to promote personal trainers nationwide, without dictating the type of programmes PTs wrote and without encroaching on their ‘independence’ yet which would be a way to unify the marketing efforts of all them, small, solo, isolated trainers running their own 12 week challenges, as well as trainers inside of clubs without losing the club’s brand or philosophy. It would help put them all on the map and one of it’s other huge benefits would be that huge prizes could be put up, for trainers and clubs to be able to give their clients, which means huge results! and so that journey began and it continues with over 600 entrants now having gone through, some $60,000 in prizes have been given out and some 50 trainers that have been involved, 7 of these. by the way, have been Fitness Life Award Winners. Some trainers have done it for almost 4 years and virtually every trainer that has come on board has done at least two of them.
“20 Weeks” is the ultimate game of trust in that we have to have total faith that the fitness professionals that come on board will do a great job with the entrants, but they do. They all do We have every reason to be proud of our industry I think.
About us
Broni McSweeney – REPs, CERT F.I.T, LLb
- 15 years fitness industry. - Owner Catch Fitness since 2006, providing over 180 workshops. - Head Body Trainer and Physical Exercise Tutor at Circo Arts from 2007. - Professional Practice Tutor at CPIT from 2008. - Lecturer on Personal Training Short Course at AUT since 2010. - Presenter at FitEx and Business Grow. - Winner 2010 New Zealand Fitness Industry Lecturer’s Award. - Finalist 2010 Bella Fitness Mentor Category. - Winner 2011 Fitness Industry Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry.Catch Fitness is now going into the 9th series of The 20 Weeks Body & Lifestyle Competition, a project aimed at getting more people in our community training with more PTs. A win win for everyone, which has grown every year since its inception and by a whopping 40% in 2011.
So far so good so we just keep going
Please click here to view more information about our very fabulous team.
The long story - Catch Fitness workshops started at Olympus Health and Fitness Centre, in Christchurch, where gym instructors, personal trainers and group fitties would get together for up-skilling by presenting to each other on different topics for 5 or 10 minutes . We’ d also get in the sales team, or the owners, or a local physio or a fitness trainer from another gym to present. The sessions were so helpful that it seemed only natural to grow that concept to incorporate all fitness professionals in Christchurch, especially to those in small to medium sized facilities and so begun the Catch Fitness seminars, workshops and even a couple of two day full on events. All in all we’ve now run over 200 workshops utilizing some of the best experts in and associated with our industry.
We always had a dream of providing these workshops for free to fitness professionals so we were super chuffed when in 2009 the Active Canterbury Network began funding the workshops for those in Canterbury and Skills Active came to the party as well funding us to take workshops to Dunedin and to subsidize others to come to our existing ones in Christchurch. It was the biggest pat on the back we ever could have got, acknowledging all our efforts and carrying us forward into the future in a way that we only dreamed would be possible.
Meanwhile I had trialled the 20 week competition with around 18 people and I was stoked with the results. Here was a vehicle that we could use to promote personal trainers nationwide, without dictating the type of programmes PTs wrote and without encroaching on their ‘independence’ yet which would be a way to unify the marketing efforts of all them, small, solo, isolated trainers running their own 12 week challenges, as well as trainers inside of clubs without losing the club’s brand or philosophy. It would help put them all on the map and one of it’s other huge benefits would be that huge prizes could be put up, for trainers and clubs to be able to give their clients, which means huge results! and so that journey began and it continues with over 600 entrants now having gone through, some $60,000 in prizes have been given out and some 50 trainers that have been involved, 7 of these. by the way, have been Fitness Life Award Winners. Some trainers have done it for almost 4 years and virtually every trainer that has come on board has done at least two of them.
“20 Weeks” is the ultimate game of trust in that we have to have total faith that the fitness professionals that come on board will do a great job with the entrants, but they do. They all do
We have every reason to be proud of our industry I think.