About me:

I’m Matthew Ryan Carney, 43 years young and originally from Austin, Texas. I moved to Sydney permanently in 2025 to be with my partner, Jooliet, after visiting regularly for a couple of years. We first met at yoga teacher training in Bali!

I really love living in Australia, the nature, beautiful beaches, fitness culture and people too. I have been blessed with great fortune and happiness here, so far.

22 years Personal Training

15 years Pilates Instruction
6 Years Precision Nutrition Coaching

3 Years Yoga Instruction

B.Sc. Exercise Science, University of Texas, 2008

Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (NSCA-CSCS)

Strength & Conditioning coach at Chelsea Piers SportsCenter, New York, 2008-2012

Gym + Pilates studio owner (VBodies, Austin, 2015-2020)

Fitness & Wellness Specialist on The World Residential Ship (2023-2024)

In my 20’s, I was a strength and conditioning coach, but suffered from chronic back and shoulder pain from unresolved sports injuries. After several years of pain, I finally found the precision corrective techniques of therapeutic Pilates, which resolved my pain, and restored my confidence in staying pain-free.

Now, after 15 years of teaching Pilates, I teach weight training with the same safe, precise techniques in the gym as well. This helps clients feel stronger, more flexible and agile, add muscle and bone density, reduce body fat, often reducing or resolving aches and pains as well.

Over my career working with hundreds of PT clients, and thousands of group exercisers, I have seen many people improve the course of their lives (and their family’s lives) with small, strategic changes to their fitness program, mindset, or nutrition plan.

With this shared experience I believe we can all truly feel younger, and better, at an older age, if we seek to find a longevity-minded fitness and wellness program that works for us.

Sometimes, it’s the attention to detail— precision corrective work that can only be addressed in 1-on-1, in-person training— that becomes that turning point in our lives.

Working together, we will address your fitness and wellness goals while executing a program that will be designed to bring you success, knowledge, and joy— with sustainable results now, and confidence in your body’s better future.

Find me on Youtube @MatthewCarneyPilates