My Certifications

ISSA - Certified Personal Trainer

It's no secret - fitness training has been proven to prevent disease, strengthen your health, and improve your confidence and outlook on life.  As an ISSA Certified Personal Trainer I've learned about everything from muscle mechanics to flexibility and cardiovascular dynamics. So if you want to live a stronger and more confident life, I have the training and the expertise to help you every step of the way.

ISSA - Elite Trainer

The ISSA Elite Trainer credential is awarded to accomplished ISSA Certified Trainers who have proven their competence in personal training and developed expertise in two additional areas of specialization. With scientific backing and practical application in the areas clients need help with the most, this credential proves that extensive education equals results.

ISSA - Specialist in Senior Fitness

Modern science has given us the ability to slow and even reverse the negative effects of aging. Study after study has shown that seniors are not only capable of real exercise, but can vastly improve their health, strength, mobility, and independence through exercise. As a Certified Specialist in Senior Fitness, I can help you set realistic goals for your health, and then enjoy helping you achieve and exceed them.

ISSA - Specialist in Exercise Therapy

All too often, people suffering from debilitating medical conditions are inclined to think that fitness doesn't apply to them. In reality, fitness is even more vitally important to those who are recovering from medical care. As an ISSA Specialist in Exercise Therapy, I will be able to help you design a fitness program that works around your condition, giving you a healthier and brighter future to look forward to.

ISSA - Specialist in Strength & Conditioning

Until recently, most people believed that power athletes are born and not made. That has changed. Modern training techniques can make anybody faster, stronger, and more powerful. Athletes at all levels - from grade school to the NFL - can sharpen their competitive edge with the help of an expert trainer. As a certified specialist in this area, I can help you expand your body's capacity for challenging athletic feats while remaining strong and free from injury.

ISSA - Weight Management Specialists

ISSA Weight Management Specialists have a passion for improving the quality of their clients’ lives far beyond what happens in the gym. Equipped with the knowledge of how the body gains and loses weight and how to estimate caloric expenditure versus caloric needs, Weight Management Specialists are able to help their clients reach their goals and establish healthier habits.

ISSA Weight Management Specialists are prepared to educate and transform all types of clients by helping people transform their lives through the creation of healthy eating habits, and improving their physique as well as overall health.

NCCPT - Certified Strength Training Specialist

The National Council for Certified Personal Trainers (NCCPT) Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certification has been developed by the NCCPT Certification Board to recognize those individuals who have demonstrated competent knowledge and skills needed to perform as personal trainers in the fitness industry. The NCCPT Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) certification program, accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) is a key indicator to fitness employers and other potential fitness clients that the trainer has demonstrated proficiency through successful completion of an examination of their ability to provide competent training in fitness.

     Individuals who earn the NCCPT Certified Strength Training Specialist (CSTS) credential have demonstrated knowledge of the professional domains that encompass the tasks and knowledge required of a personal trainer in the fitness profession. By passing the Certified Strength Training Specialist (CSTS) examination, professionals are able to display their aptitude in each specialized knowledge area of fitness training who apply scientific knowledge to train athletes for the primary goal of improving athletic performance.

NASM - Certified Personal Trainer

NASM's proprietary Optimum Performance Training™ (OPT)™ model is the industry's first comprehensive training system based on scientific, evidence-based research.  This systematic and integrated (total body) training, reconditioning and rehabilitation program incorporates: Flexibility, Cardiorespiratory, Core, Balance, Power, and Strength.

The OPT™ model focuses on integrated solutions for every fitness level. It's proven successful in training, reconditioning and rehabilitating elite, college, and recreational athletes alike. It’s also been extremely successful in helping people decrease body fat, increase lean muscle mass, improve performance and overall health. In other words, it's good for everybody.

NASM - Certified Nutrition Coach

As a Certified Nutrition Coach, I can teach you how to look & feel your best . . . I can teach you how to make healthy food choices, cook healthy, control portion sizes, snack healthy, & still enjoy your favorite foods!  In many cases, you'll actually be able to eat MORE food and still lose weight!  By properly fueling your body, you'll have more energy throughout the day, without relying on caffeine. Also, a healthier digestive system (healthier gut) has been proven to be the best way to boost your immune system!

NASM - Weight Loss Specialist

I can help you feel and look better!  As an NASM's Weight Loss Specialist (WLS), I can teach you the secret to long term weight loss success .  I can help  you lose weight and most importantly, keep the weight off. I have learned about the obesity epidemic, nutrition strategies for weight management, how to avoid plateaus and more!

NASM - Senior Fitness Specialist

Modern science has given us the ability to slow and even reverse the negative effects of aging. Study after study has shown that seniors are not only capable of real exercise, but can vastly improve their health, strength, mobility, and independence through exercise. As a Certified Senior Fitness Specialist, I can help you set realistic goals for your health, and then enjoy achieving and exceeding them.

NASM - Women's Fitness Specialist

Women have different fitness needs at different life stages!   I can design and adjust fitness programming for female clients across their unique life stages and physical changes. From adolescences to pregnancy and postnatal needs, to mid-life and menopausal weight gain and osteoporosis.

With NASM’s Women’s Fitness Specialization I can meet your changing fitness and health/wellness goals.

NASM - Behavior Change Specialist

As a Behavioral Change Specialists, I can help you change health and fitness related behaviors that may be preventing you from reaching your goals.  I can help you identify your trigger points or barriers and work with you on how to get past them.  Change can be difficult and people go through some key stages when making a change.  As a Behavioral Change Specialists, I can help make this process easier and permanent.  

NASM - Corrective Exercise Specialist

Corrective Exercise is a technique that leverages an understanding of anatomy, kinesiology, and biomechanics to address and fix movement compensations and imbalances to improve the overall quality of movement during workouts and in everyday life.

Corrective Exercise is used to help assess and determine the root cause of imbalances and faulty movement patterns that lead to issues with posture, balance, and total body coordination.

Corrective Exercises can improve posture, decrease susceptibility to other injuries, reduce stress, improve daily living, potentially decrease pain, and restore balance in the body.

Z-Health® E-Phase Essentials of Elite Performance

The Essentials of Elite Performance course is the first step in understand why Z-Health® takes a neurocentric (brain-first) approach to training, rehab, and performance. It’s not voodoo, it’s neurology.

• Designed as an introduction into the neurocentric approach to rehabilitation, pain relief, and performance enhancement. 
• It is a broad overview of critical neuroscience concepts of pain, movement control, and performance.
• The powerful impact of precise exercise on brain plasticity and why it matters in training & therapy.
• Exploration of precise motor control drills, visual, and vestibular training, and their impact on pain and movement.
• Sensorimotor integration principles for high-speed pain and performance changes.
• First steps into integrating biomechanics with a neurocentric model.

Z-Health® Performance Solutions is a life-long, cutting-edge training system that helps people improve their health, alleviate their pain, and maximize their athletic performance. Created by Dr. Eric Cobb, the company’s mission is to create professionals that are in the top 1% of their respective fields. Visit https://zhealtheducation.com/about-us/

Z-Health® R-Phase Movement Reeducation Specialist

Z-Health® is a scientifically designed system of  exercise and applied neurology crafted to specifically target what matters most in human performance - The Human Brain. It was developed out of the simple idea that all forms of training and rehabilitation specifically target the brain - whether we know it or not! Whatever you are doing, you are impacting the nervous system and you are specifically targeting the brain. This is what Z-Health® is all about, targeting the brain on purpose rather than accidently.

You Are Your Brain! "Everything you have ever felt or done in your life was due to brain function. At the most basic level, the intricate firing rates and patterns of your brain both determine who you have been and, more importantly, who you will become. All human change represents changes in that individual's nervous system. All that we are is brain-derived."

R-Phase is foundational in the Z-Health® curriculum. More and more people are recognizing how integrated the human body is and why it's so critical for us as movement specialists to have a clear understanding of neurology. This course emphasizes the basics that are used throughout the rest of the curriculum. 

FAI - Functional Aging Specialist

FAI - Functional Aging Institute (https://functionalaginginstitute.com/) is the industry leader for educating trainers to safely work with the aging population.

The Functional Aging Specialist Certification is the credential of choice for the personal trainers specializing in fitness for older adults 50+.  With this certification, I have learned about functional aging, training and working with the older adult. I received in-depth training on functional training strategies and movements; learned how to conduct meaningful assessments of function; how to create and develop effective exercise programs; and critical skills to be an effective professional with the aging adult.

FAI - Functional Aging Institute - Core & Balance

     Over the past few years, scientific research has resulted in some incredible advancements related to exercise and seniors. These advancements include not only exercise prescription, but also the tools and techniques fitness professionals should use to challenge their clients in dynamic, functional ways that result in slowing the physiological aging process.

     The Functional Aging Institute was founded in 2013 by leading experts Dr. Dan Ritchie and Dr. Cody Sipe. For over twenty years, Dan and Cody have been at the forefront of developing innovative, effective, evidence-based training programs for older clients. They have shared their unique philosophies, techniques, and insights with tens of thousands of trainers around the world for fifteen years.

With the information from this course, I can guide you through strategies and exercises that will help you make real progress in your balance program. I want to improve the quality of your life and your health as an aging adult.

ISSA Certified Glute Specialist