First Step Fitness Mission - Cutting-Edge Personal Training
At First Step Fitness, our personal training goals are to provide our clients with the most positive and productive fitness experience around. Likewise, it's our goal to groom fellow personal trainers to be the best, most knowledgeable specialists on the cutting edge of the fitness industry. We strive to expand our services to provide amenities that reach every aspect of health and wellness. We do this through a combination of Crossfit, Boot Camp, team workouts within the largest personal training gym in Long Beach, and another top facility in Newport Beach.
All of these goals are in the hope that our clients will have the most motivating gym environment to produce the fastest and most permanent results. We stand by this mission and promise our clients that even though we will only employ the best most qualified professionals, we humbly recognize that the way to truly progress is to never stop the desire to learn. “The First Step to getting to where you want to be is deciding that you will not stay where you are!”
Our Team
Mike Matuz, CEO
Mike started working as a personal trainer in several different sports clubs during college at Chapman University. There, as a collegiate athlete he used his sports background to create a variety of innovative training systems for his clients. Mike received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing from Chapman University along with several National accreditations in health, fitness, nutrition, and wellness. From its humble beginnings in 2007 for local college students, Mike has since grown First Step Fitness to serve a diverse population of entrepreneurs and emerging young professionals from Orange County to Los Angeles. He is proud to have created a fitness system that is a platform for creating vibrant health and wealth for his clients. It is his hope to not only help his clients physically, but help create strategic business connections among all of his clientele.
Amanda Matuz, VP of Training
Mike’s wife Amanda Matuz brought a new dynamic to First Step Fitness by offering Thera-Flex, a program implementing flexibility, posture, alignment, and balance. Due to this unique service, First Step Fitness has grown immensely and by 2011 will have four convenient training locations in Los Angeles and Orange County.
Dr. Randy Ramirez, Chiropractor
Dr. Randy Ramirez served in the United States Navy for 4 years. He followed up his service in the military by working as a personal trainer. He took the core values of the military and inspired people to better themselves physically and emotionally. After years of training he went on to study at Los Angeles College of Chiropractic where he received his Doctorate. In addition to Chiropractic Care he also provides Active Release Techniques which is the Gold Standard muscle therapy that specializes in breaking up scar tissue and restoring proper biomechanics.
If you are thinking of attaining a certain weight, raising your level of health through diet and exercise, or just need a fitness trainer to make sure you stay on track so your daily experiences do not stray you, then you definitely need to contact Amanda at First Step Fitness."
— Paul Podraza, First Step Fitness Member
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