personal-training instructors

Carolyn is a certified personal trainer and fitness instructor. She integrates the beneficial components of yoga, Pilates, weight lifting and calisthenics into her training and small group classes. Correct posture and body alignment is taught to increase awareness and promote adherence to the training program. She emphasizes a holistic approach. Carolyn participated in collegiate sports ranging from swimming, soccer, track and field, lacrosse, and dance. She developed her own major at Whittier College in Mind-Body research and she believes this fosters a balance between life and training. She teache TRX Fitness Systems, Russian Kettlebells, triathlon and marathon training, corrective exercise and youth fitness. Carolyn has specialty training in rehabilitation, muscle activation, strength conditioning, pre and post-natal healthiness, weight loss, cardiovascular endurance and general fitness.

Email: carolyndeakers@noxcusesfitness.com

Website: http://www.care-fit.blogspot.com/

Lawrence is a certified personal training with the National Academy of Sports Medicine and a certified TRX Suspension Trainer and have been teaching TRX since 2008. Lawrence also has over 20 years of martial arts experience and have studied a variety of arts including Tae Kwon Do, Karate, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Arnis. Additionally, Lawrence teaches boxing and self defense. Through his years of experience, he has developed his own unique style of training that combines Eastern philosophy with Western ingenuity. He has worked with a variety of clients looking to achieve a variety of goals from weight loss, post rehabilitation and sports performance.

Email: lawrencechang@noxcusesfitness.com

Website: FreeYourselfTraining 

" Mark has been training, competing and coaching for the last 41 years. He started as a gymnast at age 14,won a full scholarship to the University of Iowa where he was Team Captain and Nationally ranked. A catastrophic injury curtailed his Olympic dreams .

He coached Elite and Olympic level gymnasts at the Oregon Academy of Artistic gymnastics and Gymnastics West in Palo Alto.
He has trained as ultramarathoner and triathlete.
He competed in bodybuilding for 8 years and trained with and helped coach Pro Mr America Scott Wilson and was the personal coach of Sue Ann Mckean, who was in the top ten at the Ms Olympia three times.
He spent 13 years as a competitive powerlifter and holds California State Bench press records as a Master lifter. He coached one of the all time great female lifters Cathlene Kelii, to top three finishes at the IPF Worlds as well as was the Head Womens Team Coach for Team USA in 1995.
He is the author of numerous published articles on bodybuilding, powerlifting and kettlebell training as well as a book "Developing the Chest", for Runners World "Getting Strong" series.
He is also a Master Kettlebell Instructor under Pavel Tsatsouline Chief Instructor of the RKC .
Mark co authored and starred in the new DVD "Mastering the Hardstyle kettlebell Swing with his wife Tracy, as well as "Restoring Lost Physical Function" and " Lats, the Super Muscles".
Mark travels the world teaching and giving seminars and workshops on kettlebell and bodyweight training as well as corrective exercise.

Mark Reifkind,Master Instructor RKC

Patrick immersed himself obsesivly in fitness and science literature searching for the truth to health after growing exceedingly frustrated with poor fitness results in the year of 2002. One year later after helping his mother and brother collectively lose over 100 lbs and himself losing 40 lbs he realized his ability to help people in all apects of fitness and created the Iron Body System. He since has dedicated most of his time to studying movement systems, nutrition, motivation, psychology and sports science to better the lives of his clients.

Trains: group-fitness, pilates, gyrokenisis, yoga

Every body is different. Drawing on her extensive training and experience in Pilates, Gyrotonic and Yoga, Sharon will create a unique combination of exercises customized to your goals and abilities which are designed to help your body return to a pattern of natural, balanced movement. “Sharon is a terrific teacher,” says one long time student, “She explains everything very clearly, is full of encouragement and makes everything fun.”

During more than 15 years as a teacher, Sharon has helped a wide variety of students including elite athletes, people looking to improve their strength, flexibility and conditioning and those dealing with chronic back or joint pain.

Sharon is certified in Pilates by the Physicalmind Institute, by Gyrotonic founder Julio Horvath and by Gyrotonic and Gyrokenisis International. She trained extensively with master trainer Debra Rose at San Francisco Gyrotonic.

Sharon is an avid surfer, dancer, choreographer and the mother of teenage twins.

Stephanie Herman, a former Prima Ballerina for George Balanchine’s dance companies in Zurich and Geneva, Stephanie spent her life in ballet’s most rarified circles, training from the age of 12, graduating from School of American Ballet when she was 19 and performing with the greatest dancers and choreographers of the twentieth century including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolph Nureyev, George Balanchine Martha Graham, and Alvin Ailey. Stephanie's fitness method was born from efforts to heal herself. After a debilitating back and knee injury which left her unable to sit or walk for a year, and the failure of doctors to heal her, Stephanie drew upon her training and educated herself about body mechanics and kinetics. Using a program she designed, Stephanie surprised her doctors with a quick and complete recovery that left her stronger than before. During that time, Ms. Herman delved deeply into the philosophy and science of physical expression, psychology and rehabilitation, and working directly with Carola Trier the first disciple of Joseph Pilates, and Julio Horvath himself, the creator of the Gyrotonic Expansion System. Certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ASCM), Pilates. Ms. Herman is fully versed in the physiology of human musculature. This therapeutic element is present in every workout she creates. After founding and directing her DanceAerobics studio in New York for many years, Ms. Herman founded and operates "Stephanie Herman's Fitness and Pilates" the San Francisco Bay Area. Stephanie Herman is also the award winning producer and host of the infamous, "The Stephanie Herman Show" a tv show that reaches 1 million homes in the Bay area. Ms. Herman has also been featured on other talk shows and in national and international publications for her unique and effective dance fitness programs.

Email: stephanieherman@noxcusesfitness.com

Vince is a certified personal trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicine, a Medical Exercise Specialist from the American Academy of Health, Fitness and Rehab with a degree in Kinesiology from San Jose State University. He works to improve weight loss, lean body mass, core strength, flexibility, sport specific training, holistic practice, and much more!

Email: vincebulnes@noxcusesfitness.com

Check out his website: www.trainwithvince.com