Meet Avi.
Movement with
care and attention.

Personal training in Queenstown informed by a physiotherapy background. Avi brings a close eye for movement and a considered approach to helping members build strength and confidence.

Book a free No-Sweat Intro Get to know Avi

Free 15-minute chat. At OC or by phone.
No workout or gym gear needed.

Avi · Personal training coach

A background in care.
A focus on capability.

Growing up in Denmark helped shape Avi’s relationship with movement as part of everyday life. Her career in physiotherapy went on to include neurorehabilitation and work with the Southern Steel netball team.

At OC, she brings that experience to coaching: watching movement, explaining adjustments and helping members work from their own starting point. Strength matters alongside how you move through the rest of your day.

Avi at OC Health Clubs — A closer look at Avi’s coaching approach.

What coaching
feels like.

Listen to your history
Your experience and movement concerns help inform the conversation. The plan begins with where you are now.
Notice the details
Avi pays attention to technique and offers cues and adjustments as you train. The load follows the quality of the movement.
Progress with purpose
Build familiarity with exercises and develop your training at a suitable pace. Consistency and practical feedback keep the work focused.

A starting point
that makes sense for you.

Whether you are beginning again or bringing a longer training history, Avi’s coaching places movement quality at the centre. Start by sharing what you want to be able to do.

Your intro is with the OC team. We’ll discuss your goals and the available coaching options before you decide how to begin.

Book a free No-Sweat Intro

A few things you might be wondering.

We can talk through anything specific to you at your intro.

Am I booking a physiotherapy appointment?

No. The free No-Sweat Intro is a conversation about training at OC. Avi’s physiotherapy background informs her coaching, but this booking is not a clinical assessment or treatment appointment.

Can I discuss a previous injury?

Yes. Share your history before training so we can discuss suitable options. If you need clinical assessment or clearance, that is a separate step.

Is this suitable if I’m new to training?

Begin with an intro. We’ll talk about your experience and explain how coaching, induction and an appropriate starting programme work at OC.

Meet the rest
of your coaching team.

Different backgrounds. A shared focus on careful coaching and getting to know you.

Chaz Monaghan
Founder & coach. Meet Chaz Monaghan
Ash
Personal training coach. Meet Ash
Yvane
Personal training coach. Meet Yvane

Meet the OC team

Come and meet us.

Tell us what you want from your training. We’ll listen, explain how OC works and help you choose a suitable next step.

Book a free No-Sweat Intro

15 minutes. Free. In person or by phone.
No gym gear needed. No pressure to join.

Avi, physiotherapist and personal trainer at OC Health Clubs in Queenstown

A clinical background, brought to the training floor

How Avi found physiotherapy-led coaching

Avi's path into coaching didn't start in a gym either. It started in Denmark, where cycling everywhere and staying active isn't a lifestyle choice, it's simply how the country is built. That early relationship with movement carried her into physiotherapy, a career she has now held for over ten years.

Her early career sat inside neurology. She worked hands on with acute neuro-trauma patients and later managed a large neurorehabilitation centre, helping people rebuild physical ability from the ground up. It gave her a deep respect for how closely the brain and the body are connected, a connection she still trains around today.

From there she moved into elite sport, working as physiotherapist for the Southern Steel netball team. It's where her interest in sports physiotherapy and athletic performance properly took hold, and where her neurological background found a second use, managing concussion and helping athletes find calm before they walked onto the court.

It's also where her eye for biomechanics and movement quality comes from. At OC, Avi brings that same clinical attention to personal training, building every member's programme around how their body actually moves, inside the same OC Health House framework that guides every member's journey.

Sound familiar?

You might recognise yourself here

People managing an old injury

A knee that's never quite right. A shoulder that flares under load. Ten years as a qualified physiotherapist mean Avi builds your programme around how your body moves now, not a generic template.

Former athletes and people returning to sport

Avi spent years as physiotherapist for the Southern Steel netball team. If you used to train at a higher level and want that capability back, she knows exactly what that road looks like.

People rebuilding after a setback

Avi's early career was spent in neurorehabilitation, helping people rebuild physical ability from the ground up. That same patience and structure carries into every session, whatever you're working back from.

People who know nutrition matters but don't know where to start

Nutrition is the Health House pillar Avi finds most fascinating. She helps members connect what they eat to how they train, sleep, and recover, no restriction, just awareness.

Function over form

Avi's coaching philosophy

You'll hear this a lot around OC. The goal was never to chase exhaustion. It's to understand how your body actually moves, then train it with that in mind.

Avi's approach is built on that idea. Ten years as a physiotherapist taught her that a body which functions well lasts longer than one chasing a particular look. To Avi, a well-functioning body is the ideal body, and that belief shapes every programme she builds, using biomechanics and real-time form correction rather than guesswork.

The goal isn't to leave every session wrecked. It's to leave understanding your own movement a little better than when you walked in, with a foundation that holds up off the training floor too, in line with OC's wider commitment to Form Over Fatigue.

What members can expect

Coached with function

Every session

Coaching built around your injury or movement history
Biomechanics-led cueing
Real-time form correction
Mobility and functional movement
Progressions and regressions built around where your body is at

No generic structure. No pushing through pain to hit a number. Just a plan built around what your body actually needs.

Beyond the training floor

Avi believes training is only part of the picture. That's why conversations often include:

Nutrition habits
Sleep and recovery
Old injuries and movement history
Stress, and how it shows up in the body
Long-term movement quality

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Avi has been a qualified physiotherapist for over ten years, and that background means programmes are built around your injury history and current movement, not against it.

Yes. Years spent helping people rebuild physical ability from the ground up in neurorehabilitation taught Avi how to meet people exactly where they are, whatever their starting point.

Yes. Avi spent years as physiotherapist for the Southern Steel netball team, and understands what it takes to safely rebuild athletic capability after a break.

Nutrition is the Health House pillar Avi finds most fascinating, and conversations naturally include how food affects training, sleep, and recovery. This is general guidance rather than formal nutrition coaching.

Every OC member starts with a consultation covering goals, injury history, and movement background before any programme is built.

Her combination of physiotherapy experience, including neurorehabilitation and elite sport, with personal training is rare to find in one coach in Queenstown.

You don't need to figure this out alone

Most people already know an old injury or a stiff joint isn't going to fix itself.

The challenge isn't knowing you should move better. It's having someone who actually understands how your body works, and why.

That's what Avi is here for.

OC Health Clubs

Whether you're looking to build strength, improve your fitness, increase your longevity or simply find a way to give back to your body and find some time for you, we have the perfect solution.