Duncan Vincent

My name is Duncan,

Welcome, and I hope you are having a good day 😊

So….  I am a little bit shy when it comes to self promoting and so I thought I would just be honest with you and share my journey to where I am today….

I have been a huge lover of sport and keeping active my whole life, I was never indoors as a kid and always had to be pretty much dragged home when it was dark for tea. With my sport I became quite good at football and played semi pro in the UK & New Zealand (that story for another day)… it is also the reason I really have to work on my ankle and foot mobility as I have smashed them up a few hundred times…

With this love of sport I decided after school to go to Uni and study sports science. I was 18 and had led a bit of a sheltered life.. I was too busy still climbing trees and playing football…. Anyway, I ended up with a HND in sports science.

When it came to getting a job and earning money I found work in the local gym handing out towels, but I got fed up of scrubbing changing room floors…which is not what I expected after uni, and so I decided to became a personal trainer.

Fast forward about 10 years and I had not really got anywhere, I had travelled Europe, Australia and lived in New Zealand... but I wanted more…

So I went back to Uni and qualified with a 1^st Degree in Sports science & professional football coaching (best in class as well 😊). This set me up with my degree and football coaching qualifications.

My first job was working with Crystal Palace FC in the academy where I was responsible for making sure the players where exercising in a way that kept their mobility, built their strength, power and cardiovascular fitness… We worked on balance and coordination daily through warm ups, gym sessions and recovery sessions.

I loved it AND I also got to play football every day 😊

Then…. Life has a good way of pushing you on, and I was approached by a friend to go for an interview at a company called Matt Roberts (who runs private personal training studios in Mayfair etc) I went and was offered a position as a trainer for them, working with Matt himself to start up and open the fitness offering in a women’s only members club in Belgravia.

It turned out that the club called Grace Belgravia, was also being headed up by Dr Tim Evans who is a lovely man and also was the Queens doctor (I saw him regularly walking to the Palace to go see her majesty…).

I was in this most beautiful environment and after one year of being a trainer there an opportunity came up and I was asked to become the manager of the gym (whilst still training clients). It was amazing!!

This is where I get to name drop a little… I trained so many inspiring women who are super successful and who I am still friends with to this day… One of my favourite people in the world is “Madame G”… Madame Genta who is the ambassador of Monaco will message and ask after me and my boys…

I had Princess Eugenie coming to my boxing classes (I once gave her a high 5 in the Waitrose when I saw her after class… her body guard was not happy ha ha), I trained Elle Macpherson for 12 weeks before she moved back to Miami.. she needed her beach body to be spot on… (my wife is not a fan of hers haha), I trained Meghan Markel for about a year before she met Harry.  Then Liz Hurly was also in the gym, I did her fitness test ha ha…. I could go on…

Right, I am moving on from that bit as it really is not me….

After 6 years of Grace I ended up training people in private homes around Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Hyde Park, it was great fun and I got to ride my bike everyday around London.

Life then had another way of pushing me forward…. Myself and Becks (my beautiful wife) had Teddy come into our lives and then 4 months later.. Lockdown!!!

I was newly self-employed and so I had to make sure and keep a roof over our heads by taking my training online.

I have not really looked back and since the start of lockdown I have been teaching classes online that I believe have really pushed up my skills in teaching people how to move and perform exercises correctly though my descriptions.

I really focus on every component and movement to make sure everyone can understand. It’s a bit different to being in person and having the opportunity to adjust technique hands on.

I believe that with the physical aspect of my training there are 4 main focus points:

Balance, Mobility, Strength, and Performance

I won’t go into detail here but you can find out more in my Fit For Life section which is there to help support your fitness lifestyle.

If you have got this far though my ramblings, I thank you, as I say it is not my strong point but I also feel you might want to hear about me as a person. 😊

Guys thank you all for reading about me 😊

Duncan