fitco

Great gym and fabulous trainer! No fads here, just hard work and encouragement. I've lost weight and body fat all while gaining muscle and definition. Weight training sessions are personalized to your goals and boot camps change-up to keep it fun. Sasa is very accommodating and cares about his clients. If and when you are ready to commit to getting healthy, this is the place to go!

It's been a year since I've started with Sasa and his sessions. I started by feeling bored and confused about the gym/gym equipment, and sought out personal training and have since found community via his gym and the support as well as encouraging environment he and the other members of his gym have created. They're a really good bunch of people...readily sharing workout, real stories about their fitness journey and diet tips. Embarking on exercising and personal training was initially daunting and new (so was intimidating as I didn't know how to use the equipment) but from my first day till now I feel like I've learned a lot and found good people to keep my spirits up as I ramped back into restarting my fitness journey. I've fallen on and off the bandwagon (more than once!), and not always consistent with my diet but finding a great community to connect with as I worked out really helped me stay motivated even on days when I didn't feel like it. The encouraging environment was a huge help for me. It made me keep trying! Even when impatient. With time and community I felt more confident and comfortable. I now enjoy personal training and see it as a great way to build new exercise and lifestyle skills. I'm by no means the consistent workout person nor will you see me in the gym all the time but Ive since found that having community makes the hardest workout days not so bad. And it feels like a small achievement to finish a workout.

Sasa has been my trainer for about 2.5 years. Every single workout is always different and so much fun! He pushes you hard but is also nice at the same time. He tailors the workout based on your goals. During my pregnancy we modified the workouts and I believe that the workouts have helped my post-partum recovery. I’m back to working out and am getting stronger every day!

Sasa is an absolute gem. He's always encouraging, thoughtful, and puts a ton of time and effort into putting together a tailored training plan - seriously above and beyond. He also knows the science behind the exercises and has helped me stay active even with my small injuries (mainly back). Sasa made me realize how important it is to feel confident about my body and strength, not necessarily how I looked. He has also pushed me (while knowing my limits) to my physical peak. I'm shocked with how much stronger I am now than when I first started with him and he's made me enjoy lifting weights. He challenges me every week while making the workouts fun and something I look forward to. It's not the same thing every session and I think that's key. I realize that at the end of the day, I'm the one putting in the hard work, but I honestly believe I wouldn't have been able to do it without Sasa guiding me. I'm so happy I decided to work with Sasa and wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone that is serious about making a positive change in their life.

The reason I'm so compelled to share my experience is that if you are looking for a personal trainer, you should at least know of Mr. Sasa before you choose someone else. I'm sure there are other great trainers out there, but below is why Sasa and his training are deeply appreciated by me (and I'm sure I'm not alone). In the first consultation meeting, Sasa demonstrated the way he works, but more importantly, he listened carefully to me explaining my health situations. I had autoimmune and hormonal problems as well as injuries and chronic pain in multiple areas. It turned out that Sasa took the information I gave him to heart! In later training, he always asks me how I am responding to the training, and constantly adapts his program to my body reactions and restraints. It's a truly personalized training experience. The reason he is able to provide the real personal training that works for the client comes from two important things. One, he is extremely knowledgeable, experienced, and he keeps on learning. Two, he is such a deeply kind person that he cares. As a result, he takes a holistic and thus effective approach for weight loss, muscle building, lifestyle change, and wellness. In addition to workout, he cares about (in a gentle, respectful, and humorous way) your motivation, diet, rest, moods, etc. because they are all relevant. He is also ready to answer questions about exercise and diet. He is motivating in each training session, and he organizes fun competitions/activities with his clients to keep them focused. By having all these components kept in check, his clients tend to lose fat while gaining muscle, which is very impressive to accomplish. Because he is knowledgeable and caring, Sasa is also very good at improvising workout programs to tailor to your needs. I give him a heads up if I would be late, but there was one time I was terribly late due to work and traffic. I was convinced in my head that it would be an incomplete workout. However, Sasa condensed the workout into several supersets, so effective that it was one of the most energizing and fulfilling sessions, and I ended up feeling sore (the good sore) for a week after. Other times, when he has to change the program in response to my body situation of the day, he always develops a new set of movements that complement each other very well and the set is challenging but not overkilling. I always left the training feeling more energized than coming in. Also because of his knowledge and level of care, Sasa gives super clear instructions, attends to the details of my movement, and gives me feedback as soon as he sees a deviation from the proper form. I can't thank him enough for that. I believe that a proper form is the most important thing, everything else (regardless it's weight loss or muscle gain) comes with time and repetition as long as we get the form right and keep doing it. But if the form is not correct, we are just spearheading into injury sooner or later. I am not talking about an outrageous deviation from the form--I have somewhat of an awareness of that. It's the minor unnoticeable deviations that matter over time. Those are the things that Sasa attentively watches and catches right away. When he gives feedback, he is also very effective in terms of explaining what I did and what changes I should make for a better form, so I get it. Not only he teaches me the movements, but also he educates me about the underlying mechanisms (he'd happily and excitedly show you some cool videos if you are interested in such topics). I should add that he is super pleasant to talk to. He is a good listener, he has fun things to share, and he has a great sense of humor. If you are like me, who came with injuries, pains, health challenges, and feel doubtful about personal training, I'd recommend you to consider Sasa. He will listen to your needs and wants, and work around your restraints. If you don't have those challenges like me, that's awesome! Sasa will prevent injuries from happening to you while moving towards your goals.