Meet the team

RAY PHAROAH

OWNER & HEAD COACH

 
When I opened Southern Legion 10 years ago I thought I was building a place for people to come and train hard, leave some chalk on the floor and go home again.
 
I couldn’t have been more wrong.
 
What I’ve actually built is a place where people learn what their body is really capable of, and change as a person to become stronger, more resilient and happier.
 
My programming is tough, but over and over again I’ve seen people achieve far more than they thought they could, or ever would have done in a normal gym.
 
After training fairly advanced athletes for a few years, I wanted to help people who thought they couldn’t be helped – who were so stuck in a rut of eating badly and not exercising that they thought they could never change.
 
That’s what led me to create the Transformation Programme: a progressive group-training course aimed at complete beginners – people who had never even stepped foot in a gym before.
 
The Transformation Programme was a huge success, and now we have a great mix of beginner, intermediate and advanced athletes training together, supporting each other and forging strong friendships.
 
Seeing my members face challenges and get stronger always fills me with pride. I learn as much from them as they do from me, and I love welcoming new members into the Southern Legion family.
 
 

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