Why Keith?

Working together is a partnership that is goal-oriented, personalized, and built around your unique needs. Fostering genuine relationships focused on collaboration and achieving the results you want is the key to success. Let’s talk about your needs and goals and how I can help you.


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Services

Explore personalized fitness options designed to help you feel stronger, live healthier, move with confidence, and enjoy a happier, more active life.

Personalized Training

Personalized training delivers high value tailoring content, pacing, and goals to the specific needs of each learner instead of using a rigid, one-size-fits-all approach.

Aquatic Fitness

Exercising in water can be a very low-impact workout that uses buoyancy to protect joints while water's natural resistance builds strength to improve heart health and lower stress.

Balance and Fall Prevention Training

We will assess what you need to work on when we meet. Balance, your gait and how you move through the world is important and can be easily worked on and important to pay attention to as we age.

Nutrition

Personalized training delivers high value tailoring content, pacing, and goals to the specific needs of each learner instead of using a rigid, one-size-fits-all approach.

Monitor Vitals & Personalized Care

Advanced technology continuously monitors key health metrics, providing real-time insights into your well-being. Personalized care plans use this information to support proactive, informed decisions tailored to each individual’s needs.

Come to you with Equipment

Depending where you are located, Keith may be able to come to you. He is currently residing in Tampa Florida.

Testimonials

  • I can't say enough incredible things about Keith. Even when I am not in the mood to work out he somehow gets me into it which completely changes my mental state. I always feel happier, stronger and lighter after we meet.

    Karen

  • "Keith motives me to be better, work harder, and live well. He never makes me feel guilty about what I ate or if I am low energy. It's a relationship built on trust."

    Peter

  • I have been working with Keith for about 8 years, starting when I was 66 years old. Although I had previously worked with many fine trainers, it was immediately apparent that Keith brought a higher level of sophistication and nuance to my workout routine. Keith’s approach is client centric: whether it is working on chronic problems or addressing acute needs. Using a deep understanding of the body, he constructs individualized exercises, which he adjusts as needed during the session. He is especially talented with clients in their 60s, 70s and 80s. As a 75-year-old, I feel lucky to have found someone who can increase my fitness, balance, flexibility and strength, and is very responsible about making sure I exercise safely. If you want to increase the likelihood of being able, as you age, to continue to enjoy physical activities while avoiding injuries which often come with aging (e.g. falling, inflexibility, back aches etc.), Keith is your man. And, in addition, Keith's intelligence and a sense of humor makes every session a joy! As you can tell, I am a big fan. Book a couple of sessions with Keith – you won’t regret it!

    Daniel

  • I met Keith more than twenty years ago, when he was working with our teenage daughter on strength and conditioning for her competitive swimming. His level of knowledge and his abilities were evident to me then, but I didn't start training with him immediately. However, about twelve years ago I started to work out with him, and my only regret is that I didn't start earlier! Not only has Keith improved my strength, endurance, flexibility and balance, but I genuinely have fun while exercising with him. We sing, laugh and joke and an hour passes in a flash; sessions with Keith are like spending an hour with a good friend, but with the added benefit of improving my health!

    Karen L

  • "There is no better trainer out there."

    Barbara

  • I have been working with Keith for almost 15 years. He is unfailingly great to train with. He listens and consistently comes up with a program best suited to my needs at the moment. He is patient and encouraging. I rely on him as a critical component of my ongoing effort to stay healthy and fit. 

    Willys S. Kals

  • Keith Gittens has been my physical trainer for about ten years—first, in person, at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan and then, on Zoom, after he relocated to Florida during the Covid pandemic.  I have worked with other trainers but never with anyone who compared.  I think because Keith is so friendly and so comfortable with himself, he puts me at ease in a way no one else has.  This is especially important for people my age (I am 77): Keith never makes me feel self-conscious; he is willing to adapt our sessions so that they speak to the “complaint” of the moment; he is smart and always available when I want remedies for physical aches and pains; and most important of all, he never lets me doubt the value of exercise.  Until I began working with Keith, I had only a vague sense that exercise was good for you; now, I believe it can transform the body, increase one’s capacity, make a person healthier.

    Amy

  • Coach Keith is a trainer exemplar. Others can and should learn from him. I have trained with Couch Keith  ( aka Gettin ‘ Sweaty) since ___. I am a charter member of the JCC. When I joined I had never been to a gym before. I was 60 years old and wanted a place that felt comfortable and safe to explore the potentialities of my aging body. I worked with several  JCC trainers before starting with Keith. Why did I switch to Keith? What attracted me to him was his enthusiasm, his respect for his own body and those of others. I witnessed before experiencing his deep belief that a healthy body and mind go hand in hand. I watched Keith training others and saw that he adjusted the training to the strength and confidence of the trainee, always emphasizing making the trainee feel confident, secure, and good about herself. I wanted to feel the Gittens touch and asked him to train me. I am forever grateful to have BODY BY GITTENS. My body has transformed into one I am proud of. Keith never forces me beyond my comfort level but rather gently encourages small steps to larger gains. I feel safe with him. He is forever encouraging and rooting on  my efforts. He takes time before a session to ask how I am and genuinely cares. He is attentive to injuries and I have never been injured under his supervision. Unlike other trainers, he is not always on his phone pretending to be timing but actually doing emails or personal business. Keith demonstrates and guides through the process. He always makes it fun. His smile is infectious. Keith puts his heart soul and knowledge into training. Working with Keith is a privilege. 

    Barbara L. Blum, Ph.D.

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