Testimonials

"after my third child was born 13 years ago and being overweight and diagnosed with depression i felt awful and wanted to feel better but didn't know a lot about fitness and getting back into shape and looked for an easy way to drop the weight and joined a weight loss program that over the course of a year looked at diet along with diet pills to lose the weight and not until then did things spiral out of control and i developed an eating disorder which took over my life and made the depression so much worse and my family and friends could see a lot of negative things happening to me but i didn't want to admit that i was sick. i decided to join a local gym and slowly worked with a personal trainer who got me back on the right path and taught me how to weight train and to run. a year later i was back at a healthier weight and ran my first half marathon. running changed my life and my focus on changing everything that was negative and since then have ran a few half marathons and i also do long distance cycling too. i still struggle with weight gain and have gone up and down on the scale too much. i stay focused for a while and train and lose the weight but yet gain it all back after time. this past winter was especially difficult as i just finished another half marathon and had a became a trainer and taught cycling and zumba and trained clients and was so focused on fitness when i fractured my ankle and had to stop working out all together and i became depressed and gained all the weight back again. on january 1, 2015 i ran my first mile on the treadmill in pain and was able to run a half on january 30 did i realize that i could do this again but i needed help, and this is when i reached out to alison for the first time. i knew she was a runner too and understood everything that i was going through. whether to run a mile or 26 mile and to gain 40 lbs and then lose it all again and to see yourself as fat and ugly no matter what weight you were i knew she completely understood. i had a goal of running 42km when i turned 42 and had done training before but i wanted this time to be different. the first time we met i felt that she understood and could do this for me but i never knew i would feel and look the way i do today only after a couple of months. again after losing 35lbs and losing so many inches i look and feel so different and i am proud to say i truly feel like a real athlete after training and learning so much about running form and trials and hills and sprints and weight training that i am more confident now in my own ability as a runner that i know i am a winner no matter what and alison has showed this to me in so many ways and yet this is just the beginning! i have so much to learn yet and a few more races yet to do and she has been so motivating and inspiring to show me that i can do this and make positive changes and i'm not alone!so far i have lost close to 35-40lbs and a lot of inches and i am achieving faster running results and time trials. i have noticed a more confident person, a beautiful woman emerging from a lot of hurt and an athlete that is out to do the best she can, she is capable of so much yet that this is just the beginning, the scale doesn't matter but losing inches and toning and shaping your body does and nutrition is the key to success.huge thanks to alison for the many different kinds of workouts and not one is ever the same and she pushes you beyond your limit but never to the point of discouragement. i always love learning from her and she is so genuine as a friend and trainer and motivator that she completely understands and pulls you through mentally and physically, she believes in me as a person and her training has been unbelievable. i constantly hear her voice in every treadmill or trail run to keep pushing and do my best.my advice for anyone afraid to take the first step to get started at new u is don't let anyone tell you that you can't do this and the only person that can make the changes happen is you, believe in yourself and take one day, one workout and once race at a time!"