Serene is a certified BASI Pilates instructor in Palo Alto, CA. Serene uses props and Balanced Body Pilates equipment to create a custom workout designed just for you. Classes can be mobile for private clients, corporate wellness or small groups.Growing up, Serene took dance, ballet and gymnastics starting at age three. It was with gymnastics that she fell in love with the combination of choreography and the full body conditioning elements. She rekindled this love for movement while working toward her BA at UCLA. She frequented Pilates Mat and Apparatus classes at various southern California studios. With her Pilates practice, she found a significant parallel between the qualities of gymnastics and Pilates. The amount of body awareness, precision and control necessary to execute both forms of exercise reignited her love for movement.After 7 years of self-practice, she decided to pursue a career in which she could pass on her love of Pilates to others. Serene is a certified Pilates instructor through Body Arts and Science International (BASI) Pilates founded by Rael Isacowitz. She teaches both Mat and Apparatus classes throughout Mountain View as well as mobile Pilates.

By utilizing a comprehensive consultation procedure to ascertain your health history and fitness goals, I can readily design a customized personal training program just for you. My training style emphasizes proper movement form and efficient technique accompanied by constructive, immediate feedback. Learning how to let your muscles control the weight and not the other way around is of the utmost importance during the performance of resistance training. Your personal training program will consist of concise individualized instruction, attentive supervision, appropriate assistance, motivational support, and positive reinforcement. A good quality workout session should consist of exercises which are: FUNEFFECTIVE (e.g.. targeted muscle is felt during the exercise) After a comprehensive initial assessment of your health history, medications taken, aerobic capacity, posture, and strength as well as a discussion of your training goals, I will prepare your structured personal training program designed to meet your specific needs such as lose body weight, increase strength or gain muscle mass. I will periodically reassess your health and fitness growth to ensure you remain accountable and continually progress toward achieving your short-term as well as long-term fitness goal. Most importantly, I will provide personal training services at a convenient time and place of your choosing. I believe striving to continually increase the amount of weight in each and every workout is paramount to achieving more strength and muscle mass. As a bodybuilder, I feel it is essential to perform each exercise with good form in order to feel the targeted muscle being contracted and under tension throughout the entirety of each set. Hard work, discipline and dedication is absolutely necessary in order to accomplish fitness goals.

Anna Alioto is a certified personal trainer, group exercise, Zumba and dance instructor. She has been working in the fitness industry for over 25 years. Anna believes that keeping active and fit as well as proper nutrition is vital to a long, healthy life. Her focus is on form and posture, working with you to strengthen your core, balance and agility.Anna works with several clients from children to seniors, and specializes in "mind to body" exercise and form.  In addition to working one-on-one with clients, she teaches pre-ballet, tap and jazz to children at Studio Rincon in Menlo Park, Pilates at Reach and Oak Creek and varios forms of group exercise at Google, SAP and Juniper Networks.   Anna can design a program that works with your schedule and will keep you excited about exercise! Qualifications: Certified Personal Trainer - National Exercise and Sports Trainer AssociationCertified Group Exercise Instructor - National Exercise and Sports Trainer Association Certified Pilates InstructorCertified TRX InstructorCertified Jillian Michael's Body Shred InstructorBallet, Tap and Jazz instructorCPR/AED CertifiedLicensed and Insured

You can expect a goal oriented training program fitted directly to YOU! I specialize in strength and conditioning but am also well versed in weight loss and rehabilitation programming. Movement is key, young or old. This is one of the basics for human survival. In this day in age humans do not move nearly as much as they used to, and we are only starting to see the effects of this.

I try to relate to my individual customers by helping them reach their goals through fitness programs that are specifically designed for them. I have a lot of passion for my career and I want to share it with others seeking a healthier life style. Fitness is my lifestyle and everything I do is accordance to that. Training my body is important and my happiness in life is made by my dedication to it.

My mission is to promote total health and wellness, To help people reach their fitness goal, and to change lifestyles. To make fitness everyday! I will help you set realistic goals, and help reach them in a way that you can enjoy. I hope to get you to love fitness the way I do and make fitness everyday! "Fitness is everyday. " Its in the decision to have a salad over a hot dog, or the choice to leave your warm cozy bed at 5 am to go for a run because you know that is the only time you can get it in today. Fitness presents itself in the many choices we make daily. Our goal is to get better one choice at a time