Expert Pilates & Personal Training
Helping you move with strength, confidence and ease
through personalised one-to-one sessions in Fordcombe, Kent.
How can I help?
Every body is different. Whether you’re looking to recover from injury, improve your strength, move more freely or simply enjoy exercise again, every session is tailored to your goals.
Jon Croft
I’m a STOTT Pilates Reformer Instructor, Body Control Pilates Matwork Instructor and qualified Personal Trainer. Before teaching Pilates, I spent over a decade working internationally as a professional dancer.
Move Better
Move with greater ease, confidence and control. Improve mobility, balance and coordination, while developing a deeper understanding of how your body moves.
Build Strength
Develop practical, whole-body strength that supports you in every day life. Using Pilates apparatus, resistance training and weights, we can build strength progressively and intelligently.
Improve Fitness
Build stamina, energy and overall physical fitness with training tailored to your current level. Sessions can combine strength, conditioning and movement to help you. feel fitter and more capable.
Improve Performance
Refine strength, control and movement for sport, dance or demanding physical goals. Training can be adapted to the particular movement, strengths and challenges that matter to you.
Recover from Injury
Use intelligent, considered movement to help you return from injury and manage persistent aches or limitations. Sessions are adapted around your needs, with an emphasis on moving freely.
Return to Exercise
If injury, surgery or simply time away had made exercise feel daunting, we can start from where you are now. Build confidence and capacity gradually at a pace that feels achievable.
About Jon
Having danced professionally for over a decade, I know how much of a difference it makes to feel strong, capable and confident in your own body. I also know what it is like when your body gets in the way. Years of dancing brought their share of injuries and persistent lower-back pain, and ultimately led me to Pilates and strength training, first for myself, and then as a career.
Today, my approach combines Pilates, strength training and a detailed understanding of movement to create sessions around the individual in front of me. There is no standard programme that everyone follows. Some clients come to me because they are in pain or returning from injury; others want to become stronger, improve their movement or simply keep doing the things they love for as long as possible.
I only teach methods that I genuinely believe in and use myself. I want my clients not just to perform exercises, but to understand why we are doing them and what they can learn about their own body along the way.
Many of my clients have trained with me for years, long after the original reason they came to see me has been resolved. I even still teach some of the dancers I first worked with more than ten years ago when I lived in Paris, albeit now via Zoom!
The feedback I value most is when clients tell me they understand their bodies better as a result of working with me. Although, after this many years, nobody has yet managed to improve my taste in 80s music.
STOTT PILATES®
Reformer Instructor
BODY CONTROL PILATES®
Matwork Instructor
PHYSICALMIND INSTITUTE®
Pilates Apparatus
PERSONAL TRAINING
Level 3 Personal Trainer
A private space to move
Croft Fitness is a private Pilates and personal training studio in the Kent countryside close to Tunbridge Wells, designed for focused, individual training away from the atmosphere of a busy gym.
The studio is fully equipped with Pilates Reformers and Stability Chair, alongside free weights, TRX and other strength and conditioning equipment. This means sessions aren’t restricted to one method — we can use the equipment that best suits you and what you want to achieve.
ONE-TO-ONE
Your session, your goals
FULLY EQUIPPED
pilates and strength equipment
PRIVATE
A quiet, dedicated studio
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Let’s get you moving
Whether you know exactly what you’re looking for or you’d like to talk through what might suit you.