About
Isabelle Russell-Fibuch
Personal Trainer
I'm a mobile Personal Trainer, Lifestyle Practitioner, and dance teacher with a passion for movement and well-being.
With over a decade of experience, I believe in a balanced approach to fitness—one that supports your goals while respecting your body's needs. Whether you're looking to improve strength, mobility, or overall health, I’m here to guide you with care and expertise.
My diverse training, from dance to specialist fitness qualifications, allows me to support a wide range of clients. Let’s work together to help you feel stronger, healthier, and more confident in your body.
Testimonials
I credit Issy with keeping me mobile and I am so grateful I found her. She is an outstanding personal trainer: patient, encouraging, and genuinely dedicated to helping you achieve your fitness goals.
Passionate about what she does, Issy is also endlessly curious and proactive about expanding her knowledge. I have Ehlers Danos Syndrome (a connective tissue disorder), and she made it her business to research it so she could help me get the best out of our sessions. That's a rarity in today's 'one size fits all' world.
Ongoing professional development courses have given Issy a deep understanding of how the body works, which allows her to quickly adapt and customise training routines for her clients.
So, whether you just want to get upgrade your fitness, or have specific needs, such as post-op or post-injury, cancer, post-natal, or oldies focused on maintaining balance, flexibility, and movement, Issy offers solutions. I've lost count of the number of times she's quickly switched up a movement I couldn't achieve to one that worked for me.
I have no hesitation in recommending Issy as a personal trainer. In fact, I'd go so far as to say you are lucky to have found her!
I’ve never been a natural exerciser, but working with Issy has made all the difference.
She has an incredible ability to make me laugh while still getting me to push through the workout.
What really stands out is her adaptability—she knows exactly how to adjust the exercises to meet my needs and deal with my lack of motivation on tough days.
Her kindness and sense of humour make all the difference, especially when I’m resistant to exercise.
She’s the perfect combination of supportive, encouraging, and fun, which has helped me stick with it!
I found Issy when I was looking for a personal trainer to help me through post-cancer surgeries and treatment.
She has the fantastic combination of specialist knowledge when it comes to building back up from cancer treatment and also women's health issues (e.g. menopause).
She is very personable, warm and fun. She can keep pushing you just enough to keep you motivated and going.
I credit her with helping me through those initial times and helping me maintain good fitness for the future.
ISSY, QUITE LITERALLY, HAS CHANGED MY LIFE.
After breaking my neck in a fall down stairs in January 2023, I had surgery for a 360 degree fixation at C6/7 and was left with impaired mobility and balance and nerve pain in arms and hands due to stenosis. Rehabilitation was made more challenging by a pre-existing painful back condition (DISH) and broken ankle. By the summer of 2023, I did not have the strength and mobility to do stairs, get in and out of vehicles or even chairs un-aided and was advised by the Spinal Consultant to apply for a Blue Badge. I was feeling pretty low.
After a recommendation by a friend, I met with Issy in October of that year and immediately was drawn to her personable and outgoing nature, her professionalism and clear communication skills. I needed someone positive, patient and non-judgemental to inspire and motivate me, to understand my limitations and to know when and how to push me and Issy has certainly fulfilled those criteria.
Issy demonstrated her understanding of my medical challenges during the fitness assessment and right from the start has had a structured and tailored workout plan to restore mobility and muscle strength and comes well prepared for our sessions. Luckily, Issy is flexible and takes our one to one training at my home where sessions are adjusted (or massages performed!) and exercises tweaked to make best use of the environment and my physical and mental capacity on the day. Issy brings an eclectic array of music and is certainly not short of creativity introducing elements of her experience in dance and elite fitness projects into our workouts. She is focussed and engaged during our sessions, but we still manage to have a chat and a laugh! The hour goes quickly and I really enjoy our time together.
Issy logs and tracks our workouts on the app and also sends personal notes with fitness goals which I use to help maintain consistency and compliment my training outside of sessions. Issy has always shown genuine interest in my well-being, lifestyle and nutrition and, since the beginning of this year, she has supported me with my desire to lose weight and reframe my relationship with alcohol. As well as introducing me to a fitness app to help understand nutrition goals, Issy has passed on plenty of actionable tips on how to improve my diet and to lose weight in a sustainable manner, whilst keeping a metrics record. She checks in regularly with me for both physical and emotional responses to our training and will modify plans to keep on track.
Issy is inspirational and I consider her as my mentor and coach. I trust her. She seems invested in my success and, without her passion, encouragement and support, I would not be the person I am now 2 years on from the traumatic injury. And there’s still more to train for …..so, Issy, you may be stuck with me for a while longer!
Alix Barbor