Our Coaches

Coach Mike

I’m a NSCA certified personal trainer and have been involved in the fitness industry for five years.   I got my start at a one-on-one training facility called Fitness Together where I trained as many as 60 sessions a week.  About a year later I moved on and tried working in a couple different typical gym settings such as Bally’s and Snap Fitness.  I wasn’t happy in a corporate setting so I stepped out my comfort zone and began to train clients on my own, and on my own terms, and have been for a better part of my fitness career.   I have also interned, for a short time, in an athletic training environment and, as a result, have learned a lot about wrapping/taping and several different therapeutic modalities such has cold therapy and heat therapy. Lastly I have learned a great deal about kettlebell training from Anthony Diluglio, owner of the Punch Gym franchise that is dominant in the New England area.  Kettlebells are wonderful exercise tools that got their start in Russia a few hundred years ago.  Until only recently they have slowly become more popular in the U.S.

My training philosophy is simple: “work harder, not smarter.”   This is contradictory to how most Americans view life, and in a work environment it works fine enough, but I believe the “work smarter, not harder” dogma to be a large reason America is faced with its ever growing problems with obesity and other metabolic or cardiac health conditions.  With that said I should mention I generally hate most modern exercise equipment as it makes exercise easy.  I think the only real purpose they serve is for rehabilitation. 

 I feel very lucky to have met Sheryl and the dozens of wonderful members who frequent The Fit Pit. I started out as a member but Sheryl has been gracious enough to let me teach my own classes (which feature kettlebell training) and help coach her classes as well.  I admire what The Fit Pit is about and I look forward to sharing my future there and growing with it.