Posts Tagged ‘personal training’

The GH Team Keeps Growing With TWO More Talented Coaches

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

At GH we are committed to hiring the BEST college coaches who are ready to move past the traveling and win/loss focus of college coaching and instead help transform people’s lives in a one-on-one environment.  We recruit coaches with the job title “COACH REAL PEOPLE OFF THE FIELD” and we are thrilled to formally announce the addition of two very experienced and successful coaches to the team team.  Welcome Erin Ekeberg and Dan Zierfuss! Erin will be working in our Glenview facility, while Dan has joined Bucktown.

A Little about Erin:
Most recently, Assistant Head Coach at Northwestern University where she was also a rock star college player. Erin not only is a talented coach, she is a big mind and we are thrilled to have her talent on the team. Erin graduated cum laude from Northwestern and also cum laude from Georgetown Law. Fortunately for Northwestern and GH, Erin decided her passion was to help people in a one-on-one environment, went back to coaching after working in law, and is now dedicated to helping GH clients! You can read more about Erin on our website:

http://www.ghfitness.com/trainers/27,erin-ekeberg.html

A Little More About Dan:

Dan has been a college coach for more than 6 years, ranging from Football to Track to Cross Country.  Most recently, he was Head Coach of Track and Cross Country at Knox College rising to the position of head coach after demonstrating his leadership and success as a talented leader.  Dan was a leader all the way back to his days at Beloit College where he had the rare honor of being the team captain for BOTH the Football and Track and Field teams.  We are thrilled to have Dan’s huge heart and strength (after all, he is a former Discus and Shotput Competitor) on our Bucktown team.  Read more about Dan here:

http://www.ghfitness.com/trainers/29,dan-zierfuss.html

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So Much Has Happened, We Forgot to Blog About It!

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

We’ve been so busy at GH growing our team (welcome Kelly and Tiffany), growing our relationships with the community, growing the GH Method, and watching some of our kids grow (the next generation of GH Coaches are starting to walk already)….that we forgot to blog about it!

So here we are back again in the blogging world. We’ve gotten out a lot recently into the real world by featuring GH coaches at events like Chicago Style’s night of Modern Beauty, the Chicago Triathlon where we shared a tent with the Triathlon training company TogetherWeTri, the Ol Phun 5K run in Glenview, and several more. We love getting out into the community and really helping people understand the power of the GH Method by doing the GH Challenge …. which is where people do one exercise with a GH Coach in an attempt to make “3 Lbs Heavier Than 6 lbs.” The response to this mini-coaching has been remarkable as we have found people really appreciate FEELING the difference between using their energy wisely. The more someone has worked out and especially if they have had a personal trainer, the more they GET THE FEELING of working out wisely. Thanks Kelly Lindsey, Nick Rubel, Tiffany Martin, Peter Hahaj, and Edyta Bujalska who have joined us at some of these events!

We continue to recruit NCAA college coaches into GH and have a few exciting new team members that we are looking forward to introducing to our clients later in 2011. Over the past two years, we have worked very hard to perfect the training and preparation coursework for new coaches who are joining GH and the program is intensive, effective, and helps our coaches really launch themselves into the GH journey so they can help lead GH clients through the journey themselves. Each and every one of our GH Coaches experiences the GH Method on themselves and uses that experience to help make them a better coach, a better person, and a better guide to others on their own path towards improved health and wellness with only two hours per week in the gym.

We continue to do so much more than most people expect from personal trainers in Chicago and around the country. We are passionate about changing lives one-by-one and look forward to continuing to tell the stories of our coaches, our clients, and our growth! As always, read more by going to http://www.ghfitness.com

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Spring Forward!

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Often times we think we want to change and we really try. For a few weeks we’ll go all out! But then we get back to our old familiar routine whether it’s from catching up with old friends or enjoying our favorite pastimes, like a baseball game. Our new healthy lifestyle is one that takes a lot of maintenance, and gradual change. If it were easy we would have done it a long time ago. But it isn’t easy. Our environment very much dictates the way we live, what we eat, and how we feel. It is very important to surround ourselves with good supportive people and positive things, to remind ourselves the course we want our lives to take.  If the company we keep doesn’t support us in our change for a better life, should we really want to keep that company?

Don’t eat the piece of wedding cake just because you had a hard workout. Peer pressure is just in our teens, be sensible, do you want to spend your workout making up for the cake, or do you want to use the workout to push farther and burn the piece of cake that’s still there from last wedding season? Sharing that tid bit with your friends will really help the badgering. This spring, spring forward!

As we approach spring, this wonderful time of renewal and freshness we must also remember all the work we have put into our bodies and to our good health and build upon that and move forward. When the weather is nice, make sure to enjoy. Lace up your sneakers and enjoy a nice jog along the lakefront. Renew your love of Chicago and Lake Michigan and yourself! While you’re at the baseball game make sure you take in the fresh air not just the ballpark food. This spring go back to the simple things in life. Enjoy the great friends and times that we share!  Take in the beautiful parks on a picnic or a walk with a friend. I know I can’t wait for spring!

Don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers. You can also drop by in our GH Fitness Facilities :)

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