After moving from sunny health-focused and image-keeping San Diego, I'd barely noticed that I…read moregained 8-10 lbs (I'm 5'2.5" so that's a lot for me!) after I moved back to my hometown in Virginia after throwing down Papa John's, McDonald's, Wendy's, . I was the heaviest that I've ever been in my life and with a wedding fast-approaching on the horizon, I had to get serious. After 8 months of LA Boxing with no improvements in my weight or tone, I was so desperate to get into some serious shape with a trainer. After googling "personal trainers fairfax," I stumbled upon Coach Charles' website and was eager to begin a new health regimen, especially with an appealing "$249 for 4 weeks of personal training!" advertisement.
I started training with Charles 2 days later, and after 4 weeks of training, I've tripled my strength, lost 1.5 inches around my middle and hips/butt, and lost about 2.5% of my body fat. As a short person who wasn't really overweight to begin with (I wore a size 4, size small but medium when self conscious, size 26/27 in jeans), it's hard to really make huge weight loss. But after the past 4 weeks, my fiance noticed I was getting "skinnier," and friends have noticed the weight loss in even two weeks! He measures your progress based on: abilities to progress in strength, measurements in chest, gut 1 (bellybutton level), gut 2 (hip level), hips/butt, thigh circumference, flexed right arm circumference, body fat %, and weight.
This isn't your normal "run on a treadmill, warm up on an elliptical, do some tricep kickbacks and bicep curls" type of workout with some juiced-up creatine junkie trainer... this is real training, down to the nuts and bolts, with proven methods. His exercises are fun, challenging, and Coach Charles knows how to produce results. I look forward to going to training each and every session, it flies by and I'm sweating. He customizes your routine to your abilities, challenges, aches and pains, to ensure that you will get an effective workout despite joint problems, range of motion limitations, or health issues.
Coach Charles used to be obese himself (not many juiced-up trainers can say the same, they just know how to "pump you up")! He designed our workouts to achieve the results he actually made happen for himself and has fine-tuned them to each person's needs. He even got his own wife into shape and her body is rock hard!
Anyway I've gone on for far too long but it's hard to speak to the greatness that is FitHealth. He's flexible with sessions (if you're out of town, he designs a regimen for your vacation), he's motivating (unless you want to eat cheese all the time like I do), and very likeable. Go on his website and request a consultation, it's great!! And you won't regret it!