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Devon Palermo"Keep Fighting, Never Give Up!"
Follow Devon on Twitter: @fitdp23 Devon is a leading authority on Adaptive Fitness for those living with or recovering from a disability. With over 15 years of experience in both fitness and rehab, He is the go to resource for clients, therapists, and doctors looking to maximize the benefits of Adaptive exercise to improve strength, balance, and function and abilities. He has worked with and helped to maximize independence and function for individuals following or in addition to traditional therapy who are recovering from Stroke, Spinal cord injury, and other neurological conditions, Amputation, Vision impaired, and Seniors. Devon also regularly coaches individuals looking to lose weight, improve their body composition, increase strength, and improve for sport. In addition he also regularly trains group adaptive boxing fitness classes for everyone at ANY level and leads conditioning training sessions for the DC Wheelchair Quad Rugby Team the Capital Punishers! Devon regularly presents on adaptive fitness to local area hospitals, support groups, Walk n rolls, and expo's including: Virginia Hospital Center National Parkinson's Foundation Health South rehab Stroke Comeback Center Disability Awareness Experience Abilities Expo (dulles) Air Force wounded warrior care fair Spina Bifida Assn. Walk n Rolls Medstar NRH Catalyst Adaptive Sports He is the Author of the DisAbility Fitness Handbook (An exercise resource for those living with disabilities) and The Never Give Up Blog. He has also written guest articles for the PTDC (the largest personal trainer resource center on the net) The Stroke Comeback center, VI Sports Fitness & Nutrition. Devon enjoys staying fit and active, reading, learning daily, and spending time with his wife and kids. |
Pablo Hernanadez"With proper training and nutrition, you can achieve a much better quality of life"
Follow Pablo on Twitter: @trainerpabloh Pablo has worked in a rehab setting as a therapist technician and as a personal care manager for many years. He has been instrumental in implementing specific exercise programs designed by therapists to his clients which has significantly improved their quality of life. "Working in Rehabilitation for six years, I realized that motivation is a key part of therapy and as a very motivated person, I will always find a way to help people achieve their goals". Pablo is our lead adaptive fitness trainer for the nationally recognized Rock Steady Parkinson's Boxing program offered at DPI Adaptive Fitness. Pablo's background is in Sport administration and Health, he has degrees from University of Nuevo Leon (Mexico) and the University of the District of Columbia. In his spare time Pablo enjoys speed skating, working out, hiking and being outdoors as much as possible. |
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Baldwin Fuertes Adaptive Fitness Trainer Baldwin has worked as a Physical Therapist in his native Phillipines, he has also worked as a rehab technician for a major rehab hospital in Washington DC. He currently works full time as a licensed physical therapist assistant in the military system. He has worked with Devon in the outpatient therapy setting and feels that's where he learned to incorporate fitness and therapy to maximize his patients potential for progress.
Baldwin enjoys running, basketball and spending quality time with his wife and 2 boys playing sports. His passion is to work with people of varying Abilities to motivate and challenge them to perform at their maximum potential through the knowledge he attained by his education and clinical experience. |
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Katie Seward
Katie is a rehab physical therapist and is the lead therapist for the spinal cord injury day program at the National Rehabilitation Hospital. She currently co-leads our program design for the No Limits Adaptive Weight training class on tuesday evenings and is a dedicated adaptive fitness trainer for our Adaptive Circuit program both at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington DC. |
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Meaghan Minzy Meaghan is an inpatient rehab physical therapist at NRH and an Adaptive Fitness Trainer. She is a dedicated member of our No Limits Adaptive Circuit trainer team on Saturdays. |
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Robby Febo Robby started as an Intern with DPI in the summer of 2015 . . . After eight months of intense immersion in Adaptive Fitness, coursework, and a certification exam, Robby is now proud to be on the DPI Adaptive Fitness trainer team. All of our participants love to point out the growth they have witnessed first hand since Robby's first day to now. As one participant likes to say, "Robby has been trained by a great group and has as strong a presence as any of the other adaptive fitness trainers" Robby currently works one on one with clients, he also leads group adaptive fitness programs for seniors, as well as the adaptive boxing fitness classes both in DC and at our training site. Robby currently is also attending college classes with an interest in Physical Therapy |
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Beth Ljung
Beth is an outpatient rehab physical therapist and coverage adaptive fitness trainer with DPI for our No Limits Adaptive Circuit program at NRH.
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Sarah Anscher
Sarah is an outpatient rehab physical therapist and coverage adaptive fitness trainer with DPI for our No Limits Adaptive Circuit program at NRH. |
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DPI Adaptive Fitness Training Center
3545 Chain Bridge Rd. Suite 101
Fairfax, VA 22030
(877)-264-5836
DPIadaptivefitness@gmail.com
DPI Adaptive Fitness Training Center
3545 Chain Bridge Rd. Suite 101
Fairfax, VA 22030
(877)-264-5836
DPIadaptivefitness@gmail.com
