Meet the Staff

Favorite Workout: Mix of cardio and weights.

Favorite Quote: ”The only thing holding you back from success is yourself!”

Hobbies/Special Interests: I enjoy theater, working out, socializing with friends, enjoying the outdoors.

Advice for New Members: Stay positive and always have a goal to work towards.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Athletic Training
• B.S. in Biology (Anatomy/Physiology)
• B.S. in Exercise Science
• NSCA Certified Personal Trainer

Experience

• Athletic Trainer at Towson University for:
  • Men’s/Women’s Basketball
  • Softball
  • Baseball
  • Field Hockey
  • Men’s/Women’s Lacrosse
  • Football

Specialties

• Rehabilitation of Lower and Upper Extremities
• PNF Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Training

“All it takes is a step in the right direction.”

Qualifications:

• American Red Cross Certified Lifeguard Instructor
• American Red Cross Fundamentals of Instructor Training Instructor
• Maryland State Certified Pool Operator
• B.A. Criminology and Sociology from Rutgers University

Experience:

• Former Competitive Swimmer
• Over 15 years Teaching Learn to Swim Programs
• 10 years experience in Swimming Pool Management

Specialties:

• Beginner to Advanced Swimmers
• Red Cross Lifeguard Training
• Stroke Mechanics / Technique
• Endurance Training

Favorite Workout: BodyFLOW, Step, Group Cycling

Favorite Quote: ”Just Do It”

Hobbies/Special Interests: Being a mommy to my 3 kids, Health and Fitness, Traveling, Tennis, spending time with friends and family.

Advice for New Members: Start slow, listen to your body, take your time and have fun!

Favorite Workout: Striking Beauties, Body Pump, Spinning

Favorite Quote: You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky

Hobbies/Special Interests:  movies, sports, Wii, hanging out with friends

Advice for New Members: Try all of the Group Exercise classes to expose yourself to new and different exercises as well as set a definite time for your workout.

Favorite Workout: Circuit Training

Favorite Quote:  “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going” –Beverly Sills

Hobbies/Special Interests: Sports, Traveling

Advice for New Members: Stay Consistent with your workouts and Diet

Favorite Workout: Resistance Training/Swimming

Favorite Quote: ”Age is just a number”

Hobbies/Special Interests: Exercise, health, motorcycles, cooking/baking

Advice for New Members: Try everything that is offered because variety is the key to continued success.

Favorite Workout: Doug’s Combat Conditioning Class

Favorite Quote: ”What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals” – Goethe

Hobbies/Special Interests: Magic, Reading, trying new foods

Advice for New Members: Get to the club, stick with it, don’t give up.

Qualifications

• American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor
• B.S. Psychology, Towson State University

Experience

• Over 30 years experience teaching Swimming

Specialties

• Beginner swimmers
• Working with children
• Individuals with special needs

“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
- Buddhist Proverb

Qualifications

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer
• TRX Instructor
• Acua Sculpt Instructor
• American Red Cross Certified Life Guard
• American Red Cross First Aid, CPR & AED Certified

Experience

• 2010 Certified Personal Trainer
• Fitness Trainer since 2009
• Has lost 70lbs and counting
• Currently enrolled in the associate degree Health and Fitness Program at CCBC

Specialties

• TRX Suspension Training
• Energized Circuit Training Programs
• Aquatic Aerobics & Resistance Training
• Strength, Endurance & Cardiovascular Training
• Guidance in Body Fat Management

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
- Bruce Lee

Qualifications

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer since 2007
• Associates Degree Concentrating in Exercise Science
• Eight and a half years active duty USMC infantry
• USMC martial arts and combat conditioning instructor
• Enrolled in bachelors degree program at McDaniel college in exercise science and exercise chemistry

Experience

• Three plus years in gym certified personal training Program design for overweight Marines to reach proper body composition
• Two years competitive bodybuilding OCB and NPC

Specialties

• Fat Loss
• Strength and endurance training
• Weight management
• Bodybuilding contest prep

“Don’t wait for the perfect time to change your lifestyle, make the change now and feel better tomorrow.”

Qualifications

• B.S. in Exercise Science from McDaniel College
• CPR/AED certified
• AFAA Certified Personal Trainer
• Weight training since age 12

Experience

• 4 years of college Lacrosse
• Athlete for over 18 years

Specialties

• Sport specific
• Weight loss
• Body toning/building
• Endurance building

“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
- Vince Lombardi”

Qualifications

• American Red Cross Certified Lifeguard
• American Red Cross First Aid, CPR & AED certified
• Swimming Instructor
• Associates of Arts Degree, CCBC
• Currently pursuing a B.S. in Psychology, Towson University

Experience

• Former competitive swimmer
• Completed local races distanced 5k thru half marathon since 2009
• Teaching the techniques of swimming since 2008
• Lifeguard since 2005

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” –Winston Churchill

Qualifications

• AAAI/ISMA Certified Personal Trainer
• Certified TurboKick Instructor
• American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor certified
• American Red Cross Fundamentals of Instructor Training certified
• American Red Cross Lifeguard Training and First Aid certified
• American Red Cross CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer Instructor certified
• American Red Cross CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer certified
• Certified Maryland Pool Operator
• AAAI/ISMA Sports Nutrition Consultant Certification
• AAAI/ISMA Phase II Master Personal Trainer Certification

Experience

• 20 Years Certified Personal Trainer
• 8 years competitive amateur bodybuilding
• Competitive athlete in various sports for 30 years

Specialties

• Strength & Conditioning
• Weight Loss & Weight Management
• Resistance Training
• Flexibility & Toning
• Nutrition counseling
• Aquatic PT, Teaching/Coaching

“No matter who you are or your age, your fitness goals can be achieved.”

Qualifications

• BS in Mass Communication from Towson University
• Minor in Kinesiology
• NASM Certified Personal Trainer
• AMF Certified Personal Trainer
• AIFE Certified Educator
• CPR/AED Certified

Experience

• 13 years certified personal trainer
• Voted Baltimore’s Top trainer by Axcess magazine February 2006
• 4 years Division I Collegiate Bowler

Specialties

• Professional Sports Training
• Advance CORE Specialist
• Fitness competitor trainer
• Sports specific trainer

“Train Smarter, Not Necessarily Harder.”

Qualifications:

• Red Cross Water Safety Instructor Certification
• Red Cross Fundamentals of Instructor Training Certification
• Red Cross Professional Lifeguard Certification
• Red Cross CPR, First Aid, AED Certification

Experience:

• Lifelong Swimmer with 20+ Years Instructor Experience
• “The Nation’s Triathlon” Swim Coach / Trainer
• “Iron Girl” Swim Coach / Trainer
• Selected as 2012 “Iron Mons” Swim Coach

Specialties:

• Beginner to Advanced Swimmers / All Ages
• Stroke Mechanics / Technique / All Strokes
• Outdoor / Indoor Distance Swim Training
• Aerobic Swim Fit Training

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get.” – Michael Phelps

Qualifications

• National Federation of Personal Training Master Trainer

Experience

• 26 Years of Hands On Training

Specialties

• Fat Loss
• Strength Training/Endurance
• Muscle Gain
• Nutrition
• Flexibility

“You have two types of people. Ones who keep reality in a dream, and ones who turn dreams into reality.”

Qualifications:

• Certified as an Instructor Trainer for WSI
• ASCA Level I Foundation of Coaching
• ASCA Level II Stroke School
• ASCA Level III Physiology School

Experience:

• Coached CATS, HUHU, Merritt Marlins swim team
• Teach Lifeguard classes at HU, CATS, BT
• Teach First Aid and CPR/AED
• Master Swimmer and have gone to 3 National Senior Games

Specialties:

• Techniques of swimming
• Coaching
• Officiating

” Feel the flow, focus and have fun.”

Qualifications

• ACSM Certified Personal Trainer
• CPR/AED Certified
• Studying Exercise Science at American Military Institute (B.S.)

Experience

• Curtis National Hand Center for Upper Extremity Rehabilitation
• USNA Morale Welfare and Recreation
• Highschool and College Football
• Athlete for 18 years

Specialties

• Strength & Conditioning
• Weight Loss & Weight Management
• Resistance Training

“It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.” -Vince Lombardi

Qualifications

• AFTA Certified Personal Trainer
• Certified Pilates Instructor
• Yoga Instructor

Experience

• 2 Years Certified Personal Trainer
• Professional Ballet Dancer
• Pro-Figure Competitor

Specialties

• Strength & Conditioning
• Weight Loss & Weight Management
• Resistance Training
• Flexibility & Toning

“Failure is NOT an Option.”

Qualifications

• B.S. Kinesiology/Athletic Training
• AFAA Certified Personal Trainer

Experience

• 7 years of Sports Medicine Experience
• University Athletic Trainer

Specialties

• Sport Specific Training
• Weight Loss & Body Recomposition
• Strength & Rehabilitation of Athletic Injuries
• Post-Operative Strengthening

“Don’t waste your opportunity waiting for an opportunity. Your time is NOW!”

Qualifications

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer
• CPR/AED Certified

Experience

• 3 Sport Varsity HS Athlete/Collegiate Softball D1 Athlete
• 10+ Years of Various Martial Arts
• Gold Medalist in Powerlifting
• Strength Coach for Athletes, under Jay Shiner Former Head SCC for the Baltimore Orioles

Specialties

• Fat loss/Weight loss/ Strength and Conditioning
• Nutrition/Supplementation
• Powerlifting/Sport Specific Training
• Martial Arts/Flexibility

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
- Japanese proverb

Qualifications

• NSCA Certified Personal Trainer
• NATABOC Certified Athletic Trainer
• American Red Cross CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer certified
• B.S. Athletic Training

Experience

• 2 years personal training experience
• 4 years athletic training experience with football, soccer, lacrosse, basketball and field hockey with Towson University
• 2 years athletic training experience with football wrestling and track with West Virginia University
• Experience in exercise program design for post surgical and rehabilitative athletes

Specialties

• Post and pre-rehabilitative populations
• Program design for elderly populations

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

Qualifications

• NPTI Personal Training Certificate
• Certified Nutrition Consultant
• American Red Cross CPR/AEd Certified
• Certified TRX Trainer

Experience

• Over 10 Years of Weight Loss Experience
• HIIT, Tabata, & Cross-Fit Inspired Training

Specialties

• Strength Training
• Weight Loss and Management
• Muscle Gain
• Healthier living

“You’re not a failure if you don’t make it. You’re a success if you tried.”

Qualifications

• B.A. in Arts and Humanities from Florida Atlantic University
• NASM Certified Personal Trainer
• Titleist Performance Institute – Certified Golf Fitness Instructor
• American Red Cross CPR/AED Certified

Experience

• Competitive Golfer since 1998
• Student of exercise since 2002

Specialties

• Energized Resistance Circuit Training
• Adapted Golf Training Programs
• Guided Lean Muscle Gain
• Developing Fat Loss Visions and Maintenance

“Just Do It.”

Qualifications

• AAFA Certified Personal Trainer
• 10 Years Active Duty United States Army
• American Red Cross First Aid, AED & CPR Certified

Experience

• 4 years U.S. Army Fitness Trainer
• AAFA Certified Trainer 2011
• Trainer European Semi-Pro Football

Specialties

• Develops Weight Management Principles
• High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
• Strength & Power Enhancement Training
• Heart Rate Monitor Training

“When the worlds say, ‘Give up,’ Hope whispers, ‘try it one more time.’”
-Unknown

Qualifications

• AFAA Certified Personal Trainer
• 10 Years Active Duty United States Army
• American Red Cross First Aid, AED & CPR Certified

Experience

• 4 years U.S. Army FitnessTrainer
• AAFA Certified Trainer 2011
• Trainer European Semi-Pro Football

Specialties

• Develops Weight Management Principles
• High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
• Strength & Power Enhancement Training
• Heart Rate Monitor Training

“When the worlds say, ‘Give up,’ Hope whispers, ‘try it one more time.’”
-Unknown