Tracy Beardsley
President
Certified Personal Trainer (ACE)
Certified Fitness Consultant (CSEP)
Personal Lifestyle Coach (in training)

With a passion for health, fitness and physical exercise, Tracy Beardsley began her career in fitness in 1994. This passion, coupled with her love for working with people at a personal level, has focussed her approach on helping individuals to believe in themselves, set realistic health and fitness goals, and achieve them. Tracy's personal successes as a marathon runner, adventure race survivor, cyclocross racing participant and cyclist are foundational to her support for her clients, as she motivates them to pursue their own personal fitness goals.

From her beginnings as an aerobics instructor, Tracy soon expanded her range of services and established herself in the fitness market in Ottawa. She incorporated her business, TJFit, in 1997.

Working as a consultant for the YMCA in Ottawa, TJ Fit started and developed the Ottawa YMCA's program of personal training for members. Within two years the program was well established and running on its own.

In 2000, TJ Fit expanded and opened a studio where clients could get personal training in physical fitness. The range of services was also broadened to include small group fitness activities, such as adult and teen spinning workouts, a running club, sports-conditioning, drumming, an adventure club, and cycling trips.

In 2002, on the strength of its success, TJ Fit expanded again by moving to larger premises, such that the studio can be used simultaneously for personal training sessions , spinning classes, fitness assessments, flexibility, posture, strength-training, stability-ball, and circuit-training classes and by studio members who follow a fitness program on their own with standard equipment, including treadmills, an EFX, an upright bike, a rower, free-weights and benches, and stability balls.

Despite this growth, the positive environment and personal touch is not lost at TJ Fit. Personal training is still the primary service. If you have a health and fitness goal (or if your doctor tells you to get one), a certified personal trainer at TJ Fit will help you to map out your goal in light of your needs and limitations and take the steps to achieve it. Or, if you are looking for group activities that are fun yet have a definite fitness component, a variety of options are open at TJ Fit, each led by a trained, certified instructor.

For a lifetime of fitness, contact TJ Fit at tracy@tjfit.com.

Tracy Beardsley
President
Certified Personal Trainer (ACE)
Certified Fitness Consultant (CSEP)
Personal Lifestyle Coach (in training)

Murray Kronick
Murray is a very active 50-something year-old athlete. He hikes, power-walks, stair-climbs, teaches spinning classes  and is a star 2 instructor , road cycles, skis, plays golf and more. He has cycled the Cabot Trail with TJ Fit twice (three times if you count playing golf around the trail the first time). He has been a NCCP certified coach in baseball and soccer, as well as being a certified Level 1 soccer referee.

He is very involved in his professional association (Certified Management Consultants of Canada) as well as with his alma mater (Concordia University Alumni Association).

He writes articles for Healthwise Ottawa magazine, including his latest article on Olympic athletes at www.healthwiseottawa.com .

He even manages to squeeze in time for his day job - a senior management consultant with Interis Consulting in Ottawa, which provides him with a wide variety of challenging assignments to help clients grow their organizations.