CONNOR O'BRIEN
I established Absolute Body Solutions at the age of 16 in a shed in my parents garden, where I trained a small group of family and friends.
My passion for training and the gym started with a background in boxing, competing at national level as an amateur.
I travelled the world, seeking out the world’s experts in strength & conditioning and personal training. I did this in tandem with honing my craft at home, training my clients in the garden shed. I took all that I learnt and put that into practice and used it to devise the ABS systems which are in place to this day, though of course I’m continuing to learn to constantly improve the programmes we offer.
Owning and running Absolute Body Solutions is my entire life, and I love it, from working with a fantastic team to helping our clients reach their goals.
I look forward to our continued growth across the UK.
GROWING ABS
Over the past 10 years I have worked tirelessly to grow ABS from a local back garden PT service to a three-gym chain that is recognised around the North West for providing the absolute best in personal training services. And we’re not stopping there.
The journey to now has included accruing over 10 years’ experience on the gym floor, personally delivering over 20,000 personal training sessions. In some weeks that equated to over 70 sessions to keep up with demand.
Our first expansion to a fully equipped gym facility came in South Liverpool in 2013.
My wife qualified to become a personal trainer and joined me on the team. This partnership allowed us to develop the gym and grow our client base. Soon we had a team of PTs working hard to develop the reputation of the company for delivering outstanding results.
As our reputation grew, we opened a premium gym space in Liverpool city centre in January 2017.
Located in the heart of Liverpool’s business district, this was our biggest expansion and risk. The gym proved an instant hit and we have grown our presence there ever since, with more trainers and back-room staff who were just as essential to our success.
At the end of 2018, we opened a state-of-the-art facility in Manchester. Close to Deansgate and Spinningfields, the gym offers premium facilities, and we have an incredible team making a huge impact on the city.
In 2019, we were voted the ‘Best Fitness Venue’ at the Manchester Awards, which was a huge achievement as we had not even been open for a full year.
2023 will see our first gym open outside of the North West. Leeds city centre will be added to our family of gym locations as it becomes our fourth gym. We will open in the hear of the city on East Parade and we cannot wait to work with clients from all over West Yorkshire and help them to realise their goals and achieve life changing results.
All of our gyms continue to provide the highest standard of service, and I am so proud at the way the company has managed to expand.
VISION FOR THE FUTURE
My focus now is working with our trainers to develop their skills further, as well as looking to improve our standards of service across the company. This is a job that should never end.
Every week at ABS there is a big focus on education and improvement. Each gym has a manager who leads a weekly education session in which all trainers are brought up to speed on the latest techniques in training, customer service and ABS methods.
I have also just led a company-wide consultation to develop and hone our company ethos and vision so the whole company is working towards a written set of aims and goals.
A big part of this is to make personal training a recognised professional service.
I want to do this because our trainers work with a wide variety of clients with all kinds of different needs and aims. Some have long-term medical conditions or physical issues which require our trainers to adapt and tailor their training and nutrition to suit their needs. In many cases, our trainers have been able to help aid their clients’ physical and medical conditions through the work they do in their sessions and this should be recognised as a professional service in the fitness world.
Beyond this, we are excited to be looking at further expansion around the North West and the UK.
WHY ABS?
Our clients come before everything else. We offer a bespoke approach, with no off-the-shelf plans or nutrition guides. We take each client’s goals, fitness levels and lifestyle into account when developing an approach that will work for them.
We train a wide variety of clients and we work hard to create a positive, supportive, and non-judgmental atmosphere across all our gym floors.
We want our clients to look forward to coming to the gym to train with us.
OUR RESULTS
We are so proud of the incredible results our clients achieve on our programmes.
Our programmes and training is designed to get the very best out of you and we are with you every step of the way, keeping you on track to your goals.
See more examples of the results our clients have achieved by clicking here.
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