Nancy Campbell has focused on providing health and wellness programming throughout the last two and a half decades as a professional trainer. She moved to the Bragg Creek area in 2012 and officially opened her home-based studio in 2014.
As a medical exercise specialist who has experience in training and coaching individuals with a variety of chronic issues, Campbell creates custom well-rounded health and wellness programs.
“I will fit [a program] to each client to what they need. If a client needs a more gentle approach because they’re dealing with a cancer diagnosis, then we’re gentle. If people need me to have a little bit of a more heavy foot and be directed a bit more and pushed a bit, I will find and strike that balance with people,” Campbell said.
Her studio is about overall wellness in all aspects of life, including fitness, rehabilitation, and nutrition. She emphasized that nutritional coaching is a big component to the programming.
New clients are first taken through an hour-long comprehensive initial consultation to assess all the information Campbell needs to put together a preventative program. This assessment includes a postural screen, a functional movement screen, and a muscle skeletal screen. Campbell explained that many people come with one specific problem but the assessment and screens allow her to figure out what the real issues and causes could be.
From there, Campbell works with clients on exercises, nutrition, or general education on dealing with specific chronic health conditions.
“Every client is completely different, I create individualized programs. There is nothing cookie cutter and completely based on what the assessment is dictating and the goals and objectives for each client,” Campbell said.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Campbell was forced to move many of her sessions to a virtual platform. With so many clients who travel around, she learned that virtual sessions were beneficial to continue working with clients no matter where they were.
“It’s actually been a really eye-opening and very rewarding experience. It’s really given the clientele that I already work with the ability to see that we can do it in a virtual environment and still have quality programming,” Campbell said.
For over 25 years and counting Campbell has been a contract trainer at the Glencoe Club in Calgary where many of her current clients are from. She noted her appreciation for the clients that have trusted her continued coaching and training while going virtual.
“COVID made me realize I like working from home, I like not driving into the city and also there’s that huge virtual piece for people where a lot of people don’t want to be in big gym environments,” she said.
Campbell grew up in Calgary and was always interested in health and wellness. She was an athlete throughout grade school and into University where she began her extensive education in kinesiology.
Throughout university and as an elite soccer player she had access to a team of medical professionals that diagnosed her with lupus and helped diagnose other autoimmune conditions.
“I know that you have to have a very broad healthcare team to deal with these types of issues. I absolutely believe in allopathic medicine, I absolutely see doctors as being a huge component of your healthcare team but they’re not necessarily the only part of that Health Care team to get you to your best level that you can be at with the conditions you have,” Campbell said.
Whether she is working with someone who has similar conditions or something completely different, she believes there are many different facets of health and wellness treatments that can help an individual be their best and healthiest self.
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Business Profile by:
Masha Scheele, HCN Staff
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