Online Personal Training for Hypermobility, hEDS & Chronic Pain
Build strength through individualized coaching designed to fit your body, your abilities, and your goals.
Online Strength Training for Hypermobility, EDS, & Chronic Pain
Online personal training combines:
- Remote training sessions via Zoom or FaceTime
- 45-min or 60-min sessions available
- Programming through an easy-to-use app called Trainerize
- Access informational videos and chat with Chelsea directly
- 24-hour access to your program, the ability to ask questions, and ongoing adjustments to meet your needs
This approach allows for maximum flexibility, allowing you to receive ongoing coaching on a schedule that works for you.
Choose The Level of Support That's Right For You
One-on-One Sessions
- $90/hour
- Sessions offered: 45 min & 60 min
- Can include coaching on strength, movement, nutrition, and/or lifestyle changes
- All sessions are available over Zoom or FaceTime
Individual Personal Training is a time and space dedicated to helping you learn how to improve your movement through adjusting movement patterns, muscle engagement, and more. I will demonstrate exercises and walk you through each step of the process.
In addition to strength coaching, I offer nutrition and health coaching support. As a certified nutritional coach, I provide guidance and help you make changes to your food choices and lifestyle that support your long-term health and wellness goals. This is especially important if you are struggling with chronic conditions such as hypermobility, EDS, and/or comorbidities such as POTS, other types of Dysautonomia, or Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), as improved nutritional choices and lifestyle changes can positively impact health and well-being.
Individual Programming Via Trainerized
- $125/month
- Sessions discounted to $75/hour
Programming via Trainerized offers an easy-to-use calendar feature, videos explaining each movement, notes for your unique needs, progress tracking, direct messaging with Chelsea, integration with other fitness apps, and more.
ISM Methods: Functional Strength For Hypermobility, EDS, & Chronic Pain
If you are hypermobile, have chronic pain, or have a chronic condition, the gap in foundational strength makes daily life extremely difficult and run-of-the-mill programs useless and, at times, dangerous.
Coaching & programs at ISM aim to fill this gap, building a bridge to more functional movement that improves your daily life.
This approach is 4-part:
- Understand your body by improving body awareness through movement, commonly starting with individual joints and small movements.
- Build control & confidence while addressing imbalances. This includes improving stability, mobility, motor control, and more.
- Learn how to connect & move your body as a whole, rather than only as small pieces.
- Adapt as you change. Gain strength through functional patterns so it can be used in daily life & adjusted to meet your needs.
Frequently Asked Questions:
1. I have gotten hurt in other programs; how is this different?
I understand the apprehension and truly appreciate it. I have over 15 years of experience working with clients with hypermobility, chronic pain, and chronic injuries. As a result, I offer training that takes your needs into consideration.
- I operate under the belief that you are the expert on your experiences, and that my job is to help facilitate and guide you on HOW to build strength.
- I encourage and ASK clients to tell me how they are feeling before, during, and after sessions to ensure that they aren’t experiencing ongoing and persistent pain with movement.
- WHEN pain arises, as it commonly does, we address it by adjusting our programming.
- Additionally, I always suggest speaking with your doctor to help guide us in the process.
2. Can I really gain strength and build a bridge so I can be more active?
YES! Getting checked out by a doctor is the first step, and gaining strength takes time and patience. However, it is possible! I have helped clients regain activities they lost years ago, be able to do lunges without knee pain, and go from bed-bound to being able to walk around Disneyland, and more.
Together, we will find exercises that help you rebuild capacity in your body, and slowly but surely you will gain strength.
3. Is online programming right for me?
If you are looking for guidance through individualized programming, have struggled with injury or pain in other programs, AND need an individualized program, then YES!
I will work with you and design a program that will help you to meet your goals and improve your health!
3. Is personal training right for me?
Online personal training sessions are very helpful for improving form and helping you to understand what each movement needs to feel like and look like.
If this is you, then YES!
A mixture of online programming and personal training is commonly ideal, as it allows you to get assistance with specific movements while providing you with flexibility and accountability between sessions.
4. Are you a physical therapist?
No, I am not a Licensed Physical Therapist. Physical therapists diagnose and treat.
I am a personal trainer and coach who can help you overcome challenges and ultimately meet your goals of gaining strength, improving mobility, and increasing capacity. My approach is whole-body, as I believe that the body functions as a unit and each part affects the rest.
5. Is it worth the money?
Ultimately, this is a question you get to answer for yourself.
Gaining strength has been shown to help you have less pain, improve longevity, improve your energy levels, boost your mood, and more.
If you are struggling with injuries, have been injured while trying to gain strength, lack movement, strength, and mobility, or have hypermobility, EDS, or other chronic conditions that are inhibiting you from gaining strength, then these are certainly affecting your daily life in many ways.
Working with me will help you address this and take a step forward. Remember, what you do today affects not just tomorrow but also the rest of your life.
Do you want to regain movement and be more functional to live your life more fully? If you think this is worth the money for you, then YES!