Health coach. Personal trainer. Exercise therapist.
Gerard Friedman, MS ATC, NBC-HWC is a Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Certified Athletic Trainer, and Personal Trainer. Gerard holds a Bachelor’s degree in Athletic Training, and a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science and Rehabilitation.
As a health coach, Gerard views health through the lens of exercise, sleep, nutrition, and stress management. His goal is to help clients discover inner strengths, wisdom, and motivation needed to make lifestyle and behavioral changes aligned with their health goals. Gerard’s mission is to empower people to take an active role in their health and find solutions to their unique challenges. By collaborating, instead of prescribing, Gerard helps his clients establish a realistic, personalized, and sustainable approach to health and lifestyle.
Gerard’s background is in sports medicine, rehabilitation, and injury prevention. His formal education in physiology, biomechanics, and therapeutic exercise, along with over a decade of experience working with healthy and injured athletes, gives him the ability to help people eliminate movement-based pain, prevent future injury, and improve overall fitness.
Gerard creates client exercise programs based on the outcomes of a physical assessment and needs analysis. Proper coaching, appropriate interventions, and systematic progression is the key to meeting and exceeding any exercise goals. Gerard views fitness as an important tool to develop physical and mental resiliency, regulate stress, manage and prevent disease, and enhance quality of life.
“A personalized approach to exercise, nutrition, sleep, and stress management is the key for long term success and sustainable change.”
Gerard is an ex-collegiate baseball player turned Athletic Trainer, Personal Trainer, Health Coach and avid weight lifter. He trains clients out of a private gym in Maplecrest, NY, as well as in New York City.
Gerard believes an individualized approach to nutrition, stress management, exercise and overall lifestyle is the key to health and sustainability. Gerard experienced this personally in 2011 when he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. At that point in his life, Gerard was 20 pounds underweight, in chronic pain, and hospitalized in the weakest and sickest state he’s ever experienced. After working 1-1 with a health coach, taking ownership of his situation, and personalizing his approach to nutrition, exercise and stress management, Gerard was able to eliminate his reliance on medication and take back his health.
The shift in diet, lifestyle and perspective not only knocked his colitis into remission, but also improved his sleep quality, aesthetics, and general health markers, like cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure.
Gerard currently enjoys exploring new hobbies, meditating, reading, hiking, weight lifting, improv comedy, baseball, animals of all kinds, and spending time with his wife, family and friends.