Locomotivation

Locomotivation and Steve Erkkila Our mission is to provide safe, friendly and knowledgeable exercise and motivation training sessions.

Our clients enjoy a fun, non-pressured working environment in which they can achieve their personal goals, including weight loss, toning, confidence, fitness or speed improvement. Locomotivation caters to: Track Athletes, General Fitness, Mums, Children, and everyone in between. Steve Erkkila of Locomotivation:

I started competitive athletics when I was 16 yrs old after running in my younger days

for Western Suburbs. Near the end of my first season after winning Auckland C**t Sprint Titles I was introduced to Coach Russ Hoggard who took me into his training squad. From there I progressed well to become NZ Junior 400m Champ and NZ Junior 100m record holder. As a senior athlete I won my first NZ 100m title in 1973, then again in 1975 and 1977. In 1977 I also won the NZ 200m title and set the NZ 100m record of 10.4. Unfortunately serious ill health prevented me competing in 1974, 1976 and 1978. All Commonwealth or Olympic Games years of competition, however I did represent NZ every year I competed and my highlight was making the World Cup team in 1977 to Germany and Coach Russ Hoggard was also part of the management team which was great to have your coach touring with you. In 2000 I set up a training school for sprinting based at Mt Smart and over the next 4yrs helped many young athletes improve their running mechanics and over all speed. Many of these athletes went on to win Auckland or NZ titles and represent their country in their chosen events and are still competing at present I was then invited by Russ to join the Development training squad at the Bays and my daughter Jenna and I crossed the bridge to become part of the bays family which we are both enjoying considerably and look forward to a continued close association. I get immense enjoyment and pride being part of my athlete’s progress and admire their dedication and commitment to their sport and their attempt in vain to get me to learn the correct words to the song Iam trying to sing. Other Coaching Achievements. Accredited NRL Specialist Coach (Speed and Agility) NZ Warriors Speed and Agility Coach, NZ Warriors Woman Speed and Agility Coach, Speed, Fitness and Agility Coach for several senior rugby and rugby league teams,
Member Athletics Coaches Association of NZ, NZ Secondary Schools Sprint and Relay Coach, Auckland representative Sprint and Relay Coach, Athletics North representative Sprint and Relay Coach, Director of Coaching, Mt Albert Grammar Sprint Academy.

05/05/2026

An original sporting photo from the past popped up yesterday. It was taken in the January of 1977 and shows from left to right Hasley Crawford (Trinidad Tobago) Olympic 100m Champion 1976, Don Quarry (Jamaica) Olympic 200m Champion 1976, Alan Wells (Scotland) Olympic 100m Champion 1980 and myself exploding of the starting blocks at the start of a 100m sprint. Great memories from some 49yrs ago 😎

23/04/2026

An athletes bond with their coach is so very important. We both share in the athletes improvements and successes, on the flip side I also believe their athletes failures to some extent are a reflection of their coaching 🏃‍♀️🏃🏿

20/04/2026

Fabulous speed session this morning at the Auckland Domain with super talented athlete 20yr old Leonie Beyer. Can’t wait to see you burn up the athletic tracks next athletic season young lady, your “Porter James” work mates will be so proud of their sprinting star 😎👏💙

13/04/2026

A great early morning training session with these four talented Carmel College First Eleven Hockey Players at the AUT Millennium today starting at 7.30am. A top speed session ladies, very well done champions. From left to right is Seren, Sophie, Emmy and Aless. 😎👏🏑

31/03/2026

Great watching my 9yr old grandson Bos competing in his primary school zones cross country competition this morning.Mummy, Poppy and I were so proud of you little champion. Well done young man, love Poppa 😎👏💙

22/03/2026

Fabulous results for 7yr old Ashlee Marmont today at the Bays Athletics championships.
Ashlee achieved 6 gold medals and one silver medal and produced 5 personal bests which is simply an amazing performance. Well done young champion. I’m so proud of you 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🥈👏😎💙
1st 60m
1st 100m
1st 200m.
1st 800m
1st discus
1st shot put
2nd Long jump

17/03/2026

Huge congratulations to my 7yr old granddaughter Madison Rae, who on Saturday at her Glen Eden athletic clubs championships broke the 7yr girls 60 meter record with an outstanding time of 9.21 seconds. As a footnote that makes 3 generations of our family who now still hold current track records at the Glen Eden Club, spanning over 35yrs. I feel very few athletic clubs in NZ could equal that result. So pleased Club Chairman Neil has had the honour of recording all our families records at the Glen Eden Club over the last 35+ years. Great job mate Steve 👏😎

15/03/2026

Great acceleration and ball running technique by 15yr old U16 NZ Tag Black Quinn O’Hara. Great work mate

14/03/2026

Fabulous acceleration and technique shown by 15yr old Quinn O’Mara who is playing for Niue in the big Tag Tournament out in South Auckland this weekend. Quinn has also been selected to represent NZ in the U16 Tag Blacks at the World Cup in October this year being held in Coffs Harbour Sydney. Huge congratulations my mate, I’m so proud of you. Steve 😎👏🏉

14/03/2026

So cool to watch my 8yr old granddaughters Glen Eden Athletics Club Championships today. Madie Rae threw, jumped and sprinted superbly. It seemed just like yesterday we were watching her mum Jenna Rae perform for the same club some 28yrs ago. Well done Madi, Poppa is so proud of you young lady. 🏃🏾‍♀️👏💙

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Auckland

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+64211233437

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http://www.locomotivation.co.nz/

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Greater Auckland
Auckland
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