Be the Change

I recently had the privilege of spending an afternoon with personal trainer Melissa Cardone of Peak Fitness.

What was supposed to be a quick photo shoot for her new personal training website, quickly turned into lot of laughs and chatting about everything fitness, motherhood, and finding her way in a fitness industry that is saturated with local and online trainers.

Melissa is the kind of person you can only hope to have in your circle of friends. Someone who has a kind and genuine heart, who listens with intent, who wants to make the world a better place by instilling confidence, strength and health in others. She’s someone who inspires others daily, not only as a personal trainer, but as a friend, a strong woman, a mom. She engages others in a way that makes you want to be a better person, makes you want to reach your goals, makes you believe in yourself.

A lifelong athlete, Melissa mixes her personal experiences of fitness with her professional personal training background to provide you with guaranteed success through a mixture of challenging workouts and the motivation you need to keep moving when you want to give up. Whether she is training clients (and also working out with them), kickboxing, coaching her online clients, or leading group workouts and even mommy and me workouts with the help of her adorable son, she is constantly striving to make those around her find the best versions of themselves.

If you’re looking for a unique workout regimine that incorporates a vision of thinking outside the box to reach your fitness goals, Melissa is your girl. Whether you are years into your fitness journey, or just beginning, she has the plans to meet all your needs.

Check out Melissa at @peakfitnessny on Instagram, online at peakfitnessny.com, or Peak Fitness on Facebook.

Two Years Later

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.  Dreaming, after all is a form of planning”. – Gloria Steinem “You are a very healthy human.” – Zoe Weinstein, MD  672 days earlier, Dr. Weinstein’s words were quite the opposite as they were today.  That late March day in 2016, I sat at my desk in my office full of hope and full of positive thoughts that the lump in my left breast was not in fact cancerous and was merely a benign fibroid. Zoe’s phone call that afternoon suddenly turned my world upside down.  “You have Read More