Director of Personal Training/Nutrition

A personal training session with Dimitri or his staff is a truly remarkable and uplifting experience.

Fascinated since an early age by the potential of the human body, Dimitri has devoted his career and much of his private life to pushing beyond his own limits – and to leading others to personal health achievements greater than they thought possible.

His hundreds of clients over the years can attest that no one matches the energy, optimism and pure motivational power Dimitri brings to every workout session. Nor can anyone equal the commitment he demonstrates to each and every client.

For Dimitri, no health or fitness challenge is too great. For his clients – as for himself – anything and more is possible.

Dimitri has been a leader in the fitness industry since 1997, working as a personal trainer, nutrition consultant and ultimately Personal Training Director in gyms including Premier Fitness and Bally Total Fitness. He has over 8000 hours of personal training experience.

Under Dimitri’s leadership, in 2003 the Personal Training department at Bally’s Dufferin and Finch location was named best out of all 420 Bally Total Fitness locations worldwide . The following year, his department again won the award for all Canadian Bally’s locations .

Growing up in Toronto , Dimitri excelled at a multitude of sporting activities. Beginning as a sprinter in elementary school, he won many Toronto-area track meets in the 100, 400 and 400m hurdles. He was a competitive swimmer from age 10 straight through high school at Weston Collegiate Institute, where he won the Rookie of the Year Award for being the only student to participate on five varsity teams in a single year and maintain a 90% average.

At the age of 18, Dimitri took up natural bodybuilding to grow his 155lb frame, and became a Certified Personal Trainer to inspire others seeking to make change. In 2000, at the age of 21, he won his first bodybuilding competition: the Ontario Natural Bodybuilding Championships. Dimitri has competed every year since that time, always placing 1 st , 2 nd or 3 rd in that and many other competitions.

Dimitri continues to compete in drug-free bodybuilding competitions and is now preparing for the F.A.M.E. 2008 Canadian Championships. He also recently began the study of Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art.

Dimitri lives with his wife Francesa in Toronto .