“You are what you consistently do. Champions are not born. With the right attitude and proper direction, you can begin to realize your true potential. No matter what your starting point is, there is always room to grow. Self-discovery is about exceeding your self-imposed limits. There is an athlete inside us all.” -- Josiah Middaugh

My Philosophy of Personal Training/Coaching

Each of us knows that something more is possible—something far beyond where we are at this moment! Learning and exploring and moving should inspire and excite. Are you up for being inspired? Are you up for being excited? Has the fun gone out of your exercise and fitness routines?

As your coach, my goal is to help you get the results you want. Are you more fit? Are you healthier? Are you performing better? If you can answer yes to these questions, keep doing what you're doing. If not, make a change. Sometimes life needs major renovation, sometimes a bit of redecorating on maybe just a room or two. The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is tenacity. You can do anything you decide to do. A personal fitness coach is your guide to physical health, mental acuity (health) and emotional well-being

What are your plans and intentions for living a healthy lifestyle? If you are not as healthy as you would like to be, if you are not enjoying your life as much as you want, and you are tired of struggling to get lean, and reach your competitive goals, then you are ready for coaching. I understand your challenges and I provide solutions. I can provide what you need to help make a healthy lifestyle change: knowledge, guidance, accountability and motivation.

Once you are ready to take action, you first have to be educated on what the problem is and then how to fix it. Most people cannot do this entirely on their own. That is why teachers, coaches, and mentors are so important.

A program should be well-rounded and address everything: movement preparation, flexibility work, injury prevention work, core work, cardio work, strength training, recovery/regeneration. Results happen by design, not coincidence. We all want the best results in the least amount of time. That’s where a coach comes in.

Enjoying the fruits of an active lifestyle has been my passion. Don't get sport specific—get generally athletic. We are all athletes and our sport is movement! This is a message I love sharing.

10 Reasons to Hire a Movement Coach and Personal Trainer

1.  MOTIVATION:  Personal trainers wear many hats, serving not only as a coach, but also as an educator, confidant, role model and a major source of motivation and encouragement

2.  CONSISTENCY:  Do you find it difficult to stick to your fitness program?  Scheduling regular appointments with a personal trainer helps eliminate any excuses you may come up with for not exercising. Results come from planning, executing, recording, measuring, and assessing what you do, and a personal trainer helps you do all this.

3.  SAFETY:  Are you unsure about how to use the equipment at your gym or how to perform walking lunges without hurting your knees?  A personal trainer will show you how to exercise safely (including which exercises to avoid), and instruct you on the proper and safe use of exercise equipment.

4.  INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION:  An exercise program that works for one person may not work for another.  Personal trainers develop the most effective program for you based on evaluation results and personal goals. Personal trainers observe, assist, and, if necessary, correct as needed. A good coach will address the non-physical (mental and emotional) aspects of training with the same importance as the training program itself. It’s important to find someone who coaches the person, not the program!

5.  EFFECTIVE WORKOUTS:  Today’s hectic lifestyles mean you don’t have time to waste on ineffective exercise routines.  Personal trainers help maximize your time by providing workouts designed to meet your goals quickly and efficiently. Program and exercise application is an art. It requires skill and expertise. Working with a coach will help you INCREASE and IMPLEMENT your “know how” and “do how.”

6.  SPORTS-SPECIFIC TRAINING:  Many amateur and professional athletes work with a personal trainer during the off-season to prepare themselves for in-season competition.  Whether you want to shave some strokes off your golf score or beat your brother-in-law at tennis, personal trainers can tailor your program to your sport of choice.

7.  INJURY REHABILITATION:  Injuries and accidents can prevent you from participating in your favorite activities.  Personal trainers, however, can make the road to recovery a smooth one by recommending exercises that emphasize proper movement to prevent future injuries.

8.  SPECIAL-NEEDS TRAINING:  Research confirms that individuals with health challenges such as diabetes, asthma, osteoporosis or heart disease benefit greatly from regular physical activity.  These conditions, however, can make exercising safely a challenge.  Personal trainers have a wealth of ideas about your specific concerns. They are experienced in designing programs that address the special needs of these and other conditions.

9.  EGO BOOST:  It’s a fact - feeling good makes you look good, and vice versa.  Not only can a personal trainer help you achieve your health and fitness goals, they provide you with positive feedback on your performance and bolster your confidence to take on new challenges.

10. MAKING CONTINUOUS PROGRESS: Are you working hard, but not working smart? Progress often comes from working under the tutelage of a pro, a trained eye with knowledge and expertise. Often the lack of progress corresponds to the lack of using a personal trainer.

What Can a Well-Designed Program Do for You?

Anything you’ve accomplished in your life undoubtedly came via a plan. Being without a plan is like being lost in the woods without a compass or a map. In designing a plan or program, there needs to be a balance between exercise, nutrition, and life. In other words, plans that work in the real world. Programs can be written for general health and well-being, specific performance goals, or changes in body composition. Your health and fitness habits all require proper planning and execution. We begin at the end, envisioning and establishing a definition of success.

Sometimes you need to find new tools and sometimes become more skilled with the tools you already own. As your coach, I help you apply training, health, and fitness concepts properly. I can help you make the best of what you’ve got. Some of the many things I can help you with are:

• Nutritional guidance and analysis
• Body composition goals
• Working cross-training into your schedule properly and effectively
• Proper strength and conditioning programming
• Mobility and Yoga training protocols
• Goal development for upcoming events

Everyone should train like an athlete! We are all athletes, and movement is our sport. I believe that you need to become a better athlete before you can become a better “sport-specific athlete. That is why working with a trainer and becoming movement efficient in a general sense is so important. Everything in the body is inter-related and connected. This needs to be addressed when working with a coach and putting together a program.

My coaching is guided by my personal experience and desire to assist others in developing and maintaining a healthy approach to life-long fitness. If we train our bodies to work efficiently, and take care of our diets and lifestyles, we will be rewarded with a body that performs at a high level. I bring a unique ability and working knowledge to my clients. My attention to injury-prevention begins with a professionally trained approach to the body's proper movement, training, nutrition, and recovery.

My coaching is very personal. My number one priority is to educate and motivate you in ways that enable you to get more fit and make you better prepared to reach your goals. I care about my clients as people first, competitors second, and I place your health above all else. If you are willing to do what it takes, are in search of a coach who loves her work and who knows how to get you from where you are to where you want to be, then I am the coach for you.

No one can go back and make a brand new start. However, everyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Are you ready to stand up and say YES, this new level of health and fitness is what I want and I want to find out what I need to do in order to attain it? Make the choice to go for it! It's about you and your goals. What those who have gained health and fitness realize early on is that they need the expertise of a professional in their corner.

I hope I have gotten your attention, done a good job of explaining the benefits of a professional coach, and created a desire. This is a call to action.

Services

WHAT CAN MY COACHING DO FOR YOU?

Are you looking to get serious about your health, take your training and nutrition to a new level, or obtain a competitive edge in your sport?  Do you feel that you could be achieving greater results from your training with the aid of professional program design?  Are your nutritional habits holding you back from experiencing optimal progress in the gym?  Regardless of your goal—whether you are looking to lose body fat, gain muscle mass, improve athletic performance, increase energy, and/or decrease stress—the individualized program design I offer through my professional coaching services can assist you in unleashing and achieving your full potential.

Everyone wants to get in great shape, but not everyone knows how to get there. Why not get some coaching from someone with over 15 years experience working as a health and fitness professional? Every training and nutrition program I design is completely individualized and based upon you as a unique individual—your goals, your body, your training history, your strengths and weaknesses, your needs.

One major difference with my coaching vs. another trainer's approach is that I fit the program to the client, while most trainers try to fit the client to the program, with the result that often it's not the client who fails the program, rather the program fails the client. My approach to client goal setting and achievement is as different as the people I train. I use the Z-Health based 9S paradigm, always putting the athlete at the center.

Improving your health requires attention to detail. The various components of your program - strength training, cardiovascular exercise, and nutrition - must complement one another for optimal results. With my coaching, the goal is to fine tune and customize each aspect of your program so that you get the best results in the shortest time possible.

When you choose to work with me, I will send you a comprehensive questionnaire addressing everything from your goals, current physique stats, previous or current injuries or health concerns, and training and diet history. You will also have the opportunity to select what foods you want included in your nutritional program so that your program can be designed according to the foods you enjoy.

Your training program is as detailed as your nutrition plan. It will tell you when to lift weights, what exercises to do and how many reps and sets to do them for. It will tell you what kind of cardiovascular exercise to do and when to do it. Your training, including mobility drills, dynamic warm ups, weight training and cardiovascular exercise, will be planned around your schedule.

When working with me, you'll keep track of various components of your days, such as your sleep quality, your energy levels, motivation to train. We will consult regularly via email. This will provide me the updated information needed to make any necessary adjustments to your plan. Your progress report is also a chance for you to ask any questions or concerns that may have come up. When developing your program, I am planning what I believe to be best for you, as an individual, with your specific goals in mind. It is my promise to you to provide the best program possible, and it is your promise to me and to yourself to execute it to the best of your ability.

”How can you coach me long distance? I get this question often. The important thing when seeking coaching is not always proximity but EXPERTISE. Just because someone may be in your own backyard should not be a consideration for putting your trust in them. Check out their resume and their level of expertise. As long as someone is on-line, and responsible to the relationship aspect of the coach/client relationship, then distance is not an issue. With proper client feedback, I can ascertain how a client may or may not be adapting to a training or diet program, and then will tweak it as necessary. Most clients will send digital pictures every so often, and regular feedback, so I am always involved in their day-to-day, week-to-week progress. This makes more sense than the usual "here is a diet and here is a program, get back to me in 12 weeks.” I know that everyone’s neurophysiology is very different and people adapt at their own pace, not according to some weekly or 12 week schedule. That kind of thinking just illustrates how little “trainers” really understand the body and its response to exercise and diet. It is yet another way that my coaching is different.

Below are a number of services available to you.

Services

Nutrition and Training Program Design

Individualized Training, Nutrition, and Supplementation Program Design with Unlimited Support ($275 USD/month; 3 month minimum*)

• Fully integrated training, nutrition, and supplementation programming for any goal
• Resistance training program design based on goals/desired outcomes
• Conditioning program based on goals/desired outcomes; scheduled around resistance training
• Nutrition program design based on goals/desired outcomes and training program
• Supplementation program design to complement training and nutrition program based on budget and priority
• Monitored progress reports; alterations made to program based on progress (if necessary).
• Email support

Unless you have a specific training regimen that you are following/must follow, this is the recommended service as it allows me to fully integrate all three variables. This means nutrition and supplementation are optimally scheduled around your training sessions for maximum benefit.

Once payment is made, I will be in contact with you to collect the necessary information in order to develop your program.

Nutrition Program Design

Individualized Nutrition and Supplementation Program Design with Unlimited Support ($200 USD/month; 3 month minimum*)

• Integrated nutrition and supplementation programming for any goal
• Nutrition program design based on goals/desired outcomes
• Supplementation program design to complement nutrition program based on budget and priority
• Monitored progress reports; alterations made to program based on progress (if necessary).
• Email support

Once payment is made, I will be in contact with you to collect the necessary information in order to develop your program.

Training Program Design

Individualized Training and Supplementation Program Design with Unlimited Support ($200 USD/month; 3 month minimum*)

• Integrated resistance training and supplementation programming for any goal
• Resistance Training program design based on goals/desired outcomes
• Supplementation program design to complement resistance training program based on budget and priority
• Monitored progress reports; alterations made to program based on progress (if necessary)
• Email support

Once payment is made, I will be in contact with you to collect the necessary information in order to develop your program.

Phone Consultations

60-minute Live Chat Session ($100 USD)

I will give you detailed and personalized answers to questions you might have related to your training, conditioning, or nutrition.

*The three month minimum is in place to ensure that I have adequate time to work with you and assist you in achieving your goals.  By purchasing a service which requires a three month minimum, you agree to have your method of payment billed the monthly fee at the time of purchase and to have this fee reoccur for one additional monthly billing cycle.

For more information on becoming a Joyinmovement client, please contact me at shelli@joyinmovement.com. I will get back to you as promptly as possible.