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About Personal Training

Personal training at our gym provides a unique and highly effective way to reach your fitness goals. Our certified trainers will create a customized workout plan based on your specific needs and preferences, allowing you to receive personalized attention during each session. Whether you’re looking to build strength, improve your overall fitness, or simply try something new, our personal training program is designed to help you achieve the results you want. With their expertise and guidance, you can expect to see improvement in your performance, build confidence in your abilities, and ultimately reach new levels of fitness success.

Gym Hours

Don Mills

Richmond Hill

Benefits of Personal Training

Customized workout plan tailored to your specific needs and goals

One-on-one attention and support from a certified personal trainer

Improved performance and increased confidence in your fitness abilities

Reduction of injury risk through proper form and technique instruction

Motivation and accountability to reach your fitness goals

Improved results and faster progress

Personalized nutrition advice and guidance

A safe and supportive environment to challenge yourself and reach new levels of fitness

The opportunity to learn new exercises and techniques

Flexibility in scheduling to fit your busy lifestyle.

Our Personal Trainers

Our team of trainers consists of highly qualified and certified professionals, each with their own areas of expertise and passion for fitness. Whether you’re looking for a trainer with a background in strength training, yoga, or sports performance, we have the right professional for you. Our trainers are dedicated to helping you achieve your fitness goals and provide a supportive and encouraging environment for you to reach new levels of success.

Don Mills

Mike Mak

Director of Athletic Programs + Personal Trainer

As the Director, Mike oversees all fitness and training programs at FC. He created the FAST Training program wanting to help novice and experienced gym goers unleash their inner athlete by becoming stronger and feeling better through exercise, and looking a whole lot better while doing it!

His ability to work with people of different age groups and varying exercise backgrounds with great success over the past decade is what continues to drive his passion for health and fitness today. He believes that everyone should be given the opportunity to look and feel they’re very best.

Personally, he enjoys weightlifting and sports, is an aspiring powerlifter, and has completed a couple of marathons.

Linval Reid

Personal Trainer

Linval is certified through Can- Fit- Pro as a Personal Trainer Specialist and through the Canadian Red Cross as a CPR trained.

He is the founder of ‘Linval’s Elite Fitness’ is a positive and helpful professional trainer whose talent is simple, but innovative style has inspired many individuals to the extent that they have gone on to become exemplars in fitness and health. Some of his clients are now competitive body builders and fitness coaches.

Pablo Conde

Personal Trainer

My name is Pablo, and I am an expert in natural bodybuilding and body recomposition. My goal is that you can finally feel proud of yourself both physically and mentally leading to the improvement of your overall health. I will help you take the steps toward change with strategies that combine science and efficiency from the history of training. Doing more is not better but doing it well with meaning and consistency is the key to achieve everything you set out to do. You yourself have to make the decision to improve and fight for what you want. Your great goal is to beat yourself and always remember that the beginning of change is in the mind.

Jorge Miguel Ruiz

Personal Trainer

Miguel has been involved in sports since his early years and has been involved in fitness for over a decade. After moving to Canada he became a recreationist ,CPT, yoga instructor and kickboxing instructor. With a background martial arts Miguel enjoys functional strength training, kettlebells and riding his bike around Toronto looking for the newest vegetarian restaurants.

Mo Malek

Personal Trainer

Over 15 years of experience in instructional fitness as a group fitness instructor and personal trainer. Practical knowledge of the principles of resistance, mobility, stamina, flexibility and agility. Ability to demonstrate correct techniques and moves. Special exercises for all ages and fat burning.

Certification: Canfitpro personal trainer specialist, sport nutrition (Canadian Academy of sport Nutrition), NOC.IR/ General conditioning Course Class A, Arnold Classic Madrid Spain 2015.

Jo Picot

Personal Trainer + F.A.S.T Trainer

Passionate for helping others transform their lives through the power of exercise and nutrition. Skilled and certified in: Yoga, Group Instructor, Schwinn Cycle, Older Adult Fitness, Registered Holistic Nutritionist.

Personally, Joanne stays healthy and active through yoga and weightlifting and has completed a few marathons.

Angelina

Personal Trainer + F.A.S.T Trainer​

Angelina is a certified personal trainer through the International Sports Science Association (ISSA) and a group fitness instructor that specializes in strength training and functional fitness. With over six years of experience, she has transformed clients’ lives through individually curated fitness programs. Additionally, Angelina has worked with youth and youth sports teams, aiding them in reaching their optimal athletic performance while prioritizing injury prevention.

Her philosophy revolves around empowering individuals to recognize their physical and mental potential, by creating personalized fitness programs that facilitate results and advocate for sustainable health and wellness practices. Angelina’s approach tailors strength and functional training to each client’s specific needs and abilities. She inspires and motivates clients to achieve their goals, equipping them with the knowledge to maintain a healthy lifestyle beyond the gym.

Angelina enjoys weightlifting as well as outdoor activities such as hiking and cycling

Richmond Hill

Chris D

Personal Trainer

Christopher DiLorenzo- Honours Specialist BSc in Kinesiology and Health Science, BEd with specialization in Biology and Physical Education.
I have 8 years of training experience from coaching youth sports teams, and professional athletes, as well as helping people who are just starting their fitness journey. Working at Fitness Connection has given me the tools to help me personally grow as a trainer, inspire individuals to create healthier habits, and assist clients in crushing their own fitness goals.

Neeva K

Personal Trainer/Class Instructor

Hi I’m Neeva! I’m a certified yoga teacher and holistic nutritionist. My personal experience with serious health problems that were resolved through lifestyle changes inspired me to pursue a career path dedicated to helping others achieve optimal health through fitness, nutrition, and spiritual work.

Yoga and fitness play an integral role in promoting a healthy lifestyle. As an expert in cardio yoga (a fantastic detox!), restorative yoga (which is more spiritual and is amazing for mind relaxation), and fitness dance (a great way to burn calories while having fun!), I offer a range of techniques to support physical and mental wellness. I find yoga particularly transformative, as it highlights the connection between breath and movement. Through yoga, we learn the value of mindful breathwork in improving overall health and happiness.

I am a certified yoga teacher, having completed a 250-hour Yoga Alliance certified training program, as well as various courses (core strength, the yoga of awakening, Kabbalah yoga, and more). Additionally, I am well-educated in culinary health (Harvard Medical School – specializing in the prevention and treatment of diabetes). In 2015, I obtained certification as a holistic nutritionist from the Matthew Kenny Institute in LA.

 

Dan Harland

Personal Trainer

As an Athletic trainer with 15 yrs in the Strength and Conditioning field, I specialize in the biomechanics of the body, which enables a person to move better and then move often, which results in a happy and pain-free movement-filled life!

Among the frequent exercises that are associated with training, here are some others that I address:

  1. Foundational exercise technique, based on:
  • Postural correction and alignment through employing muscle activation/deactivation of tonic/phasic systems
  • Prehab knowledge: Lower back, hip, and rotator cuff function
  • Joint centering, integrity, and longevity.  Focus on low | high capacity
  • Correction movement patterns and addressing asymmetries
  • Inner unit, pelvic floor, TA dysfunction, and education
  • Mitigation of aging factors and tolerable pitfalls vs intolerable pitfalls
  • Employing CHEK education in regard to Men/Women’s hormonal profiles.

  1. Core-centered weight training.
  • Exercises that teach the body to recruit the core first, and then other muscles secondarily — in that order.
  • Emphasizing patterns or sling system exercises
  • Employing tri-planar movements in functional day-to-day lifestyle requirements. 

  1. H.I.T. and Kickboxing training.
  • Excellent for V02 Max training
  • Excellent for cross-training upper + lower body and increasing lactate threshold tolerance
  • Excellent for weight loss and upregulating nervous system CP systems.
  • Excellent carryover skills for day-to-day life


Lastly, about me:
Perhaps the most important thing is to have a passion for this field, and I enjoy using this information with the aim of helping others improve their quality of life.

This is intrinsically motivating and inspires me to be the best version that I can of myself, and by doing so, my clients will benefit in their own lives, which will translate into them helping others with this information, and so on.    

Mix that ethos in with a coffee and it’s magic!

Frank Jorge

Personal Trainer

Frank Jorges career has spanned a few decades. Since he embarked on this life long journey of learning he has encountered numerous situations which have made him seek out more educated individuals with a vast knowledge of both physical and neurological understanding to help him. With this resource he has started to see things in a different light and in so doing began to apply his knowledge to better help his vast array of clientele.

Frank’s clients range from Teens too well over 70 years young. As well as clients with special limitations be it physical or neurological. Frank’s understanding of movement and muscles makes him a well rounded individual in the scope of exercise. I love Personal Training because I can educate clients that it is never too late to become fit and/or healthy.

Venessa

Personal Trainer

Venessa has always had a passion for dance and fitness.  She started in the fitness industry in 2000 started  instructing various fitness and martial arts classes and then went into personal training.  Venessa lives and breathes music, dance and fitness. She trained and competed in latin and ballroom and continues to learn many other dance styles . She also has an extensive 7 year back ground in different types of martial arts starting with boxing  then moved into capoeira and till this day still practices Mauy Thai.  Venessa has become very passionate about teaching people about fitness through movement.  whether its through dance, martial arts or instructing people in proper form and building strength through resistance training.  Her classes, group training and one on one sessions continue to grow as she influences many people to feel amazing about themselves. Wait until you see her in ACTION! 

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