Ben Schwartz - Founder
Ben opened Schwartz’s Personal training in July 2000, the same year he earned his Bachelor of Business (Management) degree.
In 2006, Schwartz’s Personal Training became affiliated with the world renowned Crossfit Organisation based in the US. Thus Schwartz’s Personal Training then became Schwartz’s Crossfit Melbourne.
Ben has been a competitive and committed athlete most of his life. Competing in such sports as football, athletics, martial arts and body-building were he won Teenage Mr. Melbourne in 1994, at the tender age of 16. Which was before he found the light “CROSSFIT”.
Martial arts have always been a particular passion for Ben and he has trained in many of its disciplines, particularly kickboxing/boxing and Brazilian Ju-jitsu. Brazilian Ju-jitsu, now consumes most of Ben’s martial arts training and he has competed several times at MG tournaments were he has placed as high as second place.
Ben is highly qualified in the theory as well as the practice of fitness.
- Cert 3 and 4 Qualified
- Crossfit Certified
- Crossfit Affiliated
- Certified Kettlebell Instructor
- Crossfit Running Certification
- First Aid Level 2
A big believer in continuous training, Ben travels around the world in order to update his qualifications. He has completed numerous courses and workshops.
Fitness Philosophy
Anyone who trained with or been trained by Ben knows how completely committed he is to fitness, it’s not just his hobby, but truly his way of life and he brings enormous enthusiasm, passion and encouragement to every single training session.
He believes scales and measuring tapes are a waste of time. Instead concentrate on achieving more in your max set of push-ups, chin-ups a faster 2k row, a better Diane or Fran time.
Train to get better and you’ll look and feel great plus reach your peak performance levels, levels that you wouldn’t believe possible before walking in our doors.