Florian Claes is a ISSA certified personal trainer. As a strength and conditioning specialist, he is an expert in improving the performance of football (soccer) players and athletes from fighting sports alike (Brazilian jiu-jitsu, MMA, kickboxing, judo, and jiu-jitsu).
Florian is currently studying International Business to pursue a mission driving him since the early stages of his life: to help others while putting a smile on their faces. At ESP, he has been a personal trainer and strength & conditioning coach for many years, transmitting to others what he himself has learned from his father and grandfather: a sense of discipline, precision, hard work – and also what he personally sees as one of his main qualities: optimism, coupled with a problem-solving attitude.
He is particularly interested in nutrition and body transformation, which he considers as essential tools to take his clients to the next level.
Tristan is one of our Senior Strength & Conditioning specialists. Throughout his career, he has acquired multiple certifications of the highest degree in personal training, powerlifting, rehab & injury prevention, and nutrition. He also pursued a career as a legal scholar and is soon to complete his LLM (Law Masters) in the field of medical law.
With Physiology being one of his main interests, he holds years of particular expertise and is driven by helping you to treat your injuries sustained through everyday life tasks and/or sports participation, hereby regaining your normal pain-free mobility (ROM).
Whether you want to take your athletic and strength performance to the next level as a pro/amateur athlete or transform your body to regain your confidence and improve your overall well-being, Tristan is your guy. He works with people of all levels and ages by using a precisely targeted sport-specific methodology. He will not only help you improve your game but also make you become the best version of yourself and crush your competition both physically and mentally. His motto holds, therefore:
“Look good, move well, lift HEAVY!”.
“During the early stages of my life, I always was the largest kid of the class, often subject to being bullied about my weight or being picked last on every recess sports team. I felt horrible, unconfident, and revolted by my own body. Although I was a strong kid, it was only during my adolescent period that I started to use this to my benefit and decided to drastically change my life. I educated myself in physiology, fitness, and performance which resulted in sparking a passion for sports that I still hold to this day. In the past, I have participated in different sports at a national level such as Judo (Poseidon Judo Club), American Football (Brussels Tigers), and Power Lifting. I have made it my life’s mission to share and transmit this passion and knowledge with others, guide them to regain control of their lives, and become the best version of themselves where others would not. It is you vs you, dream, hustle & achieve. Let me guide you in reclaiming that smile on your face, ready to take on the world!”
Cédric is a personal trainer and a bodybuilding coach. He decided to become a trainer because of a burning passion to train others and to see them achieve their goals. He uses his training and nutrition knowledge to help others with their goal. Before starting with every new client, he makes sure to put in enough research to help him/her to the fullest. He has been training for over 7 years going from a rookie lifter to a powerlifter, now fully dedicated to the bodybuilding lifestyle. He is a certified ISSA personal trainer & nutritionist.
Chiropractor, strength and conditioning coach. Certified in exercise physiology, sports science and nutrition. With his holistic approach, Roland Claes puts the overall health of his patients at the heart of his priorities. With over 30 years of experience in the fields of sports and health, he creates a personalized treatment and rehabilitation for each of his patients.
He accompanies those who practice sports at an amateur or professional (elite) level. Focusing on prevention and care, he works with children, adolescents and adults alike. He is an empathic expert to those who are injured and those who pursue a specific objective wishing to improve their physical condition for sports, and for daily life.
His specialty is strengthening the posterior chains and back biomechanics, the basis of all rehabilitation.
Care, Support, Transmission: A Calling From Father to Son
In the Claes family, caring and transmitting constitute a vocation passed on from father to son. Roland was mentored by his father, chiropractor Willy Claes, renowned olympic weightlifting athlete, and followed his footsteps, taking on his profession with the same rigorous precision and deep listening skills. These are the qualities Roland learned, cultivated, refined and passed on to his two sons, Tristan and Florian, who decided to also become coaches and to open new paths in their turn.
An international career in constant evolution
Roland Claes studied at the Life University in Marietta, Georgia (USA), where he obtained the title of Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.). He then continued his training with world-renowned experts such as Prof. Stuart Mc Gill and obtained the Mc Gill Clinician & Coach Certification (3 levels). He also graduated from the DNS Prague School of Rehabilitation (Level A) of Prof. Pavel Kolar. He regularly attends seminars with highly renowned international coaches and therapists in order to apply the teachings received on his patients.
He represents Belgium within the FICS (Fédération Internationale de Chiropratique du Sport, based in Lausanne, Switzerland).
Like his training, his career has taken him to the international sports scene. He has shaped the careers of many renowned world, European and national champions, both in Belgium and internationally, in the professional worlds of football (soccer), tennis, athletics, triathlon, cycling, motor racing, and combat sports (Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, MMA, judo, etc.). He has been a high-level athlete himself and maintains his fitness level every week by practicing strength and conditioning training.
