“Strength isn’t just about the ability to lift heavy things. It’s also about how present you are in your life. It’s about showing up and doing your best each and every time.”
ABOUT ME
Hi, I’m Lindsay! Your personal trainer turned yoga teacher. I use the term Movement Coaching to include all types of movement, not just the high intensity type that personal trainers have a reputation for. After playing ice hockey most of my life, competing in powerlifting in college, and then finding my love for yoga, I received my degree in Kinesiology with a focus on exercise science at the University of Rhode Island and went right into full-time personal training. I quickly discovered my style of coaching was what I like to call “intuitive training” where you show up as you are and that’s how we train.
Some days we go hard with the weights, some days we end up stretching on the mat.
With goals still in mind, you can train in a way that allows you to listen to your needs and bring more mindfulness into your workouts. There is science behind exercise selection and there is always a reason why we do specific things in training. I like to teach that WHY. With 6+ years of full-time in-person training experience and 3+ years of yoga teaching experience, I’ve found that the yoga practice can not only benefit your fitness but also bring more awareness and connection into all areas of life.
A combination of weight training and yoga asana (the postures) improve your strength and flexibility helping you move better without pain. It’s one thing to be strong, but it’s another thing to be flexible AND strong. Training just one or the other feels incomplete. We need a more well-rounded approach when it comes to general fitness. So, in addition to flexibility and strength, I teach balance work for increased body awareness and core work for better posture and stability, all with the purpose of injury prevention and improved activities of daily living.
Whether you’re a runner who needs cross training, someone who wants to learn how to correctly use free weights, or an experienced lifter who wants to work on mobility, I am always enthusiastic to help. Let’s get moving!
Certifications
Certified Personal Trainer- NASM
Corrective Exercise specialist- NASM
Active Isolated Stretching- Aaron Mattes Certification
Behavior Change Specialist- NASM
Pre/Post Natal Training Specialist- PROnatal Fitness
B.S. Kinesiology (Exercise Science Focus)- University of Rhode Island Class of 2018
200 hour Yoga Teacher Training - Breathing Room Yoga Center New Haven 2021
What is intuitive training?
With my knowledge of exercise science and years of experience working one-on-one with the general population, I have found that not only is every body different but everyone’s mental state is different. Lots can happen outside of the gym that can affect performance inside the gym. We can’t expect to train exactly the same every single time. Sometimes the body is more fatigued than usual, sometimes there was an intense event that just happened or sometimes you’re just not in the mental space to work at the intensity you normally work at. Life happens. But we still show up. There should be a plan in the gym but there should also be room for flexibity within that plan. Maybe you need to slow down and calm the mind or maybe you need to throw some heavy weights around and let off some steam. This is intuitive training.
Knowing when to push forward and when to pull back.
What matters is that you show up and listen to your body and your mind in the moment to help you feel your best. Your physical health goals are always the priority but so is your mental and emotional health. Through mindful and intuitive training we create a more well-rounded approach to training and we learn to carry that into other aspects of our lives.
Why Uplift?
Uplift: to make (someone) happy or hopeful. To lift (something) to a higher position.
When I started personal training I knew I wanted to share my love of exercise and movement with others but 6+ years later I didn’t expect to fall in love with the idea of connection. Connection of our bodies, our minds, and our potential. Proper form, exercise selection, and movement explanation came naturally to me but one-on-one sessions gave me a whole new world to explore how empathy, compassion, and a loving kindness mindset can be applied to something like exercise.
I have three generic goals for everyone who comes to see me.
1) injury prevention- learn proper form and how to control your movements as well as how to navigate existing injuries.
2) independence and knowledge- learn the skills you need to be confident in the gym and learn not just how but WHY you are doing something because you won’t always have me there.
3) exercise adherence- find movements you like, movements that make you feel strong, move better, and feel mentally better. If you don’t like running, don’t force yourself to run. learn to work fitness into your life and not work your life around fitness.
To me, being a peronal trainer and yoga teacher is so much more than just guiding others through movements and developing exercise reginmines. It is a responsibility to awaken the connection within others. Connection of how we move throughout the day and chronic pain, connection of strength and how much sleep we’ve gotten, connection of the breath and core stability. When I became a yoga teacher I felt an even bigger responsibility to share an ancient practice in a way that respects the culture from which it came but also reach people on a deeper level. Yoga is so much more than exercise and I believe that yoga can be practiced even when we pick up the weights.
Yoga Sutra 1.2 |Yogas Chitta Vritti Nirodha| Complete mastery of the roaming tendencies of the mind is Yoga.
Through awareness of breathing, focused effort, and consistent practice we gain possibilities we once thought were unattainable. Uplift to me is the reminder that as we lift weights and move our bodies, we are also raising ourselves to a higher potential.
Strength - Balance - Mobility - Alignment
Interested in elevating your fitness journey and uplifting your potential?