Rio Frio Holidays
Fitness & Weight Loss Holidays, Boot Camps & Activity Holidays
About Us
The Team at Rio Frio Holidays
At Rio Frio Holidays we are professionally qualified and offer weight-management and fitness holidays, fitness boot camps, multi-activity holidays and training camps for mountain bikers, road cyclists, hikers, power-walkers and runners of all abilities and ages, including groups and families.
Rio Frio Holidays is run by Mel Richards, ably assisted by Janina Rajecki and Stephanie Richards. As a team, we work closely with a number of specially selected, locally-based professionals to bring our guests the highest quality service possible and to make your holiday a rewarding and unforgettable experience.
Mel is the first point of contact for all guests. He leads many of the runs, rides and hikes and directs all of the gym-based sessions. As a very highly qualified and experienced Personal Trainer, Mel is able to conduct assessments of health and fitness, design exercise programmes and give advice on nutrition. He is also a qualified Boxercise and Extreme Kettlebell Instructor, as well as a Sports Therapist.
Mel is also a British Association of Cycling Coaches-accredited coach, a first-aider and a member of the Andalucian Cycling Federation, with years of experience of cycling (both on and off road) and ultra-running - including successful participation in the Yukon Arctic Ultra, the Grand Union Canal Race and a whole host of mountain biking and road cycling events in Andalucia.
Janina is a qualified Tourism Activities Organiser and Guide, as well as an Aerobics Instructor. In addition to her native Finland, Janina has also worked in Spain and the UK and has travelled extensively throughout Europe, South America, Australia and Asia.
Stephanie is a Gym Instructor, a fitness enthusiast and a recreational cyclist. She is studying to become a Personal Trainer and a Health and Fitness Manager.
Cognitive Training
Lissa Dells
Lissa Dells is a qualified physiotherapist and holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, the science of learning, motivation and adjusting to new perceptions.
Lissa has 35 years of experience coaching clients of all ages in motivation, stability, adjusting to hormonal and seasonal changes (includes relieving autumn/winter SAD), reducing work-related stresses, improving the quality of sleep, managing young people, improving individual body image and staying young. Her exercises can make it easier to integrate better fitness habits into daily life and into relationships - demonstrating, for example, how couples and families can support each other in their fitness and weight-management goals.
In addition to being our resident personal trainer for "brain fitness" and positive body image exercises, Lissa conducts training in motivation and consistency with clients from all over the world - in 4 languages!
Micro-Light Flights
Andrés
Having qualified as a pilot over 18 years ago, Andrés whisks guests of Rio Frio Holidays over the Andalucian countryside in his state-of-the-art Air Creation twin micro-light aircraft, on a journey which is "Never to be forgotten"!
Pilates
Trish Anderton
Trish came to pilates when she had suffered for years with back and hip pain due to an accident. Having found that pilates helped so much that the pain totally disappeared, Trish decided that she wanted to become an instructor and trained in the Stotts method of pilates; often referred to as the "Ivy League" school of pilates.
Every year Trish completes courses to update her knowledge and maintain her Stotts certified instructor status. As well as running pilates classes for guests of Rio Frio Holidays, Trish teaches pilates to a range of private clients and runs classes for residents of her home town in Spain, Villanueva De Tapia.
Tennis Coaching
John Paish
For the last 20 years John has been coaching tennis, both as a club coach and working for the British Lawn Tennis Association with top young international players. Now living in Spain, John is able to provide top quality coaching for guests of Rio Frio Holidays.
One of John’s chief advantages as a coach lies in his knowledge and understanding of players, derived from having played professionally to reach a World Ranking of 84. He has competed in all 4 Grand Slam events and represented Great Britain at The Davis Cup in 1971 and 1972. At Wimbledon, he reached the semi-finals of the Men’s Doubles (with David Lloyd) and the Last 32 of the Men’s Singles.
John has also coached in the United States and in the Netherlands, where he worked as Head Pro in a top country club. Having worked and lived in the USA, Holland, Germany and the UK, as well as touring the world as a professional player, John is well able to understand and help players of all ages, standards and nationalities.
Rock Climbing & Scrambling
Silvia Fitzpatrick
Silvia runs the The Rock Climbing Company, which offers adventurous activities in both Snowdonia and Spain. Silvia is a Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor who has been climbing all over the world for more than 22 years. She holds the Mountain Instructor Award from the Association of Mountaineering Instructors and is also qualified as a Physical Education and Modern Language teacher and is fluent in Spanish, French and Italian.
Silvia has an impressive climbing CV that includes holding the title of British Indoor Climbing Champion in 1994. She was also a member of the British Competition Climbing Team from 1993 to 1995.
Yoga
Suzanne
Wildman-Chard
Suzanne holds a D. Sc. (Medical Sciences) and is qualified as a teacher of Hatha Yoga with the British School of Yoga. Suzanne specialises in a large range of Yoga teaching, including: classes for beginners, seniors, children with challenging behaviours, expectant mothers and Tantric.
Suzanne can count a number of UK celebrities amongst her clients and has made appearances on television. She was also a radio phone-in "agony aunt" for Radio Kent!
As well as being the resident Yoga teacher with Rio Frio Holidays, Suzanne is the director of The Wildman-Chard Centre for Yoga, Health and Beauty.
Rio Frio Holidays - Simply the best weight-loss, fitness & multi-activity holidays, short breaks & training camps
Rio Frio Holidays
Calle 28 De Febrero,14, 29200 Antequera, (Malaga), Spain
UK Free Phone 0-800-520-0814
ROI Free Phone 1-800-550-363
US & Canada Toll Free 1-866-934-2641
Spain Direct Line (0034) 952-840-631
[info@rio-frio.com]
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