PRO FITNESS NETWORK
183 East Glenarm Suite 101, 107, 108
Pasadena Ca
626-799-7243
www.profitnessnetwork.com
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PRO FITNESS NETWORK

Pro Fitness Network, located in Pasadena, California, offers personal and semi-personal training, pilates, massage therapy, reflexology, acupuncture and nutrition counseling.
Leave crowded health clubs behind and step into a world of personalized attention. Experience the benefits of an inspirational studio environment that emphasizes superb quality and value with every service we provide.
Allow our certified staff to create a customized workout or nutrition program specifically designed to achieve your individual goals and restore your body's unique natural balance. Treat yourself to our exclusive fitness massage, soothing reflexology or healing acupuncture treatment. Explore all of our innovative services and enjoy doing it!
We're passionate about what we do. We celebrate our clients' victories as if they were our own. Let us be your partners in creating inner peace, harmony and healthy balance in both your body and life.
Belong to a gym but not seeing results? Personalized training and nutrition counseling from Pro Fitness Network can be the answer! Take your fitness regimen to the next level with the amazing Energy Workout. It costs only $25 for a 60-minute semi-private supervised workout session customized for you based on your age, ability, physical condition and lifestyle. Afterward, enjoy a relaxing, but firm Fitness Massage geared toward releasing chronic areas of tension and injury. A certified nutrition counselor is also on staff to integrate your nutrition needs with your fitness goals. Find out more at www.profitnessnetwork.com.
Personal Training & Semi Personal Training:
Clients that come to us have a specific fitness goal in mind - a unique vision for his or her health.
We tailor each program to your individual needs based on age, physical shape and life style. We incorporate flexibility exercises, cardiovascular varm-ups and strength training. We do his in series in order to build stamina, tone muscles, and increase strength all at the same time.
You will feel the immediate benefits of feeling better, sleeping more soundly and enjoying a consistent level of energy throughout the day. While each session will challenge you, your body should never hurt. We want our clients to feel at home and have fun. Whatever your goal is weight loss, muscle gain, post rehabilitation, corrective exercise or general
fitness we have the best trainer for you.
Carina Weston, a fitness authority who began her career in Pasadena, has been creating fitness programs for more then 20 years.
Born in Uppsala, Sweden, Carina has been active in sports her entire life. As a young girl, she competed in a number of sports including competitive cross-country skiing, soccer, ice-skating and running. She still continues to enjoy strength training, rollerblading and hiking.
Introduced to aerobics in Pasadena more then 20 years ago, she started her fitness career as an aerobics instructor and returned to Sweden to start her own business. At that time aerobics was unknown in Sweden. An innovator even then, Carina's business took off, and she was asked to set up a number of aerobics centers around the country. As a result of this success, she committed her career to fitness training and received her first level of certification before returning permanently to the United states in 1991.
Shortly after her arrival, Carina was nearly paralyzed in an accident that broke her neck in five places. Her commitment to health and fitness helped her overcome this devastating injury and inspired her to help others achieve their own training goals.
Today Carina and her twin daughters lives in Altadena where she is an active member of the community.
Carina has owned and operated fitness centers for more then 14 years, including Pro Fitness Network in Pasadena since 1991. She is certified as a fitness instructor with the International Sport and Science Association (ISSA).
Acupuncture with Brenda B. Smith:
Brenda B. Smith is a Licensed Acupuncturist. She specializes in Women Health and Stress Management and uses acupuncture and lifestyle counseling along with herbs and supplements to treat her patients.
She received her Masters Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture from Yo San University in 2000. Brenda empowers people to make informed choices about their health and quality of life. Her unique blend of Eastern, Caribbean and Western training has made her one of Pasadena™s most sought after acupuncturists.
She has developed a natural facial rejuvenation treatment that is yielding wonderful results.
Brenda comes to Pro Fitness Network with over 20 years of health and beauty experience. She has owned and operated skin care salons and day spas and is also a respected educator in that industry.
As a native New Yorker, born to parents from the Dominican Republic, Brenda grew up with herbal remedies, traditional cures and using foods as medicine. Her many years as a massage therapist and knowledge of the human body are an invaluable foundation that made her studies in acupuncture an exciting and natural progression.
Pilates with Maria Jimenez:

Maria A. Jiménez
From sculptor to Pilates instructor: for Maria, it's all about form and movement.
In 1993, while studying art in New York, Pilates captured Maria's imagination..
It was the first challenging exercise routine that she also found artistic .She fell in love with Pilates' fluid moves and graceful style of training and pursued it with a passion.
Maria returned to Los Angeles in 2000 and received her Pilates certification from the Center Studio
in Burbank. Maria worked at LeStudio in Pasadena for five years prior to bringing her talents to Pro Fitness Network.
She continues to expand the scope of her practice by participating in cutting edge workshops. Most recently, she received additional certification from the Center for Women's Fitness to teach Pre and Postnatal Pilates.
Maria is a creative, positive instructor and draws on broad experience to inspire her clients.
Reflexology with Ildi Laszlo:

Ildiko Laszlo, Certified in Reflexology Ildiko was born in Budapest, Hungary. As a mother and artist, she has been using reflexology techniques to heal herself and her family for the past decade. Nutrition, herbal medicine and holistic health have predominated her adult life. She received her certification from the American Academy of Reflexology, at Yo San University a school of TCM in West LA, then began practicing an integrated method of foot hand and ear reflexology. Working with babies, children, older people, people with disabilities, also those with serious illness, Ildiko has trained to work with various conditions, including oncology, parkinson’s disease, diabetes, and fibromyalsia. She also practices Ayurvedic, a brisk and stimulating experience from an ancient Indian form of preventative health care. Metamorphosis, a gentle form of touch which works with the reflexes of the spine through the feet, hands and head, believing the spine carries the cellular memory of our time in the womb.
Massage with Vanessa Ferandell-Villarino:

Vanessa has been a massage therapist for 3 years, another talented graduate of the Hands-on-Healing Institute. She has a background in sociology, psychology, with an emphasis in child development. Besides being our newest addition to Pro Fitness, she also does chair massage for The Kneaded Experience, at the Whole Foods Market in Glendale on Sunday afternoons. She has a great intuitive touch and loves to help others through her bodywork. Her techniques are vast - from energy work to swedish massage to myofascial release. She is currently enrolled and studying in acupuncture school at Emperor's College of Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica.
Nutrional Consultation with Julia Morachelli :

Julia Morichelli , the owner of JLM FITNESS, has over 22 years experience in fitness training, weight management and fitness management. She is a certified personal trainer through NASM and Apex Fitness, and was a national presenter and instructor for the Apex Fitness certification programs, as well. In addition to her ongoing consulting work, Julia has appeared on ABC 7 News, as a fitness and weight loss expert for their “Healthy Living” segments. For more information on the services JLM FITNESS provides, visit www.jlmfitness.com
Nutrition Counseling
Weight Management and Nutrition
We are proud to announce that Pro Fitness Network now offers weight management and nutrition counseling as a valuable addition to the comprehensive services we provide to meet your health and fitness goals.
how is our program different form a diet?
Diets are about sacrifices and they don't work long term. We are about choice so that your changes are permanent. There s no "radical scheme" or cookie-cutter program that is the same fo everyone, as most diets are. We create individualized programs that afford each clients the ability to make a comfortable transition into a healthier way of way of life. Our priority: to provide you the knowledge to achieve and maintain your optimum lifestyle.
How do you get started?
At your initial assessment, we will perform a lifestyle, nutritional an body composition assessment.
We will discuss all your needs and goals. If you have a personal training program or your own workout, we will work with you and your trainer to create a nutrition program that optimizes the benefits or your workout. Sessions are available in peron or over the phone and via e-mail.
Bodybugg
what is the bodybugg™?
bodybugg™ is the world's most intelligent calorie management system, stemming from over a decade of research and the success of hundreds of thousands of health club members worldwide. This simple and fun-to-use tool is your ultimate answer to healthy and effective weight management—for good!
So what's so different about this program? While traditional weight loss programs focus on tedious calorie counting, bodybugg™ is the only system on the market today that allows you to measure actual calories burned and consumed.
For the first time ever, you now have the information you need to manage your weight loss without guesswork. Know exactly how much you need to adjust your food intake and/or activity levels to reach you goals.
It's a wake-up call that makes weight loss success simple and virtually guarantees results.
Even though the bodybugg™ will change your life, we don't believe that you need to be put onto a restrictive diet or an unsustainable workout plan. The bodybugg™ will give you suggestions on how to slightly change your food intake and/or your activity level to meet your goals.
All that matters is that you keep an average daily deficit based on your goals. how you get there is up to you!
bodybugg™ – the device
No more guesswork. The bodybugg™ is a totally personal tracking device that records every move you make. Just slide it on and get on with your life. It remembers exactly how many calories you've burned all day. And even the smallest activities count and add up! Activities such as washing the dishes and playing with your kids quickly make your daily calorie burn go up.
The sleek, comfortable bodybugg™ monitors 5 different data points to track calories burned with 92% accuracy. And it also tracks every step you take as you walk toward optimum health.
web interface
The online bodybugg™ interface is where you will manage your weight loss. You will download the data from your armband device via a wireless communicator into the web. Our program then calculates exactly how many calories you've consumed, letting you know how many calories you can eat to maintain your weight and fitness goal.
There are custom menus to help you figure out what to eat and an easy to use food logging program with thousands of known foods in an auto-search database. It's like having your very own fitness progressional at your fingertips.
Don't want to log your food? No problem. Because you'll have downloaded your calorie burn and your weight, the bodybugg™ program can calculate what your average calorie consumption was per day.
No more chance for denial! Armed with this data, you'll know exactly what you need to do to get back onto your calorie deficit goal
working together
The bodybugg™ device and the internet site work together to show you your real-time status any time of the day. You'll see your activity minute-by-minute, every step you’ve taken and your progress toward reaching your calorie deficit goal—your magic number for losing weight.
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