About Luke
Luke Bunder is a former professional boxer, IIN holistic health coach, and a personal trainer of entrepreneurs.
Luke now coaches people to bring forth their best and unleash their full potential.
Luke's Past
Luke was born and raised in Newcastle, Australia. He had an active childhood, spending most of his time doing sports like surfing, skateboarding, biking, wakeboarding and rugby league. At the age of 14, he decided to commit his life to the sport of boxing.
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Luke faced some challenging times through his teen years and into his twenties. Although he was doing great in boxing he was deeply and constantly burdened by the personal traumas that ailed him. Boxing gave him a focus and a purpose to work toward during these challenging years.
Boxing
Luke fought against and trained alongside Olympians and World-Champions for over a decade as a boxer. He had a total of 70 total bouts in his career (amateur and professional boxing).
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Luke fell short of the Olympics twice in his two attempts.
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In 2016 Luke spent time training in Las Vegas before suffering a major injury to his shoulder. He returned home for surgery.
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Luke later became the NSW professional State Champion before jetting off to train alongside some of the best boxers and coaches in the world in New York City, USA.
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In 2019, while training in Brooklyn NYC, Luke decided to retire from boxing. Moving on from his professional boxing career, to expand his expertise and focus on coaching people on their mindset, joy, and performance.
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During his boxing career, Luke trained and learned from some of the finest coaches throughout Australia and America.
Experience & Qualifications
​At the age of 15, young Luke began coaching a variety of teens and adults who wanted to get fit and learn the skills and techniques of boxing. At 18 years old, he got Certified as a Fitness Coach and did thousands of hours of fitness coaching over the following decade.
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Luke worked with children in out-of-home crisis care for five years and as a personal trainer for over a decade, alongside his boxing career.
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While boxing Luke learned more than just the skills of the sport. He learned what it takes physically and mentally to compete as an elite-level athlete. He also gathered a wide range of knowledge in the areas of strategy, nutrition, supplementation, recovery, physical optimisation, mental optimisation, and performance psychology.
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Luke began to get certified in order to develop his skills as a professional coach, to earn credibility and trust, to grow personally and professionally, and to ensure he could get his clients the results they were coming to him for.
Luke overcame the decades of depression he had using the tools he learned during his studies. He became conscious of the subconscious limiting beliefs and narratives that kept him locked in the prison of his mind.
Since transitioning to professional coaching in 2019, his focus has been on becoming an expert in the field of coaching.
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Luke is now a Neuro-Semantic Trainer, a Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy™, is Certified in Hypnosis, is a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, and is on his way to becoming a Certified Executive Coach.
Luke has accumulated extensive coaching experience, with a diverse clientele: athletes, entrepreneurs, consultants, parents, teens, and the general public.
He has worked with diverse challenges such as depression, low confidence, anxiety, performance anxiety, social anxiety, stress management, emotional intelligence development, communication skills, career development, marital difficulties, relationship success, and sexual performance.
He has accumulated more than 650 hours of professional coaching in the last 5 years.
