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Tamara Smith – Health & Wellness Coach in Long Beach

Tamara Smith – Health & Wellness Coach in Long Beach

Health & Wellness Coach in Long Beach – Ms. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with an option in Sports Medicine and an emphasis on Health and Wellness. She is a former athlete who served on the Junior National Olympic Luge Team and holds her C.P.T, C.E.S, P.E.S, and W.L.S. from the National Academy of Sports Medicine. Additionally, she holds an ELDOA I & II Practitioner Certification and is a Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming, as well as a Master Practitioner of Mental and Emotional Release, certified through the Association of Integrative Psychology.

After completing 10,000 personal training hours working for 24 Hour Fitness, Tamara was designated as a Trainer Fit Pro Elite, a special designation held by fitness professionals who completed ten thousand training hours and held a minimum of three separate personal training certificates, At this time, Tamara was approached by one of her clients, the Director of Physical Distribution at a major Supply Chain Distribution Company in southern California, to create the Industrial Athlete Program (a robust Corporate Wellness Program) to help incoming employees transition to the physical demands of the warehouse positions. Prior to the onset of the pandemic, Tamara successfully ran the program for ten years with the company and the program itself included a Strength and Flexibility Risk Assessment, a Wellness Survey, One to One Health Coaching, Personal Training, Stress Management, Applied Ergonomics, and Basic Nutrition Guidance. During this time, she created Ergonomic Training Manuals company wide for all ten departments within the warehouse operation, made operational improvement suggestions, to date of which 79% were implemented, and had over 350 employees complete her program with a 94.4% completion rate. Tamara Smith’s Industrial Athlete Program is available for Fitness Professionals and mid to large-size corporations as a complete turn-key system including several tiers of support and consultation.

Ms. Smith was published in the NASM Online Fitness Journal twice and in the April 2019 issue of the IDEA Fitness Journal:
blog.nasm.org/certified-personal-trainer/opt-in-action-the-industrial-athlete/

During the pandemic, Ms. Smith worked as a Health and Wellness Coach for Noom, servicing up to 120 members a day with a 400-client leader board who were in various stages of a health and wellness journey. While working for Noom, Tamara leveraged motivational interviewing, acceptance commitment theory, cognitive-behavioral theory, self-determination theory, and the transtheoretical model of behavior change to support clients in creating lifestyle changes.

Tamara is an avid outdoorswoman and frequently enjoys hiking, camping, running, paddleboarding, and skiing in the winter and will hop on a toboggan anytime!

Personal Training Skills

Weight Loss 100 %
Strength Training 100 %
Power Lifting 100 %
Functional Training 100 %
Pain Mitigation/Ergonomics/Applied Biomechanics 100 %

Personal Training Experience

NASM Certified Personal Trainer

NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist

NASM Performance Enhancement Specialist

NASM Weight Loss Specialist

ELDOA Levels I & II Practitioner

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