Personal Training Overview

The first step to your fitness journey is to assess your fitness level and discuss your goals with an assessment.

A Personal Trainer Can...

• Design a personalized fitness program 
• Provide assistance and motivation
• Help you meet your fitness goals
• Help you fit exercise into your busy schedule
• Create time efficient workouts
• Teach you proper form and technique
• Provide aqua stretching or assisted stretching
• Provide wellness coaching and diet analysis
• Help you recover from injury

If you are serious about learning how to live a healthier life while striving for results, register online for sessions. Questions? Feel free to email the Grove’s Fitness Coordinator, Amy Crary.

Meet our Personal Trainers

• Packet of Trainer Profiles (coming soon)

Trainer Highlight

We would like to introduce you to our trainers! 

Meet Amy Crary, The Grove’s Fitness Coordinator 

Amy Crary is a certified Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer and Wellness Coach with 25 years of experience in the Fitness Industry and 15 years as the Fitness coordinator at the VMCC.

Amy loves outdoor activities including biking, running rollerblading and skiing. She has completed several 10 mile and half marathons. 

Amy specializes in working with those with injuries. She assess peoples posture, biomechanics, availability, lifestyle and goals. And then designs a unique program based on these results. All clients start with core stabilization exercises and progress from stable environments to unstable. She loves utilizing the pool, TRX, Yoga, stability balls and agility exercises so the customer is prepared for any of life’s challenges.

Amy is:

• ACE Certified PT
• RYT 200 Yoga Certified
• AEA Certified Aquatic Trainer
• MS and Arthritis certified
• TRX, Kettle bell, Pilates, Tai Chi

Let Amy inspire you to better health today! To set up an appointment with Amy call 651-456-8998 or email at: acrary@invergroveheights.org.

Meet Tom 

Tom enjoys rock climbing, mountain biking and fishing. He enjoys working with a variety of age groups from kids to seniors. Weight loss is definitely an important area of becoming healthy but others include strength training and toning, balance, core strengthening, and daily functioning. 

As a personal trainer he looks to provide his clients the tools to take charge of their health and fitness goals with confidence so they can exercise on their own! 

Tom’s core skills are:  

• Aqua certified 
• Trx certified 
• Kettle Bell certified 
• Cycle certified 

Want to start reaching your goals with Tom? To set up an appointment with Tom, call 651-456-8998651-456-8998 or email at: tkeller@invergroveheights.org.

Meet Thomas 

Tom enjoys movement to challenge both the mind and the body. Anything from rock climbing to swing dancing.Tom has a passion for helping people get moving in ways that they enjoy to motivate and inspire them. He focuses on functional and plyometric exercises to do anything from increasing mobility to kinesthetic awareness to pushing your limits. 

Tom especially loves dancing! And often incorporates mind-challenging movement patterns into his workouts to engage memory as well as muscle and cardiovascular work.

Tom is:

• NETA Certified
• A Certified Group Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer
• Pilates, TRX, Kettlebell, Barre Certified
• A Silver Sneakers Instructor
• A Licensed Zumba, Zumba Gold, Aqua Zumba and STRONG by Zumba Instructor
• Has 5 years experience

To set up an appointment with Thomas, call 651-450-2470 or email: tkrohn@invergroveheights.org.

Meet Corbett 

With an extensive background of providing physical therapy to patients recovering from injury/surgery, Corbett can guide you through taking that next step once you’re medically cleared, and will help you safely and effectively ease back into an active routine.

Corbett can help you restore your natural postural balance and become more posturally aware in order to prevent further degeneration.

Corbett can also provide you with sport-specific training customized to your personal needs of your specific sport and position, including: 

• In-season strengthening & conditioning
• Optimal warmups for increasing prevention of injury while also priming your body for peak performance during your event
• Off-season training to promote continual improvement  

Corbett is:

• NASM CES (Corrective Exercise Specialist)
• PES (Performance Enhancement Specialist)
• AEA Certified Aquatic Trainer
• AAS degree in  Physical Therapist Assisting 
• IWA Certified Senior Strength Trainer

Learn more about Corbett and how he can help shape your personal growth and recovery. To set up an appointment with Corbett, call 651-456-8998 or email at: cdanderson@invergroveheights.org. 

Meet Shari 

Shari has always enjoyed being active and has a long history of teaching and helping others to be active. It all started with giving physical fitness tests for the Minn. Army National Guard.

She’s certified in many specialties, including Yoga, Cycle, and TRX and Kettleball. She is an injury specialist and former soccer coach.

Shari enjoys hiking, downhill and cross-country skiing. She is an avid snorkeler and scuba diver.

Learn more about Shari and how she can help shape your personal health journey. To set up an appointment with Shari, call 651-456-8998 or email at: sboeckman@invergroveheights.org. 

Meet Andrew 

Andrew’s Strength & Conditioning Specialties and TRX certifications are sure to help you achieve your fitness goals this summer. His background has taken him all around the country, including California and Wisconsin, for the sake of developing high-quality lesson plans here at the Grove!

Andrew enjoys providing proper health and fitness education strategies to clients. He ensures that all clients receive practical, up-to-date information that benefit them individually. He understands that a personal trainer is an investment, and he wants to make sure that you get the most out of every minute with him.

To set up an appointment with Andrew, call 651-456-8998 or email at: ablaufuss@invergroveheights.org.

Meet Kayla 

This is Kayla and in addition to providing personal training at The Grove, she also teaches the Food & Fitness Class. Learn more about her and her background in this short video:

To set up an appointment with Kayla, call 651-456-8998 or email at: kwirkus@invergroveheights.org. 

Meet Claudia 

Claudia has coached and played sports her whole life. She is a firm believer in having fun while you work out. As a mother of eight children and nine grand children, she understands demanding schedules. She would love to help you fit exercise in your busy lifestyle and get you in the best shape of your life!

Claudia is:

• NETA Certified
• TRX Certified
• Kettle Bell Certified
• Aqua Certified
• A Boot Camp Instructor
• A Cycle Instructor

To set up an appointment with Claudia, call 651-456-8998 or email at: cbiebert@invergroveheights.org.

Meet Phil 

Phil has lost 80 pounds over the course of two years.  After discovering how much better being fit felt, he changed careers to inspire others! 

I love fitness because of the confidence it brings to the individual. I also love fitness because it has taught me to look at the world positively. I’ve learned to tackle issues upfront and to take on as much as I can carry. In addition, it has brought me closer to my family members and has given me a subject to connect with my brothers. Boxing has also taught me that we are tougher than we know. We are all stronger than we know and sometimes it takes another person to bring that out of a person.

 My personal style is to get personal. I love learning about what is going on in the lives of my clients. The more personal I get with my clients the more I wanna invest in them as well. I strive to put my clients needs at the forefront of the reading that I do, I ask questions if I don’t know something and I will learn it on their behalf so that no class or session is wasted.

Phil’s Core Skills include:

• Reactive Training
• Flexibility
• Sprinting &  Distance Running
• Endurance Training
• Olympic Lifting, Body Building  and Strength Training
• Boxing
• Olympic lifting and body building
• NASM Certified PT
• Former EMT

Phil would love to help you with your fitness transformation! To set up an appointment with Phil, call 651-456-8998 or email at: phagen@invergroveheights.org. 

Meet Tania 

Tania was a long time runner and has now transformed into a yogi at heart. She began yoga to challenge herself and quickly learned that through practice, yoga integrates body and mind, and spirit that drives it all. She believes that physical practice is a great metaphor of life and that strength comes from inside. 

Tania is:

• NETA certified Personal Training
• NETA certified Wellness Coach
• NETA certified Barre Blend and Barre Cardio 
• Yoga Alliance certified 200 RYT
• NETA certified Yoga Therapy 
• Himalayan Institute certified Ayurvedic Yoga specialist

Tania designs programs to challenge you from the inside out based on her yoga and Ayurveda experience. To set up an appointment with Tania, call 651-456-8998 or email at: tserafimov@invergroveheights.org.