Meet the Team
Steve and Adrienne took over as co-owners of INNERGYM in February 2008 and have totally transformed the business with new ideas, new classes and the latest new equipment. Between them Adrienne and Steve have complementary skills on the gym floor. Steve has a real understanding of core work, balancing and fitball, whilst Adrienne particularly enjoys weight training – and with a mutual love of running, cycling and swimming they make up a partnership which offers a less intimidating and more realistic approach to the business of fitness.
At INNERGYM we don't deal in stereotypes. With most personal trainers barely out of their teens, Steve and Adrienne are proud to have hit a century between them, and firmly believe this gives them a real edge when it comes to understanding clients' needs. After seeing the benefits of personal training for themselves they both left earlier careers to train as Personal Trainers and pass on the very real health advantages they themselves experienced.
Adrienne and Steve met when they were both Personal Trainers at Esporta. Steve said, 'We were really enjoying our day to day work in the gym, but felt that we wanted to offer people a more bespoke service with specialised equipment and a unique environment. We were very excited when the opportunity to take over INNERGYM arose and we relish offering our customers the motivation, advice and encouragement to help them reach their fitness goals with a different and fresh approach.
Adrienne Barnes
Adrienne, 48, was originally a company director working in the construction industry. When she left to start a family, what had always been a weight problem became serious and she joined the one in five of the population defined as clinically obese.
'This was really scary and I knew I couldn't fight the problem on my own. I dropped the fad diets and started eating healthily and going to the gym,' said Adrienne.' This made me feel a lot better, but didn't have the immediate effects that I had hoped for. I started to use a Personal Trainer and began to see benefits immediately . By the end of the first course I was hooked, and by the end of the second course I had discovered a new career!'
That new career really blossomed and led Adrienne to fulfil her lifetime ambition of owning her own business.
Steve Allsop
Steve, 52, began his involvement in fitness nine years ago after a heart attack forced him to reassess his life. He joined a large gym but felt that his individual circumstances did not suit the 'one size fits all' approach of most gym membership. After using a Personal Trainer he discovered how much more effective his workouts became and he lost three stone.
'People often have the impression that you need to be young and fit to exercise - which is so wrong.' says Steve. 'With my background I became convinced that a programme of personal training could quite literally give you a new lease of life and now I can use my own personal experiences to design programmes that really work – and don't frighten the life out of the client!'
Steve became so convinced that he had something unique to offer that he left his previous high pressure car sales role to qualify as a Personal Trainer and then in February 2008 set up INNERGYM with Adrienne.
