We live on Shoshone Trail in Indian Peaks West and we enjoy the beautiful neighborhood especially on our walks. Teresa is a Hospice Nurse Practitioner helping patients and families negotiate the challenges of end-of-life care. I own a studio as a franchisee called The Exercise Coach at 1075 E South Boulder Road, Suite 100. 

 

I have strength trained since I was 14 years old and I have a history of injuries associated with gyms to prove it. I alternated upper body and lower body workouts each day and rested Sundays. As I aged, I recognized my recovery was taking longer. A familiar pattern emerged: I would create pain or inflammation at the gym, my physical therapist would give me exercises to recover, and I would repeat this process until I found an alternative exercise at the gym to avert the pain. Old habits die hard.

 

I discovered The Exercise Coach and I acknowledged - eventually - that I needed more time to recover and I only needed two doses of strength training weekly to be effective, efficient and safe. When you can measure your strength digitally & in real time, your brain learns the proper muscle memory during the exercise and you become proficient at the exercise. I have become a student of my own strength; my curiosity about my body's capacity informs my healthy nutrition and training - it's healthy, positive feedback loop.

 

When and why did you start The Exercise Coach? 
I left the corporate world and The Exercise Coach found me. The franchise offered me an opportunity to combine my personal strength training priority with my desire to build community. On 18 January, 2023 I opened my studio with a key in one hand and a snow shovel in the other. The community and culture that has developed since I opened has been as rewarding to me as the story of each client who has learned what their body can do. 

 

I remember, after a mountain bike accident, a radiologist told me that had I not had as much muscle around my shoulder, then I would have suffered greater injury. That experience made me realize that my musculature was vital for holding my body together. 

After a hernia from skate skiing, I learned my body's right side responds reflexively and I had to concentrate on my left side to respond equally. Additionally, our bodies have learned to accommodate injuries and bad habits and those accommodations do not simply go away on their own.

 

Teresa is a Hospice Nurse Practitioner; she has described the various conditions of a body toward the end of life. Sarcopenia, age-related muscle loss, starts in our later 30's with a loss of up to 1/2 pound of Type II muscle each year unless we do meaningful strength training. 

 

Strength is the #1 biomarker for aging but the good news is sarcopenia is reversible. Regardless of age, teenager to senior, we should all be students of our own strength. Strength is a life-long lesson especially as our lives are punctuated with injuries or surgeries.

 

The most common misconception is the fear that one will become too muscular. The degree to which one becomes muscular is dependent on the lifestyle one chooses and protein consumption has to match your level of strength training. I promise you that you will not wake up one morning embarrassed by your new-found muscularity. The attractiveness of young adulthood is made up mostly of our musculature. As deconditioning progresses, it is the loss of muscle and the gain of fat that detracts from our appearance. 

 

The other misconception is that there isn't enough time for strength training. I can understand that notion - I've spent a lot of time in gyms negotiating the various exercises, finding the right settings, and waiting for equipment to become available. I've learned that by-appointment, personal training is worth the investment especially if my personal time is precious.

 

Our business proposition is personal training for 20 minutes, twice weekly for efficient, effective workouts with proof of progress. I add an additional 10 minutes on my own and you can do that, too. 

 

Continue your healthy lifestyle. You can run, hike and play sports all you want. Add capacity to your life, your lifestyle and all your activities with strength training.

 

I invite you to The Exercise Coach Louisville for two, free consultations so you can become a student of your own strength.

 

Leo V. Rodriguez

Studio Owner

The Exercise Coach -- Louisville

1075 S. Boulder Road, Suite 100

Louisville, CO 80027

Mobile: (303) 550-6970

Main: (720) 619-6922