Keeping the resolutions
Mike Sciacca
HE IS
A personal trainer with a personal touch.
HELPING OTHERS ACHIEVE BETTER HEALTH
At the start of any new year, most of us make promises to ourselves
and resolutions to keep. In the area of health and fitness, Andrew Huang,
a personal trainer at 24-Hr. Fitness in Huntington Beach, is a trained
professional who can help people seeking a better body attain their
personal goals.
Huang has an extensive background in fitness, heralding back to his
athletic days as a youngster. Now 27, he has recently ascended to the
position of fitness manager and is one of 14 personal trainers at the
gym.
“It’s a great job. Helping people reach their goals really is
rewarding in many ways,” Huang said.
AN EDUCATION IN THE WAYS OF THE HUMAN BODY
The Huntington Beach resident, who says he has spent his entire life
in the area, first got involved with the gym in 1997. He did so while
attending Orange Coast College, where he studied anatomy and physiology,
and later, kinesiology. He first worked the front desk and the graveyard
shift but now can be found at the gym during daytime business hours, six
days a week.
The personable, personal trainer has received training certification
through a program offered by 24-Hr. Fitness. He currently is working
toward another certification and upon completion, will seek yet more
certification through the National Academy of Sports Medicine.
“These programs offer a way to continually upgrade your education and
receive up-to-date information in all matters of physical fitness,” said
Huang, who stated that ultimately, he plans on attaining a degree in
physical therapy.
Currently, he is training up to 30 clients per week.
“At this time of year, everybody wants to begin a personalized program
that will help them achieve what they consider to be their ideal body,”
he said.
A WELL-ROUNDED EMPLOYEE
Huang also has an extensive background in dance -- he has been part of
the excellent dance program offered at Orange Coast College, the Marriott
Dance Center in Westminster and the OC Dance Center in Huntington Beach
-- and occasionally works as a substitute aerobic instructor, mainly in
hip-hop classes, at the gym.
He says the greatest reward about his work is seeing a client make a
change for the better -- and continue down the path of good health and
staying fit.
“It is awesome when you see a definite change in a client, or when
someone actually tells me that they have received an education in the
gym,” he said.
* MIKE SCIACCA is the education and sports reporter. He can be reached
at (714) 965-7171 or by e-mail at michael.sciacca@latimes.com.
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