Personalized Fitness
At Serin Fitness, we know that a one-size-fits-all approach to health and fitness does not work. That is why we offer a personalized approach that is tailored for the goals and schedules of each client.Furthermore, Serin Fitness gives you the flexibility of training out of your ideal location. That includes the gym, outdoor setting, or the comfort of your own home.
Take a look at our general services below and then send us a message to learn how a personalized plan can help you reach your health and fitness goals.
Online Personal Training
Online personal training combines exercise programming, nutrition coaching, habit coaching, progress tracking, and messaging conveniently into one app. This streamlined, holistic approach to your health and fitness goals also happens to be a fraction the cost of in-person training. It also eliminates the need to set appointments to meet with a trainer, giving you more flexibility in scheduling workouts.
What are the 2 types of Online Personal Training?
The two types of online personal training are Virtual Training Sessions and Online Coaching.
What do Virtual Training Sessions include?
These sessions are just like in-person training sessions, except they are delivered remotely via Zoom, Skype, or FaceTime. All you need is a tripod to mount your smart phone or tablet, so that I can view your exercise technique and give you feedback in real time.
What does Online Coaching include?
This type of online personal training does not require setting up appointments for each workout, since I will not be there in real time. Therefore, it offers the most flexibility in accommodating your busy schedule.
After the initial consultation with me, you will receive a fitness routine that includes instructional videos for each exercise, in addition to the prescribed range of reps, sets, tempo, and any additional information. The app will also save your numbers recorded for each exercise and will notify you upon setting new personal records.
For feedback on exercise technique, you can record the exercises and send them to me via in-app messaging and I will respond within 24 hours.
What other online training plans do you offer?
We also offer Hybrid Personal Training. Hybrid Personal Training packages can include a combination of Virtual Personal Training Sessions and Online Fitness Coaching. This program allows clients to have virtual sessions with me on occasion while while they do majority of the workouts without direct supervision.
How are the online exercise programs designed?
All clients will receive an individualized exercise routine to be done at their preferred location, whether be the home or health club. The spreadsheets include instructional videos for each exercise, in addition to the number of repetitions, sets, and tempo. The app will also save your numbers recorded for each exercise and will notify you upon setting a new personal record.
How do you know that I am actually following the training program?
The app measures compliance with the workouts and nutrition goals, letting me know if you are slacking off and need motivation or troubleshooting to get you more consistent.
How do I track my progress?
Use the app to record your monthly progress photos and data such as body weight, resting heart rate, and body tape measurements. Moreover, during workouts, the app will track your weight, repetitions, and sets for each exercise. This enables you to keep your workouts organized and not have to rely on memory. Therefore, a good judgement can be made on when and how much to increase the resistance and training volume.
Am I able to use my FitBit or other fitness tracking device?
Yes! FitBit, Garmin, and Apple Watch sync to the app, giving me information about the intensity of your workouts, calories burned, daily step count, sleep quality, and heart rate.
How do I get the support that I need if we only meet online?
You will receive daily support through unlimited in-app messaging, habit change reminders, and adjustments to the training program if necessary. If you are unsure of whether you are performing an exercise correctly, you can send me videos so that I can give you feedback on the technique.
In-Person Training
Serin Fitness provides personal training out of the clients' home, private gym, and outdoor locations such as your backyard or local park. This is perfect for clients who don’t feel comfortable training in the crowded gym setting and or do not have the time to commute.
Can I get as good a workout at home as I do in a gym?
In-home personal training has several advantages over training in a gym.
The biggest perk is that it eliminates the sharing of space with other members and trainers, allowing for a more focused and productive workout. During my time training clients in the health club setting, I often was not able to follow the plan I had designed, because the the required space and equipment was in use. That led to a lot of wasted time walking around the gym in search for an unoccupied area and improvising a new routine.
Training outside the public gym also gives me the freedom to set up work stations for cross training that includes speed, agility, and quickness drills and resistance training. This is usually not possible at the gym due to a lack of space.
Can I get results without using exercise machines?
I have been training clients in the home and outdoor settings for over ten years. Therefore, I am very knowledgeable about exercises that are perfect substitutes for any machine you would use in the gym. In many cases, the exercises I select are superior to the machine-based exercises you are accustomed to. The calisthenic and free weight exercises I select are far more versatile than standardized exercise machines and confer more health benefits. They recruit more stabilizing muscles-such as the core- so they are more transferrable to natural movements you perform in the home, on the job, and during sports or recreational physical activities. Moreover, the increased muscle recruitment results in more calories burned than the machine-based variants of the exercise.
What Equipment Do You Use?
We bring adjustable dumbbells ranging from 2.5 to 90 pounds each, kettlebells ranging from 10 to 60 pounds, steps and risers, resistance bands with door anchor, looped resistance bands, agility ladder, speed hurdles, sliders, suspension trainer (TRX), slam balls, medicine balls, battle rope, pushup handles, stability ball, thick exercise mats, and more. We also have a variety of mobility tools such as a foam roller, rumble roller, pic pipes, Rogue Fitness mobility ball, peanut tool, lacrosse ball, Pso-Rite, loop bands, medicine ball, yoga tune up ball, and Voodoo floss bands.
Nutrition Counseling
The time and effort you put into your workouts will be squandered if your nutrition is undernourishing. Nutritional Counseling will optimize your fitness progress. It can be purchased as a separate service or bundled with your Fitness Coaching program. Included in your nutritional counseling are powerpoints for weight-loss and gaining muscle, weekly healthy habit coaching, meal prep tips, and lifestyle coaching. I offer a 30-minute consultations to get you started. Thereafter, I will set you up with a custom meal plan, track your compliance, and give you continual feedback. You will also receive a practical and foundational education in nutrition so that you know how to structure your meals for the rest of your life.
How do you know that I am following your nutrition advice?
Our fitness app has the ability to track your meals without you having to figure out calorie count yourself. Just scan the barcode of what you eat and you are done! The macronutrient and calorie intake calculations are all done automatically in the app.
However, if you prefer to manually input your own food and measure quantities yourself, then this is also possible.
How do I know what to eat?
When you include Nutrition Counseling with your training program, we not only provide an easy-to-use app that tracks your meals and calories, we also you with custom meal plans, grocery lists, recipes, and instructional meal preparation videos. I will also teach you how to create your own meals, giving you a high degree of flexibility.
The app includes thousands of delicious recipes. You can search for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Additionally, you can filter for specific dietary restrictions such as gluten, dairy, shellfish, meat, and more. Therefore, it will be easy to get a meal plan that will account for food allergies and sensitivities.
How will I track my meals?
There are two different ways this can be arranged: Calorie / Macronutrient Tracking or Meal Photos.
Of these two options, Calorie counting is more detail-oriented but much more labor-intensive for the client. In contrast, meal photos require very little time and effort from the client, yet give me plenty of information for nutrition coaching.
How does Calorie and Macronutrient Tracking work?
In this method, you will receive a daily calorie and macronutrient (Protein, Fat, and Carbohydrates) values that are tailored for your fitness goals.
Using the app, you will manually enter your meals, accounting for each food item and the corresponding serving size. This would require either measuring or weighing each food. Although, you can also simply use the in-app bar code scanner if your food has a barcode attached.
The app gives you the nutritional profile of each meal you entered. In addition, a table will show you how far you are from reaching your target calories and macronutrient values. All of the data is also viewable by me, enabling feedback on how to get closer to the targets I set for you.
How do meal photos work?
If measuring, weighing, and manually typing each food source is too much of a hassle for you, then meal photos are the perfect alternative. This takes just seconds of your time. Simply take a photo of your meal and upload it to the app, where it will be instantly viewable to me. I can give feedback, on each meal photo, through the attached comment field. This will be very efficient in helping you make dietary adjustments that are in better alignment with your health and fitness goals.
How do I maintain my healthy eating habits?
I will teach you about nutrition so that you can make healthy choices on your own.
I also educate my clients about the benefits of dietary fiber, water, vitamins and minerals, electrolytes, omega 3, probiotics, antioxidants, and prebiotics. This will take your health and fitness to another level.