Virtual Personal Trainer, Live & Online

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Marc D. Thompson is a prominent fitness trainer, personal coach and virtual personal trainer (VPT) with a background in medicine and exercise physiology. He has devoted his life to understanding the body and its systems. His passion is finding and isolating the physical strengths and weaknesses of each client and matching them with a multitude of fitness disciplines to improve their physical, mental and psychological wellbeing. Approaching fitness holistically, Marc believes the fusion of creativity analysis and practicality is essential in moving each individual toward their fitness goals. Along with 25 years of experience, his greatest strength is his ability to draw from numerous fitness disciplines and sports, thousands of exercises, psychological techniques and nutritional principals to empower each client. He combines corrective exercise, integrated function and dynamic flexibility with psychology, cognition and motivation to progress his clientele. Marc incorporates muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, range of motion, balance, power, agility, quickness, speed, coordination and proprioception and much more. He has taught a wide range of fitness classes including fitness, cycling, yoga, senior/youth fitness, adventure camps, outdoor training, military training, and interval classes for groups and corporations and at special and community events. Marc carries an professional PT certification, a d Pre-med degree, and is a VPT Faculty. He has been a PT Faculty, a Senior Fitness Director and a Fitness Cluster Coordinator and is certified in Aquatic Teaching, PT Teaching, Cycling, Swimming, Yoga, Mat Science and Stability Ball, Thai and Bamboo bodywork, and more. He also administered programs including Massage Therapy, Road races, Pilates, Tai Chi and Dance. Marc has designed numerous innovative fitness programs including Resistance Yoga, A-Team, X-Cycling, Enduro, Cardio Yoga, Parent-Child Flex and Cardio Core. Marc works with individuals of all ages and experience levels, from novice to advanced athlete, as well as those who are mentally and physically handicapped. Marc has trained clients as young as six to those well into their 90’s. He has numerous specialties, including Parkinson, Road racing, Alzheimers, Injury prevention and treatment, conditioning and cognition.In his studio in Delray Beach, Florida, Marc works one-on-one with individuals and has broadened his reach to train a multitude of clients around the world with teleconferencing. As the founder of VirtuFit.net, he has pioneering virtual training. He now can bring all these skills to anyone, anywhere in the world via skype, imparting wellness to those with restrictions such as time, money, transportation, and also able to follow clients around the world to their hotels and winter retreats. He brings tools for each client to improve their body, mind and spirit. --MARC D. THOMPSON, VPT VirtuFit