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Martha McIntosh, Design Your Healthy Life LLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Personal Trainer


Trainer Profile

  

As owner and senior consultant for Design Your Healthy Life LLC, my company's goal is to make a fit and healthy lifestyle attainable for all individuals.  Gradually, the obesity rate in America has climbed to gigantic proportions.  Our aim is to arm every person with the tools and techniques to be successful in obtaining as well as maintaining their own fitness.

My experience as a licensed professional counselor for over 15 years in Virginia has taught me people can unlearn unhealthy habits and relearn, modify, or adapt new behaviors to their lives.  This is not an easy process as it takes commitment, time, and energy to go through the progression of integrating a new way of viewing the world.  As with learning any new skill, initially the task is uncomfortable and awkward but as time goes on and the behavior becomes habit these actions become part of who we are; it becomes automatic.

My own personal history as a collegiate athlete and then later as a collegiate instructor/coach gave me the opportunity to work with individuals and groups to encourage setting goals related to both sport performance and overall physical fitness.  I recently updated this knowledge by becoming certified as a personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise.  Our philosophy is to work with people at their comfort level and gradually move them in the direction they determine.  The consulting services we offer provide suggestions and recommendations, but the choice is the individual's to make.
Respond to My Blog

I began writing a blog to document information I found helpful in my ongoing efforts to maintain a level of fitness.  Please feel free to comment on any of the recommendations I make or provide alternatives.  My perspective is just one of many alternatives.  The more options available for people to use, the greater flexibility in accomplishing goals, the more likely their possibility of success! 
This year I will be using a number of programs recommended by the "experts" and report back regarding their effectiveness--come join me!