The Team
The team brings together decades of experience across health, fitness and rehabilitation, with a shared focus on helping people feel supported, confident and comfortable in the gym environment.
Every member of the team is here for the same reason — to guide, encourage and support people at every stage of their journey.
We work with members from all walks of life, from complete beginners to experienced gym users, and we understand that no two starting points are the same. That experience allows us to adapt our approach to each individual, offering knowledgeable guidance in a friendly, unintimidating and relaxed way.
Our work in health and rehabilitation extends beyond just the gym. Alongside our day-to-day work with members, the team is also involved in CALM — a charitable initiative supporting rehabilitation and movement for children and young people with additional needs.
This experience helps shape the way we approach everything we do here. It reinforces the importance of patience, individual progress and creating environments where people feel supported, understood and encouraged — values that sit at the heart of our gym.
Alex Doggett
Owner | Personal Trainer | Lead Rehabilitation Coach
Alex has worked in health and fitness for more than 20 years, with his work evolving from traditional personal training into an increasingly specialist focus on rehabilitation, movement and helping people regain confidence in what their bodies can do.
His approach is built around understanding the individual rather than simply prescribing exercises. Whether someone is recovering from injury, adapting to a long-term physical or neurological condition, or simply trying to move and feel better, Alex looks at how they move, where they compensate and what may be preventing them from progressing. Sessions often combine strength and functional movement with balance, coordination and movement-pattern work, adapting continually as the person develops.
A significant part of Alex’s work is with people for whom exercise is not straightforward. This includes working with people following strokes, neurological conditions, complex injuries and lengthy periods of rehabilitation, as well as those who have simply lost confidence in their body following pain or physical setbacks. The emphasis is always on finding what someone can do and building from there, rather than defining them by their limitations.
Having worked with people of all ages and abilities over many years, Alex believes that successful training is about much more than fitness alone. Confidence, enjoyment, lifestyle and trust all matter, particularly when someone has had a difficult journey back to exercise.
Alongside his work at Cotswolds Health & Fitness Club, Alex runs his own personal training business, delivering specialist one-to-one coaching from his studio at the facility.
I am amazed at what progress I have made in the relatively short period I have been training with Alex and have no qualms in recommending his work to anyone. My only regret is that I hadn’t come across someone like Alex earlier!”
Tony Milvain, Stow on the Wold
Vicki Fisher
Personal Trainer | Rehabilitation Coach
Vicki has been working as a Personal Trainer since 2017 and brings a warm, supportive and encouraging approach to her sessions. Her own journey into fitness began several years earlier, when she made significant changes to her health and lifestyle — an experience that continues to shape the understanding and empathy she brings to the people she works with today.
Her approach to training is centred around helping people become stronger, move more confidently and enjoy being active. Vicki has particular interests in strength, flexibility and mobility, and is equally comfortable helping someone improve their general fitness as she is supporting someone who needs a more gradual and considered approach to exercise.
As a Rehabilitation Coach, Vicki works with people rebuilding strength and confidence following injury, illness or physical setbacks, adapting sessions around the individual and how they are feeling on the day. Her patient and reassuring style is particularly valuable for people who may be nervous about exercise or unsure of what their body is capable of.
For Vicki, training isn’t simply about fitness. It is about helping people feel better, become more confident in what they can do and develop an approach to exercise that can become part of a healthier, more active life. As a busy mum herself, she understands that finding time for exercise isn’t always easy, while continuing to make her own training and fitness an important part of her life.
“I came to Vicki after a bad bout of health as I had no idea where to start and was super unfit. She has helped me strengthen my body and get healthier both physically and mentally. She’s great at motivating me when I need it, as well as adapting my work-out on days when I am not very capable. I also enjoy her company and therefore look forward to our sessions each week, I would definitely recommend her to anyone and everyone!”
Hannah D. 2020
Kelsey Winter
Personal Trainer | Rehabilitation Coach
Kelsey has developed into an exceptionally confident and versatile Personal Trainer over the past five years, bringing energy, character and a real sense of fun to his sessions.
One of Kelsey’s greatest strengths is his imagination. He is constantly finding new ways to challenge people, adapting sessions and introducing different ideas to keep training interesting and engaging. He is equally comfortable delivering demanding fitness sessions, helping someone work towards weight-loss or strength goals, or taking a much more considered approach with someone rebuilding their confidence and movement through rehabilitation.
That versatility is matched by genuine empathy and care. Some of Kelsey’s most impressive work is with people for whom exercise isn’t straightforward, where patience, understanding and the ability to adapt a session can matter just as much as the exercises themselves.
Away from the gym, Kelsey is a devoted dad to two young children, and the patience, energy and sense of perspective that family life brings are very much part of his character. That same warmth comes through in his coaching, particularly when working with people who need reassurance, understanding and a little extra confidence.
Kelsey has grown into a hugely valued and experienced presence at the gym, combining the confidence and versatility he has developed with the enthusiasm and personality that have always made his sessions unmistakably his own.
James Titmus
Osteopath | Sports Therapist
James graduated from the British School of Osteopathy in London after completing a four-year Master’s degree in Osteopathy, having previously completed a degree in Sports Therapy with a strong emphasis on sports injury and rehabilitation. He is registered with the Institute of Osteopathy..
With a background spanning osteopathy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, James has worked with a wide range of musculoskeletal injuries and conditions. Earlier in his career he also gained experience working within professional football, combining his knowledge of injury management with rehabilitation and exercise.
James was previously based at Cotswolds Health & Fitness Club before establishing his own practice, Osteopaths of Stow, at nearby premises. He remains very much part of the wider team, and the close relationship means we can work alongside one another when someone would benefit from osteopathic assessment or treatment alongside their rehabilitation or training.
James is always striving to improve his technical skill and knowledge base through continued professional development. In his spare time James enjoys pursuing his own leisure pursuits including a number of Marathons and Ironman triathlons.
Kathryn Kent
Pilates Instructor | Massage Therapist
Kathryn began her career in massage and Pilates in 2011, following a knee injury that sparked her own interest in movement, recovery and rehabilitation. After initially qualifying as a Body Massage Therapist, she went on to become a certified APPI (Australian Physiotherapy & Pilates Institute) Pilates Instructor.
Kathryn teaches Pilates Matwork from beginner through to advanced level, as well as providing ante and postnatal Pilates. Her approach combines an understanding of movement and body awareness with a supportive teaching style, helping people improve strength, mobility and confidence in how they move.
Away from Pilates, Kathryn has always had a strong sporting background. She is a keen horse rider and has competed in equestrian events, as well as training and riding a winning point-to-point racehorse. Her other interests have included cycling, half marathons, sprint-distance triathlons, hockey and skiing.
Kathryn runs her own Pilates classes from Cotswolds Health & Fitness Club, offering regular sessions for a range of abilities and experience levels.
Wilf Witham
Personal Trainer
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David Parker
Personal Trainer
David is a fully qualified level 3 personal trainer and successful ex gym owner with a proven track record of exceptional training, business planning, individual coaching, mentoring, muscle building, group led exercise, rehabilitation and nutrition, obtained through positions in a variety of specialist gyms, national leading sports organisations and from developing and operating a highly successful boutique personal training and group class gym facility in the Cotswolds.
David has over 20 years experience in the professional fitness industry and over 35,000 1-2-1 personal training, dual and group session hours under his belt. David is founder of The Cotswold PT company and is looking to build his new brand drawing on previous experience in the fitness industry.
