Wall of love for Ernan Marroquin

When I started my goals were to loose weight and gain muscle. Some outstanding achievements were that I lost 21 pounds and dropped 4% body fat. My biggest struggle was finding the motivation to go to the gym. I would just like to say that Ernan was very helpful in assisting me with starting my fitness journey.

Ernan, helped me realize that I’m stronger than I taught. He also help me. Stay focus on my goals. He also is very knowledgeable and helpful.

My concern was to lose weight and tone. My current workout was not achieving my desired outcome. Ernan helped me to craft a full body workout that I enjoy doing. Meals are my biggest hurdle. He helped me to figure out how to better meal plan and prep. Now meal planning isn't as daunting as it used to be.

My goal is to regain and strenghten my bone and muscle loss due to my health condition.After 3 months,I felt a marked improvementon on my muscles and made me feel much stronger.My struggle was to lift a 5 lbs weight initially.After 3 months, I was able to lift 15/20lbs.Ernan is a very caring and patient trainer who really care about my health and well being.I highly recommend him to anyone who wants to improve their health and well being.

As an older adult, I want to build muscle and bone. This young man is respectful, listens, adapts and has effective exercises and suggestions on health and fitness. Ernan is personable and easy to talk to and he will adjust any exercise to maximize effectiveness for you. I was only able to start with 1 day/week. He kept me accountable by having me walk daily on my own and since I have a fitbit, I texted in my daily steps. He touched basis on how I could do better by eating the right foods and the amount of rest I should be getting. The other thing I liked is that he encouraged me and modified my exercises if I wasn't feeling my best. Basically, he is very well rounded and I felt he also had a caring, consistent component without ever being pushy.

Training with you is always a great time, you've helped me with the knowledge of the gym and its machines. You've helped me with my weight loss by helping me stay vigilant with my diet and making sure I made it to the gym. I've learned slow weight loss is healthy weight loss. I haven't been this weight in over 10 years and feel so much better about myself I have more knowledge about foods and portions by the hand outs you've given me. I've learned not to be scared of the gym. People won't make me feel less than, they actually cheer me on. I've learned about my limits with the weights and when to push myself to add more. Things would have been way different had I been matched with someone else. I don't think I would ve stayed as long as I have it I was with someone else. I trust you wholeheartedly with everything you've shown me and the faith you have in me, you've made this journey worth the hard work that we've both put in.

My fitness goals were to workout at the gym weekly to maintain my fitness for all the half marathons I had signed up to run. When I met Ernan, he resumed my personal trainer sessions from a previous trainer that left 24 hour fitness to pursue another career. I was thinking I won’t need to renew my trainer sessions. But then Ernan helped me understand that with my crazy lifestyle (being a military spouse with husband living on different coast, four kids, full-time night shift nurse) it was possible to achieve my goals and that he would research ways for me to assist me. He motivated me to continue to come to the gym. Although, my weight loss is still a work in progress, he encouraged me to change small things like increasing my protein intake. He has been patient and understanding, but also would send me a motivating text “Senorita, what workout have you done today?” Just that simple reminder would help me get energized to do a workout at home or make me make time to hit the gym! Then a few months ago I had an injury to my arm from a workout from home. Ernan would find ways to help me strengthen my arm and back. I started physical therapy and he combined workouts with my PT recommendations. I was able to strengthen my arm and back and return to doing arm workouts at the gym in a shorter amount of time than was anticipated with my PT. I’m sad he won’t be my trainer at 24 hr fitness, but I’m excited for his career change. I recommend Ernan as a trainer as he will find a way to motivate you and will research to help you plan ways to maintain a healthier lifestyle.

I had an awesome experience working with you Ernan, I enjoyed working with you on reaching my goals for the year. You helped me with the biggest struggle I had which was learning how to diet properly and learn about portions. Ever since working with Ernan I’ve lost 63.5lbs and 5.3 body fat. I feel more energized and good about myself.

My goals when I started was to loose weight and feel more active I feel more flexible with more energy I'm resting better,I lost weight I made a habit of making my shakes and eating more often,I did gain a lot of strength and muscle and I keep getting more Ernan gave great routines to follow a great nutritional plan as soon as he started talking I noticed he knew what he was doing My biggest struggle was my schedule but we worked around it and made time to train For knew members:be passionate,make discipline,and be patient change will take time just make sure to follow coach indications