A vision of health

A vision of health
Image: the Vision PT team. Credit: Supplied

BY ALEX EUGENE

In 2009, Joel Baur decided he’d had enough of a career filled with stress. A Chef by trade, Joel says he didn’t have any time to keep fit and was leading “the typical hospitality life, drinking and unhealthy habits.”

He says it took several months to turn his own health around, in a move he describes as “a complete 360.”

Today he is Director of the popular fitness franchise in Sydney, Vision Personal Training Pyrmont. Unlike a large gym with hundreds of people coming in and out all day, Vision has more of a ’boutique’ approach, offering personalised service to all of their customers.

Starting out as an employee for the company, one of Joel’s own clients was so impressed with his work that he asked him to start a joint franchise with him.

It was an offer Joel couldn’t turn down. He realised an opportunity like this might not come again. The client eventually moved on and Joel is now the sole owner of the Pyrmont business.

Joel is passionate about nutrition, saying that many people’s downfalls are not knowing simple things about food. With so many heavily processed products that are full of hidden sugars, it can be hard to know what’s really healthy.

“There’s so much information out there sometimes you don’t know where to start.

“Health is important, I would say everything starts at school. When we’re young there needs to be more awareness about how nutrition works,” he said.

Vision runs free nutrition education seminars regularly, as well as supermarket tours to help clients navigate the abundance of food available in shops.

Joel’s Pyrmont business has excelled in leaps and bounds, claiming Trainer of the Weight Loss Challenge in 2010, the Owners “Comeback of the Year” award in 2013 and the company Gold Star award for excellence three years running in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Joel says he wants to give back something similar to what helped him out in the beginning.

“I know it’s very daunting to decide whether you want to be an owner or not, but if I see that a trainer within my team wants to take the plunge, I will be very happy to help him.

“I knew I couldn’t do it on my own straight away, and [the client I started the business with] gave me support to get started, financially and mentally. I think that’s why I was comfortable to do it straight away. So I think it will be the same for me to give that opportunity to one of my trainers,” he said.

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