Alison Roessler – Certified Personal Trainer

Wish I could write a real review but she never returned my call. Oh well.

This review is long overdue…
Before major budget cuts in my life I worked out with Alison 3x week. I needed a serious butt kicking in my life and she was the one I chose to do that. I e-​mailed her late one night and received a call within a day. She chatted with me for over 30 minutes about my goals & workout style. We both decided we were a good fit for each other and I started as soon as I could.
The workouts were always challenging and fun at the same time. Each time we did something different and I could feel results almost immediately. *Points to glimmer of a tricep* Alison herself is extremely knowledgeable, friendly, professional and intelligent. It never ceases to amaze me how dedicated she is to her business. There would never be more than a five minute lapse in time when I would send texts with questions. In addition to strength training she asks you to shoot a picture over every time you eat or drink something and laughs when you thought you were being healthy-​ish. She is the total package and your personal cheerleader. Love her!
Do yourself a favor and get in touch. She has a fabulous staff and gym (Truve Fitness) that can help you achieve your fitness goals.

Alison is amazing — if I could afford it, I’d see her every week! She’s the perfect mix of tough and encouraging, and can help anyone of all fitness levels.
Not only does she come up with amazing circuits that leave me sore for a week — she also knows how to deal with different injuries and sensitivities. I have horrible feet, and she’s given me low-​impact but strenuous workouts every time I’ve seen her. That being said, she knows when something painful can be rolled/​stretched out rather than just worked around. A couple times when I complained of pain, she had my roll out tight spots and to my amazement, I instantaneously had a better range of motion.
I’ve done her circuits (which she emails to you after designing them with you) on my own as well, and they’re just the best.
She lets me have my overall fitness goals and my occasional superficial goals without any judgment. She’s also a trooper — she led me through an amazing workout last week while she was on crutches. Talk about dedication.
Go see Alison!

I just posted this review for Truve and I want to post it again here:
Alison is the very best personal trainer I’ve ever encountered. She’s funny, warm, approachable, demanding, rigorous and really knows her stuff. You just cannot do better.

A while back I was lacking motivation to exercise and decided to work with a personal trainer for a few weeks. I found Alison on the web and did I hit the jackpot. I ended up training with her for 7 months and loved every minute of it. She was such a motivation and so positive. I looked forward to every appointment. She is a master at her trade and truly cares about each client. We are still connected with on-​line nutrition and fitness challenges each month, as well as recipes, and ideas about how to organize your life for success. Alison is committed to making the world a healthier place one person at a time

I have been a client of Alison’s for over 2 years now and all I can say is DO IT! If you are ready to turn your life around, Alison is the best trainer to help you make it happen. She is patient while pushing you to achieve your best! You will never be bored with her workouts as they are never the same — she keeps your interest while working every muscle.
In addition to the quality of her training she has a wonderful personality and is a pleasure to work with. She likes to have fun and have a good laugh, but thankfully never at my lack of coordination! If you are looking for a trainer that is not intimidating but still pushes you to succeed Alison is your answer.

Make no mistake, Alison is the real deal. She is incredibly knowledgeable, she has a wonderful personality, and will push you beyond your mental and physical limits. There’s no question that Alison knows exactly how to train you to get the most out of your body, mind and soul.
Add to that that she can teach you exactly how to get your nutrition under control, and you have yourself an all-​in-​one solution that is worth her weight in gold.
The best part about working with Alison is that she is hilarious and always insightful. She keeps me laughing always, and adds a fun element to every workout to keep me motivated and working at my peak.
5 stars. A+. Don’t even think twice.
Hire her if you want the BEST body and mind you’ve ever had.
Period.

I’ve worked with Alison for several years now and cannot recommend her highly enough. She’s amazing with all levels of fitness. Alison has an amazing balance of being able to push you to get the most out of your training without screaming at you or feeling like you accidentally joined the marines. My weekly sessions are something I look forward to every week, and am still sore after every session.
Alison truly cares about getting you healthy and has knowledge about diet and overall health that is a valuable pairing with the physical workouts she provides. She also has an amazing network of trainers and practitioners and is opening her own space, Truve, at the end of this summer. Can’t wait!

I have been working with Alison for over a year and have NEVER seen or experienced fitness results like this before. I came to Alison after having been in physical therapy for over 6 months and was just looking to get healthy and strong again. The transformation that has happened is beyond anything I could have expected. After working with her last year just once a week, I saw amazing improvements in my strength and muscle tone. I started seeing her twice a week in 2014 and again, the results have been surprising in the best way possible! I am doing things that I never thought I could do thanks to her. I am setting fitness goals for myself that I never thought I could achieve before, but now I know I can because I have Alison in my corner. Beyond all that, she is a blast to hang out with and truly creates a community of positive people around her. Can’t wait for her own space Truve to open in Fall 2014!

Alison is amazing. She isn’t your ordinary run of the mill trainer… she is soo much more. Alison cares about each and everyone of her clients. She takes the time to answer questions and responds right away to emails and texts. I have been with Ali for a week and already down 5 pounds but thats not the great part… the great part is I feel amazing. I take a pic of every meal and text it to her and she gives me feedback and encouragement. If you wanna get in shape or just up your workouts you NEED to check Alison out. Once you workout with her… you will never want to stop!

Alison is great! Friendly, funny and most of all, effective. Working with Alison, over the course of 6 months, I lost 27 lbs of fat and gained 17 lbs of muscle. Incredible results!
I highly recommend her as a personal trainer.

Alison is GREAT for all ages. You are NEVER too young or too old!
January 2010, I interviewed a number of trainers to help get me in shape – I wanted to lose 30 – 50 pounds. Alison was the one I chose because I realized that she was a true expert in body mechanics as well as fitness and nutrition. A couple of months later, my 88-​year old father-​in-​law moved in with us so I asked Alison if she would work with him. He was using a wheelchair to get around and was easily winded. He wasn’t very strong. He wasn’t very flexible.
Alison worked out with him once a week: balance, breathing, eye coordination, flexibility and strength training (light weights). By the time he celebrated his 90^th birthday, he was walking with the aid of just a cane, only when needed. Regaining his mobility was a huge factor in making these the HAPPIEST years of his life!
(And yes, I shed my 45 pounds.)
Thanks, Alison from the whole extended family!

My back and leg pain has been greatly reduced since seeing Alison for the last three months. I have been to other physical therapy specialists for the past two years, but none reduced the pain when walking. I used a cane and could only walk 1 – 2 blocks, now I can go 3 miles with no cane and improved balance. I work hard doing the «homework» exercises Alison gives every week and the results are amazing. Alison is sharing space on Grand Avenue while she waits for her new studio to designed and built on Broadway (across from the Y) next summer. I recommend her highly, especially for older people like me who want to stay active.

I have been seeing Alison for both personal training as well as group boot camp workouts for well over a year. I am coming to physical fitness with a handful of strikes against me: asthma, injury and low fitness levels. Alison was not daunted by the challenges and refused to let me be daunted either. She tailors the workouts for my ever increasing physical levels but always mindful of my injuries. Alison is the real deal– she is thoughtful, caring and tough all in the right measures. I may walk in grumpy from a bad day but I always leave happy and exhausted. I highly recommend her!

What I want from a trainer? Variety and Results! Push me hard but if you yell at me, I want to punch you. Alison is like that tough coach that pushes you hard, but is still fun and respectful.
I came to her looking for renewed motivation to work out: Mission Accomplished! In fact, she did me one better, she is helping me develop a healthier attitude towards my body and my motivations to exercise.
Self disclaimer: I tend to guilt and push myself really hard to get things done in a short amount of time. Then I chiiilll (gain weight) when I don’t have a «dead line.» Impending visits from friends or Vegas pool parties are what keep me hitting the gym/​dieting hard and inconsistently. Subsequently, the fear of looking unfortunate in a bikini has made me really hard on myself.
But in the months I’ve worked with Alison, she has built a relationship with me that allowed her to call me out on all the negative self talk. Remaining professional and non judgmental, while encouraging me to explore my motivations, takes her status as trainer to a new level of effective. Its been very empowering the compassionate and frank discussions she has had with me about my body image.
Besides the moral support, Alison is knowledgeable about physiology, nutrition, offers variety in each work out, and has been very flexible with scheduling. I always look forward to our workouts! In terms of my fitness level walking in the door: I played soccer for 12 years and was active most of my life. Not playing team sports in my 20’s resulted in a 30lb weight gain that I lost 2 years ago. Alison has helped me keep it off and keep my workouts fresh!
I highly recommend Alison as a trainer to both men and women!
Happy Hunting!
p. s. Hiring a trainer isn’t just a luxury for the sake of vanity, its an investment in your physical and mental health. Plus its great to have someone knowledgable to shake up old workout routines!

My wife and I have been seeing Alison twice a week for the past 5 months. It has been a fantastic experience and we both are grateful for the work she does with us. We wanted to start exercising more, but our motivation level was not enough to sustain us to do it on our own. The class we do with Alison twice a week caters to both our needs and physical abilities. She is really good at mixing up the workouts so they dont get repetitive. She also pays attention to building core strength, which is really important to overall body health and balance. The classes are also lots of fun. Alison has a professional attitude, but she laughs and smiles and jokes along with us, all while providing the perfect amount of encouragement. She doesn’t let you get away with slacking off, but she also doesn’t have that «physical trainer» attitude where all they do is bark at you and verbally beat you into submission. She has a winning combination of keeping us engaged in what we are doing, and keeping us going at the same time. I am a type 1 diabetic, and while I am in decent physical shape, I still have off days. Alison is aware of these intricacies, and adapts workouts around these off days I have. The rest of the class carries on per usual. This is really nice, because people with chronic conditions who might hesitate joining a group class because of their personal issues can rest assured that she is aware of this kind of thing and will work with it, around it and through it in a responsible and respectful manner. Thats worth a lot to me. We both highly recommend Alison, and plan on continuing to work with her.

I emailed Alison when I finally admitted to myself that, despite the best of intentions, I need someone else to motivate me to work out. After many months of promising myself that I’d get on the treadmill after long days at work I gave in and asked for help. I’m so glad I found Alison. She has changed my life. I now look forward to exercising and have made it part of my routine. Three days a week Alison challenges me with an ever-​changing variety of lunges, sit ups, weights, you name it — and keeps me smiling and laughing throughout it all. Did I mention that she’s got a great sense of humor? She’s tough and makes sure I’m working hard, but it sure helps to have some fun at the same time.
Don’t worry if you are out of shape. I was, and I still have a long way to go to reach the level of fitness I want to achieve and then maintain. If you want to feel great and actually start to enjoy exercising, Alison can make that happen for you like she has for me.

In short, Alison helped me get my life back after what was an incredibly bleak period following an injury. She is an incredibly skilled personal trainer.
2 years ago, I was injured on an unfortunate boat ride in the Dominican Republic — for 3.5 hours I was trapped on a row boat with 6 foot waves and I got pounded in my glute/​hip/​pubic area — resulting in a limp and ²⁴⁄₇ pain for 1.5 years. I tried 3 different physical therapists, 4 doctors, 2 acupuncturists, a chiropractor, massage therapists, a personal trainer, an African healer, and read books on healing your body through your mind and did the exercises. I also took a class in meditation and started to practice it for the first time. Lets just say I’m an over-​achiever, I believe i can do anything given enough time — however the injury was starting to feel like the one thing I could not move beyond.
Prior to this injury I was a salsa dancer, hiker, biker, walker — very active and very fit. A few months before i met Alison I was using a cane that the Orthopod I saw wanted me to use for a year. The night before my appointment with Alison I danced freestyle for 20 minutes and my leg nearly collapsed under me, I had to drag it underneath me.
Within one month of seeing Alison, via a combination of hands-​on neuro-​kinetic therapy and via the personal training exercises she gave me — which I faithfully did daily, even when I was on biz travel — I was able to resume normal activity and my pain significantly decreased. Normal activity for me meant up to 3 hours of exercise in a day. Within 3 months I was back salsa dancing weekly and with only a little pain. Now at 7 months I am back to hiking, biking, salsa-​ing 3 or 4 nights per week and I have very little pain — 1 or 2 — and it doesn’t impact my mobility. I’m not yet hiking 10 miles up a mountain with 3000 feet elevation but I will be by year-​end.
Now I am focusing on getting in the best shape of my life at age 51. Alison has me doing things I never even thought about before. I do walking lunges with 10 pd weights in each hand. I do Hell climbers (don’t ask). I have increased strength and stability in my core that has helped me come back as a better dancer. I’ve always been active but not an athlete — doesn’t matter — Alison trains me like one. She clapped when I finally got the cross-​body row with 8 pd weights after 8 weeks of trying. She videotapes me — at my request — doing my new exercises so I can better execute them later. I thought I knew everything about nutrition and weight loss having been a weight watcher’s graduate — once again Alison has helped there.
And she’s a very nice person. Like me she founded and heads a nonprofit, except I do it as my full-​time job and she does it in addition to her full-​time job. So what can I say, Alison is an amazing young woman, I’m glad she’s younger than me because I see her being my personal trainer well into my 80’s. Heck my dad works full-​time at 83, so I’m hoping she’ll keep me salsa-​ing until at least then. I think she will:-) Need I say more?

Alison was a superb personal trainer! I went in to her at 240lbs, I told her that i need to lose another 50lbs to join up with the air force! She said no problem and over the next few months got me down to the weight i need to be at! She will kick your butt into shape in no time! Hands down best personal trainer of all time! You will not regret the decision to go and workout with her!

I never thought that these words would actually come out from my mouth, but … I actually look forward to working out now! *pigs flying*
I’ve started training with Alison a couple of months ago, and I have finally been able to fit into my clothes better! How many tears I have shed thinking that I would never fit into my skinny jeans again. I work out with Alison’s boot camp and it’s a great group of folks. Alison keeps the workouts different each time and that really keeps it fun and interesting and she really motivates the group. I also need to add that she is VERY PATIENT!!! She has also been wonderful at recommending alternative foods I can eat, because i’m allergic to so many things. Who knew healthy can actually be tasty!
I highly recommend Alison if you’re looking for a trainer that sincerely cares about your well-​being.