OUR GOAL IS TO HELP YOU REACH YOURS. 

DEDICATED TO HEALTHY LIVING. 

Work with a certified personal trainer to reach new levels of fitness. From regular workouts to rehabbing injuries, training for marathons, or running for the first time, our Personal Training team will get you set up with a certified trainer who can help you meet your goals.

Devin Monahan

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Devin is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer with over a decade of experience in health and fitness. He works with clients of all backgrounds, ages, and experience levels to set and achieve goals.

Drawing on his background in military special operations, extensive experience in injury prevention & recovery, and the training of the NASM program, Devin cuts through the confusion around the weight room to bring you straightforward, results-driven training.

As your trainer, Devin will help you master the exercises that will make you into the healthiest, strongest version of you that you can be. He will work with you to set short and long-term targets, and guide you on the way to hitting them. Whether your goal is losing weight, feeling young again, gaining strength, or just being more active and capable, Devin can get you there.

As Head Trainer at the Greenwich Y, Devin leads the training team in setting goals, educating new trainers, and bringing all members an excellent experience in the Wellness Center. Reach out if you have any questions about personal training or wellness at the Greenwich Y.

Dave Graves

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Dave Graves, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, works with individual and small group clients. Years of fitness experience, combined with his daily happy & healthy lifestyle, empower you to achieve your fitness goals. Clients across ages and athletic backgrounds experience transformation in their fitness, lifestyle and happiness through working with Dave and his customized training programs.

As a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Dave also works with individual, semi-private and group classes in a dryland training environment. In his years of specialized experience, Dave has helped swimmers in all stages of competition. From national level to beginner-level swimmers, Dave customizes individual and group workouts to best complement in-pool training. Dryland training improves strength, endurance, and competition performance, and provides a stabilizing muscle balance for the training done in and out of the water.

Brian

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Brian is an NASM Certified Personal Trainer with a background in physical education. He believes that age should not stand in the way of living a high quality life.

From an early age Brian knew he had a love of sports and fitness. His love of physical fitness began in his youth as an amateur boxer with the Bronx Police Athletic league. He has also trained in Taekwondo and Judo as a teenager and continued boxing and martial arts training into adulthood.

Brian worked for the New York City Department of Education as a physical education teacher before becoming the Instructional Dean of an Elementary School and Junior High school. Throughout the years he has attained certification as a boxing coach and trainer through USA Boxing Metro and through the National Academy of Sports Medicine.

He has the pleasure of training four NY Daily News Golden Glove champions in amateur boxing competition and numerous tournament champions in amateur competition. Physical fitness has been an integral part of his life beginning in my teenage years and will continue to be a lifelong endeavor. As a father he has had the pleasure of sharing his love of the sport of boxing and strength training with his son and is now ready to share it with our Greenwich community as well!

Leo

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Leo is an NASM Certified Personal Trainer. He believes in teaching his clients seven primal movements. Movement is important at all stages of life.

Leo was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He grew up playing sports such as basketball, handball, rock-climbing, cycling and running including trails. It was during his teenage years where he realized the importance of body movement. He believes that the human body, no matter the age, should be able to move freely.

Leo has his degree in Physical Education and is a certified personal trainer with over 10 years of experience. Leo is also a running coach, an indoor climbing coach and a swim instructor.

When Leo is not working on his own wellness journey, or his clients you can find him enjoying an active day outside or possibly reading sci-fi.

Nicole

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Nicole believes as Edward Smith-Stanley once said, “Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.” Simply put, the body is built to move and all of the human body systems are positively influenced by exercise. A healthy body provides the foundation for living a good life.

Nicole is a NASM Personal Trainer; ACE Group Fitness Instructor; Athletic Strength and Conditioning Coach; Certified TRX Instructor; Certified Kettlebell Instructor; Certified Barre Instructor; Certified Mossa Strength Training Instructor. Nicole believes in the science that says that for optimal results, we all should try to exercise 2-4 times per week. The science also says that you need to know what to do and how to do it for the best results.

As a personal trainer, Nicole knows what exercises to pair together, how many reps should be pursued, how many sets should be attempted, starting weight selections, how to progress the workout, how to regress the workout, and most importantly, what should your form/technique look like. Nicole stresses how important it is to have excellent form to both avoid injury and to maximize results. 3 days per week in the gym is all you need to see optimal results when your trainer knows what to do and how to do it!

Cristian

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Cristian’s philosophy is that workouts are catered differently for everyone because everyone has their own personal goals/training experiences. Cristian’s goal is to help you achieve your goals & challenge you to become the greatest version of yourself. Gaining both strength and achieving range of motion have been a major focus for many of his clients in the past few years.

From building muscle, strength training, mobility, calisthenics and focusing on rehabbing injuries, Cristian has been at the Y for over 6 years and Personal Training for over 4 years. He enjoys powerlifting/bodybuilding exercises and believes you can always get stronger!

“I always try to teach every one of my clients to understand the training that we are doing & incorporate some nutritional information in the mix. Both go hand-in-hand,” he notes. Cristian is our resident vegan, ask him for some great substitutes or how you can lead a more plant-based lifestyle!

LaMont

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National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer, TRX Group, Boot Camp and Spin Class Instructor, LaMont walks the walk, you’ll see him putting himself through the same vigorous workouts he puts his clients through. He knows what it’s like to workout with limited time and will make the best of the time at hand.

LaMont will challenge your agility and coordination. He can bring your strength program to the next level with his creative programming and endless library of exercises. If you’d like to learn Olympic lifts, or be put through a grueling circuit, LaMont will get you through your workout at a higher level. Jump start your day with Boot Camp, LaMont will have you doing things you thought you could never do. There is a place for everyone in his classes, each exercise has its modifications, so for those that either want to take it back a notch or even take the exercise to the next level there is lots of wiggle room. He’ll make sure you have a good time!

Anna Marian

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Anna Marrian is a NASM certified personal trainer and works with her clients to increase their overall body strength, balance, flexibility, and cardiovascular fitness. Proper form is essential so clients can train safely and move efficiently, enabling clients to progress at their own pace. Training might feel daunting at first, so Anna has a special interest in helping beginners and seniors, no matter their experience or level of existing fitness.

Anna understands the importance of balance and strengthening the core to stabilize the body. She’s been involved in various sports over the years such as rowing and even surfing, which is how she came to appreciate the vital importance of balance, especially as we get older. She knows first-hand that persistence brings about change when we commit to an endeavor.

A former medical student, Anna is a part-time health and fitness writer and has been for fifteen years, so she understands the science behind exercises and her experience has taught her how and when to progress or scale back exercises to keep her clients moving. Anna knows that fitness leads to a happier, healthier, more confident individual.

Anna is an avid reader and loves to spend time in nature, especially in the spring when the blossoms are beautiful.

Frank

Frank is an NASM Certified Personal Trainer who believes that resistance training plays a critical role in healthy aging.

How inevitable is physical decline in old age? Are we destined to become frail and helpless? Frank McGinnis, fitness trainer, counters this scenario and advances the idea that by maintaining muscle mass we can avoid or retard many the of the symptoms we associate with old age, such as loss of balance, limited mobility, and weakness. He will discuss the critical role of muscle mass in aging and how to sustain it through strength training.

McGinnis is a NASM certified personal fitness trainer with the Greenwich, CT YMCA. While he works with clients of all ages, in recent years his primary focus has been with older adults ages 60-90. While working with clients and researching the aging process, Frank has found that improving strength is critical to maintaining our quality of life as we age.

Prior to his work as a personal trainer Frank was a senior management consultant for over 25 years. With McKinsey and Company and later with the global firm, A.T. Kearney, Frank worked with corporate clients on key strategy and operational issues.

He holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and an undergraduate degree from Duke University.