Citiflex Training Testimonials
I would like to individually thank each of the Houston personal training clients shown here, who have graciously offered their photos and comments about my work as a personal trainer, so others may also benefit. The photos and comments you see here are from individuals in Houston and other cities, who have given their express permission for use on the Citiflex Houston Personal Training website.
-Melissa
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Personal training and workout client Monique, Sugarland Texas |
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These amazing photos of Monique do not need many words to describe them. You can see for yourself the difference seventeen pounds makes in the way a person looks and feels. Monique was VERY determined to achieve the goals we set and she was very consistent in eating more vegetables and fruits and eliminating fried foods and high calorie snacks and desserts. This workout client shown below liked making the chicken tortilla soup for lunch and liked the strawberry crepes Personal trainer Melissa taught her to make because they are delicious and filling and low calorie.
Monique walked and ran during her "off" days and her husband helped initially by watching one of the twins before he went off to spring training for football out of town. He also helped by eating more veggies himself in addition to his food from "myfitmeals.com" because when both people in a relationship are trying to eat more natural foods with fiber and vitamins, the eating plan is easier to stick to.
Before hiring a personal trainer Monique would workout at Lifetime Fitness and was an avid kickboxing fan and also enjoyed other classes as well. Her muscles had muscle memory and the hard work from before the pregnancy helped her make good progress once she decided to get back in shape. Monique's workouts with Houston personal trainer Melissa consisted of plyometrics with a twelve pound weighted med ball, high bench low bench workouts including step jumps, weight training and weighted vest workouts with lunges, reverse lunges and deadlifts to focus on the legs and butt area.
Monique reached a plateau for a period of time and began to be a little frustrated but this is normal and because she continued to stick to the program, she broke the plateau with a five pound loss all at once and was ecstatic! She still plans to lose an additional amount of weight so look for her updated photos on here in a few weeks! =)
Monique's little girl likes to help care for one of the twins during workouts when she is home!
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The Woodlands personal trainer client Sarah |
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 BEFORE
pictures
Sarah, also known as "grasshopper" shows off her great shape after
doing six weeks of Houston personal training in home with Melissa. Sarah, who worked full time while attending grad school, needed the
discipline of a Houston personal trainer to help her get back her
"soccer days" body. She lost almost fifteen pounds was back into
the cute clothes she loved. She continue to go roller blading with
Houston personal trainer Melissa whenever she had free time up until she got too big...in
addition to her regular workouts. Sarah has now had her baby and has managed to get back into shape on her own as she knows the proper foods to eat and the right exercises to do for her body and for her lifestyle. She continues to stay in touch with personal trainer Melissa who enjoys seeing the photos of her baby as he grows and pictures of Sarah who has managed to be successful in keeping the weight off!!
HERE ARE HER AFTER PICTURES
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Tomball Texas, Personal training client Cristina |
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 Thank you...Thank you......for teaching me all that you could about
nutrition, dieting, exercising and just how to live a healthy life in a
fun way! I really have never been a big person. I was 140 pounds when my
husband and I started our family in Tomball Texas and I had no idea what pregnancy does
to your body as far as weight gain. I will never forget the day that I gave birth to my son
and I felt so SKINNY again..... but man did I have a rude awakening when I went
to put on my fasted jeans and they didn't fit. WOW, what a bad feeling that
was. I didn't have a clue how I was going to get all that weight off
and get back to my 140 small self.
I was working in mortgage lending and had to work many long hours, SO I hired personal trainer Melissa
to come into my home, which saved me time,and help me get that body I loved back! I loved
my hour of personal training workouts with Melissa, we talked about all kinds of stuff.
How to make things taste better, how to eat things or make things more
palatable to me that I didn't like such as the spinach shake..the recipe is here on the website. I LIKE it now!!!! Now that I am back down to what I was prior to having a baby( maybe a little smaller even).....ITS THAT TIME AGAIN and Jason and I are adding an additional family member and he or she will be here in April.
I am excited about the upcoming baby because I know I can look forward
to the opportunity to get to work with Melissa again...which makes
losing the weight SO much easier and faster. I cant wait! Thanks for
all the courage and positive thinking!
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Spring Personal Training client Lidia |
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Hi PERSONAL TRAINER MELISSA! You might wonder the reason for my email, but I just wanted to let you know am doing ok.
I kind of procrastinated on working out or eating healthy after returning from Europe, and of course I started gaining some weight back I had lost during our bleacher and running workouts and realized I needed to do
something about it since I had worked SO HARD to make that progress and I did not
want to go back up in weight. You know it is so easy to gain the weight back when it takes so much hard work to loose
it. Finally I returned to the gym and was amazed to realize I still had some of the
endurance I had achieved while working out with you and didnt have to start from scratch again. I am also eating healthy again. Since you realize how long do you
have to run to burn a few calories you think twice about what you put in your mouth! Remember how we ran three and then four miles at the park? I am so proud, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I am able to run 5 miles at 5.5 miles an hour, something I don't think I was ever able to do before. So my email is really to thank you for helping me
get there. It is still a work in progress, believe me I don't wake up and say "yes! i get to go to the gym",but it is not a drag anymore and I make myself do it at least 4 times a week. I am down to 157.6 and
working on maybe 15 pounds more. In the other picture I was at least 204 pounds or more. I am sending you a picture, which you can post on your website if you would like, I think it might inspire some people, because it sure inspires me. I dont want to go back to that place. Even if I am smiling in that picture, I know I always felt awful for looking that way. I was so body conscious I hated going out. Anyway I already
made this email too long, again, Thank you for your help. Bye bye, Lidia
(Lidia was a client in the heat of the summer for eight weeks and wanted to lose weight before her trip to China and she did very difficult bleacher workouts, lunges, running and more, three times a week to achieve her goals and dreams. GOOD JOB LIDIA!!)
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Houston Personal Trainer client Irina, Magnolia Texas |
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 Working out while trying to also care for small children can be a
challenge says Irina, originally from Russia. I liked having Houston personal trainer Melissa train me because she
comes to my home and that helps a lot because my son did not like the daycare at
the gym. She has become a friend to me and even though the workouts are
challenging I am losing body fat and inches. It would be nice to see faster
results but I am not able to push as hard because I am expecting another child
and my eating is not as perfect is it could be otherwise. I have learned more
about maintaining activity levels such as walking and am getting more motivated
to participate in new sports such as tennis (which Melissa has helped me learn
about). I know if I had not had a personal trainer I would not have made as much
progress in my workouts.
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Houston in home personal trainer client Denise |
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Before Picture
"Melissa has
patience! She is truly a great Houston in home personal trainer and a
great friend.I have never felt so encouraged in my life. She always
checks up on my eating, excercise, and just my life!! I had gained 10
to 15 lbs in about 2 to 3 months because I started the pill. It was so
depressing when I could not fit into ANY of my jeans. So my husband,
Ryan, was sweet enough to hire Houston Personal trainer Melissa to help
me out. She gave us awesome recipes and in home workout routines. As a
newly wed couple, my husand and I are started our marriage watching
what we ate so we could stay healthy and fit throughout our lives. (Not
to mention, the recipes were great because I had no idea how to cook!)
AND YES, I did quit taking the pill; It was definately not for me and
caused so many damages to my body. If I could give any advice to women-
please research your options before taking a pill that can damage your
body so much. I absolutely love my body now; I weigh and look the same
as I did in high school. What an amazing feeling!!
After pictures
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The Woodlands, Texas - Jan W. |
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 One
of the things that I really liked about having Melissa as my in home personal trainer is that she encouraged
me to do what was right with my body, by getting more muscle through exercising with weights and losing
the excess fat. She was firm but nice about getting me to eat what I
needed to eat. One of the things that she helped me understand when she would drive up to the Woodlands Texas to train me,( even
though I was rebellious), was that I need to do more aerobic exercise,
get my heart working harder and burn some excess fat I have been
complaining about. My workouts with Melissa have been delightful! What
I love about her is that she encouraged me and did not "get onto" me.
She helped me in a nice way. Also Melissa helped me also at a time in
my life where I needed just boost of encouragement to help me know that
I DO look ok. Even though I had some weight to lose, it was not a lot,
and she kind of gave me that extra edge I needed, and friendship that I
needed as well.
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Kelly, in home personal training client,The Woodlands Texas |
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  BEFORE and during Photos above
Kelly,a resident of the Woodlands Texas, and a hurricane Katrina survivor, lost twenty pounds in
six weeks...here is..the "BEFORE" picture, to the right was taken in January 2006. GOOD
GOING KELLY. She wanted to lose sixty more pounds with the help of Melissa and with the complimentary six week membership given to her by 24 hour fitness in Houston. Kelly is the kind of person who gives as much as she gets. Her appreciation of the workouts and her success was a real testimony to Melissa of the power of one persons determination in the face of adversity.
AFTER Photos below
Kelly is now working full time in the nursing capacity and is having to learn
again how to structure her eating to keep on achieving weight loss
goals. Working night shift and sleeping irregularly and working out on
random schedules is a challenge and Kelly is up to the
challenge. She lost a total of almost forty pounds and is continuing to workout, eat veggies and fruits...she particularly likes Clementine's and fish..and walk with her boyfriend in the evenings when she cannot get to the gym.
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Memorial Area, Houston Texas - Shari L. |
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 Melissa
is the first Houston in home personal trainer I found that really gave me that "personal"
touch which was so important as I was raising a houseful of boys and needed to have some personal time to recharge...exercise and weight training workouts really helped me to get the energy I needed for my full time job as a mom. She used her expertise to put together a workout program that was
creative, interesting and effective. Melissa always had new
ideas to keep me motivated. She kept me focused and on the path
to being healthy, in shape and feeling confident. I highly
recommend her and told some of my friends at second baptist church about her helpfulness in the weight loss department. She will always take into consideration your
personal needs and goals! She is awesome!
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Magnolia Texas, Personal Trainer Client Kindra |
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Kindra has been working out in a pasture in Magnolia! She and Houston Personal
trainer Melissa like to do workouts "without walls" so they take their
weight training outside when it is not raining or too hot. The world
around small towns can provide many perfect places for doing specific
targeted moves..for example modified pull ups can be done on gates or
monkey bars and
calf raises can be done on curbs. Body weight lunges can be done for a
targeted distance..such as to the next light pole, and push ups can be
done full body or modified right on the street.
Kindra, a Magnolia resident, hopes to lose even more weight because she
has recently also joined weight watchers at the recommendation of
Houston Personal trainer Melissa. "Some people can really benefit from
the peer pressure and weekly weigh ins in front  of others that Weight
Watchers provides and I like their balanced approach to eating" said Melissa.
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V.P. of Operations of The Q Sports Club In Houston (now 24 Hour Fitness) - Jesse C. |
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interviewed Melissa when she joined the staff as
a personal trainer here in Houston at our high profile sports club and was so impressed with her
personality and style
that I recommended her to my wife who was searching for her first
in home personal trainer ... the right trainer. During her tenure
at the club in the Galleria area, Melissa was very successful,
working with a
varied and upscale client base whose needs required consistency and a
broad base of
knowledge to draw on. Her workouts were effective and she was able to give enough knowledge to convince her clients of the importance of proper eating and get them "on board" so that they took ownership of their workouts and food choices and were able to make much better decisions.
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Champions Area, spring Texas - Liz F. |
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 When
I began my personal training workout plan with Melissa at my home in the champions area, she was gentle with the fact that
I was very out of shape. I can't tell you enough of how
encouraging she was. Melissa taught me so much about nutrition
and how foods work with our bodies. There is a science to what
you eat and when you eat it. I still, to this day, practice that
method. Melissa is an encyclopedia of nutrition, fitness and well
being. You can't go wrong in Houston with in home work outs with Melissa.
She will be there for you all the way to your goal! With all that
said, I need to get back to working out with Melissa - the champ of
trainers.
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Spring Texas Steph |
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 Though I live in Spring, Texas, I
play college volleyball in Illinois, and last summer I was able to
get cut and much stronger working out with Melissa as my personal
trainer while I was in Houston, before I went to my Job every day at the Willowbrook mall's Victoria's Secret. We did lunges
around the neighborhood wearing a weighted vest and I WANTED TO DIE!!!
I also do a speed bag workout, run on my own and do med ball
workouts. I thought the in home personal training workouts were hard but
amazingly efficient. Today I am always asked how I have such amazing abs so I decided to work for Citiflex.com in St. Louis and am happy to say I really enjoy the personal training I do.
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The Galleria, Houston Texas - Debbie R. |
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 Melissa
is a great motivator here in Houston and I live in the Galleria area. As my personal trainer Melissa made sure I always
looked forward to the outside workouts (except the step jumps because
they were hard). But the personal training must have worked because I lost 22 pounds in
three months down to 105 pounds and I feel great. Melissa taught me the
importance of maintaining and building muscle to speed up the
metabolism 24 hours a day instead of personal training workouts that just burn calories
for several hours afterwards. I keep in touch with Melissa and get
her advice on maintaining my health. I recommend her highly! I still call her for eating advice since I am a busy mom of three kids including twins and I am busy working full time as well for Gary Greene Realtors in Downtown Houston so my time is SHORT. Melissa is still available to give me free advice, years later and I really appreciate that bonus of being a previous client of hers.
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Clear Lake, Texas - Rod B. |
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 Even
though I have worked out my entire life I was still able to learn some
helpful workout and exercise techniques from Melissa as a consulting
personal trainer. Her Houston "outdoor" personal training is
innovative and progressive and she taught me some great new ways to
target my abs. She is very competent and works hard to exemplify the
lifestyle she believes in.
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Champions, Houston - Paolo G. |
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 I
own my own business and live in the Champions area of Houston and could
only work out early
in the morning because of my busy job marketing Marble for major construction sites and my Houston Personal Trainer Melissa was always there
at my home at five a.m. for my individualized workouts. There was never
a
dull moment, from Kangoo boot workouts and biking, to boot camps and
traveling workouts for when I was out of town; a custom workout to fit
my schedule was always
ready for me.Even though I called her "the Nazi" I would highly recommend certified personal Melissa if
you are serious about
getting fit and getting results.
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The Galleria, Houston Texas - Kate |
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Kate, a memorial area client, has photos to show the progress made exactly halfway through her weight loss progression during eight weeks
of workouts. The bikini pictures on the left were taken when she
first started and the pictures on the right were taken four weeks
later. Kate dropped from eighteen percent body fat to fifteen
percent body fat and lost ten pounds in these photos by running, doing running workouts pulling weights up a hill, doing squats and squat jumps and other forms of intensive exercises with Personal trainer Melissa in her gym in the apartment complex where she lives.
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Champions Area, Houston Texas - Emily S. |
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highly recommend Melissa as a personal trainer and she came to my home
in the Champions and 1960 area and we met at the high school also. In
addition to
her considerable knowledge and skills as an experienced certified
trainer in Houston, she is a great motivator. She discerns for
each
individual client the right mix of encouragement, nurturing, and
tough discipline. She designs realistic, safe, and effective
workouts that work, and will continue to work in the
long-term.
The personal training sessions I spent with her were a valuable
education and motivation
for me even after several years. As a full time educator myself, I appreciated the intelligence she conveys in her conversations during the workouts. (Emily is a recipient of the coveted teacher of the year award)
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Memorial Northwest, Houston, Texas - Terri G. |
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 Don't
let her sweet pretty looks fool you. Melissa as an in home personal trainer (for me near Glenloch Farms) is one tough cookie and she means business!
If its results you want, its results you'll get. (I swear I didn't need
to wear a bra anymore) Perky and firm! I had played tennis for years and never was able to lose the weight I wanted. Melissa taught me how to do more activities as well as how to eat properly and she got involved in many of my daily activities so she KNEW my lifestyle challenges. I lost a lot of the weight and I felt much better and my tennis game improved as well.
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The Galleria, Houston , Texas - Karen C. |
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 The gym atmosphere did not appeal to me, I was not
acquainted with the latest fitness equipment and was not terribly
motivated to workout, nor eat with proper nutrition, but my
age and long working hours were catching up with me. My
husband suggested that a Houston personal trainer might be the perfect solution
and felt that Melissa could inspire me. When I met her I
immediately liked her personality and was in awe of her ability to
maintain her own personal fitness in spite of being extremely
busy. A good teacher is the best example! I
entrusted my daily diet and weekly workouts to Melissa and she tailored
her in Home Personal training program to my needs. Everything she asked of me was
do-able and I enjoyed great results that motivated me to
continue. I have had other personal trainers since moving to another
city, but credit Melissa with being the extraordinary trainer who
introduced me to a healthy lifestyle that lasts. (five years later, Karen still has the weight off and keeps her workouts and proper eating a high priority)
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