Personal Training at the Y
With YMCA Training, you will receive the greatest opportunity to succeed in making lasting changes to your lifestyle. Our nationally-certified Personal Trainers design personalized programs to meet client specific goals, whether it be weight loss, muscle gain, general fitness or to change up a work-out routine.
- Define your personal goals
- Develop a customized fitness program
- Provide motivation and accountability
- Incorporate new techniques
- Bust through fitness plateaus
- Improve your wellbeing and reduce stress
- Enhance your overall fitness
- Achieve results!
Training Rates & Registration
NEW! Youth & Semi-Private Training
We are proud to announce we are now offering the following options for personal training at our Y:
- Youth Personal Training: Designed for our youth members ages 14 and under, our Youth Personal Training classes help your child get from where they are today to where they want to be with their physical ability. We also offer semi-private training sessions if your child wants to train with siblings, friends, or teammates.
- Semi-Private Personal Training: Our semi-private Personal Training options offer our members a more affordable training solution and an opportunity to work out with friends, while still offering the exclusivity and personalization your training program and coaching should have.
- Jump Start Private Training: This Personal Training option offers new personal training clients a 15% discount for their first 3 sessions! Purchase three 60 minute sessions for $270.
Policies
- All participants must fill out a PAR-Q before their first session.
- Personal Training sessions are valid for 6 months from date of purchase.
- Personal Training sessions are nonrefundable and non-transferable.
- Sessions are by appointment only and have a 24-hour cancellation policy.
- Please download our app by searching “YMCA of Greenwich” in your App Store.
Meet Our Trainers
Devin Monahan
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
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 Dowd
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 Rotondano
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 Nurse
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 Aguirre
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 Rollins
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 Marrian
Anna Marrian is a NASM certified personal trainer and NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist. She works with her clients to increase their overall body strength, balance, flexibility, and cardiovascular fitness. Anna’s Corrective Exercise Specialist certification taught her to help clients to refine movement quality, address any muscular imbalances that may be causing discomfort, and return the body to optimal posture and form.
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.