PERSONAL TRAINING AT THE Y
With YMCA Training, you will receive the greatest opportunity to succeed in making lasting changes to your lifestyle. Our nationally-certified Personal Trainers design personalized programs to meet client specific goals, whether it be weight loss, muscle gain, general fitness or to change up a work-out routine.
CUSTOMIZED FITNESS, REAL RESULTS
- Define your personal goals
- Develop a customized fitness program
- Provide motivation and accountability
- Incorporate new techniques
- Bust through fitness plateaus
- Improve your wellbeing and reduce stress
- Enhance your overall fitness
- Achieve results!
DISCOUNTED PERSONAL TRAINING FOR SENIORS!
We are proud to now offer discounted personal training sessions for seniors ages 65 and above. Whether you're looking to build strength, improve balance, enhance flexibility, or simply stay active and energized, our certified personal trainers are here to help you reach your goals in a safe and supportive environment. Sessions are customized to meet your individual needs and fitness level, with a focus on improving overall well-being and quality of life. It's never too late to prioritize your health—take the first step today!
1 Session: $80 per session (27% off!)
10 Sessions: $72 per session ($720 total) (32% off!)
NEW PERSONAL TRAINING OFFERINGS
Whether you’re aiming to achieve individual goals or embark on a fitness journey together, our expert trainers are here to provide personalized guidance and support tailored to your family’s needs.
MONTHLY TRAINING SUBSCRIPTION
Commit to your fitness with 4 personal training sessions a month for $350—ideal for building strength, achieving weight loss goals, and achieving your New Year resolutions!
CUSTOM WORKOUT PLANS
Receive a personalized workout plan tailored specifically to your goals and lifestyle, plus a personal trainer consultation for expert guidance.
TRAIN WITH PURPOSE
Specialty Personal Training That Meets You Where You Are
At the YMCA of Greenwich, we know that every fitness journey is unique. That’s why we’re proud to offer Specialty Personal Training—a new way to train with purpose.
Whether you're looking to sharpen your game, build strength for a specific life stage, or manage a chronic condition, our certified trainers are here to support your goals with personalized, expert-led programs.
Our specialty training offerings:
- Yoga
- Boxing
- Pickleball
- Chronic Disease
- Athlete Performance
- Older Adults
Custom Training Available!
Don’t see your sport or need on the list? We’re here to help. Let us know your goals, and we’ll work to match you with a trainer who can build a custom program tailored to your activity or wellness needs.
NEW WAY TO TRACK YOUR PROGRESS!
Track your progress like never before with our new biometric body fat monitor, now available for members to use at no cost! This advanced tool helps you understand your fat-to-muscle ratio and stay on top of your fitness goals. See a wellness associate to give it a try today!
TRAINING RATES & REGISTRATION
YOUTH & SEMI-PRIVATE TRAINING
We are now offering the following options for youth and semi-private personal training at our Y:
- Youth Personal Training: Designed for our youth members ages 14 and under, our Youth Personal Training classes help your child get from where they are today to where they want to be with their physical ability. We also offer semi-private training sessions if your child wants to train with siblings, friends, or teammates.
- Semi-Private Personal Training: Our semi-private Personal Training options offer our members a more affordable training solution and an opportunity to work out with friends, while still offering the exclusivity and personalization your training program and coaching should have.
- Jump Start Private Training: This Personal Training option offers new personal training clients a 15% discount for their first 3 sessions! Purchase three 60 minute sessions for $270.
POLICIES
- All participants must fill out a PAR-Q before their first session.
- Personal Training sessions are valid for 6 months from date of purchase.
- Personal Training sessions are nonrefundable and non-transferable.
- Sessions are by appointment only and have a 24-hour cancellation policy.
- Please download our app by searching “YMCA of Greenwich” in your App Store.
MEET OUR TRAINERS
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Devin Monahan
Devin is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer with over a decade of experience in health and fitness. He works with clients of all backgrounds, ages, and experience levels to set and achieve goals.
Drawing on his background in military special operations, extensive experience in injury prevention & recovery, and the training of the NASM program, Devin cuts through the confusion around the weight room to bring you straightforward, results-driven training.
As your trainer, Devin will help you master the exercises that will make you into the healthiest, strongest version of you that you can be. He will work with you to set short and long-term targets, and guide you on the way to hitting them. Whether your goal is losing weight, feeling young again, gaining strength, or just being more active and capable, Devin can get you there.
As Head Trainer at the Greenwich Y, Devin leads the training team in setting goals, educating new trainers, and bringing all members an excellent experience in the Wellness Center. Reach out if you have any questions about personal training or wellness at the Greenwich Y.
Dave Graves
Dave Graves, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, works with individual and small group clients. Years of fitness experience, combined with his daily happy & healthy lifestyle, empower you to achieve your fitness goals. Clients across ages and athletic backgrounds experience transformation in their fitness, lifestyle and happiness through working with Dave and his customized training programs.
As a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Dave also works with individual, semi-private and group classes in a dryland training environment. In his years of specialized experience, Dave has helped swimmers in all stages of competition. From national level to beginner-level swimmers, Dave customizes individual and group workouts to best complement in-pool training. Dryland training improves strength, endurance, and competition performance, and provides a stabilizing muscle balance for the training done in and out of the water.
Anna Marrian
Anna Marrian is a NASM certified personal trainer and NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist. She works with her clients to increase their overall body strength, balance, flexibility, and cardiovascular fitness. Anna’s Corrective Exercise Specialist certification taught her to help clients to refine movement quality, address any muscular imbalances that may be causing discomfort, and return the body to optimal posture and form.
Proper form is essential so clients can train safely and move efficiently, enabling clients to progress at their own pace. Training might feel daunting at first, so Anna has a special interest in helping beginners and seniors, no matter their experience or level of existing fitness.
Anna understands the importance of balance and strengthening the core to stabilize the body. She’s been involved in various sports over the years such as rowing and even surfing, which is how she came to appreciate the vital importance of balance, especially as we get older. She knows first-hand that persistence brings about change when we commit to an endeavor.
A former medical student, Anna is a part-time health and fitness writer and has been for fifteen years, so she understands the science behind exercises and her experience has taught her how and when to progress or scale back exercises to keep her clients moving. Anna knows that fitness leads to a happier, healthier, more confident individual.
Anna is an avid reader and loves to spend time in nature, especially in the spring when the blossoms are beautiful.
Cristian Aguirre
Cristian’s philosophy is that workouts are catered differently for everyone because everyone has their own personal goals/training experiences. Cristian’s goal is to help you achieve your goals & challenge you to become the greatest version of yourself. Gaining both strength and achieving range of motion have been a major focus for many of his clients in the past few years.
From building muscle, strength training, mobility, calisthenics and focusing on rehabbing injuries, Cristian has been at the Y for over 6 years and Personal Training for over 4 years. He enjoys powerlifting/bodybuilding exercises and believes you can always get stronger!
“I always try to teach every one of my clients to understand the training that we are doing & incorporate some nutritional information in the mix. Both go hand-in-hand,” he notes. Cristian is our resident vegan, ask him for some great substitutes or how you can lead a more plant-based lifestyle!
Brian Dowd
Brian is an NASM Certified Personal Trainer with a background in physical education. He believes that age should not stand in the way of living a high quality life.
From an early age Brian knew he had a love of sports and fitness. His love of physical fitness began in his youth as an amateur boxer with the Bronx Police Athletic league. He has also trained in Taekwondo and Judo as a teenager and continued boxing and martial arts training into adulthood.
Brian worked for the New York City Department of Education as a physical education teacher before becoming the Instructional Dean of an Elementary School and Junior High school. Throughout the years he has attained certification as a boxing coach and trainer through USA Boxing Metro and through the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
He has the pleasure of training four NY Daily News Golden Glove champions in amateur boxing competition and numerous tournament champions in amateur competition. Physical fitness has been an integral part of his life beginning in my teenage years and will continue to be a lifelong endeavor. As a father he has had the pleasure of sharing his love of the sport of boxing and strength training with his son and is now ready to share it with our Greenwich community as well!
LaMont Rollins
National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Group, Boot Camp and Spin Class Instructor, LaMont walks the walk, you’ll see him putting himself through the same vigorous workouts he puts his clients through. He knows what it’s like to workout with limited time and will make the best of the time at hand.
LaMont will challenge your agility and coordination. He can bring your strength program to the next level with his creative programming and endless library of exercises. If you’d like to learn Olympic lifts, or be put through a grueling circuit, LaMont will get you through your workout at a higher level. Jump start your day with Boot Camp, LaMont will have you doing things you thought you could never do. There is a place for everyone in his classes, each exercise has its modifications, so for those that either want to take it back a notch or even take the exercise to the next level there is lots of wiggle room. He’ll make sure you have a good time!
Leo Rotondano
Leo is an NASM Certified Personal Trainer. He believes in teaching his clients seven primal movements. Movement is important at all stages of life.
Leo was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He grew up playing sports such as basketball, handball, rock-climbing, cycling and running including trails. It was during his teenage years where he realized the importance of body movement. He believes that the human body, no matter the age, should be able to move freely.
Leo has his degree in Physical Education and is a certified personal trainer with over 10 years of experience. Leo is also a running coach, an indoor climbing coach and a swim instructor.
When Leo is not working on his own wellness journey, or his clients you can find him enjoying an active day outside or possibly reading sci-fi.
Nicole Nurse
Nicole Nurse is a certified personal trainer, group fitness instructor, and nutrition specialist. Whether she's training Division I athletes or retirees, men or women, or clients with or without preexisting conditions, her job is to help YOU look better, feel better, move better, and be better.
She is trained in specific exercise genres including, but not limited to, TRX, Kettlebells, Strength Training, HIIT, Spin, and Barre. She uses her deep knowledge of movement to customize exercise programs, and her understanding of nutrition to help clients adopt healthy eating habits. So, for
all those ready to make a change, she is ready to make a difference.
Linda Parentice
Linda Parentice has over 25 years of experience in the fitness industry, establishing herself as a dedicated professional and a passionate advocate for health. She holds an ACE certification as a personal trainer and AFFA certification as a group fitness instructor. Her athletic background includes being a Division I scholarship athlete in diving at LSU, which helped lay the foundation for her expertise in functional strength and athletic conditioning.
Beyond her professional pursuits, Linda enjoys yoga, running, skiing, golf, tennis, hiking, biking, scuba diving, sailing, and dancing. This well-rounded, active lifestyle helps fuel her commitment to helping others.
Vaughn Curtis
Vaughn Curtis is a NASM-certified personal trainer with four years of weightlifting experience and a background as a multi-sport athlete. Believing that fitness isn’t one-size-fits-all, Vaughn designs customized movement patterns and corrective exercises to enhance each client’s mobility, strength, and overall well-being for a truly individualized fitness approach.
In January 2023, after a collapsed lung led to two surgeries and a nine-month recovery, Vaughn rebuilt his strength from scratch. His journey gave him fresh insight into the struggles many beginners face, which he now channels into motivating others to develop discipline and reach their fitness goals.
Mitchell Parron
Mitchell Parron is a NASM-certified personal trainer who embraces fitness as a central part of his life. This passion drives him to empower individuals on their unique wellness journeys. Mitchell transforms the gym into a space of growth, providing tailored guidance and unwavering support to his clients at every stage. His expertise is evident in the personalized workout plans he designs, focusing on effective strategies that promote long-term health and strength. Dedicated to his clients' success, Mitchell prioritizes their individual needs and cultivates a motivating environment that fosters overall well-being.
Izhmara (Izy) Blackwood
With over a decade of experience, Izy is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer and Nutrition Specialist who takes a realistic, balanced approach to wellness. Her focus is on helping members build strength, improve consistency, and create habits that support long-term health.
She works with individuals at all levels, designing sessions that meet people where they are—no extremes, no one-size-fits-all plans. Whether the goal is movement, mindset, or nutrition support, her approach is intentional and sustainable.