Bio
After finishing his A-levels he joined the Royal Marines Commandos in 1991 and spent fourteen years serving with them all over the world.
In 2005 he left the Marines and joined a charitable company called Skill Force for three years teaching 14-16 year old pupils a non-vocational syllabus.
After three years educating youngsters he then answered the call of the sea and became a Maritime Security Liaison Officer ensuring the safe passage of commercial shipping throughout the world's High Risk Areas for 8 years.
February 2016 saw the official launch of his Personal Training, Health and Fitness company Andali Fitness.
Andy has accrued a unique understanding of how to adapt to extremes of environment, temperature, available space and levels of equipment available. He is able to bring this flexibility and adaptability to his training sessions ensuring that his clients' programmes and the exercise circuits never become stale and mundane.
He has enjoyed everything from hiking/running up to and including 50 mile ultras, boxing, mountain biking, skiing, duathlons, circuit training, strength training and kayaking, including the gruelling 125 mile 'Devizes to Westminster' kayak marathon.
He is a firm believer in functional fitness and the training methodologies that he employs have been proven to help clients gain improvements in strength, aerobic capacity and functional movement in order to live a more fulfilling life.
The importance of this mixed approach to training is well established, and apt for all ages, especially as we enter our twilight years.
Equal to exercise itself his biggest passion is working with and having fun people whilst helping them to experience the fun and exhilaration of taking on new physical challenges.
He is empathetic to the concerns people have when embarking on an exercise programme and the associated doubts that they might have. He is able to help clients overcome these worries and re-engage with exercise.
Members of Andali Fitness have enjoyed some amazing running and obstacle course adventures outside of the circuits.