Alessandro Villadoro
Alessandro has coached for more than a decade, in Italy, Spain and Melbourne, and coaches in English, Italian and Spanish. He brings particular experience with older adults, complete beginners and people returning after years away, and with training around posture and old injuries alongside your physio or osteo.
How I coach
Trust first. I want to understand how you feel and meet you where you are before anything else. Then I watch how you move and how the weight feels to you, and I adjust: fewer cues, a simpler version, or a different exercise, without making it easy. I teach you what you’re working and why, so you can keep going without me. Motivation fades. A system and someone keeping you accountable don’t.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Sports Sciences, Physical Exercise and Human Health, Università degli Studi di Parma (2015), graduating 110/110
- Erasmus+ exchange, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, studied and assessed in Spanish
- Team leader at a mobile personal training business, Melbourne (five years): coaching in home and apartment gyms and parks, and mentoring new trainers
- Instructor in functional, postural and medical personal training, Italy (2018)
- Athletic preparation placement, Rugby Parma F.C. under-12s (2015); youth athletics coach, A.S.D. Atletica Padua RG, Ragusa
- At State of Fitness since February 2024
Brings particular experience in
- 1Older adults, from first-time gym members to people in their seventies and eighties
- 2Complete beginners, and people returning after years off, starting from the basics
- 3Posture, and training around knee and shoulder problems alongside your physio or osteo
My own sport
- Football to 16, then martial arts: Brazilian jiu-jitsu, MMA, combat sambo, kickboxing and boxing, competing locally
- Five years of CrossFit, competing locally
- Lifting since 16; now full-body training and, lately, running
Outside the studio
Time at home with his wife, and futsal with friends when he can.
The same model, whoever you train with
Every coach at State of Fitness has a university degree in exercise science, and between us we have more than 60 years of coaching. We all work from the same model. Your program is written for you, in four-week blocks, by the coach who trains you, and adjusted on the day. Short on sleep, stiff, sore, or a movement just isn’t there today? We change the session, not the appointment, and you keep moving. If you’re coming back from an injury, we train you within your physio’s or osteo’s plan and keep them in the loop. The whole coaching team reviews how members are tracking every Tuesday, a traffic-light system flags a niggle, a missed week or a stall before it becomes a problem, and our full-time admin team keeps the small things handled. We understand life gets in the way. If you can’t make it in, we’ll always do our best to reschedule and find you another session. Our coaches are employees, not contractors, and we run more than a hundred sessions a week, so there’s usually a way. Your program moves with you. Consistency is what gets results, and keeping you moving is the whole job.
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