Our Personal Trainers

Giuseppe Minetti

Personal Training
I have been involved with sports and fitness training for over 30 years and am forever driven by the advances in research and development in this field. I constantly scour research papers and reports to fuel my enthusiasm and am always asking my body questions and stepping out of my own comfort zone to find the answers.

My sprint coach and mentor Byron Gray once told me "you can if you think you can" and if ever a word or sentence became part of my DNA, this would be it.

Biography
Founder and owner of Token Yard Personal Training & fitness-testing.co.uk. Established 2004 and The Token Yard Club established 2010

Fitness Related Education & Exams

• YMCA/RSA Exercise to Music (1995)
• OCR Advanced Professional Personal Instructor
• OCR Advanced Gym Instructor
• OCR Applied Nutrition & Weight Management
• Core Stability & Torso Training
• Biomechanics

Sport

Judo

• 1984 British Schoolboy Champion. Team Member/Captain

Rugby

• 1985 London 7's Champion. Team Member

Athletics

• 1978-80 Battersea Champion 100m
• 1984-86 Wandsworth Champion 100m & 200m
• 1981-85 Surrey Champion 100m & 200m
• 1985-86 Trained with John Regis (Olympic Medallist)
• 1986 European Catholic Schools Champion. 200m, 4x100m
• 1986 Ranked 1st in UK as a 16 year old & 7th in age group. Top 50 in the World for age
• 1986 International friendships Games Champion. 200m

Triathlon

• 1998 La Santa, Lanzarote Sprint race.
• 1998 World Championships Sprint Invitation Race, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2004 London Triathlon Olympic Relay. Top 30 split time 40kms bike

Adventure Racing

• 2000 UK Adventure Racing Series
• 2000 Eco-Challenge Adventure Racing World Championships, Sabah, Borneo. 500km 10-day non-stop race. Team Member
• 2001 Artic Team Challenge, Eastern Greenland, Team Captain. 5-day non-stop race across the Artic Circle

Sports Journalism

• 2001 Artic Team Challenge, Eastern Greenland. Competitor and race report for British press. Assisted BBC for a BBC 2 documentary
• 2001 Southern Traverse Adventure Race, South Island, New Zealand. Race report for specialist British press following competitors on 500 mile, 10-day non-stop race
• 2001-02 Various features published focusing on endurance training and race preparation
• 2002 Raid Gauloises Adventure Race, Northern Vietnam. Live webcast (viewed by 50,000 people daily) race report following competitors. 1000km, 12-day non-stop race

Media Coverage (Most recent)

• 'Click' April 2008. BBC1 technology program. Featured as a fitness expert in the field of fitness testing for weight loss and calorie counting
• Evening Standard February 2008. Featured as an expert in the field of fitness testing for heart rate training
• BBC Online. Featured as a fitness expert in the field of fitness testing for athletic performance
• Evening Standard ongoing. Advice on fitness, heart rate training and calorie counting
• Fitness expert for Appesate.