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The kit Jared trains and coaches in.
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About Everest Personal Training: our mission, vision and coaching philosophy in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Everest is a human performance organisation that uses training, coaching, education, technology and community partnerships to help people and organisations build stronger, healthier and more capable lives.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Jared
Founder & Head Coach
Before Everest, Jared spent his career leading large teams in industries that run on people holding up under pressure: construction, hospitality, ports, warehousing and distribution, and grocery. Long shifts, hard deadlines, real consequences.
What he saw across all of them was the same thing. The people carrying the most were the ones with the least left for themselves, and nobody was treating that as a performance problem. They were treating it as the cost of doing the job.
Everest started from the opposite position: that capability is trainable, that it holds up work and life rather than competing with them, and that a parent holding a household together is a high performer in exactly the same sense an athlete is. That belief now runs through everything from a $10 app programme to a proposal-based executive engagement.
AMBASSADOR
Brands Jared stands behind
Two companies Jared works with as an ambassador. If you want what he uses, these codes are yours.
The Steam Tent
Recovery
Heat and recovery, which is where a lot of training actually pays off.
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Jared is a paid ambassador for both brands and may earn from purchases made with these codes. Neither company has any say in Everest's coaching, programming or advice.
MISSION & VISION
What we are here to do
Two sentences we hold ourselves to, and are willing to be measured against.
Mission
We build everyday capability through structured movement, and we measure it honestly, so what works can be proven, repeated and scaled.
Capability is strength, movement and confidence: the things that decide how someone lives, works and copes. We coach it in person in Canterbury and online in several countries, and we record what changes.
Vision
Movement recognised and funded as frontline prevention, for the body and the mind.
Not a private benefit for the few who can already afford a coach, but part of how communities and health systems keep people well. That is a long road, and it is the one we are on.
If you are one person
You are the point, not a step towards something bigger. Everything we have learned about programming, measurement and what makes training stick started with individuals and comes straight back to them. The ambition below changes nothing about the coaching you get.
If you are an organisation
You get structured delivery, consistent measurement and reporting you can put in front of a board or a funder. We would rather show you a smaller number we can defend than a large one we cannot.
The Everest journey
From a single commitment to a growing human performance organisation.
1
The problem
Many people want to improve their health but lack the structure, confidence, support or access to make it stick. Good intentions run into busy lives, intimidating gyms and one-size-fits-all advice.
2
The origin
Everest began with a simple commitment: make training more personalised, practical and sustainable. Coaching that meets people where they are, in the environments they actually train in.
3
The evolution
Over time, that coaching expanded into app-based digital training, youth development, performance, organisational wellbeing and community initiatives, while keeping the same focus on real people and real outcomes.
4
What we believe
Capability is foundational. Strength, movement and confidence underpin how people live, work and show up, so building them is some of the highest-value work anyone can invest in.
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Where we are going
The model is deliberately built to travel. Coaching, the app, the programme structure and the measurement all work the same way whether someone is in Rolleston or on another continent, and we already coach clients well beyond New Zealand. The aim is to keep proving it locally, then take what holds up wherever it is needed.
What we believe
Capability changes what's possible.
Physical capability supports confidence, independence, productivity and long-term health. Building it is one of the highest-leverage things a person, a workplace or a community can do.
Find your programmeWhat guides us
The principles behind every programme, coach and partnership.
Evidence-led
Clear about outcomes, process and measurement, never inflated claims.
Human
Warm and accessible, from first-time gym users to high-performance athletes.
Built to scale
Able to grow into new products, markets and partnerships without losing quality.
Want to work with us?
Find a programme, explore coaching, or start a conversation about an organisational partnership.