New Brighton

Marce Taulango

Director / Manager / Personal Trainer

With his depth of empathy for people Marce’s purpose is to help empower self belief back into the community through making better and healthier lifestyle changes.

With love, empathy, over 13 years of experience in the fitness industry and hard work Marce is dedicated to help bring down the suicide rate by empowering the community with self belief through exercise and overcoming obstacles, walls, limitations and boundaries.

For anyone needing guidance on their journeys please come in and see Marce and the friendly team to see how they can help you today

Tom Cordery

Club Manager

Kirsty Meates

Personal Trainer | Motivator | Group Fitness Instructor

PT INTRODUCTION!

Kirsty Meates

I’ve always had a love of sport and moving my body. However, after becoming a mum for the first time (over 25 yrs ago) I lost the motivation I once had to look after myself and instead focused on my new role as a mum. I started and stopped exercising over the following years & became increasingly unhappy with my body and how I felt about myself. Four children later and pretty low self- esteem I just couldn’t seem to motivate myself to return to my active lifestyle. Finally, after a few years of feeling this way I decided to join a gym and give myself some ‘me time’. It’s been a wonderful positive journey over the past 10 years, learning to love myself enough to look after my own health and fitness.
During this time, I signed up to work with a Personal Trainer (Snap New Brightons very own Marce) and found it to be one of the best decisions I have ever made. I was given all the support and kindness I needed as well as motivation and education on the best type of exercise for me and my goals.
I have learned to LOVE exercise and moving my body & now instead of looking at my body & pointing out all my flaws I thank my body for allowing me to move, lift, lunge, squat, jump and live a happy healthy lifestyle!!

My love for people and my need to help and support the people in my life led me to my role as a Personal Trainer.
I love supporting, motivating & teaching new mums, how to look after themselves by encouraging taking time for themselves. Also as we age the importance of moving our bodies only increases. Having a healthy heart & strong healthy bones will help us to continue to be active as well as reduce the risk of illness & disease. I am passionate about teaching people how to move their bodies via appropriate exercise programing & nutritional advice.
I truly believe that while exercise helps us be & feel physically fit, it has a huge part in our mental well-being. Regular exercise can have an extremely positive impact on depression, anxiety, ADHD, & more. It also relieves stress, improves memory, helps you sleep better and generally improves your mood! Any age or fitness level can learn to use exercise as a powerful tool to feel better.

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you!”

To book in for your FREE consultation on how Kirsty can help you on your journey simply contact Kirsty on 027 498 8029. Have a lovely day

Taylor Wilford

Personal Trainer | Mindset Coach

Meet Taylor!

We are extremely lucky here at Snap Fitness New Brighton to come across people who have the life experience to be able to help heal our community with their experience, life skills and determination. We are fitness professionals but we are here to also help empower self belief back in our community through exercise.

We are excited to introduce our newest team member of the Snap New Brighton family; Taylor Wilford.
Welcome to the family Taylor ❤️

Here’s what Taylor has to say:

“I am so excited to announce that I will be joining the Snap Fitness New Brighton crew.

Many personal trainers enter the fitness industry for their own reasons, for me I wanted to delve into the issue that is plaguing our society. Mental health, and it’s only getting worse if you look at the statistics. Through my own experience; exercise has positively impacted on my life, other aspects of life and those who I’m lucky to be around. I want to spread that same love and empowerment through our community to show people that they can do it! That they can achieve anything they put their minds to.

It wasn’t all roses for me, I battled a four year addiction and lost everything. I was homeless, I lost my family, friends but more importantly I lost myself. I was 60kgs of pure bones and pale as a ghost. I had lost the will to live but still something kept me going. I then met my saviours; my partner, my baby and the gym. I noticed that every time I stepped foot in the gym and trained, my depression diminished.

I started to realise I didn’t need to get a synthetic high to get me through the day, I didn’t need to over eat when I was stressed or sleep when I was depressed and slowly but surely the support I had around me and the will to fight helped me get through it!

Now at the age of 23 I have been sober for 4 years and still ask myself what if I never found my saviours? Moral of the story is you may have a bad day, bad month... heck even a bad year but I promise you there is always a better day.

Find your WHY! My reason for getting up every day is my family, leading by example and helping people. Believe it or not I still battle with side affects of addiction to this day, but have learned healthy ways to help me push through the tough times and I can assure you; even on days when you’re feeling miserable and the day is on top of you, there are people around the world that would kill for the life you live. Be greatful for what you have and don’t be afraid to reach out. Much love”☝️

Sofia Cassarino

Personal Trainer / Zumba Instructor / Group Fitness Instructor

I am a very passionate & motivated person. I have been involved in sports at a young age & love helping empower people to achieve their life goals through fitness. My aim is to help the community form a positive habit through exercise that is good for the mind to help overcome any situation. As a by-product of this our members achieve their goals. This philosophy has helped me overcome many obstacles in my life. Playing competitive sports made me realize that nutrition is another strong area I like to help my friends with as it helps give optimal performance which yield the best results body & mind. For a long time I struggled playing the sport I loved because I didn't look after my nutrition which was very frustrating for me until I realized the nutritional choices I made impacted on my performance negatively on & off the field. From experiencing this I realized the connection between nutrition, training, rest & stress management. I then took the time to learn all I could in all these areas. I am very grateful of these life lessons as it has helped me on my journey. If you need assistance on your fitness journey book in a session with me for your free consultation today.

Charles Harman

Personal Trainer | Mentor | Strength - Body Building - Weight Loss Coach

Meet Charles!

You may recognize his friendly face as Charles has been a long time member here at Snap New Brighton. He fully gets the friendly, community vibe that we have here and we’re stoked to finally have this talented guy join our team!

“Something I’ve come to understand is that we are all here in this world on our own journeys, doing the best we can. On my personal journey I have found exercise and consistent training has helped me become more confident on my journey of SELF BELIEF!

In my own training I focus on bodybuilding, powerlifting and strength training as well as weight loss. By training these disciplines myself I have built up my own confidence as I love feeling fit, strong and able to push myself to smash my goals.

Spending time in the gym also helped guide me into the career of my dreams; I really enjoy sharing my knowledge and helping to ‘pick others up’ along the way.

Seeing the results of people you help to smash thier own goals through developing determination and confidence in themselves is the best part about my job. It makes me happy to see people happy!

I’m a Personal Trainer with 5+ years gym experience and I am honoured to now be part of the Snap Brighton family!
I have been fortunate to train multiple disciplines and I know there are many ways to do things-
If you need a hand with some fresh inspiration for your training let’s chat and see if I can help you out.”

Specialties:

Confidence building
Bodybuilding
Muscle Gain
Weight/fat loss
Toning
Powerlifting
Strength & Conditioning
Sports training
General wellbeing
Nutritional advice
Goal based program

Qualifications:

- National Certificate in Personal Training Level 4
- Reps registered
- First aid

Email: charlesharmanbiz@gmail.com
Contact number: 027 825 0710
Instagram: @charlesharmann — at Snap Fitness New Brighton.

Dee Owers

Spin Instructor | Boxfit Instructor | Pump Instructor

Meet Dee, Snap Fitness New Brighton’s BOXFIT class instructor!:

“Hi, I'm Dee and I'm really excited to be on board with the team at Snap New Brighton!

I started out teaching Group Exercise way back in the late 90’s! After the events of 2011 (Christchurch EQ's) occurred, January 2012 saw me get back into teaching fitness with renewed enthusiasm and even more passion.

I am a certified Level 3 Group Exercise
Instructor. I teach pretty much everything as I have a passion for helping people get fit, healthy and see the amazing benefits that regular exercise makes to their lives. Group exercise is a fantastic way to provide motivation, support and camaraderie. It pushes you to go that little bit further when others are working out with you and it’s a great social activity.

Outside of work you’ll find me in the water, kayaking, scuba or free diving, sailing,
swimming, surfing or SUP-ing. If the water isn’t an option I'll be cycling (road or mountain) or running off road.

SO!!! I'm really looking forward to meeting you all and having you join me for the Snap Fitness BOXFIT classes that are about to be unleashed!!”

Dee’s got HEAPS of experience and is qualified in many areas of group fitness. We know you’ll be in safe hands with Dee and we’re so excited to welcome such an experienced instructor to our crew here at Snap on the Brightside!

BOXFIT class is 6-7am every Friday.

To book in for BOXFIT and claim your FREE class trial, see Marce at reception or PM us via Facebook.

Rebecca Hannam

Spin Instructor | BAT (Bums, Abs, Thighs) Instructor

New trainer alert!:

We would like to welcome Rebecca to our Snap Brighton Family!

"I have been teaching group fitness for 5 years across many different areas. I enjoy challenging my own fitness and in turn challenging the class members. I believe fitness should be fun, dynamic and available to everyone with no barriers".

Becky will be taking our 6-6.30am Monday morning Spin Blitz Class followed by our NEW BAT CLASS (BUMS, ABS, THIGHS)!

Awesome classes here on the Brightside- bookings are essential as spaces are limited. Contact Marce and the team to make a booking.

Have an awesome day!

Vicky Blair

HIIT instructor

"Fitness is a lifelong journey of EMPOWERMENT and WELL BEING"

Here for you

Self Belief | Confidence | Empowerment Coaches

With mentor-ship, love and positive lifestyle changes our team is dedicated to helping our community achieve their goals.

So if its new programming if your an existing member or needing a new challenge by joining the 6 week challenge or more of a one on one touch with Personal Training let us know so we can help put a plan in place to help you or a friend out.

For our non-members you know where we are. We are here for you anytime you need a hand on your journey all you have to do is reach out and we'll be there for you.