Caboolture’s best personal trainers revealed
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They’re responsible for making Caboolture region locals fitter than ever and now it’s time to show them gratitude.
We asked our readers to vote for Caboolture’s best personal trainer and can now reveal the region’s best as voted by you.
Here are the three most inspirational and effective personal trainers to grace Caboolture gyms.
3 David Stearman
David Stearman fell so in love with personal training he dropped a nearly complete teaching degree to pursue a career in fitness.
For almost a decade Stearman has been refining his profession, first starting in general personal training for health and weight-loss, before specialising in powerlifting and strength training and eventually joining Ironhouse Fitness.
He has joined forces with power lifting champion and partner Jen Smith to train hundreds of clients both in person and online every week, helping people perfect heavy lifting and build muscle.
“You can’t really get sick of getting strong,” he said.
Many of his clients have taken their sport to the competition level, including one woman who Stearman said once had trouble bending down but can now dead lift 115kg.
“She was in constant pain (before stating to lift weights).”
“I have had people that have lost a good 30, 40, 50kg and gotten stronger... I have one 55-year-old woman who can dead lift 120kg.”
He said it helping people change their lives through his training — through weight loss, muscle gain or better quality of life that was “the most rewarding”.
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2 Luke Sheehan
Luke Sheehan spends most of his days sharing his exceptional knowledge of boxing with some of the region’s youngest and most vulnerable locals — and he does it from the goodness of his heart.
Sheehan, a favourite at World Gym Burpengary and the face behind non-profit gym Spiders Boxing Club, has changed countless lives through sport.
Much of his passion is for teaching children how to focus their energy and develop through boxing, with the money raised from his work at Spiders Boxing Club going back “to giving kids opportunities”.
“If you don’t create a pathway for them, they don’t have a reason to stay focused,” he said.
“Boxing’s a tool... it’s not all about becoming a world champion... boxing itself is all about an opportunity.
“I pick some kids and try to turn them into little leaders.
“It helps focus their energy.”
He said children with special needs, attention or temper issues often benefited from learning the sport.
“It’s just one of those sports that can really change a person’s life if they fall in love with it.”
But the father of one said his clients were not the only ones who benefited from his coaching.
“It goes two ways — it’s allowed me to grow as a person.”
1 Stacey Eddy
Just a few years ago Stacey Eddy was a mum, keen to kick some kilos but nervous ahead of her first training session at her local gym.
Now she’s a booked-out personal trainer with a legion of followers.
“I 20kg overweight from having babies,” she said.
It was at her trainer’s suggestion that a newly in-shape Eddy — a qualified engineer — decided to study personal training.
After working part-time as a personal trainer, she was recruited just over a year ago to World Gym Burpengary and she says she hasn’t looked back.
“I’m getting to change people’s lives,” she said.
“It’s my happy place.”
Eddy, who runs a number of classes including Les Mills sessions, boxing and yoga, said her job was as rewarding for her as it was for her clients.
“I love seeing people change,” she said.
“From the moment they start with me... they just don’t have a spark... the ultimate reward for me is just seeing them killing it at life.
“I’m excited to wake up in the morning.
“It’s weird — (clients) kind of put me on a pedestal... but I’m just a person.
“It’s my mission — to make them fit and happy.”
The down-to-earth mum said she still remembers that feeling of anxiety before starting at a gym — and says she even feels it when she visits a different gym — and its that memory that helps her understand her clients.
“I’m like a protective mother.
“If they’re feeling anxious, I’ll meet them outside and walk them in personally,” she said.
“I’m very down to earth... I like to be looked upon here (as) just a friendly face.”
She encouraged people still feeling those pre-gym nerves to just give it a go.
“Take a leap of faith,” she said.
“Just come, by the end of the first session you’ll be hooked.
“Everybody’s here for a reason — you go to the gym to get fit — it doesn’t matter (what you look like).”
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