Coaches

Andy Edwards - Owner/Coach
Tel: 07968 233 220

e: dragoncrossfit@gmail.com

CrossFit Weightlifting Coach
CrossFit Kids Coach
CrossFit Endurance Coach
CrossFit Level 1 Certified Coach

BWLA Assistant Club Coach
Level 3 Personal Trainer

Level 3 Sports Nutrition

Level 2 Functional Training

BSc Chemistry (University of Bath)

Andy is a highly motivated, results orientated Human Performance trainer who believes in a positive and encouraging environment for training.

From  his teens and early 20's Andy played professional rugby in Wales and England, and represented Wales at Age Grade. Due to his love of fitness he always has and will search for the best training methods that get results.

Now a Health and Fitness practitioner his goal is for you to unlock your potential and achieve your training goals.

Andy promotes the CrossFit method and has trained and learnt from various CrossFit Owners, Numerous Sports Coaches and Athletes while travelling round the world. Including Commonwealth Wrestlers, Australian Army Special Forces Commandos, All Black Rugby Players and Master Strength and Conditioning Coaches.

While Travelling Australia and New Zealand Andy competed in various CrossFit competitions culminating in the 2010 Australasian Regional with a top 10 finish.

'CrossFit has made me the fittest/healthiest I have ever been. If there was anything else out there-I'd be doing it'

Simon Harris Owner/Coach
Tel: 07976 634 307
e: dragoncrossfit@gmail.com

CrossFit Weightlifting Coach
CrossFit Level 1 Certified Trainer
American College of Sports Medicine: Health and Fitness Instructor
ACSM Advanced Personal Trainer
ACSM Exercise with Elderly Populations
ACE Certified PT
Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor
WRU Level 3 Coach
Ex-Fitness Coach Wales Rugby Under 21’s and Under 18’s
NLP Master Practioner

Simon has featured on TV, radio and national press as a fitness advisor. Simon promotes the CrossFit method of conditioning. He particularly enjoys the challenge each workout sets, the camaraderie and support in the sessions, and the community CrossFit helps builds. “I just want to make sure that our clients get the safest, most effective workout, and get the benefits of our Dragon CrossFit community”.

Simon has been in the Health and Fitness industry over 14 years, is inspired daily by the effort and commitment clients put into their workouts, and the benefits clients get from CrossFit. Not only does CrossFit train the body completely, it is based on achieving personal goals, which provides the mental motivation needed to keep our clients pushing above and beyond their current set of “limits.” There are no glass ceilings here.


“Quite simple, I haven’t found anything that delivers results like CrossFit. If I find something that delivers better than CrossFit, I will without hesitation offer that to my clients ”

Dragon CrossFit has hosted the following International Rugby Union teams; All Blacks, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Fiji, Canada. World Champion boxer Steve Robinson, Cardiff City Football Club, Glamorgan County Cricket, Cardiff Blues.

Robin Sowden-Taylor -Coach

CrossFit (L1-CF) Trainer
Crossfit Mobility and Movement Trainer
REPs Personal Trainer Certificate (Active IQ)
Level 3 Nutrition (Active IQ)
TRX Suspension Training Instructor
UKSCA Program Planning Workshop
UKSCA Level 1 Strength and Conditioning

Robin was a professional international rugby player for over ten years. He represented his country, Wales, at all levels and also played in the Commonwealth Games. He retired from professional rugby and is still incredibly passionate about fitness and wellbeing. Robin has a particular interest in fitness and nutrition and has undertaken numerous academic training programmes and completed nationally accredited examinations.

Over years of training as a professional sportsman, Robin has an incredible amount of knowledge and insight into exercise, nutrition and the affect that this has on the human body. Robin has worked with some of the top Fitness coaches and Nutritionists in the UK and as a result of his own considerable knowledge he is in a position to help others to understand how to lead healthy lifestyles and reap the benefits. Making small but important changes in everyday life can have significant long-term benefits.


 "I get no greater satisfaction than seeing people achieve their own personal goals regardless of how big or small they may seem. When planning my training programs I specifically aim at helping clients achieve their goals but in ways that are exciting and varied"

Dan Edwards - Intern

BSc (hons) Sport and Exercise Science – UWIC

Community Sports Leader

Dan is a recent CrossFit addict who believes that elite fitness should be available to everyone who has the courage to pursue it.

From training out of his friends’ garage gym, Dan got a feel for the sense of community that the CrossFit methodology embodies and began to train harder and harder alongside his friends.

However, moving away to university saw Dan searching for a new gym, more friends and new experiences; all of which he found at Dragon CrossFit. Since joining DC Dan’s strength, power, flexibility, nutrition, confidence and overall fitness have dramatically improved and he has seen the benefits. Feeling better than ever, a passion for coaching developed and with the fantastic environment at DC this was nurtured into potential and opportunities presented themselves.

Dan competed in the 2010 CrossFit Velocity Divided We Fall Games with a successful team from Reading. Stepping up to the mark to help out a CrossFit team in need of an extra member; this is what the community is all about!

“Since starting CrossFit my way of thinking has changed; I attack everything in my day-to-day life with the same intensity and commitment as I do in the gym. CrossFit is not just my training programme, it’s my way of life.”