Our trainers work closely with you to develop programs for a wide variety of needs, including:
See the current Sonoma personal training specials here!• Injury prevention
• Rehabilitating after surgery or injury
• Increasing balance & flexibility
• Improving core strength
• Enhancing performance for a wide range of specific sports
Trainer Tip
Sweat The Little Things – Stabilizer Muscles
Most people know the big muscles in the body that help us complete our favorite exercises. Our pectorals, triceps, and deltoids help us with pushing exercises, while our biceps, lats, and trapezius muscles help us with pulling exercises. These muscles are just some of our primary movers that we use to complete an exercise. Our little stabilizer muscles, on the other hand, are less commonly known but equally important. These muscles help stabilize joints to prevent damage while movement is occurring.
Stabilizer muscles have a number of roles; they support the trunk, limit movement in a joint, and control balance. All of these functions are crucial in preventing injury. The shoulder, hip, and trunk are 3 locations where stabilizer muscles play a huge role. All of these sites have high mobility and range of motion, which allow us to complete dynamic movements. This high mobility leads to an innately unstable joint. So why develop stabilizer muscles? In the weight room these muscles allow us to complete exercises safely and in many cases more powerfully. Outside of the weight room these muscles help in everyday activities that require the body to balance and study itself, like picking up a sack of groceries or walking up steps. Ask your trainer about developing your stabilizer muscles.
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OUR PERSONAL TRAINERS
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Barbara Bailey
Personal Trainer, NASM; Yoga instructor, Niroga Institute; Nutrition Consultant, Bauman College; Holistic Healing, California College of Ayurveda; Promotion of optimal health through fitness, nutrition and lifestyle. |
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Ed Mount
Personal Trainer since 1985. A.C.E. personal trainer certified. Ed enjoys working with people of all fitness levels designing programs to meet their individual needs. Ed specializes rehabilitation exercise and senior adult fitness. |
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Kiersten Khachaturian
B.S. in Kinesiology specializing in Adult Fitness,. Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor since 2001. Kiersten enjoys training people of all ages and physical abilities. |
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Kim Pauley
Kim is Pilates Certified through Carol Appel Pilates Plus and Stamina Mind-Body Fitness in both Mat and Reformer. Kim has been the Group Exercise Director at the Sonoma Club since 1982 and a Certified Personal Trainer and Instructor through (ACE) American Council on Exercise for over 25 years. Kim enjoys all types of Personal Training including training with weights; the Pilates Reformer or Pilates Mat Training. Kim is conscientious with her clients to make sure that they are trained according to their particular fitness level as well as, other body considerations of the client. |
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Lily Strasburg
Lily was certified in 2005 with the National Personal Training Institute, and is currently studying for her teaching credential at Sonoma State University. Included in her training was over 100 hours of nutrition education. Lily has a strong dance background including ballet, jazz and modern as well as experience in Pilates and yoga. Lily has studied for three years with a meditation master and she loves infusing deep breathing techniques into personal training. As a trainer Lily likes to integrate all of her mind/body background into training all levels of fitness.
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Philip Dresser
Certified Personal Trainer (ACE) and cycling coach. A competitive endurance cyclist, Philip will blend his knowledge of both cardio and strength training to build a fitness program that will bring the changes you are looking for. |
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