Expert Personal Training in Berkhamsted
EXPERT PERSONAL TRAINING
Twenty years. One place. An unwavering standard.
The Chapel was founded on a straightforward conviction — that expert, genuinely personal training, delivered in an exceptional environment, changes lives. Two decades later, that conviction has never wavered.
Our Journey
The foundations of The Chapel were laid in 2003, beginning with a small group of committed guests — many of whom train with us to this day.
In 2005, the former chapel building on Chapel Street became available. What followed was a gradual and considered transformation — the walled garden, the bronze doors, the chandelier reception, the grand piano — each detail chosen deliberately, each one part of an environment unlike anything else in Hertfordshire.
Over twenty years and more than 150,000 sessions, The Chapel has become synonymous with discreet, expert personal training in Berkhamsted. Our expertise has been trusted at the highest levels — including over ten years working with the English National Ballet on their more complex rehabilitation and performance conditioning cases. That same precision, care and clinical knowledge is what every Chapel guest receives.
The loyalty of our guests has shaped everything. Almost 75% have trained with us for between five and fifteen years.
The Chapel is not a gym they visit. It is part of how they live.
150,000+
Sessions delivered
20 Years
Serving Berkhamsted
75%
Guests stay
5-15yrs
Specialist
Cardiac & Injury Rehabilitation
How we work
Every guest is known personally. Their programme is built entirely around them — their goals, their body, their life — and evolves as their needs change.
Our work is discreet and confidential. We know that the people who train with us value privacy as much as they value results. Both are guaranteed.
Our knowledge extends beyond traditional personal training — often helping guests structure and co-ordinate broader aspects of their health, movement and lifestyle. Integrity, expertise and genuine care are the foundation of everything we do.
Alex Minors — Founder
Alex founded The Chapel in 2003 and has led every aspect of its development since — from the environment to the training philosophy to the standard of every session delivered.
With over twenty years of experience, Alex's expertise spans performance conditioning, injury rehabilitation and the kind of long-term health work that defines The Chapel's approach. For ten years, Alex worked directly alongside the English National Ballet, providing rehabilitation and performance conditioning to their dancers at the highest level — work that demanded both clinical precision and genuine understanding of the body under exceptional demands.
Alex holds a BACPR Phase IV qualification in cardiac rehabilitation exercise — one of a small number of personal trainers in the UK to do so — and this clinical grounding shapes the way every guest's programme is designed and overseen.
Alex oversees a team of seven full-time trainers, each selected for their expertise, their character and their commitment to the standard The Chapel demands.
The Chapel's reputation has been built quietly, through results and relationships. That is entirely by design.
Our approach begins with a genuine, considered interest in each guest — forming the foundation for training that is bespoke, thoughtful and appropriate to individual needs.
Ten years working with the English National Ballet
