Fran Bell is my personal trainer. I’m now 66 years old and live in the ‘outdoorsy’ Central Hill Country of Texas where wonderful options for fitness prevail. While in basically decent condition, I began experiencing obvious aging changes, especially in upper-body strength, terrain-stability, in my hiking endurance and most importantly, overall body-balance. Most frustrating — was a gradual loss in my ability to ‘open kitchen-things,’ lift bulky but still feasibly-weighted stuff, and generally ‘do for myself’ the many things most ‘physical’ things.
In even the first few sessions, highly desirable changes and expanded capability began to take effect in each arena. Shortly thereafter, obvious postural improvements appeared and an overall sense of reflected well-being that people who knew me overtly commented on within my first month. Since then, I’ve met few bottles or jars I could not open. This is just one example of many gains which make me smile at each victory.
Seriously, Fran’s the ‘real thing.’ She’s worked with many levels of physiology including rehabilitation, injury-recovery with teens and children and with fitness-avoidance situations. She has innate knowledge about how bodies function, multiplied with her education. She is gifted in her ability to communicate with her clients, highlighting the most productive ways to achieve their fitness goals and beyond.
Nutrition and whole-body fitness is a serious part of Fran’s business. Her mindset is holistic health, including the importance of spiritual well-being bringing the body into balance through all facets of function, body, mind, heart and spirit. To these ends, Fran is continually updating her training in all these areas to apply to her work. One surprise of many is her capability to transfer client awareness even by phone conversations. She can translate those purposes verbally in a way that leads to positive outcomes and changes for her clients — quite a unique approach.
I can see how having Fran on-board can impact well beyond that of the customary personal trainer’s set of possibilities whether she’s working with persons self-defining as coach-potatoes, to corporate executives to homemakers to excelling young athletes to elite performers. And… as impossible as it sounds, many of her client successes are taking place virtually — via phone relationship, including preparing a police-academy applicant to pass his ‘physical’ and to help provide structure and oversight for numerous forms of fitness-program approaches for newly committed professionals. — Sherry Lowry