Our Team
Meet our Inner City Fitness team of highly trained and certified professionals who are dedicated to wellness, health and fitness! We are experienced at managing groups as well as working one on one with individuals on their personal fitness goals. Our expert coaches will teach, motivate and inspire you to get fit and stay in shape.
Click on each Inner City’s team members name below to find out more about them.
Nicola – Owner/Manager/Cardio Queen
Nic has always had a passion for fitness. She loves both ends of the spectrum, running AND weightlifting! Nic has been involved with team sports like netball and soccer (indoor and out) from a young age before discovering weight training. After discovering the joy of getting stronger, she completed her Certificate 4 in Fitness in 2002 and has been in the industry ever since. In 2006, Nic and partner Raf opened Get Fit – a boutique personal training studio in Wanneroo that has won a number of awards. In fact, many of our current members first began training at Get Fit! Nic loves the reward of showing people what they are capable of, and helping members challenge themselves.
When she’s not running the gym like a well oiled machine, Nic loves her running and enjoys triathlons and other endurance events (her favourite is the Blackwood River Marathon). Crossfit is her new passion and she loves the intensity and way it makes you do movements that you should be doing all the time. And makes you huffy puffy. A highlight of Nic’s training career was training with both Ido Portal and Dmitry Klokov.
Certificate 4 in Fitness
Level 1 CrossFit
Level 1 Strength and Conditioning
Recreation Running coach Level 2 with Athletics WA
Level 1 Triathlon Coach
CrossFit Endurance Coach
Level 1 Weightlifting Coach
Rafael – Owner/Head Trainer
Raf is the technique drill sergeant and movement specialist at Inner City. Raf loves to learn and to pass his knowledge onto others. He is very thorough in his methods, and has a background in exercise rehabilitation. Raf has been in the fitness industry since 2005, and before this was involved in state-level basketball, state-level running, amateur boxing and enjoyed weight training. Raf graduated university in 2020 and is a Qualified Exercise Physiologist. He is looking forward to helping rehab clients and assisting our existing members.
Qualified Exercise Physiologist
Certificate 4 in Fitness
Level 1 CrossFit
Level 1 Strength and Conditioning
Kettlebell Coach
CrossFit Endurance Coach
Fran – Personal Trainer, CrossFit and HiiT Coach
Fran regularly competes and represents Inner City at CrossFit Masters Competitions. She loves to work with her clients, improving their movement. Fran loves to keep learning and is great at working with clients with injuries and niggles. Fran started working with us in 2014. Fran also works as a carer for the elderly. Fran’s goals are to complete further study in nutrition and life coaching, to enable her to provide ongoing support, sound knowledge and motivation to her CrossFit community.
Certificate 4 in Fitness
Level 1 CrossFit
Rehabilitation Trainer
Level 1 CrossFit
Rehabilitation Trainer
Jason – Weight Lifting Coach
Jason has competed nationally and regionally in Weight Lifting and has extensive competition experience. Jason has been coaching with us since 2015 and has helped so many of our members become better lifters. Jason also works in strength and conditioning at the WA Institute of Sport.
Bachelor of exercise and health Science
Masters in Strength and Conditioning
Level 2 Strength and Conditioning
Level 2 Weightlifting Coach
Dylan – Personal Trainer, Group Classes Coach
Dylan graduated from University in 2019 in sport science. He joined us in 2020 and takes a lot of our CrossFit beginners through the beginner program. He also takes our group classes and is enjoying learning more about weight lifting.
Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science
Ian – Strongman competitor
Ian is a Strongman competitor with a background in Powerlifting and Gridiron Football. Hailing from Nova Scotia Canada, Ian has been in Perth since 2019 and really enjoying the change of scenery and temperature. While in Canada he worked in a university setting training Gridiron, Rugby Union and Ice hockey Athletes. Since 2020 Ian has been an Associate S&C Coach with the Western Force Rugby Union team where he continues to hone his craft of training individuals.
Masters of Exercise Science (Strength & Conditioning)
ASCA Level 2
ASCA PCAS Associate
NSCA CSCS
Nigel – Weight Lifting Coach
Nigel is our resident coach for all things strength. He has experience working with clients across a broad range of ages and abilities. He has developed and coached a number of state and nationally competitive weightlifters, and currently dabbles in a mix of powerlifting and strongman for his own training goals. By day, Nigel is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and foam rolling enthusiast.
Level 1 Weightlifting Coach (AWF)
Level 1 Strength and Conditioning (ASCA, in progress)
Bachelor of Psychology (Hons.)
Master of Psychology (Clinical)
PhD Sydney Medical School
Nicola – Coach
I am originally from Australia and grew up in Tasmania where I started coaching gymnastics at the age of 12. I always loved all sports and did many forms of gymnastics, netball, tennis and athletics competitively. While I was overseas in Europe I begun CrossFit and found a love in this sport also, I quickly transitioned over to CrossFit as both an athlete and a coach.
I love spending time with clients and getting the best out of them by working on both their strengths and weaknesses. I approach coaching honestly and with a great passion.
I have spent time coaching CrossFit in The Netherlands and the USA. I programmed for one box fulltime for WOD’s/OLY and Gymnastics for over a year. I am now a Level 3 CrossFit Coach and the highlight of my career was attending the Aerobic Capacity Course with Chris Hinshaw at the Mayhem Gym in Cookeville.
My favourite movement is handstand walking and experimenting with it’s many forms and extra challenges. I also love to do Snatches!
Outside of the gym I am a traveller/adventurer, photographer and love doing creative things like sewing and designing clothes!
Dani – Coach
Dani takes our weight lifting classes and has represented Australia in weight lifting for years. She is also part of the WA weightlifting Federation.
Mark- Coach
Originally from Ireland, Mark has moved to Perth via Queensland and New Zealand. He is a qualified physio and has also done further strength and conditioning with National Academy of Sports Medicine.
He is a Gaelic Football Player and also has a passion for CrossFit.
He has coached Crossfit in a number of gyms in New Zealand and competed at CrossFit nationals in New Zealand 2019
Mark also works for Formotion our in house Physio’s
Schedule a conversation
hello@innercityfitness.com.au
Schedule a conversation
hello@innercityfitness.com.au
CrossFit and Strength and Conditioning gym in West Perth.
Dedicated to health and fitness.
Dedicated to health and fitness.