Meet David Montelongo Sports Massage Therapist

Meet David

Hi, I’m David and I am from the Canary Islands, all my life sports and exercise have been my passion practising several sports at the amateur level like swimming, futsal or boxing. This passion led me to study Physical Education and Sports at Gran Canaria University in Spain.

I was single-minded on high performance, so I did a Master’s in this subject and worked in gyms, as a swim instructor and with semi-professional football teams as a fitness coach. With time, my interest shifted to health and well-being and how people’s lives and health can be improved through exercise. I decided to retrain and enrolled to study Sport Rehabilitation at Queen Margaret University to acquire knowledge on how to use exercise for health and rehabilitation.

As a personal trainer, I’m thrilled to help people achieve their aims of improving their fitness and becoming healthier, to encourage and give strategies to make possible the inclusion of exercise in daily life or to have better nutrition patterns.

I always have done exercise to keep me healthy physically and mentally and, though the last 4 years I’ve been very busy with studying, I found time to go to the gym and swimming and I also cycle everywhere in Edinburgh. Now that I finish the BSc I expect to go back to train boxing to keep me fit.