Client Testimonials
“What can I say about Mary Rocha as a trainer? She has achieved the impossible: she has made me want to work out, want to eat well, and want to stay fit. And she has done it all with encouragement, teasing and smiling. Each individually designed work-out gauges where I am and what I can do, and then gets me to a place where I can do more. From encouraging me to do more, to working with me through months of chemo-therapy five years ago, to getting me back on track when my travel schedule leaves me stiff and worn, Mary is a source of strength and joy to me, and I guarantee that she will be the same for you!”
— Current Client
"Mary Rocha is a fantastic trainer. She is attentive to your whole body, and how mobility is connected to strength. She has a good eye for form, making sure you're doing your exercises properly, so as to avoid injury. Quality of movement is as if not more important than quantity. For supervised strength training with weights in a variable way, it's hard to do better than Mary. Mary tailors workout routines just for you, whether you are an extremely athletic person who needs some regular rebalancing, or someone like me, who sits all day at the computer, and needs to be accountable to someone for my exercise. On top of being a skilled trainer, she is a wonderful, kind, brilliant person with a great sense of humor. And so it is always therapeutic to just be with her."
— Current Client
“Mary is very, very knowledgeable about her work as a personal trainer. She has a deep understanding of how the body works, moves and changes. * Mary is very professional in her work. She builds upon skills, keep one advancing and offers enough variety that one is never bored. And she makes the work-outs hard but fun! *Mary's practice is very efficient. She is always on time and ready and she is flexible when problems arise in a client's schedule. * Mary has a special gift for dealing with the issues of senior citizens. She knows and explains why specific exercises are important to the aging body. * In Summary, I enthusiastically recommend Mary Rocha's practice to everyone. You'll be glad you found her and started getting stronger under her guidance!”
— Current Client
“After my 65th birthday, I seriously began to worry about how I would manage living alone if that came to pass. Lifting boxes, unscrewing tight jars, that sort of thing had become ordeals. So I sought out a trainer who works with older people and who would not be yelling at me to push harder, like the kind of trainers you see on television, but who would be compassionate about and attentive to my aging and flabby body. I feel so lucky to have found Mary. She exceeds the recommendations I saw through an online network. She doesn’t go light, but she pays attention to pains and injuries and works around them to provide a workout that is both strengthening and loosening. She works without judgement and really cares about you as a whole person. And she’s a delight to hang out with. Since beginning with Mary I am doing much better with lifting and unscrewing jars (haha) and generally feel much more confident about aging. And while I still don’t enjoy certain exercises (long-held planks suck, let’s be honest), I’ve come to look forward to my 60 minutes of sometimes very challenging body work.”
— Current Client
“I don't usually seek help to develop health and physical wellbeing programs for my not-so-perfect body, but when I do, I turn to Mary. Mary came highly recommended by a couple of my very fit friends who have been training with her for years. So, I began exercising with her already feeling optimistic. It didn't take long for me to see that her understanding of the human body (how each part impacts the others) was even deeper than my friends had described. Mary knew my body's weaknesses from a story my wife shared with her, and then she developed her own understanding through our weekly coaching sessions over the last two years. She tailors my regimen each week based on my abilities at the time. Her studio is lovely, spacious, and well-equipped. Thanks to Mary, I am stronger, fitter, and more physically capable than I was two years ago. I can't recommend Mary highly enough as your fitness coach!”
— Leonard