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barriers, and other long-standing factors. That gap costs lives.
🙌🏽 We can change that. Learn CPR, teach #CPR, and encourage your family, friends, and neighbors to get trained.
📚Visit the American Heart Association’s CPR resources: cpr.heart.org
🔁 Please share
#PublicHealth #EMS #EMT #Boston
🧵1/ 👋🏽 Bystander CPR Saves Lives
🚑 Starting CPR within the first 10 minutes of a cardiac arrest can double or even triple survival chances and help protect brain function.
⛑️ Yet a recent study shows CPR training is less common in Black and Hispanic communities due to systemic inequities, geographic
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make fitness a space where every body, every ability, and every background is welcomed.
💯 Accessible fitness is community health.
#HealthEquity #InclusiveFitness #Maldenma #CommunityHealth #Recreation #accessibilty #HIIT #Wellness #muscle #WomenHealth #Boston #PreventiveCare
🧵1/2 Inclusive HIIT • Health Equity 💪🏾
This week’s inclusive HIIT🔥session isn’t just a workout — it’s part of a larger mission.
✅ Partnering with the Malden Department of Recreation allows me to remove barriers, expand access, and make fitness a space where every body, every ability, and
Honored to receive a follow from Frederik Pleitgen.
His reporting — from frontlines such as #Ukraine and #Iran, especially in moments of danger and uncertainty — reminds us what real #journalism looks like.
Wishing continued safety to him, his team, and all journalists who run toward the truth.
#ODAAT ☮️🙏🏽
☀️Spring Energy in March
We wrapped up today’s SPARTA💪🏾Strength Class at the Milano Senior Center in Melrose by stepping outside to soak in a little extra vitamin D as we finished the session.
#spring #weather #community #northshorema #aging #fitness #health #photography #smile #seniors
🔥 #Exercise of the Day: Plank Saw with Gliders
⭐️My online #fitness client showing how controlled this core burner should be. This one rewards strength, stability, and precision over speed.
✅Gliders are optional. Use towels or rags on a hardwood floor work or in the kitchen.
#nyc #boston #gym
I grew up in Fields Corner. Thank you for your service.
🙏🏽🇺🇦
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on your dreams, even if your path is “non‑traditional,” and always ask for help when you need it.
⭐️ Thank you to the BLS community for allowing me to give back to the school that changed the course of my life.
Sumus Primi. 💜
#mentors #genz #careers #business #health #Fitness #life #latinos
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foundation for the professional I am today, and taught me to take pride in all honest work.
👉🏽And I highlighted mentors: priceless guides who help you navigate your career, build networks, and — most importantly — protect your well‑being to avoid burnout.
📚To the students: never give up on your
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stigma — and to show the life‑changing power of asking for help. That practice is just as essential for professional growth as it is for personal survival.
🎯I spoke about humility: how every job I’ve held — from telephone book salesperson to dishwasher to chair car driver — became part of the
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clinical depression. I didn’t understand how it affected my studies, my confidence, or my health. I wanted to go to college and even planned to become a lawyer, but life had other plans. Untreated mental illness eventually led me to homelessness.
✅I shared this not for sympathy, but to break the
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I shared with the Class of 2027 that although I’m now the owner of Fitness Foundry and hold certifications as a Personal Trainer, EMT‑B, and Real Estate Salesperson, my journey was anything but traditional.
🙏🏽I opened up about something deeper: during my time at BLS, I lived with untreated
🧵1/ #Boston #CareerDay #LifeLessons
A Good Life Is More Than a GPA.
Today marked my third year returning to Boston Latin School 🐺for the 13th Annual Career Day — always a full‑circle moment, and always meaningful.
🗣️While we were there to discuss our career paths, I chose to go beyond the résumé.
#Exercise of the Day for home or the #gym 💪🏾
😅51 y.o. coach demonstrating the Glider Reach Push‑Up in two variations—kneeling or full. Low‑cost setup, towel works, and you can do it anywhere.
Watch till the end for a kitty cameo!🐱🍕
#over50 #fitness #cats #pizza #kitten #health #boston #cats #fun
🚨The current WH administration is trying to “gamify” war, using recent posts that include video‑game clips to frame real conflict.
War is not entertainment. Our service members are not avatars. are.
#Dignity #Iran #Military #War #UnitedStates #patriots #Boston #Reality
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—not graphics, sound effects, or the illusion that there’s a restart button.
When messaging is stylized or gamified, it can imply replaceability, when in reality every loss is a world ending for a family.
Our heroes deserve the dignity of being seen as the real people they are.
1/2 🚨The current WH administration is trying to “gamify” war.
War is not entertainment. Our service members are not avatars. They are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, siblings—real patriots who volunteered knowing the risks.
For families with loved ones deployed, the stakes are life and death—
😅 Today’s SPARTA Strength Class highlight at the Malden Senior Center: our 91‑year‑young rockstar Carmen walked in smiling and wearing a ‘Running Late Is My Cardio’ tee… and all I could think was, ‘Awesome — and still stronger than excuses.’
#Fitness #sportswear #gym #humor #smile #quotes #smile
#CommunityFitness #Teamwork
❄️Snow couldn’t stop this crew. These rockstars showed up and crushed Week 5 of my Inclusive HIIT 🔥class in Malden.
Proud of everyone—see you next week!💪🏾
#hiit #HealthEquity #fitness #WomenEmpowerment #exercise #Lifestyle #workout #northshorema
⬆️ Turkish Get‑Up Super Complex
🔥Watch my online #fitness client run through a full Turkish Get‑Up and then level it up with an overhead walking lunge, reverse lunge, and windmill.
🎯The TGU is already a full‑body skill—this super complex challenges every layer of strength, stability, and control.💪🏾
Older Adults ❤️ #HIIT
⭐️The rockstars (ages 65–90) at the Milano Senior Center in #Melrose, MA are experiencing the hidden power of my inclusive group #fitness — it goes far beyond reps:
🧠 Mental well‑being
🤝🏽 Connection and #teamwork
🔥 #Fun
😅 And when it’s fun, you show up again and again.
#health
Finally gave these patches a home. Each one carries a story — from humanitarian trips across Lviv, Kyiv, Odesa, and Kharkiv to local fundraisers for #Boston and Malden PD. I’m proud to stand with these communities at home and abroad. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
#autism #ukraine #cancer #humanity #police #community #latinos
Reflecting on Dr. King’s 1959 address and what it means for us today. The world is changing fast, but our choices—big or small—are what shape the nation we become.
We don’t need to be famous, powerful, or perfect to make a difference.
Choose #humanity over hate; choose justice over indifference.
🎉Congratulations to X-Step Fitness, our city’s newest personal and small‑group training studio!
🗣️As a Malden Chamber Board Member, it was an honor to join Mayor Christenson, Rep. Ultrino, and the Chamber #community to cut the ribbon and welcome X-Step #Fitness to the neighborhood👟
#smallbusiness
🗣️ Last class at the Malden Teen Enrichment Center! 👟✨
Stepping in to help turned into something bigger—I’m walking away inspired by teens crushing new challenges, having fun, and building community. I’ll be back for special events. 💪🏾
#youthempowerment #fitness #health #genz #Boston #fun #coach
First Class since the #Blizzard!❄️
Shoveling was the warmup before taking my SPARTA Strength Class at the Malden Senior Center — because we know: “Rest is Rust. Motion is Lotion.”
Nothing stops these rockstars!✨
#fitness #seniors #aging #exercise #gym #photography #quotes #fun #health #diversity
🇺🇦I'm proud to be one of many who stand in solidarity and know that our collective efforts can create positive change in Ukraine.
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