Meet The Team
Marc Kent – Owner & Director of Training
Marc Kent is a qualified Sports Therapist and advanced Personal Trainer with a Masters in Personal Training. He runs a training facility in Barnstaple, North Devon, UK, where he coaches clients on a one-to-one, group training and bootcamp basis. Originally from Carlisle, Marc moved to North Devon whilst serving as a Royal Marines Commando.
Marc has trained athletically and played sports since he was a child. At school, he started his own football team and played hockey. However, he always wanted to race motorbikes competitively and did this for two years. He then decided that his fitness goals needed a tougher target and joined the Royal Marines in 2001. His goal was to enjoy the challenge of pushing his fitness to the limit and seeing how much his body could adapt to. Training to become a Royal Marines Commando is the hardest basic military training in the World which culminates with the Commando tests. The Commando tests consist of the Tarzan Assault Course, a 9 mile Speed March, a 6 mile Endurance Course and finish with a 30 mile march across Dartmoor. Upon successful completion of the tests recruits earn the coveted Green Beret. However while serving as a Royal Marines Commando, Marc sustained an injury which eventually resulted in him no longer being able to take part in long endurance runs or high-impact exercise.
Despite this limitation, Marc was determined to find a way to remain as fit as he’d been in the Marines. After 7 years in the forces, he left and decided to train to become a PT. He’d always been the person his friends and family turned to for fitness, training and nutrition advice, and wanted to be qualified to give the best advice possible.
Marc had to develop a way to keep very fit without leaning on long cardio sessions. He began to put together his signature programmes incorporating metabolic conditioning using kettlebells, sprint work, body weight exercises and high intensity training.
Marc qualified as a Personal Trainer in 2008 and went on to complete a Masters in Personal Training. Further to that, he studied advanced Sports Therapy, gaining a distinction, as well as a Level 4 Kinetic Chain Assessment Specialist. Not one to rest on his laurels, Marc continues to invest in his education and travels the world to learn from the best minds in the industry to ensure he remains at the cutting edge of the field. He opened his personal training studio in Barnstaple, North Devon in 2009, offering bootcamps, one-to-one and semi-private training, sports therapy, rehabilitation and massage.
Most of Marc’s clients approach him wanting fat-loss, which his system delivers, but Marc sees a lot of postural problems brought about by sedentary working. All of his programmes are developed to improve posture by using corrective exercise strategies using free weights and body weight exercises in a functional way and deliver incredible fat loss results. On average Marc’s clients lose between 35lbs and 56lbs within 4 months of coaching on his programs!
Marc’s philosophy to fitness and life is “train hard, eat smart”, meaning train as hard as you can using the right training plan while eating foods as close to their natural state 90% of the time. He feels people should live for now but keep fit for the future. His ultimate goal is to be a fitness consultant and mentor for other personal trainers.
Marc is married to Kerry.
Please don’t hesitate to contact Marc with any questions queries.
