Our Team “Don’t follow, lead”

IMRAN
KHAN

Imran Khan is the founder of 313 Fitness Studios and Head Coach of Go-Activate. He is fully qualified in coaching children in Tennis, Football, Rugby and Cricket.

Imran has over 20 years experience in coaching and working with children. Imran comes from a background as a Semi Professional Footballer and is also a REPs level 3 qualified Personal Trainer. He has over 10 years Experience and qualifications to teach children in various martial arts. These include boxing, kickboxing, wrestling and grappling as well as broader experience in managing and coaching amateur and professional MMA fighters.

Imran’s desire in this field stems from his experience as a parent of five himself and of his exposure to working in schools and communities where physical education is often a neglected area. Aside from his passion to ensure the youth remain fit and healthy. He believes that sports and physical activity in general can help in areas of a child’s development that other classroom subjects simply cannot reach. These obviously include physical skills. But more importantly include those soft skills such as team working and competition. He’s also found that children who may not be so confident in classroom environments often find their confidence in physical activity sessions and in turn this increases their confidence and abilities in all areas of academia.

Hamza Chakmakaya

As a fully qualified FA level 1 and level 2 coach, Hamza’s passions lie in coaching children’s football. Hamza is also coaching cricket and is champion of Kwik Cricket 2004. Hamza is a REP’s Level 3 qualified Personal Trainer.

Martin
Dimitrov

Aside from being the founder of “The Square Boxing Club”. Martin is an established and reputable athlete, who is currently the Amateur boxing coach at the prestigious King’s College University in London.

Martin has over 15 years of amateur boxing experience in different countries, achieving a number of national titles and several years of ABA coaching,

Martin has worked as a boxing coach for both adults and children in MMA club and  313 fitness studio in East London. He was also a boxing coach and personal trainer at Rooney’s Boxing Gym where he earned the reputation of being one of the best trainers in London.

As a boxer, Martin has boxed for various amateur clubs in London. In 2013 he successfully won an amateur prizefighter tournament “LAST MAN STANDING” in the middleweight division, coached by Richard Williams and Archie Dublin.

Martin ensures children learn boxing whilst having fun and developing a child’s social skills too. He maintains his  philosophy that  “Hard work plus commitment always leads to success!“

NASIR
UDDIN

A Strength and Conditioning coach with a background and passion for strength/combat sports. Nasir has spent his past few years studying a degree in S&C and exercise physiology, while working with a few professional teams, City&Islington College and various level athletes from amateur youth to Team GB. His background in youth S&C includes the London Youth Games, London Wasps Academy while currently at Crystal Palace FC Academy, and heading the newly formed Newham Weightlifting Club.

“Academies within professional clubs range from early pathways often known as DPP (Developing Players Programme) all the way to U18’s. I believe the early development stage is the most fundamental stage of an athlete’s career as it is the make-or-break period. This is where they pick up the whole range of lessons from attitude, work ethic, to strength, mobility, speed mechanics and much more. They learn easily and recover fast, so if coached and cued well, we could make a potential world class athlete. If coached and cued incorrectly, you may have a dysfunctional player who spends a whole load of their time on the side-lines or visiting the physio and much worse. The lessons, skills and movement patterns that you can help them attain at this phase will hopefully stick with them for as long as they are active and that’s where my role lies.”

 

Nasir is actively competitive in Olympic Weightlifting and Freestyle Wrestling, and always looks to advance his coaching skills however possible.

Shagufta
Rashid

Shagufta holds a Bachelors and Masters in science. She is a REPs Level 3 Qualified Personal Trainer and has gained over 10 years’ experience in women’s and girls fitness and weight loss. Shagufta has over 5 years of experience in coaching children’s bootcamp training. As a parent herself Shagufta has found that children will learn better when they enjoy something. She has found incorporating equipment such as tyres, battle ropes, and bodyweight training via a bootcamp theme engages children’s minds in a unique, creative and fun way as opposed to standard PE sessions found in most schools.

Tanat
Tiraposin

Tanat has over 15years of experience in teaching karate to children. He is a 3rd Degree Black belt in Goju Ryu Karate. A truly inspiring and popular coach. He is a role model to the youngsters. Tanat is a REP’s level 3 qualified Personal trainer & qualified boxing coach.

Tiffany
Ayesha Joseph

Tiffany Ayesha has a passion for improving the lives of young people through health and fitness. She has previously served as a PE Teacher at a girls secondary school and has gained over 10 years of experience in working with children. She is the founder of MIU ladies fitness studio. She is a qualified Kickboxing instructor and a REPS level 3 qualified Personal Trainer. Tiffany Ayesha has vast experience of working with children. She ran a girls youth club for several years and she is also an experienced netball coach.