Fitness and Medical Exercise (FAME)

Laurie is amazing! She takes the time to understand your needs and builds a program that makes sense. She is patient and helpful! If you follow her lead you will succeed! 5 STARS !!
Jul 1st, 2023

Laurie Gordon is Montgomery Countys best kept secret when it comes to fitness and musculoskeletal health. I met her playing on a mixed doubles tennis team 12 years ago. I waited for a while to hire her as my Personal Trainer because I thought it was ridiculous to have an instructor by my side to go through such obvious exercises. I should be able to do them by myself, I thought. But it turns out, there are lots of ways to do exercises wrong, and technique really matters. Further, I am not so unusual that I need a little regular encouragement to stay in shape. Using Lauries guidance is a way of being kind to myself. And the body, Ive learned in my work with her, is a quite complicated thing to understand and manage. Ignorance is not bliss. When we first started, I couldnt play two sets of tennis before my inner thigh muscles would freeze up quite painfully, and I would walk off the court, bent over from the pain. I also have a partially torn right PCL, in my knee, which is irreparable and my knee would ache badly. On top of the knee and inner thigh muscles, I periodically got tennis elbow. Since tennis was and is my preference for 2 continuous hours of aerobic exercise, the downtime would cause me to gradually fall out of shape. I quickly found out that Laurie doesnt just throw a bunch of exercises at you. She actually gets to know you and thinks about your specific needs constantly and continuously. You will leave with a home routine, but can come back for more. I use a mixture thereof. And my routine keeps being further refined as I get stronger. It wasnt long before I was back on the court with no symptoms. I was amazed how quickly and easily the groin muscle problem was eliminated with sliders, one of her magical exercises. Now I play both tennis and golf injury-free to my hearts content and know exactly what I have to do to prepare for matches and prevent injury. These sports can be injurious to the back, knees, shoulders, elbow, wrist, thighs, hamstrings, and calf muscles. We strengthen and stretch all these regularly such that I play injury free, now into my late 70s. At first, when she would get that come on, you can do more look on her face, I thought of her as Our Lady of Pain! Now, I realize that she is actually very careful not to go too far and knows exactly what that means for each person. I feel very comfortable pushing my limits under her watchful eye. If you want a calm, patient, caring, and thoroughly enjoyable personal trainer in your back pocket, to help with whatever youre involved in, be it post-rehab, just staying in shape, or competitive sports, Laurie is so special and valuable, I have no words.
Jul 17th, 2018