Ronald Abvajee is a fitness expert, exercise physiologist and Founder of MY PERSONAL
TRAINER SA's leading fitness and healthy living company.
At the age of 19, with R100, Ronald launched his first healthy living and fitness website;
HEALTHZONE. In two and a half years built an online community of over 500 000
people, and syndicated his health and fitness content onto different media platforms
(e.g print and radio).
In 2004, Ronald launched
MY PERSONAL TRAINER which is a health, fitness and
wellness company focused on guiding, motivating and inspiring South Africans to a
healthier and fitter lifestyle.
MY PERSONAL TRAINER has since become South Africa's largest Black Owned Fitness & Healthy Living company, with over 125 personal trainers and healthy living coaches in its
employ nationally.
MY PERSONAL TRAINER also owns SA's first, interactive virtual tele gym (My PT) , which
provides South Africans access to a personal trainer, nurse and healthy living coach
24/7 either on the telephone or via the internet. What makes My PT unique is that we
individually contact all our members which enables them to have a "virtual fitness and
health coach" to inspire and guide them on their journey to fitness.
A division of
MY PERSONAL TRAINER is My PT CORPORATE a leading corporate fitness
and healthy living company which manages the health risk of employees, thus engaging
orgaznisations with proactive health, fitness and wellness programmes, services and
solutions which get their staff healthier, more productive and ultimately improving the
company's bottom line. My PT CORPORATE also undertakes to manage wellness centres
for some companies and provide an exclusive healthy living fitness service to companies
who don't have a centre. We also cater for their national branches and staff of these
companies. Our clientele includes: The Kelly Group Ltd, Productivity SA, Nedbank, Pfizer,
Mayibuye Group, etc.
Ronald is a weekly columnist and author of "My PT Your Healthy Living Guide" (which is
distributed to 30 000 corporate clients). Ronald is renown as a thought leader of
fitness and living a healthy lifestyle and has been the fitness columnist for the Business
Day Newspaper in the Health News Supplement for the last 2 years, with his column
syndicated online. He provides monthly syndicated articles to The Witness Newspaper
catering for the Kwa Zulu audience. For the last three years Ronald has also been the
fitness content provider to one of SA's leading online brands - iAfrica.com and has been
featured in leading publications such as the Oprah Magazine (on several occasions).
His experience also boasts 4 ½ years of on-air radio broadcast, hosting his own hourlong
healthy living and fitness show on Cii (a Radio station broadcasting on the
WorldSpace Satellite Platform to over 2 million global listeners), a regular fitness and
healthy living slot on Metro FM for the last year and a half, motivating and inspiring over
4 million listeners to be the healthiest they can be.
Ronald has had numerous television appearances, on CNBC, Summit TV, ETV and SABC
where he has presented on health, fitness, nutritional news, techniques and trends. He
is also a renowned speaker on the topics of health, fitness and healthy living and has
been invited to speak at both national and international conferences, such as the Les
Nouveau Esthetiques (International Spa Industry Conference), Pfizer Pharmaceuticals,
Productivity SA, Brand Leadership, South African Post Office, etc.
As a professional athlete, and being a Sensei (4th Degree black Belt) in Karate and 5 time
World Karate Champion, Ronald understands exactly what it is that is required to
successfully work toward a healthy lifestyle. It is with this experience that Ronald and
the
MY PERSONAL TRAINER team will motivate South Africans, with personalised
healthy living, fitness and nutrition solutions, to live their healthiest and fittest life.
