Our certified personal trainers are passionate, experienced, and dedicated to helping you reach your fitness goals. With diverse specialties and a commitment to personalized training, they provide expert guidance, motivation, and support for every fitness level. Whether you’re looking to build strength, improve endurance, or enhance overall wellness, our trainers will design a customized plan to keep you challenged and inspired. Meet our team and find the perfect trainer to help you move, feel, and live better!

Ann believes variety is the key to constant change. Understanding that no person is the same. Ann focuses on making workouts challenging yet fun for people from all ages and fitness levels.

Certifications

  • ACE Personal Trainer
  • Pilates Reformer
  • Mat Pilates
  • Spin Instructor
  • Barre Above with Pilates Focus
  • Les Mills Body Pump
  • Les Mills Body Attack
  • UrbanKick
  • PWR!Moves Certified Instructor

Wellness & Healthy Lifestyle Coach, Personal Trainer, and Group Fitness Instructor.

Fun Fact: Michelle was a Season 5 at home trainer for ABC’s Extreme Weight Loss with Chris and Heidi Powell. Her client lost over 100lbs by incorporating proper nutrition, regular exercise and lifestyle changes.

Certifications:

  • ACE Personal Trainer
  • ACE Health Coach (weight loss/nutrition/ behavior change)
  • Diabetes Prevention Coach
  • Behavior Change Coach
  • Nutrition Coach
  • Health Care Certified Professional (HCCP)
  • NBHWC Certified
  • American Cancer Society Smoking Cessation
  • OPEX Assessment and Program Design
  • CPR/AED
  • UrbanKick
  • PWR!Moves Certified Instructor

“I coach because I love to support people in their health, fitness and wellness goals. I live for their “ah-ha” moments!”

Michelle Barbera

Mikki specializes in working with Teens and Adolescents, Senior Fitness and Sports Performance.

Certifications:

  • I.F.T.A. Certified Personal Trainer
  • A.F.A.A. Certified Group Exercise Instructor
  • Les Mills BODYPUMP™ Certification
  • Power House Pilates
  • Bosu
  • Resist-A-Ball, TRX®
  • N.E.T.A. Kettlebell Certification
  • American Red Cross CPR & AED Certified

“Mikki has helped move from a wheelchair to a walker to a cane. There has been a tremendous change in my mobility and just getting though the day.”

Val, JCC Member

Specialties include working with those rehabbing from injuries, balance, and weight loss.

Certifications:

  • ACE Personal Trainer
  • TRX
  • Health/Life Coach

“I know that if you enjoy your workouts you’re more likely to stick with them and it’s all about building amazing healthy lifelong habits.”

Pamela Boyd

Chae has dedicated her life to the studentship and sharing of wellness with over 10,000 hours of service in gym, studio, corporate and private setting. Expect training sessions and classes that are informative, soulful and explorative.

Certifications:

  • Yoga: ERYT500
  • 500 RYT Vinyasa
  • 500 RYT Himalayan Tradition
  • 400 Alignment Yoga
  • RPYT Prenatal Postpartum Yoga
  • Yoga for Aging
  • Breath & Meditation
  • Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist
  • Ayurvedic Health Coach
  • Pilates: Barre, Springboard, Mat

“Wherever you are is the entry point to Self.”

Kabir

Sara is passionate about fitness and nutrition and is always continuing her education in fitness. She loves teaching Barre, Pilates, Pilates Reformer, and her newest addition, Stretch and Flex.

Certifications:

  • Barre
  • Pilates
  • Pilates Reformer

“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.”

Benny Lewis

Aline’s training focuses primarily on engaging, lengthening, strengthening and toning the entire body.

Certifications:

  • AAAI-ISMA Personal Fitness Trainer
  • AAAI-ISMA Group Exercise Instructor
  • Gravity
  • Pilates Reformer
  • US Water Fitness
  • Indoor Biking
  • Zumba

“Stability is the foundation of your power.”

Aline Catorc

Stu has been working with seniors and special populations for nearly a decade. He has extensive experience in strength and conditioning, flexibility, fall prevention and balance.

Certifications:

  • AAPTE Certified Personal Trainer
  • NASM Certified Senior Fitness Specialist
  • “Stepping On” – Fall Prevention Program Certified Instructor

“Let me help you overcome life’s challenges!”

Stuart Deitel

Peggy is an avid runner and has competed across the country in 36 marathons and over 100 half marathons. She consistently finishes in the top 5 of her age group. No matter where you’re at, Peggy will push you to be at your personal best.

Certifications:

  • Personal Trainer
  • Indoor Cycling
  • Senior Adult Fitness
  • Track Official

As a former sprinter, Melina specializes in sports performance, focusing on strength and conditioning, and trains athletes and clients of all ages.

Certifications:

  • AAAI-ISMA Personal Trainer
  • First Aid/CPR/AED
  • BA in Exercise Science, Rowan University

Nick has always been a sports and training enthusiast and has a passion for helping others along their fitness journey.

Certifications:

  • NASM Personal Trainer
  • NASM Certified Nutrition Coach
  • Amateur Natural Bodybuilding
  • Taekwondo 2nd Degree Blackbelt
  • BS in Nutrition, Montclair State University

“Of course it’s hard. It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great”

Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own.

Wherever you are in your fitness journey, I’d love to take the next steps with you and help you get to where you need to be.

Certifications:

  • NASM Personal Trainer
  • NASM Nutritional Coach
  • NASM Weight Loss Specialist
  • NASM Small Group Training Specialist
  • Amateur Body Builder
  • Amateur Boxer

“You’re allowed to be both a materpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.”

Lisa Tracy

Greg has been a Personal Trainer with the JCC since 2006. He spent 10 years as a fitness trainer for the Atlantic County Police Academy and has also served as a Titleist Performance Instructor in Golf Movement in 2012.

Certifications:

  • Cooper Institute Fitness and Aerobics Instructor
  • Cooper Institute Personal Trainer

Frank has been a group fitness instructor since 2005 and designs all of his classes for all fitness levels. His goal is to help others be stronger than yesterday.

Certifications:

  • AAAI-ISMA Primary Aerobics
  • AAAI-ISMA Step
  • AAAI-ISMA Older Adult Fitness
  • Qigong

“Exercise should be fun, otherwise you won’t stay consistent.”

Frank Wright

With over fifty years’ experience in the martial arts, Jules focuses on an integrative model of fitness and wellness, blending body, mind, and spirit. He specializes in helping people improve their balance, coordination, and flexibility, critical for those recovering from injury, or looking to maintain elasticity and vigor…or those with young grandchildren with boundless energy!

Certifications:

  • International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA) Certified Personal Trainer
  • ISSA- Strength and Conditioning Coach
  • ISSA- Senior Fitness
  • ISSA- Exercise Therapy
  • ISSA- Kickboxing Coach
  • ISSA- Nutrition Coach
  • 2nd Degree Black Belt Tae Kwon Do
  • 1st Degree Black Belt Filipino Art of Escrima
  • 1st Degree Black Belt Combat Kempo Jitsu
  • Brown Belt Korean Hapkido
  • Green Sash Wing Chun Kung Fu

“I believe age is just a number, a mindset. When you stop moving you rust!”

Jules Weinberg