clients Testimonials
“The several years that I worked in the city, I trained with Sara twice a week to stay strong and flexible so that I could continue to do the things I love like play soccer with my kids and go on active vacations with my family. I have had some injuries in the past and Sara made sure that we are doing safe, effective exercises that target those weaknesses. I had a very hectic schedule, but I made sure to stick to my appointments because we got so much accomplished and I felt so much better after my appointments with Sara.”
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Hannah Storm ESPN SportsCenter Anchor www.hannahstorm.com |
“The diverse background Sara has from her professional dancing, to her fitness knowledge, and her triathlon coaching makes her an exceptional trainer. She understands what clients need and takes the time to develop individual programs that suit their special situations. Her philosophy of combining cardiovascular, strength, and flexibility conditioning to progress the client towards a balanced and healthy body is one that I can recommend.”
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Dr. Harry Lodge Physician and Medical Faculty at Columbia University Author of “Younger Next Year” www.youngernextyear.com |
“I have been training with Sara twice a week for about 6 months. In that time I have seen dramatic changes in my strength, flexibility, and body contours.
Sara has a dancer’s sense of ergonomics, and understands movement better than any other trainer I know. Her concentrations on the precision of each exercise, as well as, its work output make for effective and safe workouts. She has an intuitive sense of how much to demand of me and when to back off. She varies the workouts so effectively that I am never bored. She is consistently cheerful and upbeat. I recommend Sara enthusiastically to anyone who is willing to work out to the limits of their capacity under the supervision of a master trainer.”
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Dr. Marc L. Spero Internal and Pulmonary Medicine |
“I started working with Sara in 2001 and almost immediately began seeing results. Over the past five years I have lost 8 pounds and my body fat has dropped by approximately 8%. Most importantly I have gained strength and confidence. For the first time in my life I am truly fit, and it is all thanks to Sara. One of the things that amazes me most about Sara is her ability to know and test my limits. When I first began working with her I had never exercised before. She knew how to push me hard while taking into account the fact that I was a beginner. To this day, Sara knows exactly how to strike the right balance. Her workouts are always challenging, and I am never bored because she constantly mixes things up. I will be forever grateful that I found Sara. She is an incredible trainer and I recommend her to my friends and colleagues every chance I get.”
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Ann Kalter Stonehill Capital Management |
“My whole fitness level changed after I met Sara. I had really gotten out of shape, and was having trouble motivating myself to work hard at the gym — it was so boring. But Sara changed all that, giving me challenging workouts that improved not only my weaknesses, but also what I thought were my strengths. She helped me trim down considerably, turning fat into muscle, and also losing weight. My softball game reached new heights! When I injured my shoulder, and later my knee, she took great care to work with and around those injuries, helping me keep up my fitness level and also get better faster. she’s a taskmaster, but in a good way, pushing you to get the most out of your time in the gym, and inspiring you to work harder on the days when you’re alone. Plus, she’s fun to be around.”
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Michael Bass Senior Vice President NBC News |
“I have been training with Sara for almost three years and find myself in the best shape ever. Having chronic lower back pain and a surgically repaired knee encouraged me to find an experienced trainer who would focus on strengthening and toning these areas. With this additional workout supplementing my jazz dance classes, I can dance without worry. Thank you, Sara!”
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Michele Ruggieri Executive Director, Sales Promotion and Administration |
“Sara has made a significant impact on my overall fitness level. Our weekly training sessions are invaluable in monitoring my progress and identifying areas of weakness. My strength, endurance and overall energy levels have improved significantly. Sara has a persistent and effective way of focusing in areas that need improvement and suggesting a range of different fitness alternatives so that one does not get bored!”
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Laura Rose Investor Relations at Taconic Capital Management |
“I started training with Sara as a sort of “lapsed-athlete”, thinking I would have her help me get back into a fitness routine that I could do on my own. Instead, I have been training with her regularly for more than two years now. I love that she’s always changing things up and throwing new challenges at me as soon as I actually start get good at something. She is also great about introducing her clients to new activities whether it’s yoga, gyrotonics, hiking, training for triathlons or recommending a great massage therapist. I think I’d be willing to give up food before I would give up my workouts with Sara.”
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Trudy Cass Executive Recruiter |
“I have been training with Sara since late 2002, initially once per week, and then twice per week beginning in mid 2005. Sara really knows her profession – I always feel like the workout is well-designed to balance strength and cardio training, large muscle groups and small, with tidbits on nutrition thrown in. Yet after all this time, Sara somehow keeps it interesting and ever-changing. She keeps up on new methods and is creative in developing differing routines. And she is reliable to a fault – just once I wish she’d fail to show up! I have made great progress in achieving my fitness goals which I attribute in large measure to Sara’s skills as a trainer.”
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Chris Wilson Stonehill Capital Management |
“Sara is nothing but amazing. I have been working out with Sara now for about 4 1/2 years. Before, I had never worked out in my life and have never been an athletic person (I’m still not), but Sara has slowly built up my confidence, endurance and “skills”. She also quickly realized how lazy I am and that I have a severe lack of self discipline – however, she did notice my competitive streak. Based on this, Sara started to come up with competitions and challenges for me, which really works and keeps me going. Because I lost my last challenge (by 3 points!), my “punishment” was to complete a road race. I just completed a 14 week training program which culminated in a 5K race. I have never run before this! Well now I do…and I just set a personal best in the race!
In addition to “going the extra mile” and being creative, she is very knowledgeable.”
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Maud Pansing Estee Lauder, Inc. |
” I have been training with Physical Equilibrium for several years and have greatly improved my core strength which is so central to my athletic pursuits. Sara and her trainers provide challenging and focused training that truly isolate and emphasize the strength and endurance necessary for triathlons. The Physical Equilibrium trainers do a great job of varying up exercises to keep things fresh and fun while maintaining their focus on targeting different muscle groups to build complete core strength. Physical Equilibrium provides great all-around body training that I highly recommend.”
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Michael Schwartz Taconic Capital Management |
“Sara has helped me lose body fat, gain strength, and just feel more confident in the way I feel about myself.”
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John C. Osorio Tax/Financial Planning |
“Before I started working out with Sara, I was holding on to vivid memories of being the last kid chosen in gym class. And I was absolutely CONVINCED that if there was one thing my body was incapable of doing, it was running.
But Sara has given me the confidence and the skills to do so many things I never thought I could – I’m up to running over 3 miles and even have my sights set on doing some 5K’s! And I’ve lost 6 inches from my stomach in the process! She has a wonderful way of encouraging me to push my limits, without ever making me feel discouraged. I treated my Mom to a session with Sara for her birthday, and now she’s a fan, too!”
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Joanne Harpel Director of Survivor Initiatives American Foundation for Suicide Prevention |
“Sara Dimmick has changed my life. From the second I started working with her, Sara has motivated and taught me to take better care of myself. I came to Sara after being extremely sedentary and not working out for years, not to mention being scared to death of exercising and gyms. After 9 months of working with Sara, I am doing things I never dreamed I could do: boxing, kickboxing, lifting weights and running my second 5k race. She challenges me without intimidation, and dare I even say it, makes it fun. I feel strong everyday and definitely more confident. Sara is so much more than a trainer–she calls me regularly to find out what other exercise I’m doing; emails me to suggest healthy nutrition and encourages me to try new things (e.g. fun runs, etc.). It’s not just that she’s familiar with every type of cardio exercise, yoga, pilates, weight training, physical therapy, massage, boxing, etc. — she practices them herself (we can do what she does, not just do what she says). She challenges herself to be a better trainer by learning new techniques, attending the latest health conferences, finding her own trainers/coaches for things she wants to improve, teaching several different types of clients and seeking out nutritional advice from top experts in the health field. Today, I have lost almost 80 lbs. after years of failed diets and personal trainers. I had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on every new diet and exercise fad, but it wasn’t until I met Sara that my life–my body, mind and spirit really changed.”
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Amy Peck Public Relations Photo of Amy by Gabrielle Revere www.gabriellerevere.com |
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By: Allen Purvin
Having just completed my second season as full-fledged triathlete (I have done 1 indoor, 2 Sprint and 2 Olympic), I thought it an appropriate time to reflect on my experiences. I mean, I get the magazines and read the articles. They’re helpful. But as someone who started on this path slightly overweight and with very little athletic experience, I never felt like they were really talking to me. So, I thought I would share my thoughts on what it’s really like to be a triathlete. What a triathlon is like from the back of the pack. Everything mentioned here is true, though not necessarily from the same race.
Let’s start before we even begin the race. You hear different things, such as, “Don’t worry, you won’t finish last.” Well let me tell you, someone has to finish last. Trust me, I should know. Whether it was last for my charity team, last for my age group, or even last overall, I think I would have stood on the losers’ podium at every single race. Five for five is good, right? At one race, the top finishers could have completed the course twice and still beaten me. Admittedly though, I don’t always tell people I finished last. Sometimes I tell them I scored the highest. Sounds better.
Now let’s proceed to race day. The fun starts before the race at the transition, when you hear people discuss the pros and cons of running sockless because they can save three seconds. Saving three seconds is just not even in my realm of comprehension. Tell me how to shave a couple of hours off of my time and then we can talk.
The Race
Swim is actually my best event. Looking at my times there is no way you would know it, but it really is. First comes the wetsuit. Trying to get it on is always a challenge, especially when you weigh about 20 pounds more than when you bought it. Once it’s finally on, I try to move and suddenly have a surprisingly good idea what rigor mortis probably feels like. But so long as I don’t bend my joints I can pretty much move.
So I walk into the water – running is clearly not an option – and start swimming. OK I think, as I start sighing. Look for the bright orange buoy. Bright orange buoy, bright orange buoy, I repeat. Are my eyes fooling me, there’s not one bright orange buoy – there seem to be dozens of them! And that’s when I realize, I’m in the swim wave with the bright orange swim caps. For some reason the coaches never ran over that scenario with me!
So I play follow the leader and just hope there’s no waterfall ahead. Certain thoughts also cross through my mind, like why do the coaches keep worrying about my sodium intake given all the salt water I am swallowing? Or that a burial at sea is probably cheaper than a funeral on land anyway. And, at least this way, when people come to pay their respects, instead of a jacket and tie, they can wear shorts and sandals and get a nice day out at the beach as well. It’s moot anyway; I am wearing a wetsuit so I’ll probably just float.
Now let’s try to get the wetsuit off. See, despite lack of evidence, I remain convinced that the wetsuit was actually invented long ago during Medieval Times as a form of torture. There is simply no other way to describe the process of trying to take off a wetsuit. The experience actually presents one of triathlons biggest quandaries: Is it better to exert almost all of you energy trying to get the thing off or simply wait for it to biodegrade? I decided to struggle and exhaust myself. But on the positive side, I do have a much clearer idea of why the sales clerk referred the wetsuit as the 4th tri-sport.
The bike. I was actually psyched about the bike. My first couple of tris I had a mountain and then a hybrid. I upgraded to a road. Which made it kind of depressing when people were passing me on what appeared to be mountain bikes. But I chugged along. And huffed and puffed along until I made it. And as I get to T2 I see all those bikes. And then it dawns on me that unless bikes have suddenly developed the ability to spontaneously reproduce, I am way far behind. But I go on. Two down, one to go.
The run is clearly the biggest misnomer in triathlon. It’s definitely more of a walk. I remember thinking, “My next triathlon the run better be though a cemetery. This way I’ll just lie down and save everyone the trouble of transporting the body.” But I somehow continue. And I am even running a little! I’m feeling good. Next thing I know I am thanking G-d for a healthy ego, otherwise getting passed on the run by a double-leg amputee could have been really depressing.
Not too much later, I see the finish and I cross. People ask me how it went. “Great,” I tell them, “at least this time there was still a course left when I finished.” See, the last time I did this race, by the time I got to the finish line, they had already started taking down the course. It wasn’t really the organizers’ fault. I mean, my time was really very good for an Olympic distance event; the problem was that it was a sprint race.
So, by now you are probably wondering why I put myself through this. And thinking to yourself — “This is supposed to encourage me?” Well, I do it for a lot of reasons. I was never an athletic kid growing up, so being able to do a triathlon is an accomplishment. It’s a cool thing to tell people. It helps keep me in shape. I like raising the money for charity. And I enjoy it. I am never going to finish first. I may never make it out of the bottom 10%. And maybe I’ll always be last. But failure isn’t finishing last. Failure is not trying in the first place. And besides, last is still a lot higher than those who never even tried in the first place.
OK, got to go train. Wouldn’t want to finish last!
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