Wellness Coaching

• Stay in shape with some one on one personal training!
• Are you looking to add some excitement into your workout?
• Need help determining the most effective way to spend your time at the gym?
• You set the goals; your trainer will help you reach them!
• Remember, you get 1-2 complimentary coaching sessions each calendar year.
• Ask at the reception desk to schedule yours.

Meet our Wellness Coaches
Danielle Green – Certified Nutritionist & Certified Personal Trainer – Danielle has worked in the alternative health field for over 17 years and in the fitness industry for over 9 years. She has taken courses in Sports Injuries, as well as, prevention of injuries, Fitness Motivation, and much more. Danielle worked with and under a local chiropractor for nearly 4 years. She helped his patients to rehabilitate from injury and/or surgery. She is always researching to keep up on current information to help our members.

Patty Codromac – Certified Personal Trainer & certified Group Exercise Instructor - Patty began her career 21 years ago as a student and soon realized that Fitness was her passion with a lot of hard work and determination. She has achieved many certifications in Group Exercise, Personal Training and Phlebotomy. She continues to learn more and more in the industry and loves her work at The Club.

Weight Loss and Body Fat Reduction
We prefer you to think in terms of "fat loss" instead of "weight loss.” The aim of getting in shape is how you look and how healthy you are. The goal should be to get leaner. This means changing your body composition so that you have less fat and more muscle. Since muscle weighs more than fat per cubic measurement, absolute weight loss should not be the sole measure of your success. The important results should be how your body looks, how your clothes fit and how you feel. A visible six pack of abs is only accomplished by both building the abdominal muscles and shedding the fat that covers them up.

Calories
The basis for losing body fat is using more calories (an energy value of food), in daily metabolism, activity and exercise than you take in through eating and drinking. It takes about 3500 calories above those utilized to gain one pound of fat. The reverse is also the case. Using up 3500 calories above those taken into your body will cause a reduction of one pound of fat. Therefore, to effectively lose fat, the bottom line is to restrict your calorie intake and increase your calorie output. High Protein - Low Carbohydrate Diet.

Our personal fitness trainers will work with you on a diet and nutritional plan that will give you just the right amount of calories to accomplish this. The diet will consist of foods that deliver you the proper nutrients so that you will get healthier and more energetic and be able to shape your body effectively through muscle toning or building while losing fat. High proteins, low carbohydrate, moderate-low fat diets with plenty of vegetables taken in several frequent meals throughout the day are generally recommended to accomplish this.

Burning Fat Through Aerobic Exercise
The diet itself helps to increase your calorie burning by boosting your metabolism, a process further enhanced as you gain more lean muscle. In addition our fitness trainers work with you on an aerobic exercise program to burn fat and increase your metabolic rate. This is done either on equipment such as Stairmaster, stationary bicycle, treadmill or elliptical machine or by jogging outdoors. The aim is to sustain the aerobic activity for a minimum of 40 minutes at a time at a moderate intensity of 50 percent to 70 percent of your max heart rate. A personal fitness trainer will help you establish this intensity level and a program of working toward your goal in increments suitable to your current fitness level. Your diet and aerobic programs will be the cornerstones of your fat loss plan. They are created by your fitness trainer only with you in mind and based on your current condition, goals, your schedule; lifestyle and simply, what will work FOR YOU.

Spot Reduction of Fat
You must remember when embarking upon a fat loss campaign that spot reduction of fat is not possible. Your body gains and loses fat by way of its unique genetic programming. Unfortunately experience and research shows that the first-acquired, and usually largest, fat deposit areas are the last places that our bodies loose fat. So if you’re holding a lot of fat in your mid-section or in your thighs, which will likely be the last place, you loose it. But don't despair, you WILL lose it. Sticking with it is the ticket. To help you do this, your personal fitness trainer also provides motivation and creates a structured program that helps anchor you through a sustained effort.

Obesity
The number of Americans who are profoundly over-fat, or obese, is on the rise. This affliction/disease, affects about 50 million people in this country. Health risks arising from obesity include, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, gallbladder disease, and prostate, colon and breast cancer. Obese individuals often suffer both social isolation and institutional discrimination. The market is flooded with weight loss pills and products aimed at this population. Some of these items work, often negligibly, but most do not.
The fight against fat is not an easy one, especially for chronically affected people. It is a long, tough battle. There is no question that the development of a new healthy eating and fitness lifestyle is immensely helpful in winning this fight. Our personal fitness trainers have a great deal of experience working with people in this group. If necessary we interface with a client's physician and/or therapist to construct a program centered around restructuring lifestyle while helping to provide the necessary impetus for its success.