Rachel Holmes

After qualifying to teach exercise to music classes Rachel has embarked upon a wide and varied career in fitness. She currently is one of the UK's leading Instructor trainers and is nationally recognised as a pioneer of new fitness concepts and ideas. Rachel travels extensively holding masterclasses, workshops and training courses for Group Exercise Instructors, Personal Trainers and Business Owner as well as still holding her local community based classes Monday to Thursday. A long teaching career spanning almost 2 decades Rachel has been a Nike Athlete, A Red Bull ambassador and a role model and leader for many aspiring Instructors everywhere. Her energy, enthusiasm and down to earth approach in dealing with people is second to none and she will continue to inspire and excite Instructors and the general public alike to move forward within the health and fitness industry.

Creator of the Choreographytogo website, which is a site for Instructors to gain new moves, class ideas and fitness business news, Rachel pioneered the trend in offering choreography downloads on the site for Instructors to gain the latest trends as quickly as possible. The site now has a global membership of over 15,000 Instructors.

Rachel presents sessions and training courses at all the major UK Fitness Conventions including: FITPRO, Pure Energy and is currently sponsored by Fitness Professionals. She designed and created the Fitness Pilates Training course In which she has taught over a 3000 Instructors the Fitness Pilates method of training. Rachel teaches her Instructor training workshops nation-wide and has created many popular class programmes and choreography that are taught in thousands of gyms and health clubs everywhere. She is recognised as one of the UK's most creative and successful female teacher trainers. A regular contributor to the FitPro magazine Rachel has also produced and featured in 20 Fitness videos and has collaborated on best selling music CDs and interactive CD-Roms.

On a local level Rachel teaches a wide variety of workouts in Ripley, Ilkeston, Long Eaton and Langley Mill. Classes range from Fitness Pilates, Fitness Pole Dancing, Street Dance, Salsa, Fitness Hula Hooping to the more traditional Step, Aerobics and Body Conditioning. These classes are open to all, whatever the level of fitness and are held in community venues enabling everyone to attend and experience these fantastic health and fitness sessions. Rachel employs the latest fitness trends in all her classes and a warm welcome and high standard of customer service awaits everyone who attends. There is no membership costs just pay as you go. Rachel also teaches in Virgin Active, David Lloyd Health Clubs in Nottingham and Derby.

Rachel is currently running a highly successful children's fitness programme with the local Partnership Development Manger with schools in Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Her 6 week block of classes which include Bollywood, Salsa, Combat, Street Dance, Circuits, Yoga & Pilates are being enjoyed by hundreds of children in an attempt to encourage children in school to exercise and enjoy fitness for life. This program is now being rolled out nationally after Rachel has trained 1000 Instructors to deliver her Group X for Generation Y in schools all over the UK.