Ryan Gambin - Certified Personal Trainer & Olympian
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2008 Beijing Olympian - 100 Butterfly
Instructor of Certificate III and IV in Fitness at Human Performance Centre
Owner and Director of Sculpt Training Centre, Burleigh, Gold Coast
Dual Citizenship - Australian and Maltese
In 2007 I was approached by the Maltese Olympic Committee to try to make history by becoming the first ever Maltese athlete to QUALIFY for the Olympic Games. I undertook this challenge and wanted to do the right thing by my Country of representation and made the decision to move to Malta for my preparation.
This was a tough decision as I knew I would be living and training completely on my own as opposed to have the huge support network that I had here in Australia. This decision prompted me to begin studying human performance and how I could improve myself in the pool because I knew it was a HUGE goal to undertake on my own and thus began a snowball effect of studying more and more about training, diet and health in general.
After coaching myself and swimming on my own for about a year I raced at the European Championships in Eindhoven early 2008. At this event I became the first Maltese athlete in history to qualify for the Games by swimming the qualifying time for the 100 Butterfly at the Olympic Games.
I raced at the Games in Beijing and narrowly missed the semi-finals but I was happy with the end result after the turbulent and lonely past year of training. The Maltese Olympic Committee where so impressed with my efforts that they allowed me to carry the Maltese Flag at the closing ceremony of the Games.
I arrived home with a hunger for more knowledge of health and fitness so completed courses at Human Performance Centre while studying my Degree in Sports Management and became a Personal Trainer.
The owner of Human Performance Centre soon took me under his wing as an Instructor of the Certificate III and IV courses in Fitness qualifying people to become a Personal Trainer.
Teaching people to become a Personal Trainer has only put fuel on my fire of being involved heavily in this industry. I am now the happy owner of Sculpt Training Centre, the largest Personal Training centre on the Gold Coast and quite possibly, the country. Our point of difference is that we have an exclusive membership base capped at only 100 members to maintain a family feel when you walk into the gym, free of any intimidation. We are also one of the very few Personal Training Centres with a fully equipped creche' and children's gym so that mum's can rest assured their children enjoy their time at the gym just as much as they do!
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