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About Us | A Lifelong Passion for Fitness | Personal Training Portland ME
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been excited about exercising and bringing others along through exercises that were perfect for them and now I can do so as a top Personal Training Portland ME. From doing Barbie workout videos in my Bronx apartment to hosting fitness dance parties to giving pilates and core classes at the local gym, to graduating from Massage School and receiving my Doctorate in Physical Therapy. This has been my life’s work and passion.
Lessons from Our First Gym
That led to 2014 opening our first gym when I was working as a Physical Therapist at BMW in South Carolina. The kickboxing franchise led me to understand, as our first business, the hard work and dedication it takes to not only grow a business but to turn around a failing business. After two-and-a-half years growing it and becoming the eleventh best gym in that franchise model in 2015, a certain national gym with the purple and yellow logo moved in right across the street from us. We “got down on our knees” and were rescued by an investor who got us lawyers to get out of our franchise agreement and moved us to Ohio in 2016.
Creating a Personalized Training Approach
That gym taught me how to work slowly with normal everyday women who had no idea how their bodies moved in space and that’s where we came up with the streamlined personal training concept for women of all ages.
Overcoming Challenges and Expanding Online
In September 2019, our first gym successful, we opened up a second location in which it really took off, until the unnamed global pandemic hit in early 2020. My husband was forced to take a slew of different jobs while I started our first online company, since everyone was staying home, Hey Fit Mom. It was based on pregnancy workouts since I was pregnant myself. Fast forward five years, we got our workouts on a couple of different networks and have a growing YouTube channel and figured it was time to take our service offering “Workout with Vanessa” to the women who don’t know how to find us on YouTube. This is by far the most fun we have ever had because we get to help Make America Healthy Again. We absolutely love giving everything we have towards classy women’s fitness.
Our Passion | A Fun-First Approach™ to Fitness
We excel at women’s workouts using our Fun-First Approach™. At the gym, most women who came in didn’t know how to start in a workout program and most women cried when we were going over their health assessments, not because they were too unhealthy, but because they actually found a friend that cared. Most women don’t know what to do when they go to a gym and are too intimidated and confused. This leads to wasted time, energy, and more grief. What happens when they walk into a “normal” gym, is they get a bunch of high pressure ear candy from the salesman and then they are told they can get some personal training sessions with “Rick” who is a gray-headed Master Trainer (the gray head is the only certification Rick has). After she agrees, she walks in timidly, pays $700 for 10 workout sessions. Rick starts out by absolutely putting her through a 30 minute hell session only. She is so sore that she never comes back. Women don’t like to be destroyed (many of them don’t), but you only see women powerlifters or bodybuilders in the mainstream gyms since these gyms are primarily “dude” gyms. The actual everyday women are not in them for fear of getting destroyed! We love working out with the everyday mom, the board CEO, the janitor, the weekend warrior, the excessive traveler, the franchisee, the author, the artist, the entrepreneur, the striving workaholic…You get the picture. Finding the right fitness environment can be challenging, but with a Personal Training Portland ME women rely on, you’ll feel confident, capable, and excited to work out.
Our Promise | Meeting You Where You Are
We will meet you where you are and get you where you want to be using our Fun-First Approach™. No one comes out of the womb knowing what to do in their fitness journey. Do you remember when you learned to ride a bike? Someone was there with you every step of the way and only let go when you were good. Our program is month-to-month so we can let you go when you are “good.” Most of our clients love the family and so we don’t let go of many people as your fitness is constantly evolving using our Fun-First Approach™. When you look good, you feel good. When you feel good, you do good. And when you do good, studies show you make more money. Having a dedicated workout program with me and my team will give you lasting comradery, purpose, and vision for your life. Your fitness is not a one-size-fits-all, you are not a one-size-fits-all. You are an amazing gift from God that deserves to take better care of themselves. Our promise is that we will do our best to keep you safe, dedicated, motivated, and assured that you are living your best life today using our Fun-First Approach™. This is to make you the best version of yourself so you can pass along your best to others. How often have you had a long day at work and slogged through the door just to sit on the couch and not want to talk to your spouse, or eat nasty takeout food due to having no energy. Studies show that exercising 30 minutes a day, five days a week increases energy, life, and decreases heart disease. We aren’t successful until you are using our Fun-First Approach™! A Personal Training Portland ME women count on can make fitness a lifelong, enjoyable journey, helping you become the best version of yourself.
Why Fitness Matters for Every Woman
But suppose you can find a magic potion that could reduce your risk of dying prematurely, heart disease, developing diabetes, colon cancer, high blood pressure or reduce it, depression or anxiety, weight gain, osteoporosis, or falling – Exercise does all of this! Approximately, according to the WomenHeart and Center for Disease Control Prevention, 200,000 women die each year from heart attacks which is five times higher than breast cancer. It looks like heart disease outranks and exercise can drastically increase your life! Osteoporosis robs women from healthy bone health every year and the only thing that prevents this preventable disease is resistance training. Also, when you were younger you had more muscle on you. What you don’t use, you lose. So when you start with us you will get your muscle memory back and muscle burns fat. You’ll actually burn more fat just existing after you get your muscle back and everyday tasks will get easier for you using our Fun-First Approach™! With a Personal Training Portland ME residents trust, you can take control of your health, build strength, and improve your quality of life through expert guidance and motivation.