Holistic Health Expert
Jon Arend has been in the fitness industry for 18 years and has been training in Los Angeles for the past 15 years. Jon’s clients include Professional, Collegiate and top Junior Tennis Players, A-List celebrities, LAPD, Special Operations soldiers, business executives, moms, and retirees. Jon is the “trainer’s trainer” – providing real functional training strategies even for trainers to the stars. Customized training
Jon’s practice is customized to accommodate his client’s individual goals and body type and incorporates a blend of disciplines that are found in Russian strength training, martial arts, biomechanics, physical therapy and holistic modalities. These disciplines focus on postural and structural alignment with an emphasis on functional human movement patterns and evolutionary nutrition. EXPERIENCE
Jon is certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine as well as the National College of Exercise Professionals. institute for Breathing, Primal Pattern Movement, Scientific Core Conditioning, and Scientific Back Training. (See more credentials below). Jon worked at the exclusive Sports Club LA for two years before starting his own private practice. For the past eight years he has teamed up with Doctorate of Physical Therapy, Allen Letgolts, Chiropractor and Sports Rehabilitation Specialists, Dr. Jeffery Tucker, Chronic Pain Specialist, Laura Sadler, ADI Physical Therapist, Sean Hampton, Body Reform Integrated Physical Therapy, the Gray Institute and biomechanics expert, Dr. Robert Irvin as well as radiologist, Dr. Doug Brown. In 2010, Jon partnered with Duke University tennis coaches to open Court Strength, an integrated fitness and tennis facility in Santa Monica, California, which trains professional, collegiate and junior tennis players. In 2015 he sold Court Strength. In 2011, Jon was asked by Nike and Microsoft to be one of the lead motion capture trainers for their Nike+Kinect Training game for the Xbox 360 platform. In 2012, Jon teamed up with The Teeter Corporation and was one of the trainers for the Thunderbell fitness program, performing the hardest routines designed by top military trainer, Jeremy Levine, who trains the Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces and Air Force Special Forces. In 2014, Jon launched Combat Science, an integrated self-defense and fitness online training website. Jon also trains in Freedman’s Method Ketsugo Jujutsu, Jeet Kune Do, Bruce Lee’s martial art, and holds qualifications and certifications from Defensive Hand-gun, Tactical Carbine and Sniper/ Counter-Sniper schools, the American Alpine Institute, American Red Cross, and the Skip Barber Racing School.
