Full Name Tony Nicholson Years active 2003–present Website www.4pointfitness.com Role Personal trainer | Occupation Exercise instructor Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Name Tony Nicholson Residence Beijing, China | |
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Tony Nicholson is a half British, Brazilian personal trainer and coach, known for his articles in Beijing based wellness magazines, as well as his wellness contributions to the Beijing community. He has become well known to his audience for having achieved his own body transformation in 2010. Nicholson has nine years of experience as a certified personal trainer and has been certified by ten American and British certifications. Nicholson has been featured in many articles in Beijing magazines for his achievements and has appeared on CCTV as a promotional track and field athlete. Nicholson has also appeared on the front cover of The Beijinger. Nicholson has also started his own fitness company called 4PointFitness.
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Early life
Nicholson was born to a British mother and a Brazilian father. He spent the first 13 years of his life in Oman during which his dad coached swimming and football teams. He later finished his education at a military school in the UK. There, he was awarded a scholarship to study at Hotchkiss, a boarding school in the United States. That is where he was first introduced to the Chinese language, during a Chinese class he took.
Move to China
Nicholson first moved to China at 19 when he enrolled in Chaozhou college, a university in provincial Guangzhou in which he was the only foreign student out of nearly 13,000. After two years he got his degree and got a job teaching workers at a cup factory basic English. In 2007 he moved to Beijing to study 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 to study Business Chinese.
Transition into fitness
In 2009, when Nicholson was affected by serious family problems, he began working long hour jobs to cope with the grief. Three months into it he realized he had gotten caught in a cycle of depression and sought to make a change by entering the Beijing 12 week body transformation challenge. At the end of the 12 weeks he was picked out of 50 contestants as the best overall winner and won the grand prize of 100,000 Chinese Renmenbi. The money he won allowed him to quit his job and begin a career in fitness. Since then Nicholson has appeared on CCTV as a promotional track and field athlete, has been featured in an article of China Daily and appeared on the front cover of The Beijinger. He has recently started his own fitness company called 4PointFitness and hopes to go study at Harvard Business School.