Meet Our London Personal Trainers

Nick Mercer - Founder & Head Personal Trainer

Nick has worked in the health and fitness industry for more than 23 years and combines extensive practical experience with a Sports Science degree and qualifications through the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).

During his career he has delivered personal training around the world and worked with an exceptionally broad range of clients, including complete beginners, busy professionals, corporate clients, Premier League footballers and high-profile individuals.

Nick specialises in body transformation, strength and conditioning, muscle development, fat loss and improving overall fitness. His coaching combines traditional strength work, functional exercise, cardiovascular conditioning and higher-intensity training where appropriate.

His approach is deliberately individual. After more than two decades of coaching, Nick knows that getting results is not simply about making every session harder. It is about understanding the client, knowing when to push, when to adapt and how to create the consistency required for lasting progress.

As founder of Platinum Training, Nick remains closely involved in both client coaching and the day-to-day development of the team, helping maintain the standards of training and client care on which the business has been built.

Key areas: Body transformation, strength and conditioning, muscle development, fat loss and overall fitness.

Mike - Personal Trainer & Performance Coach

Mike brings more than 20 years of fitness-industry experience together with a strong competitive sporting background. He has worked with clients ranging from children and complete beginners through to experienced gym-goers and advanced athletes.

His principal specialisms are cardiovascular fitness, HIIT, strength and conditioning and performance-focused training. Sessions are structured around the client, with close attention to technique, progression and measurable improvements in physical performance.

Sport has been a major part of Mike's life. He competed internationally in rowing, representing his country and winning medals, and has also competed in long-distance road cycling. His background additionally includes football and coaching senior men's football at amateur Saturday-league level.

That competitive experience gives Mike a strong understanding of endurance, discipline and performance, while his breadth of coaching experience allows him to adapt the same principles for people at very different fitness levels.

Key areas: Cardiovascular fitness, HIIT, strength and conditioning and performance training.

Tegan - HYROX, Hybrid & Strength Personal Trainer

Tegan is a Level 3 qualified Personal Trainer with a Level 2 Fitness Coaching qualification and a particular passion for strength, running and hybrid fitness.

She specialises in strength training, muscle building, hybrid training, running and HYROX, creating programmes that can concentrate purely on strength and physique development or combine strength with endurance and conditioning.

Tegan has completed three HYROX events and is training towards her fourth. She has also completed a half marathon, giving her first-hand experience of building towards demanding fitness and endurance goals.

She particularly enjoys helping clients become stronger, fitter and more confident, whether they are entering the gym for the first time or working towards a specific event. Her sessions are progressive and challenging without losing the supportive and enjoyable side of training.

Key areas: HYROX, hybrid fitness, strength training, muscle building and running.

Lola - Women's Fitness, Pre & Postnatal Personal Trainer

Lola is a Level 4 qualified Personal Trainer specialising in women's fitness, including pre- and postnatal training and exercise through menopause.

She works with women at different stages of life and fitness, from those entering a gym for the first time to clients who want to become stronger, improve their fitness or train safely and effectively during pregnancy, after childbirth or through menopause.

Lola has a background in rowing and now particularly enjoys running and strength training. Her sporting experience has given her a strong appreciation of structured training, discipline and progressive goal setting.

Her sessions combine strength training, functional fitness and progressive programming, with a strong emphasis on technique and appropriate progression. She aims to make training welcoming rather than intimidating and to help clients become increasingly confident in what their bodies can do.

Key areas: Women's fitness, pre- and postnatal training, menopause, strength training and functional fitness.

Eva - Strength & Body Transformation Personal Trainer

Eva is a Level 4 qualified Personal Trainer with around a decade of hands-on coaching experience. Her particular strengths are resistance training, muscle development and progressive body transformation.

She works with men and women across a wide range of abilities, including complete beginners, people returning to exercise after a break and experienced gym-goers who want a more structured approach to strength and physique development.

Eva's coaching focuses on strong fundamentals, good technique and steady progression rather than simply making every workout as difficult as possible. As the client develops, the training develops with them.

Strength training is also a major part of Eva's own fitness. She regularly sets herself new physical challenges and is currently working towards performing muscle-ups, bringing the same enthusiasm for progress into her client sessions.

Key areas: Strength training, resistance training, muscle development and body transformation.

Emma - Nutritionist & Personalised Nutrition Support

Emma is a qualified Nutritionist whose professional qualifications and training include a BSc, PGCE, a certificate from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), a Diploma in Nutritional Therapy from the College of Naturopathic Medicine (CNM), and membership of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT).

Her approach is practical and highly personalised. Rather than relying on restrictive diets or generic meal plans, Emma looks at each client's current eating habits, lifestyle and individual nutrition goals before recommending realistic changes that can be maintained long term.

She has a particular understanding of the challenges created by busy working and family lives and aims to make good nutrition achievable in the real world. Her focus is on helping clients understand their food, make better-informed choices and develop healthier habits without making eating unnecessarily complicated.

Emma can also provide personalised nutrition support alongside one-to-one personal training, giving clients a more joined-up approach to body transformation, fitness and general health and wellbeing.

Key areas: Personalised nutrition, sustainable eating habits and nutrition support alongside personal training.

Find the Right Personal Trainer for You

Different trainers bring different experience, personalities and areas of expertise, but the objective is the same: to give every client professional coaching, appropriate challenge and the support needed to make consistent progress.

Whether you want to lose body fat, build muscle, improve strength and fitness, train for HYROX or another event, or simply feel healthier and more confident, we can match you with a trainer whose approach suits your goals.

Contact Platinum Training to discuss your goals and find the right trainer.