Trimboli says lifting weights strengthened her emotionally, professionally, and physically
— Photo from Jeannine Trimboli
Lifting just several times a week, says Jeannine Trimboli, can have a better effect on fitness than twice as many sessions on a treadmill.
GUILDERLAND — Jeannine Trimboli, who has been working as a fitness trainer for two decades, now has a permanent home for the fitness studio she calls real[FIT]life.
Located at 8 Corporate Circle, off Route 155 not far from Route 20, real[FIT]life offers what Trimboli, 44, calls “group personal training.”
Her approach allows clients to work out with others — classes can hold up to six people — but on programs that are custom-designed around their individual fitness levels and needs.
The space, which Trimboli calls “bright and welcoming,” contains six stations, allowing each client to get a complete workout without having to wait for equipment.
Her training places a heavy emphasis on strength and resistance training, Trimboli said. She started to work with heavy weights about six years ago, when she was going through a difficult divorce; she felt that if she could make herself physically stronger, the benefits would also carry over into her emotional and professional life, which, she says, they did.
Focus on strength training, she said, means efficiently using not only the times of active training, but also recovery time, to strengthen the body. “You not only get strong when you lift,” she explained, “but also your recovery time is important for your muscles to repair and get stronger.”
After she began to focus on strength training, Trimboli said she realized that, with just two or three gym visits for an hour each time, her body was changing in ways it never had when she was on the treadmill six times a week.
“I’m saying that less can be more,” Trimboli said, “as long as you’re doing the right things.”
Her goal now is to offer her clients — whom she says are very diverse and “everyday people” — the “tricks and tools” they need to accomplish things that they didn’t think they could.
“I have men and women of all ages who are lifting a bar for the first time. And to see the look of surprise on their faces, it’s the best thing in the world. It’s why I do what I do,” Trimboli said.
Her studio’s name, real[FIT]life, she said, refers to starting from the “busy lives that all of us lead,” and finding the best and most efficient way to make room for fitness.
