ARC Fitness Personal Training and Wellness Coaching

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.

10/21/2023

Kids back to school? Finally able to find time for yourself? Have you fallen off your fitness routine and feel like you need a reboot?

Check out ARC Fitness for quality, private personal training and wellness. Customized programs, nutrition, anti-aging, and guidance in getting proactive with your physical and mental health…

Reach out, let’s see if we’re a good fit to work together!

10/21/2023

Is this you: NEW FATIGUE? WEIGHT GAIN?? HAIR LOSS???

You may have thyroid disease and autoimmune Hashimotos if you’re experiencing some of these symptoms. Doctors rarely run a thorough thyroid panel, and when they do check thyroid they usually misdiagnose their patients, telling them that their thyroid labs are normal. If they do diagnose hypothyroidism, they typically prescribe a T4 medication like Synthroid. If you’re on Synthroid, you will probably still experience these symptoms because you’re not converting this hormone to the active T3 that would alleviate these symptoms. Instead, your body is making Reverse T3, which blocks active T3 from being available.

- fatigue/tiredness, regardless of quality of sleep/nutrition
- weight gain, regardless of best attempts at diet/exercise
- anxiety/depression that are unexplained, due to no reason
- being sensitive to the cold, regardless of temperature
- dry skin and hair, new hair loss, loss of eyebrows/eye lashes
- muscle aches and joint pain that lack a physical cause

There’s more to this list. If you’re not feeling like yourself, and your doctor tells you that everything is normal… or that you’re getting older and this is what happens, contact me. I can help you take a deep dive into your symptoms and get you feeling better.

10/21/2023

Hypothyroidism has been correlated to an increased risk of breast cancer, (as well as several other cancers that are attributed to excess estrogen and/or low progesterone).

It is estimated that 20,000,000 Americans suffer from undiagnosed or under treated Hypothyroidism. In my own personal experience, I would have to say this applies to approximately half of my Wellness clients. Most of them had no idea that they had thyroid disease or low progesterone, as their doctors never picked it up in their physicals!

The association between hypothyroidism and cancer is due to Estrogen Dominance (and Progesterone Deficiency.)

Some steps you can take are:

Avoid Alcohol (increases blood estrogen levels)
Avoid Estrogen Treatment (supplemental estrogen)
Avoid Polyunsaturated Fats (increases estrogen's activity)
Avoid Radiation (mimics estrogen's effects on cells)

In hypothyroidism, your liver cannot detoxify estrogen, causing estrogen levels to rise.

At the same time your ability to produce progesterone declines as thyroid hormone (T3) levels drop and hormone resources shift to overproduce stress hormones.

So, when you suffer from hypothyroidism, you can quickly become both estrogen dominant and progesterone deficient, which is bad news for cancer.

The good news is that there are ways to fix this… ways to both "prevent and protect" yourself.

Reach out if you’d like my help in diving into your hormone levels and correcting imbalances, taking a proactive step towards your health and wellness.

10/21/2023

Menopause is natural and mandatory…

Suffering is Optional…

Not feeling like yourself? Maybe I can help.

09/23/2023

Have you ever felt like despite doing everything right, your body's just not the same once you hit your 50s?

Do you find yourself battling the scales even with tried-and-true methods from your past? Does the calories in vs. calories out equation no longer work? Are you cutting more calories and increasing cardio to try to push yourself into weight loss via a calorie deficit… but you’re still gaining weight?

I’ve been there, and I became very frustrating when I kept gaining weight, regardless of a clean diet of 1200 calories and daily exercise sessions. I was actually making things worse! I was literally destroying my metabolism in my exasperation to budge the number downward on my scale!

Fact: You can’t out-diet and out-exercise hormonal imbalances!

Once I figured this out, and I balanced my hormones, ALL of this new body fat came off - without any dietary restrictions or need for exhaustive workouts! Not only did it all come off, quickly, it Never returned! It’s been 8 years now, and maintaining balanced hormones has given me my life back.

If this sounds like you, reach out. I’ve been helping women rebalance their hormones and lose excess body fat for many years. I can help you get to the root cause of your metabolic concerns.

09/21/2023

As the evidence grows for the association of refined carbohydrate/sugar consumption with metabolic syndrome and obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, why aren’t more health conscious people turning to low carb/low sugar diets as a normal healthy behavior?

Do you have any of these signs of Insulin Resistance? Many doctors just take a “Wait and See” approach, instead of advising their patients to become proactive. If your blood sugar markers for Insulin are greater than 6, you are in dangerous territory for this condition. Your Hemoglobin A1c should be between 4.8-5.1, and your fasting glucose should be between 85-95.

SYMPTOMS:
Abdominal obesity
Fatigue after meals
Sugar cravings
High triglycerides
Erectile dysfunction
Low HDL
High blood pressure
High blood sugar (diabetes)
Blood-clotting problems
Chronic inflammation (HsCrp)

Insulin resistance may appear as:

Liver :Fatty Liver & Diabetes
Ovaries : PCOS
Pancreas : Diabetes
Brain : Alzheimer’s disease(dementia) & migraines. (Note: Type III Diabetes = Alzheimer’s)
Nerves: Tingling sensation on toes and fingers .
Scalp : Baldness, hair loss
P***s : Erectile dysfunction.

Cure : cure is very simple:

✅Cut the carbs
✅Exercise/Weight Train
✅Add supplements, esp. Berberine
✅Daily walks
✅Optimizing Thyroid Function
✅Using Bio-Identical Progesterone cream to suppress insulin before each meal.

If you have any concerns about how to better manage your blood sugar, reach out… I can help.