biography

JOHN TILDEN

An International personal fitness trainer and author based in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, John owned and operated the Paddington personal training studio in Sydney for 11 years and closed in 2007 to train International business people in the U.S, across Australia and in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics.

His clients include International sports people, doctors and professors, business men and women, athletes, mums and dads, and people with severe disabilities.

His first book of exercises and training techniques for confined to chair disabilities; released in 1995; is used in hospitals and universities and by other professional organisations in Australia, the USA, the UK, and New Zealand.

John has created Powerbow; exercises and equipment for specific sport and train at home use. Powerbow has endorsements from Rugby Australia, and is used by professional sports instructors Internationally.

He has also developed a software program and book of workplace stress management techniques endorsed by University trials.

John has trained thousands of people over the past 15 years in locations as diverse as his business training on a yacht in the Mediterranean to ski conditioning in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. He has spoken on the subjects of specific training, stress management, special populations training and health for organizations in Australia, the US, and New Zealand.