Personal Training

Do you want to feel good about your body?

Meet Personal Trainer Dean Schaffer

If you’re looking for a personal trainer that promises a fast route to dropping weight by banning carbohydrates and exercising until the point of exhaustion, then I’m not your guy! Why? Because to me, fitness is a lifestyle, not a fad and I’m trained to look at the long game, not just the short term gain.

Heavily into martial arts – I’m a black belt in Kung-Fu and weight training since a teenager; I’ve always been passionate about fitness. For me, it’s a big part of my life and as founder of The Fitness Club I want to make it a part of your life too.

Big on communication and trust, my friendly but focused training gets anyone hooked. There’s a lot of copycatting in fitness, but I’m a trainer who’s a little bit different. For one, I listen and secondly, I care. I adapt my techniques to create programs around my clients’ needs according to their abilities and goals.

Working both anaerobically (short and fast exercise) and aerobically, I use core, resistance and circuit training to improve and empower their life through exercise. I like seeing my clients happy, and the right program will undoubtedly raise confidence levels, making you look and feel good. My personal mantra is ‘health is wealth’, and I like to think of myself as the backbone that keeps my clients standing up straight and looking to the future.

Working with all ages from 18 to 83, I’m consistently challenging my clients – whether they’re overweight, stressed city suits or post natal mums, and pushing them towards their next goal. I’m always thinking of new ways they can progress. I understand bad days and whatever problem my client has, I have a solution. Ultimately, my personal training sessions are about you, not me. I get enjoyment from seeing results – and that makes me thrive.

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  • I joined Fitness Club London in order to lose weight and improve fitness for some upcoming sporting events and for general health in my early 40s.

    Dean has tailored both nutrition and exercise regimes to help me head towards these goals steadily. In nine months, I have worked off 17kg, which is over 80% of the way to my weight goal ahead of a sporting tour for Great Britain in March-April 2017. Skiing was completely liberated from muscle aches and fatigue.

    Dean’s style of personal attention, and the avoidance of other distraction around the gym, make it possible to focus on improvements in technique and achievement. This helps me to recognise progress with each training session, which sustains my interest and motivation.

    Derek L (Age 43) January 2017
    14th February, 2017

  • I had come out of an angioplasty and was looking for trainers to help me with cardio-vascular fitness and weight reduction. I really consider myself fortunate to have discovered Dean and his facilities. I am 50 and have been training with Dean for about two months now and I am a completely changed person with a whole new attitude to fitness. I have lost about two stone in about 10 weeks, but more importantly, I find myself having a lot more energy and physically much more active. All of this has been largely achieved with Dean's training. The exercises are customised for my physique and they help me work all of my body in a very gradual way. His approach was to understand my body and centre all exercises around the my needs and capabilities - unlike other trainers who roll out standard exercise sets. Dean also brings a huge amount of commitment, empathy and passion to these sessions - and that helps motivate and keep the sessions very engaging. He also has an excellent, spacious, full facility gym for the training sessions and the sessions are only for one person at a time.

    Srini G (jan 2017)
    7th February, 2017

  • I have been training with Dean - about ten years now, and at least twice weekly. During that period, I seem to have doubled the weights on all the equipment used; so I can now be reckoned strong for my age – which is 82. This is impressive; and I owe it to your careful supervision.

    Chris Jukes (Oct 2016)
    11th February, 2017

  • I have been training with Dean since last July and it has been fantastic.  I had been struggling with a back injury for several years and had tried all kinds of Physiotherapy and Osteopathy with mixed results and only temporary relief.  Dean felt he could help and very rapidly he started strengthening my core and doing manipulations to release the lower back.  He started very carefully making sure I did not make the injury worse and within four weeks there was a huge reduction in the amount of pain I was suffering on a constant basis.  Since then he has built things up and we work on the rest of the body now, as well as my diet and cardiovascular exercise.  I feel much healthier, stronger, and fitter, in addition to the pain relief, and it is due to Dean’s professionalism and talents as a trainer.  I would recommend him to anyone, he takes his job very seriously and gets results.

    Steven B (Jan 2017)
    7th February, 2017

  • When I first came to see Dean, I could hardly do 5 mins walking anywhere. After only a few weeks training with Dean I have significantly improved, and can now do 30 minutes! Dean has tailored a programme, which absolutely suits my abilities and needs. Before I met Dean, for the last 9 yrs I could not even get up from the floor without help. Now, it is easy and I am able to get up and down on my own. There are many other things showing how I have improved while training with Dean. And I am thankful to him for that and would highly recommend him to anyone.

    Claire Jacobs Age: Over 75 (June 2015)
    13th February, 2017