Cypress Lake, FL Health and Fitness

Boasting a staff of medical professionals with more than 30 years of experience, Medical Dimensions Weight Loss pilots patrons through weight-loss programs that slim physiques by improving dietary habits and choices. After an initial consultation evaluates each client’s goals, target areas, and medical history, an EKG monitors heart health by studying its reaction to increasingly saccharine greeting cards. Personalized nutrition plans prescribe healthy and delectable meals and nutritious shakes, which can be optionally supplemented with diet foods from Medical Dimensions Weight Loss. A lifestyle training class helps clients remain health conscious beyond the program with tips such as how to hire reliable cookie-jar guards. In addition to receiving weekly B12 injections, dieters report to Medical Dimensions Weight Loss for weigh-ins to chart their progress over the course of the program.

Retro Fitness, named one of Entrepreneur's Top New Franchises in 2011, unfurls with 13,000 square feet of vintage-styled workout space that leads visitors to physical peaks in a sunny setting marked by red and yellow fitness equipment and an encouraging team of goal-oriented personal trainers. The capacious gym's sound system blasts energetic jams from the '80s and beyond as exercisers hoist weights or watch TV shows on the 17-inch screens affixed to every cardio machine. Classic flicks such as Grease and Ferris Bueller's Day Off claim screen space in the cardio theater, where guests manufacture sweat by pedaling, jogging, and rewinding hundreds of VHS tapes. Checkerboard pathways venture toward the Retro Blends juice bar with baristas who blend made-to-order fruit smoothies using whey protein and yogurt.

Owner Jeremy Barnett and his trainers don’t sit back idly and simply recommend getting in shape with CrossFit exercise but also sweat alongside their patrons, furthering their own journeys to fitness. Phil Roberts—now one of Jeremy’s CrossFit¬-certified trainers—shed more than 100 pounds working his body with CrossFit and now inspires students to meet their own weight-loss goals. CrossFit Thoroughbreds’ staff believes that dull routines inhibit progress, changing the nature of the exercises they direct daily and always posting the current date’s workout online. Small groups battle calories and fat within the facility's stripped-down warehouse-like facility, which houses climbing ropes, free weights, and gymnastics equipment, building camaraderie as participants motivate one another while blasting through reps or levitating to the ceiling with only the strength of their minds.

Overseen by Dareld R. Morris II, DO, Morris Medical Center welcomes patients for family medical care and guided weight-loss programs. As a certified civil surgeon and medical-review officer, Dr. Morris helps ensure that recruits are fit to enter the Coast Guard, that children are fit to start school, and that monsters are fit to leave children’s bedroom closets. In addition to helping patients quit smoking and lose weight, Dr. Morris encourages healthy lifestyles by overseeing physical and massage therapies.

After acting as Florida Gulf Coast University's director of fitness and intramural sports, certified personal trainer Jason Cobb channeled his passion for physical prowess into founding CrossFit Fort Myers. There, his fellow coaches bring fire-fighting and intensely athletic backgrounds to match his 14 years of strength and conditioning experience, leading specialized courses that challenge the mental and physical stamina of each client.

CrossFit's catalogue of functional movements—actions that recall real-life motions such as lifting, jumping, throwing, and pushing—provide an adaptable base for classes focused on mothers, football players, and exercise newbies. Though the gym's patrons come from all walks of life, they must demonstrate an unwavering devotion to personal betterment and an ability to lift weights with their minds before entering its exclusive ranks.

Katie Romano Griffin began her health career as a nurse. After observing the powerful effects of hypnotherapy at the integrative medicine practice she ran, she believed she could make more of a difference in people's lives through working with the subconscious mind. Griffin embarked on a two-year study of hypnotherapy. She integrated her findings into a broader life coaching methodology designed to treat issues ranging from paralytic social anxiety to a fear of bridges.

During her healing sessions, Katie combines the breadth of life coaching with the depth of hypnosis. She examines the patient's life from infancy to adulthood with questions and mental exercises, while delving into the subconscious with the help of relaxation techniques that the patient can repeat at home. Through these methods, Griffin has successfully treated smoking addictions, issues with overeating, and stress. “It is amazing to see someone light up,” she says of her newly liberated patients.

In addition to helping people through one-on-one sessions, the Griffin reaches a wider audience as an inspirational speaker and an author.