Meet Our Team
The Boss
BlocFit was started in 2014 by climber and personal trainer Dave Culver. The concept was to provide quality conditioning for climbers of all abilities and help them achieve their goals. Dave started out training clients in the training room of the Reach Climbing Wall before being offered his own studio space there.
Dave came late to climbing, before that he was a regular spit and sawdust bodybuilder for 10 years. His wealth of strength training knowledge from years in the gym helped him qualify as a Level 3 personal trainer specialising in strength and conditioning so that he could pursue his BlocFit dream. After 4 years at the Reach, Dave took the opportunity to build his own climbing gym in Brixton and BlocFit Brixton was born.
Nothing in life runs smoothly and after a year of trading and building the BlocFit brand a dispute between Dave’s landlords saw BlocFit evicted from their their premises in December 2019. With some hard work and a little luck Dave was able to relocate to a new railway arch in Brixton and rebuild the gym including more bouldering into the space and creating a great community gym.
Over the past 6 years, Dave has worked with climbing greats such as Neil Gresham, Hazel Findlay and Emma Twyford as well as training GB climbing team members such as Matt Cousins. BlocFit has now grown from one-on-one climbing-specific personal training to London’s best community climbing and training gym.