Owner & Founder

Dan Knust.

Dan Knust.

Daniel is a highly qualified coach, professional natural bodybuilder, powerlifter, personal trainer and mentor, who is extremely passionate about helping people achieve success through better quality of life, mindset, fat loss, health, strength and fitness.

Recently winning his professional bodybuilding status, by winning the State championships in natural bodybuilding, as well as the overall Australian title, to be crowned Mr Australia in ICN.
Then going on to represent Australia at the Natlympia International pro show in Bali, placing 3rd.

As a fitness professional who walks the walk, Dan has worked with literally thousands of clients from all walks of life over the years, and has a very unique and exciting skill set.

Daniel founded his own business, Definition Fitness in 2008.
Since then it has become the Illawarra’s most successful, results based training facility, located in the Wollongong CBD, 56-58 Swan St NSW.

Daniel has studied under world renowned strength and bodybuilding coaches, for a number of years having travelled all over the country many times to seek out experts in different fields.

Over recent years Dan has built a reputation for achieving amazing results in fat loss, body transformations and muscle gain with hundreds of clients.
Along with this, Dan also coaches bikini and fitness models, bodybuilders, competitive powerlifters, athletes and general public with great success.

Specializing in:

  • Natural Bodybuilding
  • Advanced Nutritional programming
  • Strength and Conditioning
  • Muscle Gain
  • Fat Loss
  • Body Transformations

Qualifications and Experiences in the Industry:

  • Certificate III in Fitness
  • Certificate IV in Fitness
  • Professional Natural Bodybuilder winning his Pro card in 2017
  • Australian Natural Bodybuilding champion in 2017
  • 3rd Placing at Natlympia international Pro natural bodybuilding show
  • 24 week comp prep completed under renowned comp prep coach Rawdon Dubois ‘The Dubois Method’
  • ASCA Strength & Conditioning Coach
  • AWF Olympic Weightlifting Coach
  • Clean Health Performance Centre Level 1 and Level 2 Internship
  • Charles Poliquin Fat Loss and Hypertrophy Bootcamp
  • Poliquin and Dmitry Klokov world tour ‘Training the Strength Athlete’
  • Adonis Powerlifting Seminar
  • Layne Norton 1 day camp bodybuilding, powerlifting and nutrition 

  • IFBB pro John Meadows 3 day Muscle Camp in Melbourne
  • Eugene Teo Muscle Mechanic camp Sydney
  • 3 day camp with 3DMJ Melbourne
  • Poliquin BioSignature Practitioner
  • 1 week Intense Bodybuilding Comp with world renowned IFBB pro and coach Milos Sarcev. Focus on Bodybuilding and Bikini comp prep Training and nutrition.
  • ‘Building the Beast’ 3 day camp with IFBB pro John Meadows and Paul Carter Coveroing bodybuilding, comp prep, nutrition and strength training
  • Chad Wesley Smith Powerlifting Seminar
  • Private Powerlifting Seminar with John Paul Cauchi – 2 time junior world champion powerlifter
  • 9 months being coached under powerlifter John Paul Cauchi - 2 time junior world champion
  • 1 Day Eugene Teo Muscle Mapping Workshop