Coach Azmir Zed is a national rugby player and a silver medalist at the 2015 SEA Games and Asia Rugby Championship Division 1 Champion (2016 & 2017). A chemical engineer by profession, he works part time as a boot camp instructor with an Australian Bootcamp company (he started as a recruit) where he leads the Ampang Platoon for two years and helped hundreds of clients to change their life before parting ways to start his own business – AZ FITNESS SDN BHD, Fitness Solutions from A to Z. AZ Fitness Sdn Bhd is the brand owner of the most talked about outdoor group workout program, Warriors Fitcamp which based on High Intensity Interval Training program and have 4 locations around Malaysia. In addition, he is also the current Team Leader for Jom Kurus 1 Malaysia (Kevin Zahri renowned weight loss program) for Ulu Klang area, where he has helped over 200 people to lose a total of more than 200kgs in just 6 weeks.
An avid runner, Azmir have raced four full marathons and countless of shorter distant runs. He also completed the 50km “The Most Beautiful Thing”, which is dubbed as one of the most challenging trail running in the region in which gave him the title Ultramarathoner. He has participated in a transformation program while he was under trainee and from this program; he learnt to clean up his everyday eating habits. Alhamdulillah, he have adopt it as part of a lifestyle instead of treating it as a diet. The combined knowledge for nutrition and the passion for training coupled by his strong positive aptitude made him a suitable candidate to train people.
Having experience both as a participant and a trainer, as well as going through a strict transformation program helps him to bring the best out of an individual going through a change in lifestyle. This is vital as he understood the wants and needs of any participant by being a participant himself. It is important for trainers to feel what the participants are feeling by undergoing the same program. Simply said – been there, done that! He is also a great motivator and believes in the importance of leading by example. As a family man, he also believes that a team shouldn’t just be a team, it should be like family! Only then great results can be achieved. Coach Azmir Zed is a strong believer that it is never too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle as your health should be YOUR NO 1 asset above all. All you need is the right mind set, attitude, willpower, guidance and most importantly a good support system to go through this phase.