Claire Mockridge is a qualified and experienced Personal Trainer, Fitness Instructor and Pilates Teacher with a passion for fitness and wellbeing. Originally from Australia, Claire gained her first UK fitness qualification in 2005 and set up her own business - Zest Health and Fitness that same year.

Early on in her career, Claire saw a real need for postnatal fitness classes in Nottingham, so helped fill this gap in the market by setting up Mummies and Buggies Postnatal Fitness Classes.  Bump to Babe Pregnancy Fitness Classes followed shortly thereafter, as it appeared there was a severe lack of antenatal fitness classes available to pregnant women outside of working hours.

Pilates has always been an interest of Claire's, and she set about gaining the highest Pilates qualification achievable in order to offer her clients safe, effective, up-to-date and research-based instruction.  Claire's Pilates short courses sell out from one course to the next and she really enjoys the "light-bulb moment" that Pilates gives her clients, particularly those who are new to the exercise method.

Claire's Little Black Dress Workout came about as a result of constant pleading from current and ex-postnatal clients desperate for an evening cardio/toning class they could attend in the evenings (whilst their other half looks after their baby).

When Claire isn't putting a lesson plan together for her classes, training at the gym, or doing Pilates herself, you'll find her out and about socialising with friends, watching an indie/foreign film, cooking up a storm in the kitchen, or curled up on the sofa reading.  She has travelled extensively in Europe, taught English abroad in Slovakia for 2 years and is classically musically trained, having played the piano for 17 years.