Tony David Nicholson

Tony Nicholson is a British and Brazilian Personal Trainer and Coach to CEO’s & Athletes in China. Tony has worked with many high-profile people all over the world, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, United States Ambassador to China Gary Locke, Yao Ming, Pan Shiyi, Zhang Xinand Yang Lan.

His own body transformation in 2010 has been the impetus by which audiences have connected and been inspired to work on their own personal transformations .

Early life

Nicholson was born to a British mother and a Brazilian father. He spent the first thirteen years of his life in Oman, where his father coached swimming and football teams. He later finished his education at a military school in the UK known as the Royal Hospital School. At the Royal Hospital School, Nicholson was awarded a scholarship to study at Hotchkiss, a boarding school in the United States . Nicholson was first introduced to the Chinese language in class at Hotchkiss, which opened his mind to the potential of working and creating a career in China at 17 years old .

Beginnings in China

At 19, Nicholson enrolled in Chaozhou college, located in provincial Guangdong. At Chaozhou, Nicholson was the only foreign student out of a student body of nearly 13,000. After obtaining his degree, Nicholson took a job teaching basic English to workers at a cup factory. In 2007 he moved to Beijing to enrol in the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study at Tsinghua University. After three years of Chinese Language Studies, Nicholson went to The University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) to study Chinese Business.

Career

Fitness

In 2009, on a visit to Dubai to see family Tony witnessed his father suffer a cardiac arrest. Tony carried his father to a car and rushed him to the nearest hospital, but by the time he arrived his father had entered a deep coma from which he would never emerge. Engulfed by grief, months of severe depression followed. He began working long hour jobs to cope with the grief, which negatively impacted his health and left him suffering from depression. Feeling overwhelmed, Nicholson entered the Beijing 12-Week Body Transformation Challenge to make a change. At the end of the 12 weeks, Nicholson was picked out of 50 contestants and won the Grand Prize of 100,000 Chinese Renminbi, which empowered Nicholson to launch a career in fitness. His inspiration came from educators such as Tony Robbins and Stedman Graham. After earning American and British Personal Trainer certifications, Nicholson started his own fitness company in China called 4 Point Fitness . Among his fitness achievements, Nicholson has been a certified official for the world record attempt at the plank for 9 hours, 11 minutes & 1 second. He was part of the largest simultaneous athlete plank session in the world, in [2013] he guided celebrities and the general public alike to a new world record in China, accredited by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Filmography

Television