Fulshear-Katy Community Guide 2024-25

PERSONAL FITNESS TRAINERS Personal fitness trainers fill a niche for clients who prefer the privacy and attention of a smaller fitness center. ESN Health is a high-end, private coaching center offering fitness, nutrition and therapeutic services in its two Katy locations. Owner Ryan Kobermann, CSCS, sees advantages for clients who work out in smaller facilities. “We offer personalized attention and tailored coaching. Our first meeting is a strategy session to assess the client and learn what their goals are. That way we can create a plan to make them feel and move better, get stronger and burn fat. We show them what will work for them,” Kobermann says. “We meet one-on-one with our clients every time during their planned sessions, which is different than going to a gym and working out on your own. With this higher level of service, we get to know our clients closely and focus on solutions for their individual needs.” Kobermann also finds that exercise has benefits beyond improved health. “When you start to establish this commitment to yourself, it translates into success in other areas of your life.” ESN also offers a Healthy Kitchen and Juice Bar that provides healthy meals and post-workout recovery shakes. ESN focuses on how to better support its clients with their needs. Even during the shutdown phase of the pandemic in early 2020, ESN continued its one on-one training in customized ways such as emailing workouts that clients would perform on their own, emailing and calling with support and answers to questions, and meeting them for outside workouts. The solutions-oriented approach is obviously working. “ESN is going strong. We’ve been open for 16 years. For the last several years, we’ve had the same team of professionals who take their job seriously and love to help people. I think we have found a way to train people that resounded with them,” Kobermann states. “We’re blessed to have loyal clients who engage themselves fully in what we have to offer. They are more involved and more determined to stay healthy and feel better.” SERVICE-AREA FITNESS BUSINESSES Personal health and fitness trainers who operate without a brick-and mortar setting will meet their clients by appointment at various locations. William (Bill) Brothers, who owns FIT SENSE, LLC, works with older adults

and others with specific needs to help them achieve long-term health and an active lifestyle. Brothers is certified by NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) as a personal trainer, senior fitness specialist and women’s fitness specialist. He previously worked as a licensed physical therapist assistant in hospitals, sub-acute rehab, nursing homes and outpatient clinics. He also received a SEAS Level 1 scoliosis certification from ISICO (Italian Scientific Spine Institute). Brothers establishes mutual trust with his personal training clients through either a long-term relationship or discussions regarding goals and needs. He works with them in gyms for one on-one sessions or in their homes. The programs he devises allow clients to gradually adapt to new stresses on the body to avoid injury, while being both enjoyable and beneficial. Brothers has an instinctive empathy for people with physical challenges who would be better-served by a fitness program tailored to them. At age 77, he has dealt with issues such as Crohn’s disease, knee meniscus repairs, foot surgery, scoliosis, the loss of one kidney, and most recently, the total replacement of both shoulders. Clients who have received medical clearance from their physicians can expect Brothers to review their medical history, prescription drug use, vital signs and history of falls. “If this review doesn’t turn up any red flags, this will be followed with range-of-motion, strength and cardiovascular fitness screenings,” he explains. Brothers adapts his training to each clients’ needs: some simply want a program designed for them to follow, while others need full-blown encouragement every step of the way. Balance training, fall prevention, and fall recovery are elements that become increasingly important as the population ages. Brothers uses a balance scale that provides objective measurements of a client’s stability in standing, which is useful in gauging both their potential for falls and balance improvement over time. Brothers is a proponent of self-care to maintain our strength, in part because as we age, we may be relied upon to help others in need. assistance in such situations is left up to each of us individually. We can all relate to having lost a dear friend or a family member who ‘just didn’t take care of’ him or herself. By maintaining our own fitness levels, we can minimize the long term burden we place on our families, friends and loved ones,” he says. “Meeting the challenge of being physically fit and able to provide

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