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| TERI LEE STEELE Mat Pilates Instructor Teri Lee Steele graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with her B.A. in Physical Education with an emphasis on exercise physiology and sports medicine in 1990. That same year she received her Health and Fitness Instructor certification from the American College of Sports Medicine. She moved to New York in 1991. From 1991 to 2002, Teri worked as the Head Personal Trainer at PEx, a private New York-based training facility, where she helped to modernize their trainer's training program and hired and trained all of the new trainers from 1997-2002. Teri obtained her Pilates mat certification in 2000 and apparatus certification in 2001 from the Kelly Kane School of Core Integration. In 2002, she became certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association and has been training her clientele privately as well as maintaining a faculty position at Dance Space Center as a Dance Teacher, Choreographer and Pilates Instructor ever since. Teri's personal statement: The principles of Pilates - mindful, present activity that coordinates breath and movement and focuses on the quality of each movement - are highly effective for the committed client. Principles of personal training - creating appropriate protocols for endurance, strength or power; utilizing the principles of specificity and overload and following through with proper progression are vital to the success of each client's program. The power of combining these two modalities for my clientele cannot be understated. Many Pilates clients are unaware of the potential training effects of creating new exercise orders and/or altering the number of sets or repetitions of each exercise performed. Conversely, many personal training clients feel that just being physically present at the gym or the session and "doing" the program is enough to yield results. When progression and mindfulness are combined, there seems to be nothing that the steadfast client cannot accomplish. Many of the roadblocks previously experienced seem to either vanish or the causes become clear.
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