Full Expression Fitness LLC provides online personal training services to athletes and exercisers who want to break through plateaus and achieve their personal goals with grace, confidence, and joy! Though self-expression manifests in different ways – through writing, conversation, art, child-rearing, etc. – expression through movement has always done something special for me. I have always felt m
ost honest, genuine, and joyful in those moments of complete connection to my sport or dance. No other time do I enter the “zone” and flow as easily and completely as when I’m moving with intent and mastery. But as all athletes, dancers, and exercisers know far too well, it really sucks when, despite our best efforts, a movement eludes us. Performance plateaus and injuries legitimately limit our ability to creatively self-express. When we crash the bike, fall off the climb, botch the tumbling pass, or bail before the final summit push for the thousandth time, we may begin to ask painful (and often unfair) personal questions: what is wrong with me? why can't I do this? do I ever have any hope of improving? Attempts to overcome these frustrating situations may cause even more grief. Conventional approaches to athletic improvement typically involve training more, trying harder, and getting stronger. When we do these things with complete commitment and still see no progress, we become hopeless, helpless, and full of excuses. With that said, if trying hard and getting strong does not help us improve, trying harder and getting stronger is probably not going to help, either. Of course there is an appropriate time and place for endurance training, strength building, and all-out effort. However, the gains from these tactics are temporary, and may not serve us in the ways we really need. Instead, we must intelligently turn to other options. I founded Full Expression to connect athletes, dancers, and fitness enthusiasts of all levels with tactics that go beyond the “try hard, get strong” model of training. This training style embraces strategies from a wide range of disciplines in order to help you accomplish health, sport, and wellness goals outside of a traditional gym setting. Instead of hitting the gym to get stronger, we hit the mat to get smarter, more coordinated, balanced, and controlled. Rather than trying our absolute hardest to “make” something happen, we back off and approach the movement with an attitude of ease and grace. We pay close attention to intuition. We stop replaying failed attempts over and over again in our minds; instead we visualize perfect ex*****on and the emotions that accompany success. I promise that the work we do together will not only improve your performance, but also will enhance the playfulness and joy that reeled you into your favorite sport in the first place. Your movement expression will become more free, complex, and masterful. When something isn't working, or causes you pain, we will evaluate the problem with an analytic and holistic approach. I truly want to get you feeling graceful, strong, and capable in your sport and movement pursuits. If you are stuck in a performance plateau, an unshakable negative mindset, a seemingly endless string of injuries, or if you want to break free from conventional training tactics, I’m here to collaborate. See ya on the mat,
-Carly
Online Fitness Coach and Personal Trainer, Full Expression Fitness LLC
