What is a Personal Trainer?
A personal trainer helps clients achieve certain fitness goals, with a customized routine designed around each individual's needs. From weight loss, to toning, strength training, and overall health management. Trainers help their clients understand how to be successful in their fitness journey through education, ultimately extending their understanding as to why things are done a certain way, and how that helps achieve their goals.
What is a Master Personal Trainer?
A master personal trainer has an extensive amount of education in the health and fitness field. They possess great expertise in one or more areas, allowing them to offer a wide variety of fitness programs to individuals of all levels of fitness.
My Educational Background
Certified Step Instructor, Alliance Group, July 2001
Certified Personal Trainer, CanfitPro, December 2002
Certified Group Instructor, CanfitPro, November 2003
Certified Master Trainer, ISSA, March 2020
My Specialized Certifications of Expertise
Specialist in Exercise Therapy
Develop a comprehensive exercise therapy program that utilizes Adaptive Programming principles and techniques to address your fitness constraints
Able to recognize a chronic health condition that may require special care while exercising
Seniors Fitness Coach
Good understanding of chronic conditions associated with aging, incorporated into appropriate exercises
Design age-specific fitness programs for strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular health
Specialist in Senior Fitness
Customized programs for the elderly to promote strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular health
Corrective Exercise Specialist
Explain the steps needed to restore structural alignment and stability from head-to-toe
Teach corrective exercises that apply to the most common movement dysfunctions
Prescribe therapeutic exercises for the most prevalent joint restrictions
Certified Nutritionist
Share knowledge about Macronutrients and Micronutrients
Teach lifestyle changes and strategies
Practical assistance with goal setting
How to read labels
Educate about trending diets and myths
Specialist in Strength and Conditioning
Help identify the strains of over-training and how to prevent injuries
Apply the principles of metabolism, body mechanics, and anatomy to help athletes at any level reach optimal performance
What to Expect From Me
I design safe, and creative, exercise programs to help you achieve your fitness goals, while providing nutritional guidance and applicable education along the way. I will help you develop healthy habits, and promise to motivate you, and keep up the momentum, throughout your fitness journey.
With the extensive educational background and practical experience that I bring to the table, I am confident in helping you achieve your goals, no matter the physical fitness level you are currently at.
