Meet the Staff

Favorite Workout: Pilates, Strength Training

Favorite Quote: “If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right.” -M.K. Ash

Hobbies/Special Interests: Hiking, time with my kids and the Beach.

Advice for New Members: Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do for yourself today.

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: 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: Back and Shoulders

Favorite Quote: Just Do It!

Hobbies/Special Interests: Football, Huge Cowboys Fan, Sports in general, Working out, cars, video games

Advice for New Members: Getting started is the hardest part. Once you get started and form a habit the rest is fun.

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
• American Red Cross CPR/AED/First Aid Certified
• 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

• 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

• NSPA Certified Personal Trainer
• American Red Cross CPR/AED/First Aid Certified
• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

Experience

• Lifelong Fitness Advocate
• Physical Therapy Volunteer Experience

Specialties

• Weight Loss
• Cardiovascular Conditioning
• Muscle Conditioning
• High Intensity Training
• Flexibility

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
- Theodore Roosevelt”

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
• Red Cross CPR/AED Certified

Experience

• Group Fitness Instructor since 2008
• Women’s Health & Fitness
• Fitness Enthusiast
• training/running 5K

Specialties

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

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

Qualifications

• ACE Certification
• CPR & AED Certification

Experience

• 20 years of Law Enforcement
• 12 years, Director of The Baltimore Police Athletic League
• Coaching youth and adult athletics for over 20 years
• 28 years personal fitness experience

Specialties

• Weight Loss
• Sports Training
• Strength Training

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

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.”