ARC Fitness Personal Training and Wellness Coaching

08/29/2025

Back work, core stabilization, multi-joint. Targets lats, biceps and rear delts.

08/28/2025

Great piece of equipment to strengthen core/glutes and back muscles. Isometric contraction for calves and hamstrings.

08/27/2025

There’s a term Osteo- Sarcopenia. Age related loss of bone and muscle. This leads to frailty, and increased fall risk.

Building muscle helps to build bones. Women must lift heavy to build bone through weight training. While we can’t begin a strength training routine with heavy weights, a progression should be established. This is where hiring a trainer or coach, who specializes in training older adults, is important.

Lifting 2-5 lb dumbbells is not sufficient to build muscle or bone. Yet, this is the typical weight range used by older women who are trying to build muscle. They don’t graduate to heavier weights, which means they are not challenging themselves or changing body composition.

08/27/2025

Sarcopenia, age related muscle loss.

Muscle loss begins in our 30s and accelerates in our 40s, when we typically begin Perimenopause. We lose 3-8% of our muscle, per decade, beginning in our 30s. We can lose up to 10% of our muscle, per decade, as we transition into menopause, around age 50, and beyond.

08/25/2025

Mountain Climbers to Atomic pushups… muscle for vitality, anti-aging and metabolic health.

08/25/2025

So important to maintain muscle as we age. Sarcopenia is one of the primary reasons older adults find themselves in nursing homes and assisted care facilities.

03/09/2025

It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted here on FB. Just wanting to provide a quick overview of what I do at ARC Fitness.

I’m both a personal trainer and Wellness coach.

As a trainer, my focus is on bringing clients to their fitness and/or weight loss goals. Each workout incorporates strength training for all muscle groups, with an emphasis on functional movement, core and balance. Most of my clients are over 50 years, with about a 50/50 balance of males/females. Sessions are either 30 minutes or a full hour and can be any combination of cardio and strength training.

As a Wellness Coach, I focus on improving overall quality of life and many aspects of health, especially those caused by metabolic conditions.

I help my clients make lifestyle changes and help them advocate for better healthcare with their physicians. Many clients, especially women, are dismissed or gas lit by their doctors. This does nothing to improve the quality of their lives or their overall health.

I review lab results and help my clients understand how to optimize their labs via better nutrition, exercise and sometimes, supplements. I also recommend additional lab testing to determine factors that can be contributing to symptoms and to their resistant metabolic weight loss or other health-related conditions. Most of these factors lie in hormonal imbalances and deficiencies. I can help optimize hormone levels. I draft reports that help clients advocate for support from their physicians, as most doctors know little to nothing about hormones, including thyroid.

If you, or someone you know, is struggling with their health or level of fitness, please share my information as I may be able to help.

04/02/2024

Warmer weather is coming and it might be time to shed those winter pounds and jumpstart your health and fitness routine.

ARC Fitness is perfect for many of your health and fitness needs. Offering 30 and 60 minute workouts that focus on strength, core, balance and functional mobility. Throw in some cardio to round out your training session. Sessions available for private and semi-private sessions.

Private, In-home training also available.

Are you struggling with resistant weight loss, fatigue, insulin resistance, mid-life hormone fluctuations, or just want to feel better and look younger? Are you suffering with the symptoms of undiagnosed or under treated hypothyroidism and autoimmune Hashimotos? Do you feel like something is wrong, but you doctor tells you that all of your labs are “normal”? Feeling dismissed, being told that your symptoms are just a part of getting older?

I can help you figure out the root cause of your symptoms and work out a plan to get you feeling better. Let’s talk!

Wellness coaching is available both in person or remotely.

01/21/2024

Statin drugs: It’s all Smoke and Mirrors!

While it said that Statins reduce or block cholesterol, the fact is that Statins block the Mevalonate Pathway and by doing so cause the transfer of cholesterol from the bloodstream into organ and muscle cells. The blood cholesterol lowers, making labs appear to reflect a lowered cholesterol level.

Cells eventually die because Mevalonate, blocked by Statins, is essential to cell life and cell replication. Excess cholesterol forced into cells damages organ/muscle cells throughout the body. Excess cholesterol (minus Mevalonate) is toxic to cells.

Slow cell death begins. On paper your lipid profile may look better, but you haven't done anything to reduce your risk of Cardiovascular disease. You've just increased your chances of falling prey to very serious diseases including diabetes, autoimmune conditions and a host of other life changing “direct effects” of cholesterol lowering drugs.

Check out this NIH article: How statistical deception created the appearance that statins are safe and effective in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.

We have provided a critical assessment of research on the reduction of cholesterol levels by statin treatment to reduce cardiovascular disease. Our opinion is that although statins are effective at reducing cholesterol levels, they have failed to substantially improve cardiovascular outcomes. We hav...

01/01/2024

Wishing everyone a very Safe and Happy New Year!

10/30/2023

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Check out ARC Fitness for your health and fitness needs. Offering 30 minute workouts that focus on strength, core, balance and functional mobility. Throw in some cardio to round out your training session. I also provide both private and semi-private 60 minute sessions. Affordable rates, almost 20 years local personal training experience.

Are you struggling with resistant weight loss, fatigue, insulin resistance, mid-life hormone fluctuations, or just want to feel better and look younger?

I can help you figure out the root cause of your symptoms and work out a plan to get you feeling better. Let’s talk!

Wellness coaching is available both in person or remotely.

10/30/2023

Are you a woman in your late 30s, or beyond, who is struggling with weight loss? You’ve tried all the old tricks that used to be effective, but the scale doesn’t budge, or worse, your weight goes up? Are you losing muscle and gaining fat?

Unfortunately, many women in late perimenopause, or already in menopause, have….

⬆️Insulin
⬇️Estrogen
⬆️Cortisol
⬇️Testosterone
⬇️Progesterone
⬇️Free T3 & T4
⬆️SHBG

There is no diet or exercise routine that will result in fat loss in this case. These hormones are key players in this scenario and must be brought into balance for your efforts to be successful. Unfortunately, most doctors do not test for hormonal imbalances. Their solution is typically to provide drugs to treat the multiple symptoms that occur and polypharmacy becomes the trend, where multiple drugs are prescribed to treat various conditions. Big Pharma profits, and patients lose and continue to suffer because the root cause wasn’t addressed.

If this sounds like you, or someone you know, reach out. I can take a deep dive into your symptoms and labs and lifestyle to get to the root cause. You don’t have to be miserable and frustrated. There are solutions, they’re just different than the solutions that worked in the past.