• Z Health Master Trainer
• Movement Therapy Specialist
• Crossfit Kettlebell Instructor
• Fittest Man in Washington, DC

As a Z Health Master Trainer Jason has mastered the arts of neuroplastic mobility restoration, integrative movement capacity and elite athletic development. He will be teaching Z Health seminars throughout the country during the year.

As a Crossfit Kettlebell Instructor he will use the most dynamic training methods and equipment ever created to produce rapid, injury free results that last.

He currently holds the title of Fittest man in DC by winning DC’s Most Primal Competition in 2010 and 2011. Watch the video Here.

Mitchell Osborne

• Crossfit Level 1 trainer
• Z Health R&I Phase Trainer

Mitchell is a Crossfit veteran of 4 years, with 3 years of coaching experience as a Crossfit Level I certified trainer. He uses the most dynamic, varied, and safe movements to help clients quickly reach and exceed their personal goals.

Mitchell is competitive in the national Crossfit community, and placed 21st in the 2009 Midwest Regional Qualifier, 9th at the 2010 North/South Carolina Sectional Qualifier, and 35th at the 2010 Southeastern Regional Qualifier. He also placed 1st in his age group (15-25) at the 2006 Lake Hickory Triathlon.

Carolina Hurant

Master’s of Science in Exercise Science & Nutrition
NASM Certified Personal Trainer
Yoga Alliance E-RYT

Carolina has been a dedicated fitness professional for 7 years. She has always been an active group exercise coach leading students through cycle, Pilates, Yoga, TRX, boot camp, strength & conditioning and sports conditioning classes.

Carolina, prides herself on her ability to pull together knowledge and experience from these disciplines providing her clients with the most innovative and individually tailored programs guaranteeing results. Carolina combines nutrition, Pilates core training, functional strength training, anaerobic intervals and Yoga for an all around fitness program tailored to each individual’s body and ability. If you’re training with Carolina, you’ll get a challenging program that teaches you new skills bringing you closer to realizing your inner athlete and reaching your goals.

Carolina’s programs are fun and challenging and she is a great motivator. She has helped brides, moms, working women and retirees get the results they want and maintain those results. She believes that fitness is a lifestyle and making the right choices today will help improve your life tomorrow. Carolina maintains an active lifestyle putting her training philosophy into practice every day. When she isn’t teaching or training, you’ll find Carolina running, dead lifting or working on her power cleans. She has dedicated her life to fitness and helping other realize their fitness goals.

Adam Keefer

NPTI Certified Personal Trainer
Athletic Development and Nutrition Specialist

Adam graduated from the National Personal Trainer Institute in 2011. By completing the 500 hour, 6 month course he is now a certified personal trainer, basic nutrition certified and CPR and First Aid certified. He will incorporate many different training methods to make sure his clients reach their goals!

Adam has been an athlete his entire life and has been a soccer coach/instructor for the last 3 years. He was the Head JV/Assistant Varsity coach at Central Columbia High School, 2009/2010, Director of Soccer Operations at i9 Sports, an instructor at Kick-n-Sticks, and the current boys head coach at Immaculata Middle School. He also plays on Schaedenfreud United and Wake FC.

Approaches to substantial improvement in performance vary depending on who you ask. Most coaches will say it takes at least 10 years of repetitive practice, for an athlete to achieve world-class status. This is known as the 10,000 hour rule. This rule dictates that a predefined standard of 10,000 hours, or ten years, of practice must be performed before an athlete can reach an elite level in her sport. And this is true… Usually.

Given that all forms of practice aren’t equal, you might wonder if there are ways to short cut the 10,000 hour rule. Well, there are. Perfecting athletic movement patterns from the most basic elements will allow you to progress more quickly. Imagine yourself as a train – your moving parts are the cars. Every car must be aligned, running smoothly, well oiled, and otherwise functioning properly for the train to be fast and efficient. Any car that’s out of line, stuck, rusty, or disabled will effectively put the brakes on and potentially damage on the whole train. Z-Fit personal trainers teach you how to take the brakes off your body by making sure every movement works to its highest capacity to maximize your performance and speed past that ten year rule.

In Z-Fit, we break down all movements to their most basic elements. Rebounding a basketball, squatting 300 pounds, and sitting down in a chair all require optimal hip function for optimal performance. Any deficiency in the movement of the hip will create what’s called compensation. For the basketball player, this means slower reaction times as the body has to adjust before it gets into the right position to jump. For the weightlifter, it means strength will be compromised because the proper lines of force cannot be achieved for the lift. And what about the person sitting in the chair? Every time he sits he reinforces an unhealthy movement pattern that results in joint stiffness and weakness, which can lead to back pain, immobility, and arthritis.

The human body is an awesome ensemble of muscle, bones, organs, and the connective tissue that holds it all together. What is truly amazing, and almost always overlooked in athletic training, is the governing system that makes it work: the human nervous system. The nervous system controls every aspect of the body and its movements, so by improving the function of the controlling nervous system, you improve the entirety of the body’s performance.

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The second part of the workout is the strength and skill phase. This is where you learn new skills and work towards perfecting the ones you have already. This is also the time you will get the opportunity to work on your strength in the movements in which you are already proficient.

The last part is the metabolic conditioning phase of the workout. This is where the intensity of Crossfit comes into play, and how your body will really begin to really change. Utilizing full body multi-joint movements in rapid succession is the key to igniting your metabolic furnace. High intensity training not only raises your metabolic rate while you exercise, it also triggers the release of fat-burning and muscle building hormones in the body. The result is rapid body composition changes unparalleled by any other training method.

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