Joy DuMay, Certified Personal Fitness and Pilates Trainer.
Joy DuMay is excited about getting you moving. After working in the fitness field for 30 years, training thousands of clients, she has designed a method of creating the perfect workout program for each individual. Rather than taking one workout and pasting it onto every exerciser, she believes that the key to life-long good health is to find out what each person needs, inside and out, and then match their individual desires to the style of movement that will enhance and motivate them.
Ms. DuMay believes that if you don’t enjoy the journey, you won’t ever get to your destination. If you hate the exercise regime you think you are supposed to do, you may grit your teeth and grind your way to weight loss – but that weight will creep back up as you lose interest, or get injured, or just decide that you really do hate exercise. Ms. DuMay wants to help people discover the positive journey of getting fit, the way of moving that enhances their spirit and brings pleasure to their bodies.
Ms. DuMay’s training and experience give her the ability to see many different aspects of the fitness industry, from:
- using the body to create art (Dance)
- physical development for its own sake (Bodybuilding)
- using the body for competition (National Aerobic Competition)
- training the body to move with ease and balance (Functional Fitness)
- movement for healing (Pilates)
- healing for movement (Physical Therapy and Massage)
She understands the motivations for exercising:
- physical attractiveness
- ease of movement for daily activities
- power of competition
- camaraderie of the group dynamic
- freedom of adventure
- healing the body
- improving posture, balance and coordination as we age
Ms. DuMay has many years of public performance and speaking experience:
- 15 years as the Fitness Guru, KEYT-TV Santa Barbara
- Directed and starred in her own television show, The Santa Barbara Workout
- Group Fitness presenter at IDEA International Conference
- Innovative Fitness presenter at IHRSA International Conference
- Star Instructor on educational exercise videos
- Fitness speaker at the American Heart Association annual conferences
- Bodybuilding and aerobic competitions
Above all, Ms. DuMay is motivated to share her knowledge on this website and in books and videos to guide readers seeking answers to their fitness questions. She wants to combine her skills as a personal trainer, group exercise instructor, public speaker, video star and writer to reach a larger audience. She wants to contribute her knowledge to the public in a positive and intelligent way and help them discover their own unique path to life-long fitness.
With all of this experience, over all of these years, Joy has realized that no one can be stuffed into the same fitness box. She couldn’t possibly fit all of her clients into the Pilates box, or the running box, or the weight training box. Not only does everyone have a different body and physical experience, but their brains are uniquely wired. Even if everyone she trained has the exact same goals, they all need a different approach to be successful.
Joy’s “joy” in fitness training has been to see each person as an extraordinary individual, a puzzle to be deciphered and a challenge to inspire. Her goal is to help each client understand their underlying driving spirit, and match that to their conscious mind’s desires and their physical body’s abilities. The basic principles of exercise are the same for every body, but for true life fitness, you must start with your own unique personality: what moves you within is what will move your body with pleasure and success.