Dr. Matt Walley
Head of Personal Training & Founder
Matt is on the gym floor most weekdays. He tends to work best with members who are training around an injury, coming back after a long stretch off, or trying to hold strength and lean mass while their life gets more demanding. The training background is a mix of formal and applied: sports science papers alongside a psychology major at Canterbury, a doctorate whose advanced research methods component is what lets him read primary literature and tell a real training effect from a marketing claim, a 2nd Dan black belt in Zen Do Kai as a registered Bob Jones Martial Arts instructor, and two years owning an F45 studio and territory in the Selwyn District. Roughly 1,380 client programmes have run through that since. He also co-founded Inception Nutrition and Inception Labs, so the food and supplement side is never an afterthought when he is in your corner. The conversation still usually starts with what your week actually looks like and what you have tried before.
Specialties
Qualifications
- PhD, University of CanterburyAdvanced research methods: designing and appraising studies, which is how training and nutrition claims get checked against primary literature here
- M.Com (Organisational Psychology), University of Canterbury
- B.Com (Hons), University of Canterbury
- B.Sc (Psychology), University of CanterburySports science papers taken alongside the psychology major
- 2nd Dan black belt, Zen Do Kai, Bob Jones Martial ArtsRegistered instructor. Significant calisthenics and bodyweight strength content
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