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Meet Jon Leisenring, Certified Personal Trainer (NASM), ​CoreAlign Instructor

8/1/2019

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I am a true-born athletics enthusiast, that is not to say I was born with a high degree of athleticism. I lagged behind most of my compatriots in elementary and middle school in everything from the presidential fitness test to organized sports.  It was when I found the high school weight room in seventh grade that I was able to turn immense frustration into motivation and fuel to set me on the path I wanted to be on.  But I didn't just hit the weight room, I voraciously read every piece of fitness advice I could get my hands on.  And I tried it, what worked I kept, what didn't I got rid of.  Transforming my body over the next several years I went from athletics afterthought to a two-way starter on my high school football team in Pennsylvania as a sophomore and captained the same team to our first ever state championship as a senior.  I went on to play college football as a defensive end at Ithaca College.  After college I enlisted in the Navy, while working as a crypto-analyst I was able to score a top mark of Outstanding on 3 straight semi-annual Physical Readiness Tests.  With my command lagging in this area I was asked to take on the job of Command Fitness Leader.  With the hard work of my fellow sailors I was able to take the command from a 75% pass rate to a 100% pass rate in the span of 6 months.

It was that experience of taking all of the knowledge I had accrued for myself and applying it to others with a positive result that led me to the path I am on now.  That is, continuing to better myself every single day with countless styles and forms of workouts and passing every tidbit I gain from that onto clients when and where it's applicable.  I started my professional career at Philadelphia Sports Clubs where I became a National Academy of Sports Medicine CPT, after quickly rising to one of the top 10 trainers in the Philadelphia region I set out on my own to do in home training and boot camps on the "Rocky Steps" at the Philadelphia Art Museum.  At the same time I pursued a background in kettlebells at Maxwells Gym, the first place in the U.S. to offer such training.  

Six years ago I moved to Oregon and was lucky enough to land a personal training job where I was expected to learn CoreAlign on the side.  It changed my life.  Within my first hour session I realized it was a game changer for what I wanted to do, and wanted to be able to bring to my clients.  I had worked my whole life to have power and strength and had neglected efficiency of movement.  This apparatus demanded it.  I spent hundreds of hours perfecting my own craft and again, brought whatever I figured out daily to my clients where applicable. 

In the past several years I have expanded my workout repertoire from its origins in powerlifting and sport-specific conditioning to Pilates-based CoreAlign and yoga inspired flexibility routines, heavily integrated self-myofascial release techniques, and circular training styles incorporating Clubbells and Bulgarian Bags.  Currently I train everyone from high school and college athletes to octogenarians looking to make life's daily tasks a little more manageable.  I'm up for the challenge if you are.

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