International Kettlebell and Fitness Federation

Ryan Fernando

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Location: Australia

Ryan Fernando B.Sc. Exercise and Sports Science

Ryan is a passionate and highly-motivated coach, as well as a competitive kettlebell sport athlete. Ryan traveled to San Diego California on a extensive networking trip in June 2017 where he trained under Steve Cotter and several other influential health and fitness professionals, and hopes to share his passion with Australia and the rest of the world. Areas in which Ryan is qualified include strength and conditioning, kettlebells, the Weck method, DNS, and so much more. Ryan focuses on long term athlete development, utilizing a balanced and holistic approach to lifestyle, nutrition, and training in order to get the best he can from his clients.

Carol Cunningham

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Location – Sydney, Australia and Singapore

Email – C_A_Cunningham100@hotmail.com

Carol is an Australian trainer with over 8 years experience in the health and fitness industry in Australia and Singapore. A member of Fitness Australia, a Level 2 Australian Athletics Coach and Event Director for park run Singapore.

Carol is an avid runner competing locally and internally at half marathon and marathon distances. Away from running Carol utilises Kettlebells (IKFF Level 1), Pilates (Studio Pilates International Matwork) and Powerplate (certified instructor) when training clients. Understanding the importance of nutrition, Carol also has obtained her Precision Nutrition Certification (Level 1).

Carol looks forward to sharing and guiding you with your Kettlebells training.

Debora Gallo

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Location: Sydney, Australia

E-Mail: debora.gallo78@gmail.com
Website: www.aussiekb.wordpress.com/

I am a full time learning and development manager so education and training is my bread and butter. My passion is people development – whether that be intellectual or physical. I have a Bachelor’s and Masters degree in adult education and i am an accredited executive coach. In addition to that i have a passion for health and well being  I train everyday with kettlebells and am keen to pass my passion and knowledge on to others. I have completed my CKT1 and 2, IKSFA Level 1 coach and Aussie Kettlebell Coach level 1.

Evan Hayes

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Location: Adelaide, Australia

E-Mail: evan@adelaidekettlebells.com
Website: www.adelaidekettlebells.com

Evan Hayes is a level 1 Certified Kettlebell Instructor (CKT), and the first in Adelaide, Australia.  If your goal is weight loss, strength gain, endurance or muscle building, Evan can tailor a workout to suit your needs.

What you can expect from training:
•    Improved strength
•    Incredible strength endurance
•    Weight loss
•    Lean & functional muscle mass
•    Injury prevention
•    Core strength

Evan has spent the last year between Texas and China, training in kickboxing, wrestling and kettlebells.  He has experience in a range of sports with an emphasis on conditioning and bodyweight training.  He draws experience from his background in swimming, rowing and martial arts to optimise workouts.

He draws on his experiences to keep workouts exciting and engaging while building strength for the real world.  You can expect to see Kettlebells mixed in with tractor tire flipping, battle ropes, sandbags, sledgehammers and plyometrics to keep you on your toes.

Evan has been Kettlebell training now for over a year and has been CKT accredited since October.

Kent Pumpa

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Location- Haberfield Sydney & Newfarm Brisbane

E-Mail: kent@bootcampsaustralia.com
Website: www.bootcampsaustralia.com

For those who don’t know me, my name is Kent Pumpa and I am the Director and owner of Boot Camps Australia. My head office and gym is in New Farm Brisbane and Sydney. I have over 12 yrs years experience as a health and fitness professional and leader in the industry. Throughout my career I have always worked closely with industry partners including Australian Institute of Personal Trainers where I mentor and train up and coming PT professionals. I’m also a IKFF CKT Kettle bell instructor and help promote Steve Cotter and the IKFF in Australia. From a young age I have been heavily involved with sports on a professional and personal level. I thoroughly enjoy challenging my mind and body to achieve great results which I hope to encourage you to do the same. So for all your fitness needs go to www.bootcampsaustralia.com for a location near you.

Serhat Tongur

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Location: Sydney, Australia

E-Mail: serhatthept@gmail.com
Website: http://www.turkishgetup.com.au/
Website: http://www.serhattongur.com/
Telephone: 0 415 103 880

Serhat has been living in Sydney since 2003,who is a Level 2 IKFF Certified Kettlebell Teacher and AIF Master Trainer. He uses the kettlebell training as one of his powerful training tools to accomplish the training goals of his clients.Utilizing a combination of kettlebells and bodyweight training, he has taken his clients training and conditioning to new levels.
Kettlebell training has been a great addition to his fitness routine and he has realized great physical and cardiovascular results as well unintentional rehabilitation consequences to various injuries. As a Certified Kettlebell Teacher through the IKFF, he hopes to share with others what he has learned and to inspire people to integrate different activities such as kettlebell training into their own fitness routines.

David Robertson

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Location: Melbourne, Australia

E-Mail: djt.robertson@gmail.com
Telephone: 0428 545 733

David has represented Scotland at age grade level in rugby union and rugby league as well as playing professional rugby league for London Skolars. He previously ran his private gym in South London, UK specialising in unconventional, but highly functional training techniques. His clients are challenged with olympic weightlifting, kettlebells, sandbags, power ropes and much more in order to provide them with the most varied and enjoyable training experience possible. David has also been featured on national television, radio and the written press in the UK. He moved to Melbourne in December 2010 and will be opening his own private gym there in 2011.

Miskad Kidd

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Location: Hobart, Tasmania

E-Mail: fitmiskad@yahoo.com

My family and I moved across from Indonesia to settle in Australia in January 2010.  After seventeen years in the Asian fitness industry I had found myself working a stressful managerial job at a big Fitness First club in Jakarta, on the ground floor of an old shopping centre, and spent the daylight hours in air-conditioning with brief trips out of the gym to fuel up on Starbucks.

I had long since given up my first love, teaching aerobics, which was my route into the fitness industry when as a skinny teenager I left the familiar rice fields of my hometown in West Java for the dirty skies of Jakarta and a place at the country’s top Sports University. Actually no one liked my classes in those early days. I knew they were wondering why this skinny, self-consciously awkward guy from the rice fields was teaching them aerobics.

So, I went out and bought an odd pair of colourful socks and wore them for my class. Everyone laughed. And so if nothing else, at least they would remember who I was. My colourful socks defined me.

Moving to Australia has been much easier. Hobart’s gym industry couldn’t be friendlier to a newcomer like me and I have been harvesting the fruits of those seventeen years slogging it out in Asia. My name can now be found on the timetables of three of Hobart’s best gyms. I teach Hi-Lo, BodyCombat, BodyBalance, Circuit, Group Kick, Group Groove, Cross-Trainer and Punch Fit just to name a few, and I’ll be taking personal training clients again in the new year.

One of the last things I did in Asia was to attend a workshop with Steve Cotter in Bangkok. I love working out with kettlebells. The endorphin-rush of swinging a bell on a sunny Hobart morning looking out over the River Derwent beats Starbucks any day and I am keen to bring this magical experience to my group exercise classes with a combination of boxing drills and kettlebells.

Even in the darker days of Jakarta I saw it as a priority to demonstrate what many will say is one of my greater strengths, my infectious enthusiasm. Mindset is very important and I always want to show that working out is fun not pain.