Testimonials for Carla Quam

1. The best trainer I have ever worked with. Changed my life.

2. Carla Quam is out­stand­ing. She designs inter­est­ing, var­ied work­outs appro­pri­ate for your level of fit­ness while know­ing how hard to push. She is excep­tional at teach­ing you how to per­form each exer­cise cor­rectly such that you achieve max­i­mal ben­e­fit and avoid injury at the same time. I used to hate work­ing out until I met Carla.

3. I love work­ing out at Out­ra­geously Fit! Carla Quam is amaz­ing. It’s a com­fort­able, well equipped space and my work­outs are var­ied, yet tar­geted to exactly what I need each time. Carla gives one on one atten­tion for the full hour, even in a group set­ting. The price is right too! Very rea­son­able for the ben­e­fit that I get twice a week, every week.

4. I have been a client of Carla’s for a while now and the results have been out­ra­geous! The facil­i­ties are inti­mate and clean and they have every­thing needed for a com­plete work­out. Carla assessed my ini­tial sit­u­a­tion and tai­lored a pro­gram that fit my goals. She is great to work with, and I have never had the same work­out twice. I always leave feel­ing tired and feel­ing good. I really like the focus on the basics of strength build­ing, core exer­cises and aer­o­bic train­ing. After 4 months I lost 12 pounds of fat and gained 4 pounds of mus­cle and I can’t describe the change in atti­tude I have about my own body image. I’ve vis­ited the new LA Fit­ness down the block and left starry-eyed at the facil­i­ties, but the per­son­al­ized train­ing reg­i­men I receive from Carla could never be dupli­cated there.

5. We first met Carla nearly 15 years ago through a refer­ral from one of her clients. Approx­i­mately 8 years ago, we started work­ing out together with Carla twice weekly as a way to spend time together while doing some­thing that was ben­e­fi­cial for our phys­i­cal health. We had tried gym mem­ber­ships in the past, how­ever, con­sis­tently found that a mem­ber­ship pro­vided far too many easy excuses for skip­ping work­outs. We found that Carla con­sis­tently mon­i­tors our progress from ses­sion to ses­sion and helps us meet our indi­vid­ual goals. One of our favorite aspects of work­ing out with Carla as our per­sonal trainer is that you never repeat the same work­out twice! After 5 years of work­outs Carla still has the abil­ity to push us to the point of exhaus­tion while hav­ing fun and pro­vid­ing encour­age­ment when nec­es­sary. Work­ing out at Out­ra­geously Fit is never boring!!

6. I have known Carla for over 17 years. I am con­stantly amazed at how knowl­edge­able, skilled, and ahead of the times she always is in the area of fit­ness and per­sonal train­ing. She has high expec­ta­tions of the other train­ers in the stu­dio as well. Your spe­cific needs are focused on, and with your trainer’s help, you will reach your goals an beyond. The stu­dio is well set up with a wide array of equip­ment. There are pri­vate one on one ses­sions, small group work­outs, classes, and events avail­able. Once you start Out­ra­geously Fit you will won­der why it took you so long!

7. Train­ing with Carla has been fan­tas­tic. She is inno­v­a­tive, direct, and focused, yet also man­ages to let you know she gen­uinely cares about your over­all health and well-being. While mus­cle ton­ing and strength-training are key areas of Carla’s train­ing style, she addresses car­dio­vas­cu­lar and flex­i­bil­ity as well — build­ing an indi­vid­u­al­ized train­ing pro­gram that is chal­leng­ing, inter­est­ing, and fun. She is the per­fect blend in a trainer — tough when you need it, and an uncanny abil­ity to push you far­ther than you think you can go. I highly rec­om­mend her!

8. In 1996 I was try­ing to main­tain not smok­ing, decrease my weight, and get in shape. I had joined a gym six months before and worked out reg­u­larly, but was just not get­ting the results I wanted. A friend told me to try a per­sonal trainer, but I thought that per­sonal train­ers were for wealthy peo­ple already in great shape.

   Finally, I decided to try it out and that is when I dis­cov­ered Carla Quam. I have trained with Carla since 1996 and in those years I have got­ten more fit, stayed off of cig­a­rettes, and learned how to make fit­ness my lifestyle. I have a bad knee and because of Carla’s unique expe­ri­ence in deal­ing with joint injuries, my knee is the strongest it has ever been. I have much less pain with it and haven’t injured it from work­ing out since I started train­ing with Carla, even though we some­times really work my legs.

   I have been train­ing at Out­ra­geously Fit (OF) since it first opened and would never think of going any­where else. I have taken many of the classes at OF and know all the train­ers. Each one offers a unique style and inter­est in fit­ness, mak­ing OF one of the most diverse and fun places I have ever worked out at. In addi­tion to giv­ing their clients great train­ing, I feel that the peo­ple at OF pro­vide a won­der­ful sup­port net­work for all aspects of fit­ness and health. Whether I have a ques­tion about fit­ness, nutri­tion, mas­sage or even my son’s grow­ing pains, I can always ask some­one at the stu­dio and they gladly point me in the right direction.

   In all the years I have trained at O.F., I have never felt bored or stuck on a plateau. I am con­stantly chal­lenged and feel like I con­tinue to move for­ward in fit­ness. I haven’t used a weight machine at a health club in years, yet, I have never felt stronger than I do now. OF takes fit­ness to the next level and that is why I love going there.

9. Carla has been my per­sonal trainer for approx­i­mately 12 years. She’s very knowl­edge­able and very skill­ful, but to me her great­est tal­ent is her abil­ity to focus on her clients per­sonal goals and to find meth­ods to help each client attain them.

   When I came to her ini­tially I wanted to lose fat and get in bet­ter shape but felt phys­i­cally defeated because of mobil­ity prob­lems caused by a frozen shoul­der. Hours of phys­i­cal ther­apy had done lit­tle to help me beyond tem­porar­ily eas­ing the pain. Carla was ter­rific. She cre­ated result-producing ses­sions for our time together. She referred me to a R.D. who devised an eat­ing pro­gram that worked for me. She helped me get a pul­ley sys­tem for my shoul­der, and devel­oped a com­plete work-out pro­gram I could use with it at home to sup­ple­ment our work in the stu­dio. It has all worked beau­ti­fully for me. I’m happy with my weight, I’m back to full mobil­ity with my shoul­der, and I’m much, much stronger.

   The recent remod­el­ing of Carla’s stu­dio is really just icing on the cake. I couldn’t imag­ine going any­where else. For me there’s no one bet­ter able to give me the per­sonal atten­tion I need to be in the phys­i­cal shape I want.

10. started going to Out­ra­geously Fit about 11 years ago. Although I had used per­sonal train­ers in the past I have never had any­one who was as thor­ough and capa­ble as Carla Quam. I am 55 years old and when I started with Carla I weighed 158 pounds, and on my 6’2″ frame was not much. I also was not very toned or strong. I am now weigh­ing in at 165 pounds with no flab anywhere.

    I went ski­ing for the first time in 30 years and am about to take up squash. Not only does work­ing out help get your body in shape but men­tally I feel I can do any­thing phys­i­cal with­out being afraid. Par­tic­u­larly because we don’t just work on bulk­ing up or get­ting great abs or pecs, but a major part of the work­out is devoted to bal­ance and work­ing in areas of your body that give you your under­ly­ing strength i.e: rota­tor cuff; knee sta­bil­ity exer­cises. No trainer has worked these areas before.

    Also, my past train­ers have never exhib­ited such patience. It has been a plea­sure to work out with Carla, and I look for­ward to her keep­ing me in shape for many years to come.

11. I came to Out­ra­geously Fit as a per­son who hated exer­cise. I had finally real­ized that the only way I was going to start doing it reg­u­larly was to have some­one forc­ing me to both show up and work to my poten­tial. After check­ing out and decid­ing against a cou­ple of other train­ing stu­dios, I met with Carla, and right away I knew I’d found my fit­ness guide.

    Carla is a ter­rific moti­va­tor with skills in reha­bil­i­ta­tion and in help­ing peo­ple to over­come fit­ness blocks and injuries. I was sur­prised when I found out we wouldn’t just be work­ing on the reg­u­lar old ‘weights and car­dio’ rou­tine, but would also be adding in a num­ber of exer­cises designed to increase bal­ance and sta­bil­ity. I didn’t know I needed these, but after a few months of them I real­ized that a life­time of knee prob­lems may not be in my future after all. Instead, I’ve devel­oped sta­ble joints and a strong core, and feel that I can par­tic­i­pate in activ­i­ties I wouldn’t have dared before.

    As a trainer, Carla has helped me iden­tify my strong fit­ness areas and has designed pro­grams that made me learn to enjoy work­ing out, finally. She also con­tin­ues to help me improve my weaker areas. Addi­tion­ally, she is a very flex­i­ble trainer — I had a repetitive-strain injury so she was able to design a whole new type of work­out so that I would still get a strength work­out with­out over­tax­ing my arms — pretty amazing!

    Carla is the sort of per­son who expects great­ness from you, so you are inspired to it your­self. So that, even on days when you don’t really care about let­ting your­self down, you never want to let her down, and that gets you through. This is a qual­ity found only in the best teach­ers, and you will find it in Carla Quam at Out­ra­geously Fit.