Meet The Team

Dom Maltby

Coach

Without giving you my whole life story from birth, I was born in Jersey and have moved around a lot throughout my life. Having moved to Sussex and then Suffolk before initially coming up to Chester for uni, I ended up staying here for 9 years before deciding to go travelling and to see more of what this big world has to offer. This 18-month period saw me tick off a good few of my bucket list countries – including New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia and Nepal (where I also
fulfilled a 20-year-old dream of hiking for 2 weeks to and from Everest Base Camp). I’m now settled back in Cheshire, where I see as home, continuing to build a life I love and help others do the same, as best I can.

I’ve had a bit of an up-and-down relationship with fitness during my journey so far. During my younger years, I played football a lot (whether I was good or not is up for debate), but heading into my teenage years, I began living a pretty unhealthy lifestyle, where all I wanted to do was sit and play Xbox, watch films and eat a LOT of toast. My first change came thanks to some brutal honesty from my mum, which saw me take up running with my dog in the evenings. Over the next few years, I dropped a lot of weight, but then went to uni and saw my health fall off again in favour of alcohol, partying and takeaways. Eventually, a little after uni and battling through some personal hardships, I
discovered my love for weightlifting and the gym. Since then, I have developed a love for simply being active and focusing on what my body is capable of – be it lifting heavy weights, running a marathon, hiking for days on end, competing in a Hyrox race, kayaking, snowboarding, sprinting, kickboxing and whatever else I may dabble in.

Everything I do is tailored toward a healthy, happy, fulfilling and well-balanced life.

What's Included

What are your favorite and least favorite exercises?

Favourite: Now this one changes like the tide, it depends on what mood I’m in. If I had to choose one, though, it’d either be a heavy deadlift for the raw power needed and accomplishment of lifting the weight, running for the mental clarity it brings me or Bulgarian split squats because I’m mental – they feel good, deal with it.

Least Favourite: Has to be anything on the treadmill. I love running, but only outside. I lose my mind being on it for more than 10 minutes! Or maybe the stairclimber due to pure PTSD from the day I spent 7 hours on one for charity…

What motivate you?

Being healthy and physically fit enough to do anything that I want to do.
There are so many things to do and experience, and I don’t want to miss any of this due to not taking care of my body – we only get one, at the end of the day. Happiness and experiences also motivate me – life is for living, and I intend to do everything I can to embrace and follow this mantra.

Favourite Quote

I’ll give you a few:

“Life’s not about how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and
keep going”
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. And that is why it’s called the present”
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“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”