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Services
I offer a variety of services designed to to suit your specific needs and goals. Whether you want to lose weight, increase your strength and agility, or just maintain your mobility as you get older, we can work together to evaluate your capabilities and develop a plan to achieve results.
Cardio & Resistance Training
Discovering later in life that cardiorespiratory fitness and resistance training offered much more than aesthetic benefits, including prevention and treatment of chronic illnesses and depression, I decided to become a personal trainer with the American College of Sports Medicine, regarded as one of the best schools in sports medicine, and aimed to share that health is wealth. ACSM recommends 150 minutes per week of cardiorespiratory exercise and at least 2 days of resistance training just to maintain health. Anything over this amount only offers more benefits. Whether you are new to cardio and weight training, resuming training after taking a break to focus on other endeavors, such as career or family, or an elite athlete wanting to take your training to the next level, I have the knowledge and skills to help you reach your goals.
Senior Fitness
Most older adults are impacted by some type of aged-related chronic illness, injury or cognitive decline. As an ACE Senior Fitness Specialist, I can assist this growing population gain strength, ward off muscle deterioration and reduce instances of inactivity-related disease and cognitive decline. I can safely and effectively help senior clients maintain vibrancy through health and fitness and discover a holistic approach to both body and brain health, combining rapport-building, behavior change, exercise programming, nutrition and cognitive health.
Pregnancy Fitness
Regular, moderate exercise not only gives you a healthier pregnancy, it might give your baby a healthier start. Research shows that when pregnant women exercise, their developing babies have a much lower heart rate. Babies of active moms may also have a healthier birth weight.
Health & Fitness Assessment
Health and fitness assessments will identify your strengths and weaknesses, helping you to determine what areas of fitness need to be your focus. Measurements of your current fitness level, including body composition, muscular strength and endurance, cardiorespiratory fitness, flexibility and balance, will help you track your progress, keep you motivated, and hold you accountable to your exercise plan.
Nutritional Counseling
Thomas Edison said, “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but will rather cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” With a holistic approach to treat both the mind and the body, I offer nutritional guidance for varying levels of knowledge, including novice exercisers just beginning a journey of health and wellness, athletes, and seniors who are healthy or experiencing maladies.
Yoga
The Oxford Dictionary defines yoga as a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation. Since the early 1900’s, yoga but has been practiced independently in Western cultures to promote physical and emotional well-being. I earned my Natural Teacher Training from two of the most experienced, thoughtful, and skillful teachers in Charleston, Andrea Boyd and Jeffrey Cohen. No matter your reason for practicing, yoga is a great way to stretch and strengthen your body, focus your mind, and relax your spirit.