Allison Hopkins: Owner, Brunswick, ME Location
Hello! My name is Allison Hopkins, and I am the owner of Wilcox Wellness & Fitness in Brunswick, Maine. I'd like to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about what inspired me to make a career change and open this new business.
I have always had an interest in health & fitness. I enjoy being outside and exploring new activities that keep me active as well as discovering new recipes and ingredients to prepare healthy meals for my husband and I. But like so many people, as I have grown older and become busier with my job I have struggled to find the time to stay as active as I once was. Delving back into activities like I'm still 20 is usually met with aches and strains that slow my ability to fully embrace the active life style that was once a major part of my life.
I have a background in the sciences, and for the past 12 years I have worked in a corporate sales job for a large scientific supply distribution company. Like many busy professionals, my work environment led
I have always had an interest in health & fitness. I enjoy being outside and exploring new activities that keep me active as well as discovering new recipes and ingredients to prepare healthy meals for my husband and I. But like so many people, as I have grown older and become busier with my job I have struggled to find the time to stay as active as I once was. Delving back into activities like I'm still 20 is usually met with aches and strains that slow my ability to fully embrace the active life style that was once a major part of my life.
I have a background in the sciences, and for the past 12 years I have worked in a corporate sales job for a large scientific supply distribution company. Like many busy professionals, my work environment led
to poor posture, and combined with reduced time for physical activity, it was starting to take it's toll. I could hardly imagine how I might feel at 60 if I continued to feel the way I did at 40. Finding time to get to the gym is challenging, and once there I struggled to know what to do without paying the consequences of aching joints and sore muscles the next day.
It's funny how life tends to put us on a path that we aren't fully aware of until an opportunity presents itself. I worked as a technical sales specialist, supporting account managers with our more technical scientific products. Through that job I met Paige Wilcox. Paige and her husband Mike opened Wilcox Wellness & Fitness in Bangor Maine back in 2012 with the goal of making their community a healthier place. Lucky for me, Paige worked for the same company as I did for several years before joining Mike full time in their business! Through our friendship I had the opportunity watch her and Mike build their business with passion like I've never seen in anyone before. I have been so inspired by Mike & Paige and the approach that they take to helping people identify and embrace the goals that are most important to their lives, educate them on healthy habits that have a massive impact on reaching those goals, and providing an environment that is supportive, motivating and fun. They have created an approach to health & fitness that really allows people to get physically active amongst the various responsibilities of family and work. Any time I visited Bangor I'd join a training session at Wilcox Wellness & Fitness and I would feel AMAZING! I found exactly what I needed to get back on track to rebuild muscles that had been inadvertently neglected through compensated movement that I had adopted to cope with aches and pains.
In 2017 Mike & Paige were contemplating ways to expand the impact that they had in Bangor to other communities. They decided that a franchising approach was the best avenue to achieve their goal. Wilcox Wellness & Fitness - Brunswick is the first location in the new WILCOX Franchise. I am so excited to be working with Mike & Paige Wilcox to bring this amazing approach to health & Wellness to Brunswick.
I am eager to take the knowledge that I learned through my scientific education, the learning opportunities that I experienced in business through my corporate sales career, and my desire to help others, and apply it all in a way that I hope will inspire others to pursue their personal journey in discovering a healthier and happier life. I want to do my small part to make the community that we live in healthier, and with the ability to live life to its fullest potential. We live in such an amazingly beautiful place, and there is no greater gift that having the physical health that allows us to live every moment to its absolute fullest.
Paul Leach II - NASM & CFSC Certified Personal Trainer
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My name is Paul Leach and I've been a personal trainer for over 10 years. I am NASM and CFSC certified, and specialize in functional and corrective movements.
My journey in fitness started as a client struggling with injuries and personal fitness goals. It was through my own journey that I found my passion for helping others achieve great things through fitness. I am continually seeking out new knowledge and education to help me to continually expand and improve upon how I trains clients. |
I strive to support clients at all stages of their fitness journey by creating effective training sessions for clients and helping them have fun in the process.
You'll always find me with a smile on my face. My true passion lies in helping people accomplish their goals, and I am excited to be supporting you in your health & fitness goals at Wilcox Wellness & Fitness.
You'll always find me with a smile on my face. My true passion lies in helping people accomplish their goals, and I am excited to be supporting you in your health & fitness goals at Wilcox Wellness & Fitness.
Tennyson Tappan, ACE Certified Personal Trainer
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My name is Tennyson Tappan. I began studying for my personal training certification after realizing the amazing benefits of making health & wellness a priority in my life. When I got involved in a regular fitness routine I immediately recognized the positive effects it had on all aspects of my life.
Through a community of supportive people in my training journey I was inspired to give back by becoming a personal trainer. I received my ACE certification in August of 2018. |
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My goal as a personal trainer is to show people that fitness doesn't have to be all about getting the reps in. I want to help people recognize how fitness can empower you both physically and emotionally, enabling you to conquer all that life has to throw at you, and to live your very best life.
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Our mission is to inspire people to enhance their life by forming healthy habits that they can sustain for a lifetime. We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic people to support our clients throughout their health and fitness journey.