Meet Your 
COACH

Hey, I’m Callan. Growing up, I’ve always been actively involved in sports. I started in surf lifesaving and played extensively in some team sports; including Australian Rules Football and indoor cricket. 

I liked the team aspect of fitness. I joined the Royal Australian Navy, where I had the honour of training some of the most elite operatives as their physical training instructor. I loved the physical challenge of training hard. The preparation for selection as a Navy Physical Training Instructor was gruelling, and it seemed like a natural path for me to push myself and others to their best performance possible.

When I left the Navy, I knew I wanted to help people to achieve their fitness goals. Getting shredded and jacked was fine, but if people didn’t know how to sustain their results long term, it was just going to be another short term fad. That’s why I set about designing the best coaching I could; the most support, the tried and tested evidence-based methods that cut through the industry rubbish, and the most accountability possible.

I’ve been training people for a decade, and have helped hundreds of people to get into incredible shape. They feel better in their 30s than they did at 18, with more energy, more connection to their partners, and more clarity about what’s essential for their results. They could channel all their efforts into executing properly on the things that matter. ​

Callan McDonald

Founder and Head Coach

 “Your body can stand almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince.”

VERY SMART PERSON

About ELITE FUNCTIONAL TRAINING

At Elite Functional Training, we use a unique 5 Step Eco System for Success. The Five Pillars are the foundation for long term results. We believe in training hard but also using expert programming to get fantastic results. This has to be paired up with easy to follow nutrition that tastes great so you can stay on track. There are also three other key pillars that we focus on, the third being sleep as this plays a massive role on everything from our recovery to the hormones responsible for our food choices. Then we must create healthy new habits that become a part of who we are and what we do. Finally our life style outside of the gym, what do we do in our spare time, are we a couch potato or are we active driven individual?

The people we help have often tried to change a few times before. Still, without supportive coaches guiding them, it’s easy to fall victim to the nonsense in the industry. We help people who understand that without their health, it’s impossible to prioritise anything else in life. So good health, energy levels and fitness are becoming a front-and-centre critical priority in their lives, because with this everything else just falls into place