Ynys BootcampOutdoor bootcamp · PontypriddPontypridd

The trainers

Bethan and Osian, and the hi-vis.

Two trainers who between them lead every session, carry every kettlebell to the bandstand, and answer every text. Bethan started it; Osian came through it.

A group cooling down with stretches on mats on a riverside lawn, an old stone bridge and wooded hills behind
Bethan Rees, a cheerful outdoor trainer in her late thirties in a hi-vis vest over a green fleece, wooded hills behind

Founder and head trainer

Bethan Rees

Bethan started Ynys Bootcamp in 2017 with eight friends, a bag of cones and a promise to turn up at the bandstand every Monday whatever the weather. She had spent ten years in an office in Cardiff and found the only exercise she ever stuck to was the kind with other people waiting for her. She writes the month's sessions, runs the 6:15s and the family Saturday, and knows the name of everyone who has ever been.

Level 3 personal trainer, outdoor fitness instructor (placeholder), emergency first aid, enhanced DBS for the family sessions (placeholder)

Osian Pugh, a tall lean trainer in his late twenties with a ginger beard, beanie and stopwatch, on a riverside path

Trainer and run coach

Osian Pugh

Osian ran cross-country for the county as a teenager, stopped for ten years, and came back to running through Bethan's couch to 5k in 2019. He now runs the evening sessions, the couch to 5k groups and the team bootcamps, and is usually the one at the back of the run making sure nobody is on their own.

Level 3 personal trainer, run leader award (placeholder), emergency first aid

The paperwork

What to ask any outdoor trainer for.

A Level 3 qualification

The level that lets someone plan your training rather than supervise a class. Both trainers hold it, with outdoor fitness and run leader awards (placeholders on this demonstration site).

First aid, in the bag

Emergency first aid for both, renewed every three years, and the first-aid kit and a foil blanket in the kit bag at every session.

Permission for the park

Commercial fitness in a council park needs the council's agreement, with group limits. Ours is renewed every April; on this demonstration site the reference is a placeholder.

Insurance

Public liability and professional indemnity for the park, the school hall and team sessions on other sites. The certificate goes with every team booking.

Your first session is free. See you at the bandstand.

Tell us which sessions suit and we reply within the hour between sessions with a time. Come ten minutes early, in trainers and layers, and whoever is leading will show you round and give you the easiest version of everything.

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