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About Us

Natural High Health & Fitness is a holistic personal training and lifestyle coaching service based in Sydney that also specialises in training people for trekking adventures

Alex Shirley is the founder of Natural High and he continues to act as the head personal trainer and lifestyle coach

Alex originally trained and worked as a solicitor but left the world of corporate law to pursue his interest in health and fitness. With this background, he is very aware of the pressures involved in maintaining a balanced lifestyle. He uses his prior experience to provide clients with a highly professional service

Alex is a CHEK Exercise and Lifestyle Coach through the Corrective High-Performance Exercise Kinesiology Institute in San Diego. Alex is also registered as a personal trainer with Fitness Australia and has qualifications in endurance training, corrective exercise, swiss ball training, core conditioning, back training, pilates, older adults training, teaching and remedial massage

Alex has trekked extensively throughout the Himalayas, Australasia, and Europe and he runs regular client trips to Nepal, Ladakh (Northern India) and New Zealand. Alex is also a member of the Australian Climbing Association

Alex believes in sustainable living and offers clients the opportunity to contribute to a valuable community or environmental aid project whilst on Adventure Treks

"I've trained on and off for over 7 years, yet during my sessions with Alex over the course of the last 9 months, usually twice a week, I am still learning new things every week! I've had tri-athletes, naturopaths and body builders all provide me advice over the years, none of which have had the in-depth knowledge to do with training, weight loss and diet as good as Alex. Alex has an excellent way of analysing one's weaknesses and strengths and then developing routines that really push one to the limit whilst still allowing for an acceptable duration of exercise, in my case 1 hour. Alex has a great philosophy on life and is a good source of intelligent and funny conversation which breaks the occasionally monotonous nature of exercise and provides me a great stress free environment that allows me to easily forget my worries at work."