David Sisk Fitness- Personal Training

Our Personal Trainers at David Sisk Fitness Cork help those of all ages & shapes to reach their personal training & fitness needs. 90k sessions in 20 years.

Personal Training packages designed specifically for your needs and abilities. Whether it’s losing weight, gaining muscle, increasing fitness, dealing with back and shoulder pain – we give personal attention from very experienced professionals to help you reach and surpass your goals. 

We are primarily a personal training studio in Cork but we have a selection of fantastic group fitness classes that our clients or the public can avail of. Our classes are small which we believe is better for the customer. In very large classes techniques are hard to see for the trainer but with our small classes there’s nowhere to hide! Try our Spinning, Circuits and ViPr classes, for example, and you’ll see the benefit of small groups.

We only use training methods based on science. Our primary methods are based around one of the world’s leading institutes, The National Academy of Sports Medicine. We add our own science from Master’s Degrees to Personal Training certifications along with knowledge from over 75 years combined experience and over 125,000 personal training sessions in our Rochestown studio.

Nutrition is key to goals. Yes, if a person is very obese and starts exercise they typically will drop weight without changing food. Many believe – mostly through the media – that they are eating correctly for their goals but this is simply not the case. Our certified trainers are also certified nutritionists and coaches. They have goals as well: to facilitate you in reaching your goals. How can we help you today? What can we do for you?

All our trainers are fully qualified personal trainers and have many years of experience in professional training. You can read more about our personal trainers here.

Owner David Sisk has a degree in Psychology from UCD specialising in Sports Psychology, a Graduate Diploma Smurfit Graduate Business School, a Masters of Science in Sport and is a certified personal trainer.

Head trainer and nutritionist Vilma has a bachelors Degree in Sports Science, is a certified personal trainer, a certified exercise nutritionist and coach, and a certified group trainer in kettlebells, Spin, Vipr, and TRX.

Contact us today to book your initial Physical Readiness Profiling appointment. Our professional personal trainers will evaluate your abilities and lifestyle and then work with you to design a training plan that will allow you to start reaching for attainable goals. Talk to us now to start changing your world.

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Absolutely. There is no better way to do it through a combination of nutrition and resistance training is the best way. Bar none and they’re someone to motivate you.

There are many reasons. They could be as simple as weight loss or weight gain, or it could be to combat age. It can be for rehabilitation from injury. It could be prehabilitation which prevents injury, especially for people as they get older. It can be for increasing their stabilization strength and core strength.

It depends on what you classify as need because you know you don’t need a car, but it makes life a hell of a lot easier if you have to go from here to Dublin. Without public transport or a car. That’s how much you need a personal trainer, it’s, it’s what you want to do, it’s where you want to be. And so I would say you need a personal trainer if you want to get the best results for your time and money.

They can be, if you go to the wrong personal trainer, and also the fact that many places advertise Personal Training, when in fact they aren’t actually doing Personal Training, they’re doing small group training where different people have different abilities and capabilities. And that was where “Personal Training”  can be a waste of money.

While it’s not that actually important how many calories you burn it’s the after effects that have the really good benefits. So you get your muscle growth, but you also boost your metabolism, for a number of hours up to 10 hours after you do a personal training session with resistance whereas with cardio say you go for a run it’s not going to have any effect on your metabolism once you’ve finished that sun.