Our Team
The Brookdale Fitness Club Team
Anne
Anne is the owner of The Brookdale Fitness Club. Anne combines her many certifications with hundreds of hours of practical experience to offer highly individualized personal training for clients. She uses her ability to connect with people to help them unlock their own tools to change their lifestyle and maximize their health.
Having worked with clients with various physical challenges, Anne is able to focus on exercise prescriptions that maximize clients’ abilities and help find new areas of strength. Leveraging her many certifications, Anne has many personal training clients who she has had the privilege of training for years, she teaches fitness classes to older adults of all fitness and mobility levels and she teaches many of our group fitness classes, focusing on resistance training, core strength and mobility. Among Anne’s many certifications are Specialist in Senior Fitness, Resistance Training Specialist 1,2,3, Precision Nutrition L1 coach, BoneFit (Osteoporosis Canada) certified and GGS Certified Menopause Coaching Specialist.
Using an app-based delivery system, Anne helps clients deploy habit-based behaviours to achieve lifestyle improvements through small, daily changes. In all things, Anne’s approach is slow, steady and measured with a focus on making and strengthening connections in a non-judgmental and entertaining way.
Anne practised corporate law in Toronto for several years before taking time to raise her family. Anne understands the challenges and obstacles facing busy people with real lives and competing demands on their time.
Margaret
Margaret is a personal trainer, habit coach and group fitness instructor. A certified personal trainer for more than 10 years, Margaret’s approach to training is to ensure her clients are motivated and excited about their workouts. Margaret challenges her clients to move their bodies appropriately to improve their health and strength, mood and overall quality of life. Margaret’s philosophy is that all exercise must be designed and tailored to best suit the client’s current abilities creating a custom fit, client-defined exercise experience.
Margaret has recently retired from a 36 year career with the TDSB as a swim instructor, lifeguard and swim team coach and during the summer months Margaret has run her own swim school. Margaret has coached hundreds of children and young adults to become stronger swimmers in the pool but also to become more confident and goal-focused out of the water. Margaret brings the same spirit to her work as a personal trainer.
Margaret holds a number of qualifications and certifications including Personal Training Specialist, Resistance Training Specialist 1,2,3, Precision Nutrition L1, Fitness Kickboxing Canada Instructor Level 3, Bonefit (Osteoporosis Canada), Specialist in Senior Fitness, Girls Gone Strong Women Coaching Specialist and GGS Certified Menopause Coaching Specialist. Additionally, Margaret is a Standard First Aid Instructor and a CPR instructor.
When not working, MJ is most likely to be found at her cottage Haliburton canoeing, swimming or hiking with her energetic German Shepherd, Jake.
Eleanor
Eleanor is a personal trainer and a specialist in inner core/pelvic floor re-training.
Eleanor hasn’t always been a fan of exercise. Resting and relaxing have always come naturally to her. Several years ago, she injured her back and the key to healing it was movement and building strength. Once healed she was keen to learn more and so started her midlife return to study.
Eleanor is now a certified Mat Pilates Teacher, Pfilates Teacher (a pelvic floor strengthening exercise program created by a Urogynecologist), a Level 3 Hyporessive Trainer (a postural and respiratory technique that safely and effectively reprograms and optimizes core function and pelvic health), a Certified Senior Fitness Instructor (Western University), a certified Drums Alive Basic Instructor, a certified Drums Alive Golden Beats Instructor and is BoneFit certified (Osteoporosis Canada).
Eleanor was pleasantly surprised to learn that exercise is the prescription for almost all that ails us as we age and is eager to help others improve their strength, mobility and quality of life with as much humour and fun as possible.
Pamela
Pamela is a graduate of the Sutherland-Chan School of Massage Therapy and she is a certified personal trainer, Girls Gone Strong Women’s Coaching Specialist and BoneFit (Osteoporosis Canada) certified.
With her open and compassionate personality, Pamela creates a safe, calm, inviting and healing environment for her clients. Her treatments are client-focused and she encourages her clients to be active participants in their treatment planning. Her gentle and comforting touch is healing yet she can also provide deep tissue treatments when necessary or requested.
Pamela uses a variety of techniques such as Swedish Massage, myofascial release, trigger point release, muscle energy techniques, joint mobilization, cupping and Thai massage. She continues to broaden her skills with regular continuous education courses to ensure that she stays current in her field.
Pamela has studied massage in a variety of clinics treating seniors, stroke victims, head and neck issues as well as providing full body relaxation and Thai massage treatments.
As a certified personal trainer, Pamela loves to help her clients achieve their health goals either through one on one training or in group classes. She approaches her training by creating programs with her clients input to ensure a positive experience with measurable results.
Rebecca
Fitness and wellness have been an important part of Rebecca’s life for as long as she can remember. As a certified personal trainer, group and indoor cycling instructor and BoneFit (Osteoporosis Canada) certified trainer, Rebecca enjoys crafting workouts that are challenging and fun. She understands the vital role movement plays for everyone, no matter their age or fitness level and looks forward to bringing this passion to each session by creating individualized workouts to meet her clients’ goals. When not in the gym, Rebecca can be found on a squash court, a hiking trail or in front of her computer at her desk job doing legal compliance work.