Our values are LEADERSHIP, COMMUNITY, GROWTH and EXCELLENCE
and we choose our team because they inherently share these values.
Nick's dream for Team Elwood is to create a world where people have the confidence and support to play big in life. He teaches our team to aim for progression, not perfection and believes that improving yourself is a continual journey, rather than a final destination. He has over 10 years experience in the fitness industry and has run more than 15 marathons, including a 100km Ultra-Marathon.
Qualifications and Special Interests:
- Bachelor of Human Movement - Southern Cross Uni
- C.H.E.K Institute Exercise Coach
- Precision Nutrition Coach
- Tony Robbins Business Mastery
- Resistance Training for Fat Loss
- Core Strength and Running-Specific Training
Nick Kirk Director
“Never compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to the person you were yesterday.”
Betsy believes that fitness is mental. You body will only go where your mind will let it, so we must first train our minds. In addition to her love of physical achievement, she has a keen interest in human psychology and the language of the mind. She has conquered many physical feats including half marathons, full marathons, a 100km off-road ultra-marathon, a fitness model comp and an amateur boxing match, but she attributes the successful completion of all of it to having determination, mental grit and mindful resilience.
Qualifications and Special Interests:
- Bachelor of Exercise Science USYD
- Neuro Linguistic Programming Master Trainer
- Tony Robbins UPW
- Pre and post-natal exercise coach
- Qualified Specialist in healing Diastasis Recti (ab separation)
- Women's Hormonal Health
Betsy Kirk Director
“Be before you are and you will become."
Simon strives to better himself constantly. He believes that to stay the same is to stop living a fulfilling life. He uses this very philosophy when helping his clients achieve their own fitness aspirations.
With 10 years experience and a varied array of qualifications, most recently Olympic lifting, Simon is the old dog with the new tricks.
Qualifications and Special Interests:
- Punch-Fit coach cert 1
- Group Training Coach
- Circuit Training
- Olympic Lifting coach cert 1
- Community Athletic Coaching L1
- Kettle Bell Training
Simon McCarthy
"You're stronger than you think you are!"
Jannah firmly believes that exercise is about so much more than just 'working out'. By training intelligently, cultivating healthy movement patterns and building a strong brain-body connection, Jannah will help you explore your body's true potential and experience more strength, skill, freedom of movement, energy and vitality than you ever thought possible!
Qualifications and Special Interests:
- Osteopathy Student (anticipated completion of Bachelors Degree 2019 & Masters Degree 2021)
- Biomechanics & Elemental Movement Patterns
- Integral Strength & Control
- Yoga (Hatha & Yin)
Jannah Stone
"Most people have no idea how good their body was designed to feel."
Tom feels it’s important to change fitness motivations and healthy short term habits into long term lifestyle choices in order to reach an individuals goals. He has a strong passion for training clients with sports specific goals coming from a AFL football background himself. He also enjoys training body composition clients with a strong focus on nutrition and eating lean to see physical and mental positive changes.
Qualifications and special interests:
-3 years Football in VAFA
- Strength and Conditioning Training
- Sport Specific Training
- Body Composition Training
- Nutrition for Lean Muscle Mass
Tom Becker
"Don't chase dreams, hunt goals."
Liz believes that the body and mind coexist together and the health of one depends on the other. With 11 years experience in AFL and cricket 2 years coaching Women's AFL, she has a strong passion for supporting and guiding people with their fitness and health aspirations. We have strengths and opportunities for growth and supporting our health. She understands each person is different and each person has their own unique values.
Qualifications and Special Interests:
- Group training, Circuit training, Core strength
- 11 years in Women's AFL
- 11 years in Women's cricket
- Senior foundation coaching
- Women's Health
Liz Whitfield
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
Simone knows how hard it can be to get started with exercise and changing habits. As a teenager, her lifestyle consisted of unhealthy food and no exercise. She ended up overweight, unmotivated and lost her confidence until she decided to get help from a personal trainer. Simone believes, with the right direction, anyone is capable of achieving their fitness & health goals. Let her share her passion, motivate and coach you to success.
Qualifications and special interests:
- Boxing level 1
- Women's hormonal health
- Weight lifting for women
- Group training instructor
- Conditioning for Fat Loss
- Wellness and holistic health
Simone Sjoberg
"In fitness there are no shortcuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work."
Andrew Merrifield
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
Having played on Australian national teams, Andrew knows what it takes to hunt down goals and push oneself in every aspect. Andrew discovered early on that standard single plane strength practices didn’t translate to the complex strength required for his sport. This led him to discovering the world of functional training; especially complex kettlebell and animal flow movements. He uses this experience and knowledge to help build his clients' mobility and allow them to move more freely and with more control - ultimately leading to improvements in their quality of life.
Qualifications and special interests:
- Bachelor of science – Melbourne University
- Cert III & IIII in fitness – AFA
- Phase 6 – Kettle bell & Animal flow
- 15 years experience as an athlete across various kayaking disciplines
- Previous Australian level athlete - Canoe polo
- Functional strength training