(Excerpt from article April 12, 2007)

The Right Personal Trainer Can Help Exercisers Blast to the next Level

Shanna Hogan, East Valley Tribune

“About half the people I

work with have trained with

someone else and they weren’t

pleased with it,” says Kevin

Freeland, a personal trainer

for Body Focus Fitness in

Tempe. “The No. 1 complaint I

hear is that the trainer didn’t

have their needs in mind.”

Trainers who are compassionate

and invested in their

clients are the ones who help

make serious life changes.

“To be a good trainer, you

have to really care. You have to

be personally invested in helping

them be successful,”

says Freeland.

That extra attention can

pay off in results.

Mesa resident Lisa Pettyjohn,

45, has lost 76 pounds in

the year and a half she’s been

training with Freeland.

“I was never a workout person,”

she says. “Now I can feel

the results, I can see the results.

I can’t believe my body’s

doing.

BIG RESULTS: Lisa Pettyjohn, 45, of Mesa trains once a week with Kevin Freeland at Body Focus Fitness in Tempe. In the year and a half she’s worked with him, Pettyjohn has lost 76 pounds.

JENNIFER GRIMES, TRIBUNE

Originally aired May 2, 2007

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