Today we’d like to introduce you to Chelsea Bellinger.
So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story.
I have always been in the health and wellness world. Growing up I witnessed my dad transform people’s lives through fitness. As a dancer for nearly 20 years, my own personal health and wellness has always been extremely important to me. In college, I studied Kinesiology and Nutrition and fell in love with learning about the human body, how it worked and what we can do to help the bodywork in the most efficient and healthy way. While in college, I came down to Houston for an internship at Dynamic Sports Training. I had the opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best professionals in the sports performance industry. I was blessed to be offered a position upon graduation and I moved down to Houston. Fresh out of college, I started my position as Director of Adult Fitness at Dynamic Sports Training.
Most recently in this position, I have worked alongside my co-workers to help develop a new identity for our adult fitness community; E3: Equip Encourage Empower. My goal in my career is to help encourage individuals throughout their healthy lifestyle journey. I love all things health and wellness. I enjoy collaborating with other professionals and creating an environment for my clients and community members that empowers them to live their best, healthy life.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced is working with clients to break the mold of what they think fitness and health look like and truly diving deeper to discover their “why” and what they really want to achieve with their healthy lifestyle. I want to work alongside them to find ways they can effectively and safely do so. There are so many unrealistic ideals within society and floating out on social media of what fitness and health look like. Helping people switch their focus and mindset away from that and focus more on a sustainable healthy lifestyle can definitely be challenging.
Please tell us about E3: Equip Encourage Empower.
E3 is a community that is dedicated to equipping, encouraging and empowering the members of its community to achieve independence within their healthy lifestyle. As a community, we equip our members with education about what a healthy lifestyle really means and we help give them tools needed to implement those things into their own life. For those seeking out help on specific goals or need assistance really getting started, we do offer personalized plans. We start with a free consultation where we discuss specific goals. After the consultation, we offer assessments for clients to help give them a sense of where they are truly starting. From there, we collaborate on ways we can revamp their eating habits and I create a personalized workout program based on their goals. This is great because we can do this for those who are local to Houston but we can also help those who aren’t local but still need assistance and also want to support system to help them with their journey. We encourage them through this process as well.
We have an awesome Facebook community where we share a lot of our own stories and our own challenges to help encourage each other. We celebrate even the small victories people make because those small victories truly do add up to amazing change. With all the work that we do, we hope that our community members feel empowered and feel in control of their health and wellness. The main focus of our community is helping to give people independence in their healthy lifestyle. All too often, people start going to trainers or health coaches and they follow exactly what those professionals say. They often see great results from doing this but when they stop getting guidance from these professionals, they don’t really know where to go from there. When this happens, they tend to fall back into old habits and ways. We want to end that vicious cycle.
As a community, we strive to educate our members to give them independence in their life, not make them dependent on us to live a healthy lifestyle. We want to be able to help people through those hard times but also celebrate the small victories and those big victories people achieve. Something that we love to do with our community is our Barbells + Brunch brunch events. It is an event, once a month, when we get the community members together. We do a free bootcamp-style workout all together then we Go grab a nutritious brunch together afterwards. It is awesome opportunity for members to meet each other and establish a support system. Although COVID-19 has put a halt to our Barbell + Brunch events for the time being, we still offer small group classes, one-on-one training, and we are always connecting with our community virtually! What I love most about our E3 community is that we have such a diverse group of all ages and fitness levels. No matter where you are in your health and wellness journey, we want to be there to help you!
Is there a characteristic or quality that you feel is essential to success?
Compassion, adaptability, patience and the desire to continuously learn are extremely important. Trusting someone to help you with your health and wellness is a very vulnerable task. I truly want to listen to every client or community member I came in contact with. I want to know to learn about their life, their past experiences and what they want for their future because those are all things that will help me do my job more effectively. I want to show my compassion because there are so many people who struggle with their health and feel like they have no control over it. I want to encourage them, not make them feel discouraged because they are not where they want to be quite yet. I am blessed that I get to work with a diverse group of clientele. It requires me to adapt and be creative when making personalized plans for my clients.
There is no secret recipe because no two people are the same. There is a lot of trial and error that can come along with helping someone achieve their goals. I have to adapt and be willing to change my approach for different clients. Every person moves at a different pace so when it comes to working with clients, I have to be patient and also help them be patient with themselves. Our society thrives off of instant gratification but when it comes to making lifestyle changes, it’s not realistic to have that mindset. I work with my clients to celebrate their small victories, non-scale victories and major victories alike to help keep them motivated towards their goals. I love to learn. I make it a goal of mine to learn something new or refresh my knowledge on something every day. The health and wellness world is ever-changing. If I am not continuously seeking out new knowledge, I am not doing my due diligence as a professional.
Pricing:
- E3 Unlimited Membership – $149/month
- Membership includes unlimited access to all on-site classes and our open gym time slots where you will receive a workout plan that is personalized to your goals
- With the membership you also receive a 15%. discount on an assessment.
- Biomechanical & Nutrition Assessment – $199
- The assessment includes a biomechanical assessment in which we assess your movement patterns to identify any impingements or imbalances you may have. You will receive a list of re-education exercises that you can do help increase your range of motion, mobility and flexibility.
- The assessment also includes a nutritional assessment. For this assessment body composition measurements are taken and a questionnaire is completed to assess your energy expenditure. These results are then used to develop nutritional guidelines that can be used to help you achieve your individual goals.
- Off-Site Workout Plan – $49/4-week plan
- These plans are great for people are already have gym membership or equipment at home but are unsure of what to do to reach your goal . These plans include video and an in-person or virtual meeting to go over the program and answer any questions, There is no subscription or obligation to these plans.
Contact Info:
- Address: 2700 West Sam Houston Pkwy N, Houston, TX 77043
- Website: www.mye3lifestyle.com
- Phone: 713-899-2114
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: @crbellingerfit & @equip.encourage.empower
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/equipencourageempower
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