Our Team
Coaching is about creating change. Great coaches produce great outcomes.
Kieron
Owner & General Manager
CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2 Trainer)
Growing up I loved sports and played both rugby and football. Around the age of 16 I started going to the gym. I spent years working hard to get stronger, which in turn helped my sports performance. My passion for fitness and training continued to grow and after secondary school, I completed a bachelor’s degree in Strength and Conditioning (BSc Hons) from the University of Gloucester.
During my studies, I delved deep into the science behind training and the practical nature of coaching. I studied under and was mentored by some fantastic teachers who had trained high level sports teams across the globe. During my time at university, I coached strength and conditioning for a rugby team based out of a private school in Gloucester. I loved every minute of it. I enjoyed sharing my passion for fitness with others and watching them succeed.
After university my career took a very different turn. I ended up working in a Police Control room as a radio operator. I worked there for five years, managing police resources in high stress situations at all hours of the day and night. I will always have a lot of memories from this role and stories to share for a lifetime!
And now! I am so happy to be the owner of CrossFit Freesol!
I believe that CrossFit with high quality coaching and programming can truly change people’s lives. I have seen first-hand in all our athletes at CrossFit Freesol, the difference in energy levels, mobility, strength, stamina, and confidence that CrossFit can provide.
As an affiliate owner my goal is to help people to become the best version of themselves. Whether that’s hitting a fitness goal they once thought was just a dream or to build confidence to allow them to excel in their work and social life.
I believe we often overestimate what we can accomplish in a day and underestimate what we can achieve in a year so just take the first step, be consistent and enjoy the journey!
CrossFit Freesol is for everyone, it’s a place where we can all strive to become the best versions of ourselves and have great fun along the way!
James
Assistant General Manager
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1 Trainer)
Exercise and fitness have been a constant in my life. Football, Rugby and Athletics made up a huge part of my childhood and teenage years and provided me with many skills and qualities. I joined the local gym at around 15 and fell in love with the process of getting stronger and more powerful. It developed my performance in the sports I played and found that it was a place to workout with my friends and support one and another with our goals.
After completing a degree in Design, I wanted to combine my love for movement and for helping people. I decided to train to teach secondary education PE and embarked on my PGCE & QTS in Physical Education. Around the same time, I was introduced to CrossFit by my fiancé, and I attended my first workout which happened to be ‘Murph’. I was completely humbled and desperately wanted to be like the guys with weight vests on. Fast forward a year and I’ve taken part in my first CrossFit Open, become the strongest and fittest I have ever been, and was able to complete Murph in a weight vest! More than physical leaps, I have benefitted from the positive effect on my mental health and general well-being, I have found a community and made friends for life.
After I had completed my teacher training, I was asked by Kieron If I would like to coach at CrossFit Freesol. I jumped at the chance! I am so grateful for the opportunity to help people achieve their goals, live happier and healthier lives, and become a part of a family. I look forward to bringing the skills I have learnt whilst teaching and the knowledge I will gain along the journey.
The sense of community, support and togetherness that sport can bring is truly special. I believe it is this idea of unity and the pursuit of bettering oneself that made me fall in love with CrossFit.
Rosie
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1 Trainer)
In 2017 I was invited to a friend’s hen do – the weekend was starting off with something called team WOD at my friends CrossFit gym. I thought it a little bit weird but as someone who was already into the gym I agreed and went along. Having only ever done classes in my local 24-hour gym, I was amazed at what I was seeing. These girls were lifting weights I had never dreamed of picking up, and carrying each other down the road while racing, I was in awe of how strong they were!
I decided that I wanted to be as strong as them and looked up my local CrossFit gym….5 years later and I have been addicted to CrossFit ever since.
I had never been part of a gym who looked after each other, helped and inspired each other and dedicated themselves to helping people make progress inside (and outside) of the gym until starting CrossFit. I have been lucky enough to meet and train with people who have turned their lives around, come back from depression and physical health battles to improve every aspect of their life, and now I get to be a part of people’s journeys as a coach. I am a firm believer that CrossFit is for everybody, no matter your current fitness level or knowledge of the sport, I love teaching people new skills and watching them grow and develop as an athlete, celebrating the small wins and big achievements while doing so.
Diwas
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1 Trainer) & Powerlifting Coach
Growing up, I have always loved sports. Anything I could play I was playing, I was in almost every school sports team! I also played club football and rugby alongside so you could say I have always been interested in physical fitness! Eventually because of this, I started taking an interest in the gym when I turned 16; your typical bodybuilding business because we all want big arms at 16 (I guess even now) believe it or not!
After this I went on to study physical education at A levels, which peaked my interests in the science behind sports and the human body. The natural progression was to go on and study sports science at university which furthered my knowledge into what it takes to be a better performer in sports! I then took this one step further and completed a masters in strength and conditioning in 2018 which was all based around how to make an athlete stronger, fitter and faster for their chosen sport. This was how I got into coaching, I started off and coached sports such as sailing, netball, rugby and then I specialised into powerlifting. This is where the bulk of my coaching experience lies in and that’s actually how I got into a coaching role here at CrossFit Freesol! I have been running a powerlifting coaching business since 2018 and have coached multiple athletes to international titles.
I started my CrossFit journey shortly after the lockdown was over. I felt super unfit and wanted to change gyms, this is when I found CrossFit Freesol with Kieron! I did a taster class with Tim and that was when I was hooked and signed into CrossFit. Challenging myself with a metcon was such a change of pace, I felt so terrible during and after that I thought I definitely need to do more of this! So after sinking myself in the CrossFit world for a year I got the opportunity to do a CrossFit level 1, being a coach already I was quite interested in the way CrossFit do things so this was an eye opener.
I am 1 year in and am definitely going to be doing this a lot longer. Looking forward to coaching and workout out with all of you!
Darcey
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1 Trainer)
Growing up I was very active. I threw myself into most after school clubs and sports which I found much easier and fun than the academic side of school! After my A levels I went on to achieve a Bsc (hons) in Sports Therapy at Hartpury University. While at university, I found myself immersed in a very heavy student-athlete culture. I soon took up rowing and became part of the Great Britain START team. This meant swapping out my regular, relatively chill gym time for 15-18 training sessions per week, working with a full time Strength and Conditioning Coach, a nutritionist, a sports psychologist, and a physiotherapist. Things had gotten serious! Rowing quickly became the centre of my world and lie-ins were no longer an option! However, after years of training camps, regattas and very very early mornings, I suffered a bulged disc in my lumbar spine. This meant full time rowing was off the cards.
I decided to invest this new found time into my career in Sports Therapy. Since then, I have been lucky enough to travel all around the world to different sporting events and work for some sports teams and organizations like London Irish FC and Chelsea FC. I even got to work on the Tour De France in 2022. I have worked alongside some of the top professionals in their respective fields and I absolutely love my job. But there was always something missing from my life after I stopped rowing. I still kept active but had totally fallen out of love with training.
Last October I came to CrossFit Freesol to give a Mobility and Injury Prevention workshop. The Owner and General Manager, Tim persuaded me to come for a training session at the box and I never looked back. CrossFit has made me fall in love with training all over again. The community is similar to what I experienced on my rowing team, everyone always cheering each other on, and it is something I feel really proud to be a part of.
When Tim and Cara invited me to complete my CrossFit Level One Trainer’s Course and offered me the opportunity to join the Freesol Coaching Team, it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. I bring my both my experience as a competitive athlete and as a Sports Therapist to my coaching in the box. I’m really excited to work with all of you and to help guide you on your health and fitness journey!
Carmen
Yoga Teacher
I encountered yoga several times over the years, but I thought it wasn’t for me: too slow, too boring. It wasn’t until 2012 when I moved to Shanghai that my true love for yoga began. Trying to get fit again after four pregnancies, I had taken up running, but this led to a persistent knee injury. I was also feeling anxious a lot of the time. For both reasons and after reading about the benefits of yoga, I decided to give it another try.
To my surprise, the classes were physically demanding, but somehow, I felt very peaceful at the end, every single time. When I first saw my teacher perform a headstand I was inspired. Despite being the inflexible yogi in the room, I persisted with my practice, later completing four teacher training courses. I am fortunate to have trained both with an American teacher with a Western perspective and with an Indian master with a very traditional and hard-core approach.
Yoga benefits all aspects of my life: the physical practice fills me with energy, while the breathing and philosophy make me more mindful, peaceful, and joyful. I love the changing pace and movement, the sense of play as you flow into positions that you didn’t think possible, the grounded feeling as you use the anchoring power of the breath, the experience of the body becoming lighter and softer as your strength, flexibility and mobility improve, and the mental toughness and awareness that the practice as a whole brings.
Coaching is about creating change. Great coaches produce great outcomes.
Keiron
Owner & General Manager
CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2 Trainer)
Growing up I loved sports and played both rugby and football. Around the age of 16 I started going to the gym. I spent years working hard to get stronger, which in turn helped my sports performance. My passion for fitness and training continued to grow and after secondary school, I completed a bachelor’s degree in Strength and Conditioning (Bsc Hons) from the University of Gloucester.
During my studies, I delved deep into the science behind training and the practical nature of coaching. I studied under and was mentored by some fantastic teachers who had trained high level sports teams across the globe. During my time at university, I coached strength and conditioning for a rugby team based out of a private school in Gloucester. I loved every minute of it. I enjoyed sharing my passion for fitness with others and watching them succeed.
After university my career took a very different turn. I ended up working in a Police Control room as a radio operator. I worked there for five years, managing police resources in high stress situations at all hours of the day and night. I will always have a lot of memories from this role and stories to share for a lifetime!
And now! I am so happy to be the owner of CrossFit Freesol!
I believe that CrossFit with high quality coaching and programming can truly change people’s lives. I have seen first-hand in all our athletes at CrossFit Freesol, the difference in energy levels, mobility, strength, stamina, and confidence that CrossFit can provide.
As an affiliate owner my goal is to help people to become the best version of themselves. Whether that’s hitting a fitness goal they once thought was just a dream or to build confidence to allow them to excel in their work and social life.
I believe we often overestimate what we can accomplish in a day and underestimate what we can achieve in a year so just take the first step, be consistent and enjoy the journey!
CrossFit Freesol is for everyone, it’s a place where we can all strive to become the best versions of ourselves and have great fun along the way!
James
Assistant General Manager
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1 Trainer)
Exercise and fitness have been a constant in my life. Football, Rugby and Athletics made up a huge part of my childhood and teenage years and provided me with many skills and qualities. I joined the local gym at around 15 and fell in love with the process of getting stronger and more powerful. It developed my performance in the sports I played and found that it was a place to workout with my friends and support one and another with our goals.
After completing a degree in Design, I wanted to combine my love for movement and for helping people. I decided to train to teach secondary education PE and embarked on my PGCE & QTS in Physical Education. Around the same time, I was introduced to CrossFit by my fiancé, and I attended my first workout which happened to be ‘Murph’. I was completely humbled and desperately wanted to be like the guys with weight vests on. Fast forward a year and I’ve taken part in my first CrossFit Open, become the strongest and fittest I have ever been, and was able to complete Murph in a weight vest! More than physical leaps, I have benefitted from the positive effect on my mental health and general well-being, I have found a community and made friends for life.
After I had completed my teacher training, I was asked by Kieron If I would like to coach at CrossFit Freesol. I jumped at the chance! I am so grateful for the opportunity to help people achieve their goals, live happier and healthier lives, and become a part of a family. I look forward to bringing the skills I have learnt whilst teaching and the knowledge I will gain along the journey.
The sense of community, support and togetherness that sport can bring is truly special. I believe it is this idea of unity and the pursuit of bettering oneself that made me fall in love with CrossFit.
Rosie
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1 Trainer)
In 2017 I was invited to a friend’s hen do – the weekend was starting off with something called team WOD at my friends CrossFit gym. I thought it a little bit weird but as someone who was already into the gym I agreed and went along. Having only ever done classes in my local 24-hour gym, I was amazed at what I was seeing. These girls were lifting weights I had never dreamed of picking up, and carrying each other down the road while racing, I was in awe of how strong they were!
I decided that I wanted to be as strong as them and looked up my local CrossFit gym….5 years later and I have been addicted to CrossFit ever since.
I had never been part of a gym who looked after each other, helped and inspired each other and dedicated themselves to helping people make progress inside (and outside) of the gym until starting CrossFit. I have been lucky enough to meet and train with people who have turned their lives around, come back from depression and physical health battles to improve every aspect of their life, and now I get to be a part of people’s journeys as a coach. I am a firm believer that CrossFit is for everybody, no matter your current fitness level or knowledge of the sport, I love teaching people new skills and watching them grow and develop as an athlete, celebrating the small wins and big achievements while doing so.
Diwas
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1 Trainer) & Powerlifting Coach
Growing up, I have always loved sports. Anything I could play I was playing, I was in almost every school sports team! I also played club football and rugby alongside so you could say I have always been interested in physical fitness! Eventually because of this, I started taking an interest in the gym when I turned 16; your typical bodybuilding business because we all want big arms at 16 (I guess even now) believe it or not!
After this I went on to study physical education at A levels, which peaked my interests in the science behind sports and the human body. The natural progression was to go on and study sports science at university which furthered my knowledge into what it takes to be a better performer in sports! I then took this one step further and completed a masters in strength and conditioning in 2018 which was all based around how to make an athlete stronger, fitter and faster for their chosen sport. This was how I got into coaching, I started off and coached sports such as sailing, netball, rugby and then I specialised into powerlifting. This is where the bulk of my coaching experience lies in and that’s actually how I got into a coaching role here at CrossFit Freesol! I have been running a powerlifting coaching business since 2018 and have coached multiple athletes to international titles.
I started my CrossFit journey shortly after the lockdown was over. I felt super unfit and wanted to change gyms, this is when I found CrossFit freesol with Kieron! I did a taster class with Tim and that was when I was hooked and signed into CrossFit. Challenging myself with a metcon was such a change of pace, I felt so terrible during and after that I thought I definitely need to do more of this! So after sinking myself in the CrossFit world for a year I got the opportunity to do a CrossFit level 1, being a coach already I was quite interested in the way CrossFit do things so this was an eye opener.
I am 1 year in and am definitely going to be doing this a lot longer. Looking forward to coaching and workout out with all of you!
Darcey
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1 Trainer)
Growing up I was very active. I threw myself into most after school clubs and sports which I found much easier and fun than the academic side of school! After my A levels I went on to achieve a Bsc (hons) in Sports Therapy at Hartpury University. While at university, I found myself immersed in a very heavy student-athlete culture. I soon took up rowing and became part of the Great Britain START team. This meant swapping out my regular, relatively chill gym time for 15-18 training sessions per week, working with a full time Strength and Conditioning Coach, a nutritionist, a sports psychologist, and a physiotherapist. Things had gotten serious! Rowing quickly became the centre of my world and lie-ins were no longer an option! However, after years of training camps, regattas and very very early mornings, I suffered a bulged disc in my lumbar spine. This meant full time rowing was off the cards.
I decided to invest this new found time into my career in Sports Therapy. Since then, I have been lucky enough to travel all around the world to different sporting events and work for some sports teams and organizations like London Irish FC and Chelsea FC. I even got to work on the Tour De France in 2022. I have worked alongside some of the top professionals in their respective fields and I absolutely love my job. But there was always something missing from my life after I stopped rowing. I still kept active but had totally fallen out of love with training.
Last October I came to CrossFit Freesol to give a Mobility and Injury Prevention workshop. The Owner and General Manager, Tim persuaded me to come for a training session at the box and I never looked back. CrossFit has made me fall in love with training all over again. The community is similar to what I experienced on my rowing team, everyone always cheering each other on, and it is something I feel really proud to be a part of.
When Tim and Cara invited me to complete my CrossFit Level One Trainer’s Course and offered me the opportunity to join the Freesol Coaching Team, it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. I bring my both my experience as a competitive athlete and as a Sports Therapist to my coaching in the box. I’m really excited to work with all of you and to help guide you on your health and fitness journey!
Carmen
Yoga Teacher
I encountered yoga several times over the years, but I thought it wasn’t for me: too slow, too boring. It wasn’t until 2012 when I moved to Shanghai that my true love for yoga began. Trying to get fit again after four pregnancies, I had taken up running, but this led to a persistent knee injury. I was also feeling anxious a lot of the time. For both reasons and after reading about the benefits of yoga, I decided to give it another try.
To my surprise, the classes were physically demanding, but somehow, I felt very peaceful at the end, every single time. When I first saw my teacher perform a headstand I was inspired. Despite being the inflexible yogi in the room, I persisted with my practice, later completing four teacher training courses. I am fortunate to have trained both with an American teacher with a Western perspective and with an Indian master with a very traditional and hard-core approach.
Yoga benefits all aspects of my life: the physical practice fills me with energy, while the breathing and philosophy make me more mindful, peaceful, and joyful. I love the changing pace and movement, the sense of play as you flow into positions that you didn’t think possible, the grounded feeling as you use the anchoring power of the breath, the experience of the body becoming lighter and softer as your strength, flexibility and mobility improve, and the mental toughness and awareness that the practice as a whole brings.
