About Craig
Not All Personal Trainers in Tampa Are Made Equal.
- Certified
- NASM, 2004
- Experience
- 20+ years, private clients
- Continuing education
- 31 certifications, 2009–2019
- Trains at
- Empire MMA and Fitness, South Tampa
Twenty-plus years in, the work hasn’t changed much: one person, one plan, one hour at a time. I earned my NASM certification in 2004, and private clients have been the work ever since.
What has changed is how much I’ve had to keep learning. 31 continuing-education certifications between 2009 and 2019, most of them in older-adult training, injury and posture work, and high-intensity methods, because the body that walks through the door is almost never a blank page.
What I’m for
What People Actually Come to Me For
With over 20 years of private training experience, I can help you:
Get back into your best shape after a long break, an injury or a pregnancy.
Lose body fat and build lean body mass.
Improve your core strength to lose inches around your waist, which can also reduce lower back pain.
Rehab from back pain, sports injuries and normal aches and pains.
Make a complete lifestyle change and build healthy eating and exercise habits for a lifetime.
And in a group setting
Buddy Sessions, metabolic conditioning and interval training (HIIT, Tabata) · Core and low-back strengthening · Group training for efficient weight loss · Muscle strengthening and weight training to build muscle mass
See every way to trainHow I coach
What an Hour With Me Is Actually Like
Five things I do the same way for everyone, whatever they came in for.
My fitness and personal training philosophy is that if you make small changes every day, it will result in a huge transformation over time. This philosophy applies to your workout routine, nutrition and lifestyle changes.
Form First
If your technique starts to drift, we stop and fix it right then. Mid-set, not next week. It is coached as part of the exercise, not mentioned afterwards.
Never the Same Session Twice
“I’ll keep it fresh, different exercise each training session.” That is a promise I make publicly and keep on the floor.
I Train Around Your History
A knee that has been operated on, a new hip, a back that has been through it, a body six weeks after a baby. None of that rules you out. Exercises get adjusted until we find the version that works for you today.
Nutrition Is Not an Upsell
How you eat is part of the training, not an add-on I try to sell you later. Then I hold you accountable to it, which is the part clients tell me made the difference.
No Shame in the Room
Beginner or experienced, whatever your age and whatever your goal. Nobody has to be in shape before they are allowed to start. Turning up is the hard part. I can take it from there.
Your Prescription for Fitness
Credentials & Trust
Credentialed, Certified, and Worth Trusting
When you’re looking for a personal trainer, it’s important to find someone who you can trust and rely on, so it’s important to find a professional who is credentialed and certified.
- years of private training experience
- 20+years of private training experience
- continuing-education certifications, 2009–2019
- 30+continuing-education certifications, 2009–2019
A training library built for bodies that come with history.
31 courses on record · 2009–2019
Senior & Older-Adult Training13
The deepest part of the record: strength, balance, joint replacement and chronic-condition coursework for clients in their 50s, 60s and beyond.
- Exercise Programs for Older Adults2015
- Essential Functional Exercise for Seniors2015
- Balance and Fall Prevention2015
- Exercise for Chronic Disabilities: Life After Hip or Knee Replacement2015
- Designing Strength Programs: Exercise the Older Shoulder2015
- Exercise for Chronic Disease2015
- Nutrition for Special Populations2015
- Core Training for Seniors2017
- Strength and Conditioning for Seniors2017
- A Dozen Practical Exercises for Seniors2017
- Standing Tall: Exercise and the Aging Spine2019
- The Bionic Elder: Training with New Knees and Hips2019
- The Defiant Senior: Exercise to Manage Chronic Illness2019
Injury, Posture & Joint Work11
Coursework for training around back pain, knees, shoulders and old injuries, the reason rehab-minded clients end up here.
- Avoiding Common Fitness Injuries2017
- Integrated Postural Training2017
- Functional Mobility Drills2017
- Good Knee / Bad Knees2017
- When Good Knees Go Bad2017
- Do This, Not That: Cheap Tricks for Trainers2017
- Exercise to Improve Neck and Back Function2019
- Functional Forever: Remedial Shoulder Exercise2019
- Training the Core2015
- Core Training: Working Hard or Hardly Working?2019
- Pilates / Reformer 12009
High-Intensity Methods & Conditioning7
The Buddy Session and MetCon toolkit: intervals, complexes, strength for fat loss and how to time nutrition around it.
- High Intensity Interval Training2015
- High Intensity Interval Training2019
- High Intensity Training: When Less Is More2019
- Boot Camp Gold2015
- Designing Exercise Complexes2017
- Lift Weight to Lose Weight2019
- Nutrient Timing2019
Safety training on record: CPR/AED (2015) · BLS Basic Life Support Provider (2017–2019)
Between sessions
Where You Can Watch the Work
The training doesn’t only happen in the hour you book. Here is what I put out, and where.
- Instagram@fitnessrx
Short videos of real clients working one movement at a time: lunges into core rotations, kettlebell swings, slider work, balance on the Bosu. Filmed on the floor at Empire MMA.
- FacebookFitnessRxTampa
The practice page: contact details, where I’m currently training, and posts about who I work with. Collegiate athletes and new moms alike, regardless of age or experience.
- YouTubeFitnessRx Tampa
Short workout clips, filmed on the floor.
Why I do this
When I see my clients starting to achieve their goals, I really take it to heart. That’s why I love my job and why I got into this career. Helping people reach their potential is my passion.
Come and Meet Me. The First One Is on Me.
A conversation about what you want, a free body-fat analysis and a fitness evaluation, then a workout built around what you just told me. No commitment either way.