Services/Rates

"I started training with Jim after breaking my hip over three years ago. It helped in my recovery, flexibility and strength. Jim’s knowledge and personal training has been so beneficial... he encourages and motivates me to do my best. His concern, kindness and sense of humor makes training enjoyable!" Jan R. 67. 


Elements of Personal Training

• Fitness Assessment - It's important to determine our starting point to make realistic goals. This American College of Sports Medicine standardized assessment provides data that addresses your initial cardio, strength, and flexibility fitness. From there, we can move forward.

• Movement Screening - I'll have you perform several movement patterns, allowing me to observe your body's response to certain demands. From this observation, I can determine areas that need strengthening, others that need to be lengthened or relaxed, whether we need to focus on balance, etc.

• Goal Setting - Establishing specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-based goals makes navigation on the road to fitness an obvious and achievable destination. We know where we are going, how we will get there, and what it will look like when we arrive.

• Exercise Prescription - Based on your needs and goals, I prescribed the exercises, intensity, repetitions, and time to get the job done.

• Exercise Program Design - This includes knowing how often to work specific muscle groups, when to change the demand on the muscle, and how to design your workout so differing days complement one another in the progression toward your goals. Some clients choose to focus on building power; others want to gain size or mass (hypertrophy); some want to have more endurance throughout their job, sport, activity; many want to lose weight (or size); most people should work on flexibility; all would benefit from practice in balance and control (neuromuscular); and everyone should be working on their cardio-respiratory conditioning.

• Exercise Technique Instruction - Sadly, of the people I observe working out in gyms, a large majority are doing so using improper technique. (This is not to say there is only "one" correct technique for every exercise.) Improper technique, at best, does not work the muscle properly, and at worst, leads to injury that discourages the person and/or causes permanent damage to tissue. More often than not, the injury does not occur suddenly, but builds over time; example - a herniated disc brought on by lower back flexion. When I prescribe exercises, I will make sure you are doing them safely, and with technique that maximizes your results.

• Encouragement & Accountability - For many clients, this may be the biggest piece of the puzzle. Just about everyone knows they should exercise, and that doing so is highly beneficial. But they don't, or do so inconsistently, or have good intentions but just can't stick with it. Why? Because very few people wake up feeling like working out regularly. But when you are scheduled with a professional who you are paying, you show up. Then, it's my job to find a balance between drill instructor and Mary Poppins, providing you with an excellent workout, liberally seasoned with guidance, correction, and encouragement. Almost always a bond is formed with mutual respect, admiration, and friendship being a natural outgrowth. You'll find yourself looking forward to coming in for a session and may wonder why you didn't start working with a trainer long ago.

RATES

Personal Training

60 minute session: $50.00

45 minute session: $40.00

Classes
8:30 AM T,W,Th Circuit Training: $75.00 for 12 classes; 45 minutes each, Class size: 5 participants. (Full)
9:45 AM T&Th Core & Balance Training: $50.00 for 8 classes; 45 minutes each, Class size: 5 participants.
(Full)
12:30 PM T&Th Circuit Training: $50.00 for 8 classes; 45 minutes each, Class size: 5 participants.
(1 opening)
1:30 PM T&Th Circuit Training: $50.00 for 8 classes; 45 minutes each, Class size: 5 participants. (2 openings)