Shirley Garrett

ACE Certified Personal Trainer since 1994, ACE Medical Exercise Specialist since 2001 and ACE Certified Health Coach since 2013. My fitness business has evolved from Injury Management speciality training with referrals from Physicians, Physical Therapists and Long Term Disability insurance companies, into a complete Lifestyle Wellness and Health facility, offering not only a wide variety of exercise programs, but when I realized that because eating well is a major, but often neglected, component of health, weight management and good emotional and mental health, I graduated from Culinary School in 2015 with a Professional Culinary Arts diploma. Now I am presenting cooking classes to the community and I make presentations to groups, Doctors, Patients and other health care professionals. Recently I was asked to work with the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine in Boston, MA as a member of their program teaching faculty - Certificate of Completion in CHEF*Coaching (Culinary Health Education Fundamentals) . This is a relatively new program geared toward teaching Health Coaches and Healthcare Professionals how to guide their patients toward doing more cooking at home and enjoying the health benefits of better nutrition - not to mention confidence.