Personal Trainer
Chris Peralta
ACE-PT & HC, MBA
Chris Peralta is an ACE certified Personal Trainer and Health Coach. He comes to Empower Personalized Fitness after 10+ years at the Yale Club of NYC, where he trained private clients including a Super Bowl running back, an Olympian, and an English Channel swimmer. Chris has a BS in Biology and completed the Integrative Healthcare Leadership Program at Duke in 2019.
Working with his clients, Chris developed his tenets for training success:
Nurture the relationship & know what your client finds valuable and motivating
Think holistic, integrative & cross-functional
Set, analyze & re-iterate goals as milestones are achieved
Expand, deepen & share professional knowledge
Practice what you preach & Preach what you practice!
Chris began his fitness career as the operations partner, trainer and group exercise instructor at a fitness studio in the Philippines. He found the physical exercise to be a healthy balance to the pondering of his graduate studies (Philosophy), and committed to studying exercise science – especially the “sweet science” of boxing. He is currently finishing his 200 hour Yoga certification, was a coach for a Dragon Boat club team, and was a Top 50 finisher at the inaugural Stair Run of the Freedom Tower. In lieu of competitive tower running, he now enjoys trail runs along the Eno River and practices the lost art of serve & volley tennis. When he’s not working at Empower, Chris manages maternity and pediatric care programs at a regional health plan.
When he’s not working, Chris enjoys a life of balance: food trucks & M Sushi; formulaic superhero movies & grandiloquent opera; sewing his own clothes & ogling outrageously priced sneakers; and destination family reunions & time alone with his wife Stacey.
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