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The people behind Jolly Fitness:

Jolly Fitness is owned, managed and operated by leading professional sportsmen with a wealth of knowledge, experience and motivating tools to help you to make better lifestyle choices and inspire you to achieve all your goals in life.

Like many of the best sites available, our programmes are fully supported by leading industry experts with all relevant qualifications and accreditations.

Joe Shaw plays professional rugby at Newcastle Falcons and he has also played at England A level.

Joe was born in the midlands and came to Newcastle Falcons from Northampton Saints back in 2002 and he soon won the hearts of the loyal Falcons supporters.

Joe has won the Newcastle Falcons Community Player of the Season award for the last five seasons for his hard work and dedication working with local clubs and schools and this season he was also awarded with the Premiership Rugby Community Player of the Season award in recognition of his hard work.

Joe was also invited to No 10 Downing Street earlier in the summer where he was inducted into the Show Racism the Red Card’s Hall of Fame – the first rugby player to be awarded this accolade. Everyone responds to Joe’s zest for life and his overall positive attitude, and this is reflected throughout our site.

Ollie Phillips plays professional rugby at Newcastle Falcons and he also features regularly in the England Rugby Sevens team.

Ollie captained and guided the Newcastle Falcons to victory in the illustrious annual Middlesex Sevens rugby competition for first time in 2007.

Ollie recognises that fitness and wellbeing are lifestyle choices and little motivated steps lead to positive change. He also believes a holistic approach is the way forward, looking at how we think, how we achieve our goals and aspirations.

As an elite athlete Ollie has always been passionate about the benefits of healthy living and exercise; he realised that there is a lot of confusion as to how often people should exercise and what kind of programme they should follow.

Add to this the fact that there aren’t many of us who can afford a personal trainer, hence the birth of Jolly Fitness. Ollie and Joe are aware that there are many of us who cannot afford the constraints of a gym membership of the services of a personal trainer so their aim is to make the same level of fitness and nutritional advice they have access to as professional sports people easily accessible to everyone.

Last summer Ollie and Joe attended the world-famous IDEA annual fitness convention in the USA where they met with personal trainers, specialist fitness consultants, gym owners and representatives from health organisations which helped them gain an even greater knowledge of best health, fitness and exercise practices. They returned to the UK eager to share what they have learned with as many people as then can.

Neither Joe nor Ollie are the type of people to rest on their laurels and they are keen to further develop their fitness knowledge even further and they will be embarking on another development programme in the new year.

For the past year Ollie and Joe have been training a small group of people and all of them speak about Ollie and Joe’s enthusiasm and how they keep them motivated and ready for more – even turning up to training on those dark, cold winter mornings!

"Having coached these two lads over the last six years I have formed a deeply held belief that whatever they give attention to in their business live and in their lives in general will prove to be successful. They bring with them a competitive spirit from the world of professional sport which will underwrite their quest to provide the best possible information and guidance to the users of Jolly Fitness.

I am proud to support them in any way I can to this end."

Steve Black

Our advisor and mentor, Steve Black, has a well-earned reputation across the world of sport having coached with teams such as the Welsh National Rugby side, the British and Irish Lions, Newcastle Falcons RFC, Newcastle United, Sunderland FC, Fulham FC and Norwich City and with individuals of the calibre of Jonny Wilkinson, Rob Andrew, Kevin Keegan, Glen McCrory, Paul Bracewell, Peter Reid, Paul Gascoigne and the current All Black coach Graham Henry.

In the health-related fitness world Blackie, as he’s universally known, held a senior managerial position with the YMCA as well as leading the Fitness Forum for the YMCA Pathway, a brainstorming body that focused on increasing the standards of recreational leisure and exercise within the YMCA. He’s also owned and managed leisure clubs and lectured extensively on the subject over the last thirty years.

Blackie has studied and worked all over the world; North and South America, Australia, Europe, Africa and the Middle-East have all hosted his talents.