Classes are co-instructed by Sarah Hobson and Sainatee Suárez.

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About Sarah
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    Sarah Hobson began her career as a personal trainer in 2003.  She received her certification from AFAA and continued her education by studying levels 1-4 of Pilates Allegro Reformer.  She also completed Mat Sciences I and II through AFAA, a course, which focuses on training the core through pilates and yoga.  From 2003 until 2006, she taught several allegro reformer pilates classes and one group pilates and yoga class at Bally Total Fitness.  She also worked with a personal training partner to start Es Team Fitness, a business in St. Louis, MO, which served in-home clients and local corporations.  As a Ph.D. student, during the summers from 2006 until 2008, Sarah continued to train at the Pottruck Gym at the University of Pennyslvania. 

    She has worked with clients of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds.  She has trained severely challenged clients, with very specific limitations and needs, she has educated and inspired new exercisers to make and sustain lifestyle changes, she has worked with athletes training for the Olympics, with marathon runners and triatheletes, and with pregnant women.  Her most cherished successes have been with clients who converted for life to exercise, with clients with diabetes, whose weight loss meant they no longer needed insulin or medication and with clients who experienced relief from back injuries or pain. 

    Sarah has found personal training to be rewarding and fulfilling.  With every person she trains, she builds from the core out, seeking to teach body awareness and form, seeking client’s independent ability to train themselves, and seeking to inspire clients through positive encouragement and realistic goals for each next step of their training.

    In her training, Sarah builds from her background as a competitive springboard diver, a high school educator, and a diving and soccer coach.  She is warm, personable, motivating, careful, thorough, and individualized for each person she trains.  Sarah is currently ACSM/CPR certified.

About Sai
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    Sai works as a personal trainer and is currently ACE/CPR certified (click here to view her ACE certificate (expires September 2011; click here to view Sai's profile on the ACE website). She was first certified in the fall of 2007 and from there worked as a trainer at the Pottruck Gym at the University of Pennsylvania for about 1½ years. She currently seeks to continue training outside of the gym scene, whether it be outside or in a client's home. She has liability insurance through Hoffman Insurance Services, Inc.

    From her experience helping others with martial arts and training clients, Sai has worked with people of a variety of ages and backgrounds. She is experienced in motivating healthy lifestyles for both the novice exerciser as well as the experienced. She has worked with people of ages ranging from that of children to senior citizens. Sai seeks to enable her clients to not only live a positive, healthy lifestyle but also to keep that motivation and ability for the rest of their lives. She seeks to empower her clients with the knowledge of how to take care of their bodies and minds. Sai is patient and caring with her clients and works to help her clients according to their individual needs.

    Sai has practiced Taekwondo, the Korean martial art, for over a decade. Taekwondo trains the body in power, speed, timing, and control. She is currently a first dan black belt in this art.

    Sai currently attends the University of Pennsylvania where she hopes to receive a B.A. in music.