"Every person can and should be strong!"

We can provide you with many training options, just choose something from our catalog of training ideas, and let's craft it to your needs. Learn to work with your home gym, learn to navigate a busy fitness center or learn how to play with kettlebells. It's all here!

Let creative programming and structure bring you to a performance level you thought not possible. Isn't every day living built on performance?

Below are program ideas. Select a plan that may fit your lifestyle, your time frame, your fitness goals. Then talk with us more about how we can help you achieve results. Contact us today to schedule your complimentary 30 minute consultation!

Personal Training -
  • One-on-One private training:
    New and beginning exercise students to seasoned exercisers and athletes will benefit from a personalized approach to their performance improvement. Performance, may be defined on many small and great levels and we can all benefit from good coaching. We start with a conversation about you. Your needs and goals, as well as your health history, current body composition, strength and flexibility limits and cardiovascular fitness. All this and your current general lifestyle habits are key to establishing (or reestablishing) a baseline to either physical transformation or performance enhancement.
    Start by arranging a complimentary 30 minute consultation about you!
  • Custom Training & Tune-up:
    For the experienced exerciser who possess basic to advanced knowledge of fitness training. Custom Training reviews your current exercise and nutrition program, makes recommendations and upgrades to help you achieve your fitness objectives using the acute variables to training. This program is part discussion, part analysis and part one-on-one training. Sessions may vary depending upon needs.
    Packages available, please see Training Rates & Fees.
  • Update My Fitness Program:
    Step-by-step analysis of your current fitness program includes discovery of how you are progressing with your cardiovascular, strength & conditioning, and nutrition plan.     Trouble shooting, goal setting and a plan of action make up the elements for this program.
  • Just in Time Wedding Package:
    6-8 week program, meets 3x per week
    Your wedding is an important life event. Looking and feeling your best is a significant priority. The lessons learned in the training package don't just end with your vows, it is a gift to your partner that you take care of yourself beyond your day. This program may be something the two of you can do together and Semi-Private Training is another excellent option.
  • Home Fitness Training & Program Design:
    Your not in to the gym, and you prefer to exercise at home. You may have limited equipment or a fully-loaded system but lack either the motivation or the knowledge to really get benefits from your own personal training system. This program can offer as much or as little as you feel comfortable with. We start with discovery of your needs, current body composition and physical fitness levels and progress to a program design & goal setting based on the tools you have available.
  • Health Club Fitness Training:
    Achieving results at the gym doesn't have to be daunting because others are using the equipment. You can accomplish your days work out goal by learning modifications to exercises, or change-ups to keep you firing.
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Group Classes to Semi-private Training -

  • Kettlebells
    Each Kettlebell course is designed to promote the very best in learning how to work with the kettlebell safely and with technique. Program design, strength and conditioning and core work are complementary to the skills developed through out each program. Gain enough skill to train yourself anywhere or with others.
    • Group Kettlebell Training Class: Beginning Kettlebells
      Safe and professional kettlebell instruction will teach the student about proper body mechanics using safety as part of performance. Fundamentals of the swing will be explored and more. Preparation skills will be integrated to ready the kettlebell student for a safe and progressive conditioning class. Emphasis on flexibility, stabilization and core work. Fun & fellowship guaranteed.
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    • Group Kettlebell Training Class: Advanced Kettlebells & Program Design
      Students who have developed mastery over the Kettlebell Swing, Get-up, Clean, Snatch and Windmill will enjoy connecting these exercises with more variations on a theme. Learn combination drills, free flow, juggling and more ... Expect to achieve strength and conditioning results like no other fitness training can deliver. "You know the moves, now you're ready for the good stuff!"
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  • Strength Training and Conditioning
    Integrate traditional strength training/weight lifting skills with cardiovascular training by learning to lift correctly. Learn to manipulate the acute variables to make gains with your bench, squat or deadlift. If you have never worked with Dumb Bells and Bar Bells, these programs will help you develop your skill and program design knowledge.
    • Beginning Strength & Conditioning Training for young adult
      There is nothing more disheartening than hearing from a physician about how the misuse of weights during strength training caused an injury to a young persons growth plate, shoulder, knee, etc., . Young people need safe guidance to ensure successful and enjoyable fitness experience. Learn appropriate and safe lifting and programming techniques to improve body composition, mental stability, flexibility as well as cardiovascular endurance.
      10 sessions - 50 minutes in length
      Class limit: (4)
      Meets: M-W-F
      Cost: $
    • Beginning Strength & Conditioning Training for the adult
      This class is designed for the beginning exerciser who wishes to know the safest and most productive route to effective strength training and conditioning. Your schedule is busy and spending hours in the gym trying to figure out what to do just spins your wheels and wastes time. Get the very best out of your gym membership and get oriented properly to safe technique and progressions to your fitness program.
      10 sessions - 50 minutes in length
      Class limit: (4)
      Meets: M-W-F
      Cost: $
    • Strength & Conditioning Training for Seniors
      Studies have shown how seniors can enjoy many benefits from strength, cardiovascular and flexibility training. Learn and enjoy the basics to fitness conditioning from a certified AARP instructor. Enjoy fellowship & fun while maintaining bone density, muscle tone and an increased range of motion within your joints. Feel recharged and less aggravated by those aces and pains you have been putting up with through out your golden years.
      10 sessions - 50 minutes in length
      Class limit: (4)
      Meets: Tu-Th
      Cost: $
  • Bodyweight Training
    Push-ups, Sit-ups, Run! ... Bodyweight training is a fun program change-up that utilizes your body to gain control over your strength to body-mass ratio. Learn how to integrate dynamic movements, core conditioning and flexibility in to your warm-up and strength training routine. Augment your conditioning by learning combinations of exercises in a freeflow environment to help you gain ultimate conditioning using only your bodyweight!
    8 sessions - 50 minutes in length
    Class limit: (6)
    Meets: M-W-F
    Cost: $
  • Target Zone for Women
    What do women want? Toned abdominals, thighs and butt, complimentary definition to their arms & shoulders and not body-builder muscles that look like a collection of parts. Target Zone is a strength training class designed with focus and attention to trouble areas. No one can spot reduce, but, you can achieve results with knowledge, fun and a personal program design by you. Each student will write their own program with the instructors assistance based on the skills learned in class. A must for students who wish to know how to exercise or simply want to change what they've been doing for too long.
    8 sessions - 50 minutes in length
    Class limit: (4)
    Meets: M-W-F
    Cost: $110

Workshops -

  • The 'New' Physical You:
    Is it possible to transform your body in a relatively short period of time? Yes! You can take control of your physical composition with preparation and guidance. Whether you've been on the fence about pursuing a physical fitness regimen, or lack of the results with your current program. Everyone should take this class to learn the truth about physical fitness.
    1 session - 90 minutes
    Cost:
  • Heart Rate Training
    Get the most from your heart rate monitor and your heart! Heart rate training can make the difference between being an overtrained athlete or a ready to run on race day competitor. Heart Rate Training is perfect for weight loss and general fitness. Heart Rate Training is fun and easy ... Learn how to work smarter and not harder, determine your maximum heart rate for your age, determine your target hear rate zones and fine-tune your workout intensity. Heart Rate Training is perfect for walkers, runners, cyclists, multisport training, circuit training and more. Heart Rate monitor optional.
    1 session - 90 minutes
    Cost:
  • M.E.T.S. - Modern Exercise Techniques Series
    EIGHT 30 minute segments in fitness genius! ... Give me 30 minutes of your time and I'll make your workout worth working. Topics include:
    • Fundamentals with Dumb Bell training
    • Stability Ball fundamentals with Flexibility training
    • Fundamentals with Abdominal training
    • Explore Hips and Core fundamentals in power training
    • Fundamentals with Body Weight training
    • Training by Heart Rate
    • H.I.T. (High Intensity Training)
    • Intro to Kettlebells

    Cost: YOUR TIME