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Aaron Parker_ISI

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We design unique programs that coach proper form and technique; importance of physical fitness so you can feel better and improve activities of daily life.

l Trainer
- 2 years as an assistant Strength Coach at Cincinnati Christian Schools (Aaron’s Alma Mater)
- Has trained youth, adults, and seniors
- Completed 16-week, 2013 Fall Practicum at 5 Seasons Family Sports Club
- Completed 16-week, 2014 Cincinnati State Spring Internship at Mission 5 Fitness
- Experience with Private & Semi-Private Training
- Experience with circuit-training and Group Fitness
- Trained 7 and 1/2 years @ Mission 5 Fitness

Education/Certification:
- Associates Degree (A.S.), Health and Fitness Technology from Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
- Certified Personal Trainer through Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
- CPR/AED and First Aid certified though American Heart Association (AHA)

Mission/Vision:
To uniquely design programs that incorporate proven principles for each individual client. To educate and coach on proper form, technique, and the importance of physical fitness so you can feel better and improve your activities of daily living and overall well being. The coaching of external motivation is intended to inspire your intrinsic motivation. Philosophy:
The combination of education, coaching, and motivation will better enable you to receive the return on investment for the goals that you set as we work together to achieve.

05/07/2026

Breaking down to build back up.

“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.”
- Winston Churchill -

In strength and conditioning, going to muscular failure can lead to muscular strength and growth. We can fail forward with strength training when done properly with the right protocols, principles, and community/accountability to help you get to muscular failure.

Resistance training causes tension that breakdowns muscle protein structures.

A benefit of going to muscular failure is that it maximizes muscle fiber recruitment and promotes/enhances muscle hypertrophy (growth) and strength gains, and helps overcoming training plateaus.

From there recovery/repair is needed. During rest, the body uses protein to fix the damage or breakdown, that makes the muscle fiber stronger.

Hypertrophy (Growth): The repair process overcompensates, making the muscle thicker and more resistant to future strain.

So failing isn’t the end and isn’t necessarily a bad thing where there’s safety in community and with accountability where one can go to muscular failure and then grow and get stronger.

In summary, your body is trying to heal itself, grow, and make itself stronger with protein and with consistent, proper strength and conditioning and rest.
You can train harder and at a higher intensity when training in community and/or with a spotter helping you get reps that you couldn’t get by yourself. A spotter can encourage and push you outside your comfort zone, and help you get to true muscular failure and maximize growth and strength.

Once again, in addition to protein and consistent, proper workouts, rest and healing is also needed between workouts for muscular strength and growth.
Muscles are broken down to be built back up.

In life when it comes to making mistakes or failing, I like how ‘s dad said to Jason growing up as a kid, “Make all your mistakes at home where there’s love, safety, and opportunities for growth with family who love you…Failure isn’t final and failing doesn’t mean you’re a failure (meaning failure is not your identity). Failing can lead to growth and strength.

03/28/2026

Champion Mindset
Fight The Good Fight
Rest & Recovery

Sometimes “fighting the good fight” is being kind to yourself by resting and recovering.
By letting your muscles rest and recover, they can rebuild, grow, and get stronger.
Rest and recovery also helps prevent injury. Overtraining can lead to injury overtime.
Professional athletes understand this and get paid for and invest in rest and recovery to be at the top of their game.

On a commercial airline during the pre-flight safety demonstration, the flight attendant recommends to put the oxygen mask on yourself first. Learning to love yourself in a healthy way could help many other areas of life. You’re worth it!

It’s okay to be kind to yourself. You could start being kind to yourself with things today like going to bed earlier, eating a piece of low fructose fruit instead of extra sweets or refined carbs/snacks after dinner, going for a walk and getting some active rest in with movement & mobility. Maybe taking a day off of work each week.

Sometimes when you decide to rest, you may have to believe that there’s enough, and that tomorrow/next week there will be enough and that it will be a brand new day/new week to go after it again. Working FROM rest is different than working TO rest or “working for the weekend.”

In golf when you have a big back swing, you can drive the ball farther. When you don’t have a big back swing, you start chipping and don’t have as much momentum, acceleration, and drive. When you have a big back swing of REST & PLAY in life, you increase the likelihood of being more fruitful and productive when you go to drive the ball in life.

Other than God, “no one will take better care of you, than you!”…”You are the solution,” as says.

When fighting the good fight, don’t forget to be kind to yourself with rest & recovery. Enjoy & embrace the process.

01/01/2023

Reflecting on 2022. One highlight was just this week. It was an honor to have Salt Ministries - Avondale, , and ASAP all at once for their workouts this past week! 💪🏻💪🏻
&Purpose

12/05/2022

CONVERGENCE + CONNECTION + COLLABORATION = SYNERGY

At ISI we don’t want to add to the noise of the world and let people know what we stand against, but rather what we stand FOR.

One of our core values is DEEP COLLABORATION.

“We are not about just surface level things. We want to understand what people really are about. And we want to work with them there. Whether it’s someone in the community, or in our community—anything and everything—we want to be sure we’re not just skimming the surface. That we are getting involved with everyone we are working with. It’s collaboration and inclusion. That starts with having a deeper understanding of others.” - Iron Sharpens Iron: Culture Guide

Well, TOGETHER we stood FOR collecting food, filling 447 boxes that fed 6-10 people per box, and feeding 447 families total for Thanksgiving!

It’s amazing when we lay down our agendas and opinions, come together, connect at the table, have conversations, and even collaborate.
Thank you Iron Sharpens Iron community and friends for feeding 447 families for Thanksgiving via The Good Fight Food Drive 2022.
All the overflow food went to 4 different ministries - The Caring Place - Kennedy Heights, SALT Ministries in Avondale, Rising Leaders Cincinnati, and ASAP - A Sandwich And A Prayer

Also, shout out to Crossroads Church for supplying the boxes, the fork lift, and truck, and to Queen City Church, School Outfitters, Shred415, and all the others for the contributions and collaboration! All of it added up to make a BIG difference! When streams come together they can form a mighty river!
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“Humility is the way forward” - Kris Vallotton
I would add “humility and unity/synergy” is the way forward.

Hope you all had an awesome Thanksgiving, and can continue to get around tables this holiday season to connect, listen to understand, have conversations, and maybe even collaborate in some capacity (or at least keep the connection and conversations going). Have a great holiday season!

09/18/2022

Client spotlight: My clients Larry & Patsy are fighting w/ Passion & Purpose through Salt Ministries in Avondale.

Two ways you can help Salt out right away:

1). You can learn more and donate directly to SALT here:
salt-ministries.net

2). SALT SHAKER DAY🧂

From Pasty & Larry:
“This summer the Ministry House has undergone some major transformations. We have a couple contractors who have renovated/remodeled areas of the house so now we are in need of after construction clean up so we can be ready for the Kids & Coaches mentoring program starting the first week in October.”

SALT SHAKER DAY
What: Inside/outside clean up/beautification of The Ministry House
Where: 859 Hutchins Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229
When: Saturday, September 24: 9:00-12:00

If you are able to help out the whole time or an hour, please reply by Wednesday, September 21 so we know how many people will be coming.
Email:
[email protected]

“We are excited to see what God will do with the Ministry House to bless all who enter it's doors. We are so grateful for each one of you who have prayed/volunteered/loved our neighbors so we can bring the Kingdom of God on Hutchins Avenue.”

Be Joyful & Jubilant,

Patsy and Larry Plum

Finally, what you’re giving to and what goes on around Salt Ministries (see attached video for Salt update):

• Kids and Coaches (8 kids with 8 coaches each week for 2 hours)
• Taking neighbors to Crossroads Oakley on Sunday
• Rehabbing 2 houses to be used in the ministry (one as a ministry house, one as a boys home).
• Letting a neighbor host an AA meeting in our ministry house.
• Visiting guys who get sent to jail.
• Having a water fun day for the kids (slip n slide, Kona ice truck, corn hole and games).
• Paying for the kids to swim free at the Hirsch Center pool.
• Having a couple open houses at the ministry house so neighbors get to know each other better.

09/16/2022

MEN’S FOCUS:FIGHT
Champions. Sharpening. Together.

If you’re a guy you need physical fitness and community!

Men's FOCUS:FIGHT is a 1-2-punch Men’s Group Fitness brotherhood to expand men's physical, mental, and spiritual strength through fitness and authentic connections.
Next interval starts Tuesday, 9/20! Get signed up today at isigym.com under “2022 Men’s FOCUS:FIGHT Training Group”

Description:
Men's FOCUS:FIGHT is for any guy looking to get STRONGER in body, mind & spirit—regardless of fitness level or beliefs. We’ll begin with a powerful workout and end with powerful, authentic conversations about what it is to be a better man in life, at home, and at work/business (and for this Interval we’ll be going through the Crossroads Grow Journey for the next 5 weeks). Learn more and also sign for our Crossroads Journey group with this link (link also in the bio):

https://www.crossroads.net/groups/details/207223

Format:
Every Tuesday from 7:00-8:30pm (in this case 9:00 PM for the next 5 weeks for the Grow Journey).

Fall Intervals & Schedule:
Interval 1 - 8/16 - 9/13
Interval 2 - 9/20 - 10/18
Interval 3 - 11/1 - 11/29
Interval 4 - 12/6 -12/20

FITNESS
7:00 - 8:00 PM for Group Fitness Training.
• 50 min of training
• 4 Rounds of Strength Training 💪🏻💪🏻
• 4 Rounds of boxing 🥊🥊

CONNECTION
Normally 8:00 - 8:30 PM (optional if you need to get home right after the workout)
• We'll start with powerful, thought-provoking questions and topics
• Sometimes as a big group or sometimes we’ll break into small groups (For the next 5 weeks we'll break into small groups for the Journey. Each small group will have a facilitator).

• Once again, for this interval we’ll be going through the Grow Journey after the workout. Come grow with us! 🌱

Sign ups are OPEN & LIVE!
The next Interval starts Tuesday, September 20th!
Go to isigym.com to get signed up or learn more.
Click on the Sign Up tab to get signed up under “2022 Men’s FOCUS:FIGHT Training Group”, or feel free to reach out to me with questions!

08/19/2022

Are you getting winded carrying the groceries or going up and down steps? (We’ve been there!). Are you struggling to have energy or physically pick up or play with your kids? (How and why are they so fast!?). Maybe you’re just DONE with the fog and feeling stuck?

There’s no shame in that! The good news is - there is a way forward - and at Iron Sharpens Iron we believe we can help.

Whatever your challenge is, come move freely at ISI in a positive and encouraging environment. At ISI you can choose YOUR challenge and grow. What we do at the gym can and will compliment what you do in your everyday life. Whether it’s a fun adventure like hiking or biking, or the daily tasks of work and running a household - investing in your health will have positive ripple effects in every area of your life! Whatever your fitness level, you’re welcome here.

You can learn more by going to isigym.com. Your first Group Fitness class or first Private Training session is free, so can you really afford to miss this opportunity? Sign up for your free Group Fitness class at isigym.com, DM me for details on a complimentary Private Training session, and/or please share this with a friend!

We look forward to hearing from you and helping you get into a healthy rhythm this fall.

Have an awesome day!

- The ISI Team

Aaron Parker

Iron Sharpens Iron

ISI - PT | Fitness Coach

5229 Montgomery Road Norwood, OH 45212

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FOCUS. FIGHT. FINISH.

Address

Norwood, OH

Opening Hours

Monday	5am - 5pm
Tuesday	4pm - 8pm
Wednesday	5am - 5pm
Thursday	4pm - 8pm
Friday	5am - 3pm
Saturday	7am - 3pm

Website

http://isigym.com/

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