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Our Personal Trainers
Damien Skinner
Wellington - Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Damien combines a Bachelor of Sport & Exercise (Exercise Prescription) from Massey University and hands-on experience across both high-performance sport and clinical rehab.<br /> Having worked in a professional football environment alongside a clinical Exercise Physiologist, Damien specialises in helping people move better, recover from injury, and return to performance with confidence. His approach focuses on functional strength, injury prevention, and long-term progression, not just quick fixes.
Riley Henley
Wellington - Running Coach & Physiotherapist (Running, Strength & Conditioning)
With a Bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy from the University of Otago and a deep passion for health and wellbeing, Riley is dedicated to helping you cultivate a positive relationship with exercise. Drawing from his extensive sporting experience, he believes that training is about more than just gym sessions, it’s a holistic journey. Riley’s expertise in Physiotherapy equips him with an in-depth understanding of the human body, allowing him to support you in rehabilitation, injury prevention, and high-performance training. As an avid runner and marathon finisher, he inspires others to embrace the joy of movement.
Ash Prevost
Wellington - Club Trainer (Hybrid Athlete; Strength & Conditioning)
Throughout his 17+ years of international industry experience, Ash has attained three globally respected qualifications through the American Council on Exercise (Personal Fitness Trainer, Sports Conditioning Specialist & Fitness Nutrition Specialist). Ash caters to people from all walks of life across a multitude of experience in commercial fitness and other exercise environments. This experience has afforded Ash a wealth of knowledge and profound understanding of the health & fitness industry. Ash is a dynamic and highly skilled professional, attuned and insightful in his understanding of individual goals. In the last few Ash shifted gears as into being a hybrid elite athlete (performance-based, sports-specific training) He endeavours to constantly push the realms of his abilities as a testament to his progressive training style. With a solid foundation in anatomy, biomechanics and musculoskeletal injuries, he is now adding strength & conditioning and health coaching to his skillset.
Ruby Talley
Wellington - Neuro Coach Wellington
Ruby’s vision for her clients is to encourage them to find happiness and health through movement. Her style of training supports all aspects of well-being and works to ensure it’s the right balance between challenge and joy. With her Level 4 and 5 PT qualification, Ruby is eager to give back to the HealthFit community with fun, personalised sessions, created to make you fall in love with health and wellness. Ruby originally comes from a boxing background. She offers boxing sessions that cater to everyone based on their goals. This could be a fun, cardio-based hit-out, or a more technical, skill-based session. Ruby brings huge amounts of energy and excitement to all of her classes and sessions. Regardless of your goals, she will make it her mission to get you there.
Josh Salter
Greytown - Strength and Conditioning and Run Coach
Josh has had an extensive background in sport and endurance events and loves experimenting with moving well and feeling great. He is constantly challenging himself to run both marathon and ultra-marathon distances. Josh also has a history of cheffing that led to a journey of discovery towards greater health and wellbeing. Josh is fully committed to health and fitness where he can guide you and find out what makes you tick. He’ll get you there, and beyond, in the best way possible.
Neddie Kerrison
Greytown - Strength and Conditioning
With over 20 years of dance and fitness industry experience, Neddie is passionate about helping people to realise their potential, move better and feel better. Neddie has previously owned and operated her own dance company where she developed aspiring novice dancers through to experienced movers. She was able to help them embrace and grow their passion through movement - and now uses this same passion in the fitness industry. Neddie likes to incorporate a blend of strength and conditioning training methods and movement skills to help people achieve their goals. She makes exercise fun and achievable for any age and ability!
Michael Fairless
Wellington - Strength and Conditioning
Michael’s training style is centred around creating life balance. He works to tailor your training to fit with your lifestyle needs. Michael also specialises in Box Fit from beginner skills to more advanced combinations and technique-based skill sets. His sessions have a strong recovery focus having studied Massage Therapy, therefore smart training and body recovery is a large part of his philosophy.
George Wilesmith
Wellington - Personal Training
George is passionate and strongly dedicated to helping his clients reach their health and fitness goals! George qualified as a Personal Trainer to help others on their own health and wellness journey. He is also an experienced run coach having competed in a Half Iron Man, Xterra races, and many ultra marathons. If you need help training, recovering from an injury, or just need a hand with rest, George is here to help.
HealthFit Team
Our Directors
Mish McCormack
Director - Wellington and Greytown
Mish has been awarded ‘New Zealand Personal Trainer of the Year’ four times by Exercise New Zealand and ‘World’s Top Ten Personal Trainers to Watch’ by Lifefitness in England in 2013. While she still manages a small number of referrals, Mish ensures the workplace is engaged and integrates herself fully within our services while also balancing life as a busy mum of two.
Carl Hammington
Director
Carl’s mission is to guide the individual to be happy and healthy. He delivers his service in a playful way to help guide his clients on a sustainable and enjoyable journey. He is a firm believer in living authentically, so you will see him self-experimenting in many ways to drive his evolution - mostly through countless failures!” He studied exercise science at university which sparked his learning within peripheral areas of psychology, nutrition, functional medicine, spirituality and much more.
Greig Rightford
Wellington and Greytown - Director
Greig has been in the industry since 2002 and was awarded ‘New Zealand Personal Trainer of the Year’ by Exercise New Zealand in 2013. His goal has always been to align health, wellbeing and physical resilience for people in all environments. Greig consults with organisations on health & wellness initiatives to develop forward-thinking & engaging strategies. He also enjoys working with a select number of clients in their personal health and fitness pursuits to help them to be the best version of themselves.

One of our senior trainers with over 15 years experience in the health and fitness industry screen and assess your main performance barriers.
We take the information from your assessment and, with your permission, we meet with our team to create the best path forward for you.
We work to decrease any chance of injury and utilise our services and classes to help get you the best results possible.
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client testimonials
Experienced Trainers
"Great atmosphere, very experienced and capable trainers, without question the best gym I have attended."
Jonathan Pereira
Great Team
"It's a great, safe team to work with and I highly recommend placing yourself in their hands if you want to improve your health and wellbeing."
Wendy Mouldey
The Best Gym
"Just awesome! Great people, relaxed atmosphere and the best gym and training anyone could want!"