About Andy Martin
Andy Martin
CHRYSALIS PERFORMANCE
He was part of the 1 PARA boxing team and won the army team championship in 1999/2000 season, he also boxed in the army individual competition and was a finalist 2 years in a row.
From 2005 until 2007 he was a section commander and instructor at the Parachute Regiment training company in Catterick, during which time he guided, mentored, and trained Parachute Regiment recruits through the hardest training in the British army, including the famous selection process known as “P Company”. This was when Andy come into his own as an instructor and he discovered a passion for passing on his experience and watching his recruits succeed. Also during those 2 years he spent time at the Infantry Battle School in Brecon as a tactics instructor.
Andy left the PARA’s in 2011 and spent a year teaching Adventure Training in New Quay, before becoming a bodyguard and team leader in Baghdad Iraq.
He repeated this feat in 2019. He has also ran ultra-marathons including the Classic Quarter in Cornwall and the KAEM a self-supported multi stage ultra covering 250km in 7 days across the Kalahari Desert.
In 2017, while still in Baghdad Andy retrained as a personal trainer harnessing his passion for fitness and began helping is distance clients increase their fitness to achieve their goals. Since then Andy has helped his clients compete at 3km and 5km canicross, half and full marathons, ultra-marathons and Triathlons.
Andy believes that fitness is a multi-faceted thing, with nutrition, mental health and training all playing a significant role. He has an intimate knowledge of mental health and how fitness plays its part in mental wellbeing. He is also a Nutrition and weight management advisor so understands how all three of these elements interact with each other and can be manipulated to help you attain your goal and surpass you expectations.
