Meet the Staff

Favorite Workout: Barre, TRX

Favorite Quote: “I haven’t the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.” -David Sedaris

Hobbies/Special Interests: Reading, Pittsburgh Sports and taking flack for it!

Advice for New Members: Personal training is one of the best investments you can make in your workouts. Even one half hour could teach you something you didn’t know.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree of Kinesiology, CSUF
• Associate of Applied Sciences Degree in Massage Therapy, CCBC
• Certified Personal Trainer, NASM
• Certified Pilates Instructor
• Group Personal Training Instructor

Experience

• Personal Training since 2004
• Group Exercise Instructor since 2006
• Pilates Trainer since 2006

Specialties

• TRX Suspension Training
• Advanced Stretching
• Pilates and Barre
• Weight Training and Weight Loss
• Core, Balance and Posture Training
• Running and BOSU Training

“Healthy Body, Healthy Life!”

Favorite Workout: Biking, Running, Hiking, Body Pump!

Favorite Quote: “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”   – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hobbies/Special Interests: Cooking, Traveling, Exercising, Reading, hanging out with family and friends.

Advice for New Members: Starting an exercise program is the easy part – sticking with it is the challenge. Some ways to help you stay on track with your fitness goals: set realistic and achievable goals, find an activity you enjoy, keep your body challenged by varying your workout (type and intensity), find a workout buddy, and most importantly listen to your body!!

Favorite Workout: Cycling, 2-3 mile walk

Favorite Quote: “Keep your face towards the sunshine and you will never see a shadow.” -Helen Keller

Hobbies/Special Interests: Reading / Politics

Advice for New Members: No excuses!

Favorite Workout: Body Vive, some cardio, a little strength work, and a whole body work out.

Favorite Quote: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”
―Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Hobbies/Special Interests: Cheering for my children on the soccer field.

Advice for New Members: Try everything at least 3 times.  The first time you try a class or a machine it may be awkward, give it another try, it will get easier, and more comfortable.  Then decide if it is something you want to do.

Qualifications

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer
• Balanced Body certified Pilates Mat instructor
• Balanced Body certified Pilates Reformer Instructor
• AED/CPR certified
• B.S. Sociology, Minor in Women’s Studies

Experience

• Personal Training since 2007
• Pilates/Barre Instructor since 2009
• Completed Resistance Training Specialist coursework
• Personal Fitness Experience since 1994
• Classical ballet training
• Completed local races distanced 5k thru half marathon since 2009

Specialties

• Strength training and education
• Core strengthening
• Weight loss and weight management
• 5k thru half marathon training

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

Qualifications

• NASM Certified Personal Trainer
• NASM Mixed Martial Arts Conditioning Specialist
• BBA, Loyola College in Maryland
• Juris Doctorate, University of Baltimore

Experience

• Personal Fitness experience since 1999
• Former martial artist
• Worked with deconditioned individuals

Specialties

• Core and Stability Training
• Endurance Training
• Hypertrophy Training
• Strength Training
• Weight Loss

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -Thomas Jefferson

Qualifications

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer since 2011
• American Red Cross CPR/AED Certified

Experience

• Coaching Experience since 2005
• Weight Loss Contest Winner

Specialties

• Strength Training
• Weight Loss/Weight Management
• Nutrition Guidance
• Core Strengthening

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.”
-George Bernard Shaw”

Qualifications

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer
• CPR/AED Certified

Experience

• 20 Years Personal Fitness Experience
• 20 Years Running Experience Including Marathon, Half-Marathon, 10-Miler and 5-K

Specialties

• Strength Training
• Interval and Circuit Training
• Weight Loss
• Nutritional Guidance

“Commit to be fit.”

Qualifications

• AAAI/ISMA Certified_
• American Red Cross AED/CPR certified

Experience

• Personal Trainer since 2012
• Lifelong fitness Enthusiast
• Collegiate athlete

Specialties

• Sports & Core Training
• Rehabilitation
• Weight Loss
• Strength and Conditioning

“Changing live through movement!”

Qualifications

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer
• AFAA Certified Personal Trainer

Experience

• Former Sports Performance Training Intern
• 7 Years of Wrestling Conditioning Experience
• Formerly Obese, Self-Conditioned Weight Loss

Specialties

• Weight & Explosive Power Training
• Sports Training
• Conditioning
• Weight Loss

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Qualifications

• NASM Certified Personal Trainer
• CPR/AED Certified
• Balanced Body Mat Pilates Instructor
• Bachelor of Science in Management

Experience

• 20+ Years Dance Experience
• Dance Teacher Since 2003

Specialties

• Weight loss
• Full Body Toning
• Core and Stability Training
• Post Pregnancy Fitness/Weight Loss

“If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up.”

Qualifications

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer
• Bachelor of Arts Degree: Sport Sciences University of the Pacific: Stockton CA
• Maryland State License for Massage Therapy

Experience

• Intern Athletic Trainer: Loyola College
• Head Athletic Trainer: Amos Alonzo Stagg HS

Specialties

• Rehabilitation Strengthening
• Stretching and corrective posture
• Core Training and coordination
• Weight Loss
• Cardio-Resistance Training
• Strength Training for Athletics

“When I was young I observed that 9 out of 10 things I did were failures, so I did 10 times more work.”
- Bernard Shaw

Qualifications

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer
• Balanced Body Mat Pilates Certified Instructor
• American Red Cross CPR/AED Certified

Experience

• Group Fitness Instructor since 2008
• Women’s Health & Fitness
• Fitness Enthusiast
• Couch to 5k – Training/Running 5K & 6K

Specialties

• Group Personal Training
• Women’s Health & Fitness
• Core Strengthening
• Total Body Toning

“Attitude is a small thing that can make a BIG Difference.” ~ Winston Churchill”

Qualifications

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer_
• ACE Certified Golf Conditioning Specialist_
• ACE Certified Lifestyle & Weight Management Consultant
• Pete Twist Certified Sports Conditioning, Instruction & Nutrition Coach

Experience

• 20 years Law Enforcement, 12 years Director of The Police Athletic League
• 5 years TRX Certified Instructor
• 5 years Todd Durkin Certified Boot Camp Instructor
• 30 years Coaching and personal fitness experience

Specialties:

• Weight Loss
• Sports Specific Training- Football, Lacrosse, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer etc.
• Strength & Bodybuilding
• Endurance Training

“…let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us…”
- Hebrews 12:1

Qualifications

• B.S. Sport and Exercise Psychology
• AFAA Certified Personal/Fitness Trainer
• CPR/AED/First Aid Certified

Experience

• PEIA Weight Management Counselor
• Personal Trainer since 2008
• Life long personal fitness experience
• Former Collegiate Athlete

Specialties

• Psychological Counseling of fitness and exercise
• Strength, Conditioning, and High Intensity Training
• Core/Cardio/Balance Training
• Weight Loss, Weight Management, and Nutrition Guidance

“With Fitness and Wellness, anything and everything is possible’ the thing is…it’s up to you to accomplish it.”

Qualifications

• NASM Certified Personal Trainer
• CPR Certified

Experience

• Personal Training since 2000
• Competitive marathoner and triathlete since 1999
• Metabolic Conditioning Training since 2009

Specialties

• Endurance Specific Training
• Core and Stability Training
• Metabolic Conditioning
• Weight Loss and Management

“In order to achieve your goals you need to learn how to get out of your comfort zone.”