We joined Coach Berry’s Dare to be Fit training studio in April 07. Neither of us had any idea how to lift weights or get our 40++ year old bodies into shape. Mike was struggling with lower back issues and overweight and Clara had fibromyalgia and also overweight. Neither of us were doing ANY exercise.

We were so lucky to have stumbled across Coach Berry. We both remember the first day we went to his gym to check it out. We had already visited many gyms in the area and they all seemed to be intimidating as we didn’t know really what to do. One is easily at ease with Coach Berry and him teaching the proper way to lift weights. Coach Berry incorporates a complete system to allow those who want to get in shape to reach success. The proper weight training routine is imperative in losing weight and feeling fit. His goal of creating one into a “fat burning machine” works! Muscle burns fat all day long.

Mike had chronic lower back pain and extreme sciatica. His job demands a lot of sitting and the sitting aggravated the siatica nerve causing a painful pulse all the way down the right leg. Coach’s core build-up and coach’s stretching routines relieved the back issues. In 2009 Mike was hit by a car while riding his bicycle. The accident caused a stage 3 clavicle separation from his scapula. Most people would have required the doctor recommended surgery but to this day he still has not needed the surgery. Soon after the accident he started back at Coach’s with very light weights to rebuild damaged muscle and physical therapy exercises to stabilize the shoulder.

Clara was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 1998. She had terrible pains in her legs that would keep her from sleeping. The fatigue then caused additional problems. Doctor prescribed drugs only covered the symptoms and left her just “blah”. Through good nutrition and Coach working with Clara for her to build her muscles slowly and with Coach even messaging out pains; Clara was able to develop and maintain a great gym workout.

Her Fibromyalgia symptoms are much less now after following coaches program. She can maintain her fitness with a daily workout routine and feels the wellbeing of being fit.

We both feel so much better being near our target weight and body mass and feeling strong and looking fit. Coach has the best program for weights, cardio, core fitness, stretching, and he is always urging to watch the intake so to make the work-outs more beneficial to goals.

A member will quickly find the many benefits of Coach Berry’s gym. It is a friendly family atmosphere and Coach is always willing to message out the frequent pains that come from becoming fit. Later one learns to enjoy the “burn” as you know it creates results. It seemed that for the first several months it took all our energy just to do the workouts. However, after that initial “getting into shape” curve we feel so great, and also deprived if we do not do our, almost, daily routine that Coach taught us. We believe that being in shape has kept all the pains that used to ail us on a regular basis to almost nonexistent.

We highly recommend Coach Berry to all desiring to get fit, to learn how to lift weights properly, and achieve the body they desire. Stick to his routine and you will win.

You are an amazing coach! I first came to you approximately 9 years ago and was a size 8 and didn’t think I had that much to lose, yet not comfortable in my own skin. You started me with circuit training due to my busy lifestyle and work schedule. I was able to get in and out of the gym in an hour with a total workout. This made it easier to go more often and achieve my goals quicker.

With your guidance and positive encouragement you pushed me to new levels of fitness. I am a size 4 and have maintained this size and my weight since my first 4 months with you and I feel TERRIFIC!!

Thank you for all you have done to change my lifestyle for life.

Charla Giles

How to live healthy forever

We all know, with a bit of research, that diets do not work to improve our life. Why? Because they do not address the underlying issue of our NOT-wellbeing: dangerous non-attention to our overall health!

We “maintain” our cars, trucks, lawns, fingernails, hair, etc. regularly because they need the attention to keep them healthy, working fine, and functioning properly for what they were designed to do by nature, right? Hellooo? What about our biggest asset, our whole body? Why don’t we maintain it just as regularly? Where did we get the notion that by maintaining our hair and nails, the rest of our body will somehow fall in line and ‘stay healthy’ by itself? Dah?

Here is the incredibly powerful solution that Coach Berry offers for all of us: stop the body’s natural deterioration over time by finely tuned excercises to keep our arms and legs strong, our heart pumping at normal load, removing the deathly impact of un-necessary pills and pacifiers, letting the body become healthy again and take care of any ‘load’ naturally, instead of drugs pesticising our bodies!

We have joined Coach Berry just two months ago and are amazed at the improvement in our lives: we dropped inches and pounds, we feel much better, we breathe easily, we walk with a spring in our step and we can’t wait to remove the impact of our ‘wrongful living’ for the past 60 years completely, to be young and strong as we once were!

And here is the best news: anyone can do it and succeed! We see kids in the gym and folks in their eighties and they all enjoy the benefits of being better, feeling great!

You owe it to yourself to at least check out Coach Berry’s website, www.rb-berry.com, to learn what other folks have experienced, how easy it is to be and feel GREAT again! The most often quoted comeback is that it costs money. Yes, it, like any quality service, is not free. But you have a choice: maintain your body in good health now or pay the price later in un-necessary surgeries, hospital bills, and possibly pre-mature death!

We are so happy to have found and joined Coach Berry’s program. What keeps you from joining this life-improving effort to get your body healthy again? Nothing, right?

See you soon on the healthy side of life!
Wolfgang and Danietta

I have known Coach Berry for the past nine years.  As soon as I met him, I knew almost immediately he was one of North County San Diego and Oceanside’s Top Fitness Expert. He introduced me to his ‘Dare to be Fit Program’ and I could not believe the amount of social proof of client he had of people my age and people twice my age that had achieve such amazing results.  I decided to hire him as my personal trainer and fitness coach.  We just happened to live on the same street.  Coach Berry is a retired Master Gunnery Sergeant with 25 plus years from the United States Marine Corps and he was dead serious about my results. If I missed a workout he would come knocking on my door to find out why I did not show up for my work out that day.  Lame excuses were not acceptable.

Coach Berry’s program allowed me to achieve superb results in record time.  He also taught me how to eat right and take care of myself mentally and physically to be able to live a long healthy and successful life.  Money was not important to him, my health was.  I needed a job at the time, so Coach let me worked for him as a Day Care Provider at his Studio.  During that time, I saw so many lives change as we worked out with him.  Not only did we lose weight, our attitudes and personality changed to positive thinking. We had more confidence in ourselves, greater self-esteem than before, greater inner and outer appearance, and most of all begin to realize we are important.  Coach Berry made sure he reminded each one of us how important we were each time we showed up.  I was going through some serious problems with my former husband and it was a night mare.  He was drinking out of controlled and I didn’t no where to turn.

My children were feeling the pressure as well. We (my two children and I) were in counseling. Coach Berry stood by my children and me.  I finally divorced him and have since re-married. I’m very happy. My daughter received a full four year scholarship to Long Beach State College for track and field.  Thanks to Coach Berry and his ‘Dare to be Fit Program’ she excelled in high school sports. During the summer, she trained at Coach Berry’s gym. My son also excelled in academics and is now attending LSU for his law degree.  We have been truly blessed to have the Lord and Coach Berry on our side. He is not just a personal trainer. He is the ultimate Fitness and life Coach as I have just explained in my life story.  My new and wonderful husband, Larry Outlaw and I have been training with Coach Berry and his amazing team for the past few months.  When I went back to be trained I also brought my new husband.  Coach Berry welcomed us both with a grateful heart.

I recommend anyone who is serious about their health and want to change their lives; Coach Berry is the man you are looking for!

Thank you Coach Berry for being a Constance force in our lives!

Lecia Outlaw
Oceanside, CA.
Resident

Under recommendations from my family I went to Coach Berry to see if he could help me with a chronic sore shoulder. We began a 1 month program to strengthen the muscles in the shoulder and upper body area. In that time my strength has much improved and the pain is less than half of what it was. It was not possible to alleviate all the pain as I found out I have a bone spur. I will have surgery however my recovery should be much quicker as Coach has had me on a shoulder strengthening regimen.

If you are looking to change your lifestyle Coach Berry is your man. He is aware, attentive,personable, knowledgeable and guides you throughout your exercises so that you do them correctly with out wasted effort. His staff is just as attentive and aware. It is a great gym all you need is the desire to change

John Burgan

Hello my name is Kat and I’m 49 years old. I have been a member of Coach Berry’s Dare to be Fit Program for over ten years. I’ve continued my membership for many reasons — First, I’m treated special every time I come in to train. Coach and his team welcome me and make me feel at home. Second, Coach Berry is a true fitness expert with over 30 years of experience working with and motivating clients of all ages to get amazing results. I know I can always count on him and his staff to provide a challenging workout every time I come in to train. Third and most important the program works — I feel great and I’m stronger and healthier than I was 10 years ago.

If you’re looking for someone who really cares about you and your fitness goals, or looking for a fitness expert to help motivate you to be the best you can be, or interested in a positive and relaxed environment with a great group of people (of all ages) to work out with – look no further Coach Berry and Dare to be Fit is right for you.

Thank you Coach Berry for keeping me healthy and in top physical condition!

Kathy Francisco
Oceanside Resident

My name is Sharen, I am 64 years old and proud of it, and thanks to coach Berry’s Dare to be Fit Program, superb training techniques and guidance. I am now well on my way to a superb, firm, and healthier body thanks to Coach Berry Oceanside most famous fitness expert.
I retired 3 yrs ago, moved onto a boat and began to cruise the eastern coast of the pacific. I stopped exercising, but continued to eat and drink whatever I felt like, it was like a 3 year vacation, but like everything it has its consequences. I had lost most of my muscle mass and replaced it with fat. Of course when I looked in the mirror I would say “it doesn’t look so bad for an old lady”, but the truth of the matter was I hated it and was embarrassed to put a bathing suit on (when on a boat in the tropics that is all you want to wear) and began to wear more really loose dresses. The other negative was my arthritic knees began hurting most everyday because of the added weight I was carrying. When my husband and I came back to Oceanside to visit our children and grand-children, I was complaining to our daughter about how fat and unhappy I felt. Her response to me was “come with me to this guy named coach Berry” he works with all ages of men & women, then she showed me his brochure with these women on them but the one that stood out the most, of course, was the 62 year old women who looked like she was 40. I thought to myself, maybe there is hope after all. As it turn out my daughter had been working out with him for three weeks and loved the results she was seeing and he was offering a 3 day trial for free with no strings attached. How could I say no to that? So here we go that following Sat. to meet up with coach Berry. When I first saw him I thought: OH MY GOD he looks like a drill sergeant, he’s going to kill me, there’s no way he is going to understand my limitations. WELL I was wrong on all counts. As my Daughter describes him “he is endearing and really cares about each and every one of his students”. After the third day I was hooked and really wanted to continue with training but there was a concern that I had not mention and that was I only had 5 weeks to get into shape. My husband and I were flying back down to the boat (it was moored in Ecuador) to continue cruising. When I told coach the problem he looked at me and said “if you’re willing to work with me and push yourself at each session you will get what you wish for but it will take focus and desire”. So began my 5 week plan.

I won’t lie to you, I had worked out most of my life and understand what it takes to get into shape but I had no idea how easy it was to loose it all. Of course getting fat was a lot more fun and no effort what so ever but the end result was pain and unhappiness. Because I knew how good I had felt about myself before (it’s a terrible thing to be embarrassed about yourself) I wanted to feel that way again. Maybe it was a good thing to loose what I use to be, I think I took it for granted. I know that what people think is fat is relative to each person. For some its being 10 to 30 lbs over weight and to others its 100 to 200 lbs but the bottom line is the results are the same “self loathing” every time they look in the mirror. Well I hated that feeling and am willing to do what it takes to get the inches and pounds off. Thus coach Berry is now a part of my life for the next 5 weeks. I will be seeing more of him than my friends and family during this time period.
I am now in my 2nd week and I look fatter than ever, how depressing is that. Thank God I know why, because I would want to give up otherwise. Now you ask yourself WHY? Well when you are toning your muscles, they tighten from the inside out thus the fat is pushed to the surface where it is more visible. During these two weeks I have been really impressed with coach Berry and his sensitivity to my strengths and limitations not to mention correcting my body positions for maximum results, for years I had been lifting weights in the wrong position, what a waste of time that was. This is week 3 and I have increased my cardio to 45 min. to an hour four days a week because I know that is the fastest way to lose fat. Personally I hate to run on the tread mill so coach let me do what I enjoy, ride a bike or do a Jazzercise class. Then I spend 45 min at the gym with him and his guidance 5 to 6 days a week. A friend came up to me at Jazzercise and told me that I look like I have lost some weight (she doesn’t know what I have signed up to do) that really put a smile on my face.
Well this is week 5 and I am anxious to find out what the results read. I must admit I have worked pretty hard but where I could have been better was my eating and drinking (wine). I have never dieted in my life; I believe that moderation works in most cases. So what I have done is cut back on everything and increased my protein intake. Tomorrow coach will take my measurements and weight so I’m really nervous not to mention that he is going to take pictures of the end result. I haven’t a clue what tomorrow will bring but I can tell you this, having a personal trainer is the best thing I have ever had. Because of my history in the exercise field I know a good trainer when I see one and coach Berry is the best. Trust me when I say he knows what he is doing, I have experienced it. But it’s not just that, he is also affordable. I have never found a trainer that charged less than $55.00 an hour, hire him/her for 10 days and you have put out $550.00 where as coach Berry only charges $300.00 a month and you can go as often as you want. He gently encourages you to go beyond your own Expectations and he helps you to believe in yourself again.
A final note to all of you who may look at the end result and think to yourself wow sign me up and expect the same results. Please, please remember that I use to work out so I had muscle memory which makes all the difference in the world. When you have not had any exercise in your life you will have to spend time making those muscles wake up and work for you which is very frustrating when you want immediate gratification because there is no pill or easy way to do it. When it’s all said and done the work is worth it because you know you have earned good health and fitness and no one is going to take it away From neither you nor do you want to lose it and start all over again.
GO FOR IT AND CALL COACH BERRY, HE KNOWS WHAT YOU NEED.
Thanks
Sharen