Kathleen Riley is a certified personal trainer, holding credentials with the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and the American Council on Exercise as an Orthopedic Exercise Specialist. Her teaching style is both educational and empowering, fun and focused. She encourages her personal training clients to connect to the body they are working in that day, helping them concentrate on what they can do, rather than their limitations. She strives to go above and beyond cursory goals. Instead of putting stock in just dropping weight, she wants to help her clients work towards something more significant like lowering a more important number, like cholesterol or body mass index, or stunning old friends at a high school reunion. Beyond the gym Kathleen loves spending time with her family biking, skiing, or walking through the windy streets of a new city.

KATHLEEN

PERSONAL TRAINER & PILATES INSTRUCTOR

Laura Newbold has been teaching and training in a number of modalities at Benefitness for over 30 years. Her emphasis is on body/mind integration, alignment, progression and learning self-assessment in her programs. She teaches mat classes and reformer in our studio with a combination of Stott and traditional Pilates techniques.

Laura lives in Brookline and has two adult children, Marco and Nika.

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"Benefitness has all the machines I want. The Pilates and TRX small group classes are excellent. I've done a lot of Pilates Reformer classes and these rank with the best. The vibe is very friendly as well. A little friendlier and more relaxed than other clubs I have gone to. Just seems more like home. A real sense of belonging there."

- Katherine