Meet the team

Mike opened Mas Body Gym in 2010 and still coaches on the floor every week. In more than 20 years in the fitness industry he has coached complete beginners, stage athletes and HYROX racers, and he was named Personal Trainer of the Year at the National Fitness Awards four years running, from 2017 to 2020, after finishing runner-up in 2015 and 2016. His MBE was awarded for services to the community, and his work with Dibsy, who lost 20 stone in a year training and eating with Mike, was covered around the world.

Food is at the centre of how he coaches. He is an advanced sports and exercise nutrition advisor and a diet and metabolism specialist, and in 2018 he founded Macro Based Diet, the family meal prep business on the same site, which he runs with his wife Jenny Hind, co-founder, who runs the kitchen. Mike still builds the menu, the portion sizes and the macros behind every dish.

Ashleigh is a multiple award-winning bikini athlete, the 2024 NABBA Miss Universe Bikini champion, and holds more female bikini titles than anyone else in the North East. She has been at Mas Body for ten years, starting as an apprentice and now working alongside Mike as gym manager and personal trainer, running the floor day to day.

She coaches HYROX, Barbell Blast, Metafit and BoxStep, and she is usually the first person new members meet. If you are getting ready for a show, she also coaches female bikini posing and is a qualified spray tanner specialising in competition tans, so your posing, your tan and your coaching come from someone who has won on the biggest stage herself.

Mike's eldest son Freddie is the future of Mas Body Gym. He started training here at 14 and at the same age became the youngest bodybuilder to step on a competition stage. Now 17 and a qualified Level 2 and Level 3 personal trainer, he works and trains alongside the members every week. His younger brother Max, 14, is just getting involved, which is what the MAS in Mas Body has always meant: Mike And Son's.