About Isabel
Isabel has worked as a Certified Fitness Trainer since 2003, training individuals and groups of all ages and abilities. Her experience includes Fitness Trainer for medically challenged clients in a sports medicine clinic, Danskin Triathlon Coach, Personal Trainer at the Seattle Athletic Club, and SilverSneaker® Senior Advisor for geriatric populations. She is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Council on Exercise (ACE). Isabel’s training background combined with her Masters in Teaching and 20 years of experience as an English as a Second Language Instructor make her prepared to skillfully guide clients of any age and ability toward a safe and integrated fitness level.
“My purpose as a trainer is to help others experience the vitality
and inspiration that exercise can provide. I learned this firsthand in my
late thirties when I gradually began to increase my own activity level.
On a whim, I hired a personal trainer and fully discovered my love of movement.
As my strength and flexibility increased, so did the sheer joy of being
active, of being alive. Because I went through my own transformation with
exercise, I know how it feels to want to make a change and I want to support
those who have the desire.
Drawing on my knowledge of fitness as well as my extensive background in
education, I strive to design workouts that are creative and fresh while
incorporating movement that is appropriate to my clients’ abilities.
Progressing at a safe and consistent rate, I like to focus on building a
strong and stable core, and from there develop functional fitness that allows
my clients to do the things they most love to do whether it be gardening
or competing in a triathlon. I believe in combining exercise and nature
whenever possible for the benefit it brings to the mind and spirit as well
as the body.
In particular, I love to work with women who are new exercisers,
returning to an active lifestyle, or looking to take their current fitness to a higher level. I
get a huge charge from things like teaching a non-swimmer how to swim, or helping someone develop muscles they
never knew they had, or training women who are ready for new challenges such as a longer
triathlon or perhaps a climb up Kilimanjaro!
I hope that through exercise, my clients discover a New Outlook on their
fitness and can experience it as an indispensable component to a life time of physical health and well-being.”
