Umesh

What is your sports background and what is your specialty within the field of movement? 

I have been active in sport my whole life and since the age of 11 I have played top-division basketball. I come from a sporting family: my mother is a yoga teacher, my brother dances with the National Ballet and my sister competed in dance. My specialty within movement is a combination of strength, explosiveness and functional movement. I am currently in my third year at the Academy for Physical Education, a higher vocational degree programme to become a first-grade PE teacher.

What can people expect from you as a trainer?

People often think they cannot do things — I try to turn this mindset around and ensure that participants are challenged as much as possible at their own level. It’s you versus you.

What can you teach people?

I teach people to recognise their own limits — both physically and mentally — and to push beyond them. In addition, I can give people an anatomical explanation of the exercises. 

UMESH