Jan Kerrigan
Owner, ACE Certified Personal Trainer
Certified Cancer Exercise Specialist
Jan Kerrigan has her degree in Business Management and Accounting and has worked in the corporate world most of her life. Her life took a dramatic turn in 2007 when she was diagnosed with colon cancer. Since that time she has made many changes in her life. In 2012 she hired Jay Weitzner as her personal trainer and realized the benefits that proper training can offer – she lost over 50 pounds and increased strength, endurance and felt better than she had in years. After that experience, she decided to become a Personal Trainer herself and later that year she opened Symmetry with Jay.
Jan became a certified personal trainer in 2014. She became a student of the Resistance Training Specialist program in 2014.
In 2017 Jan became a Certified Cancer Exercise Specialist from the Cancer Exercise Training Institute. That certification enables her to focus more on helping those that share the limitless challenges of cancer when it comes to exercise. Jan knows first hand the benefits that exercise offers.
Certifications And Continued Education
Exercise and Physics: Improve the Client Experience by Understanding the How of Mechanics
This advanced course is taught by Greg Mack, founder of Exercise Professional Education, Physician Fitness, and member of the Muscle System Consortia. Greg graduated from the US Navy Nuclear Engineering Program – US Naval Nuclear Power School – where he learned physics and mechanics, which he applied as a member of the engineering department of fast attack nuclear submarine. This course will introduce the Exercise Professional to the importance of understanding the mechanics of exercise by using the concepts and mathematics of statics starting from the vantage point of traditional exercises.
October 2019
Exercise and Inflammation – Johnny Cooke, Bio-Academics
Precision Human Performance.
There is a direct relationship between exercise and inflammation. During this full-day workshop, participants will gain a proper understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in inflammation response. This course explains the important differences between acute and chronic inflammation and their effects on both performance and health. Additional topics include exercise prescription and dosage, overtraining syndrome, bioenergetics, and risk factors of human disease.
April 2018
Certified Cancer Exercise Specialist
The Cancer Exercise Training Institute (CETI) provides health and fitness professionals with comprehensive coursework on twenty-five types of cancer as well as pediatrics, their surgeries and treatments, breast reconstruction, upper and lower body lymphedema prevention, identification, and management, cancer pain and fatigue, comprehensive fitness evaluations including postural assessment and goniometry.
May 2017
Muscle System Consortia: Intervention Strategies for the Exercise Specialist
Review the course contents of “Manual Muscle Testing: Art and Science”. Review the Qualitative Manual Assessment of Motor Control (QMAMC) and its use as a means of assessment and improvement of motor control. Practical Application of the QMAMC. Improve the practical understanding, the useful application, and the interpretation of information collected during the use of a “QMAMC”.
April 2017
Muscle System Consortia, Greg Mack
Client Intake Post Graduate Class
“Decision Making, Session Planning, and Exercise Process”
Learn new processes for improving motor control, Reinforce existing knowledge and competencies and create an open dialogue and sharing about new ideas and ways of addressing – via exercise -movement issues presented by clients
January 2017
Muscle System Consortia, Greg Mack – Physician’s Fitness
Client Intake -the general purpose of this program is to educate Muscle and Exercise Specialists on a system for marketing, selling, processing clients, and providing high-quality Muscle Health and Exercise services to individuals in a local community. To learn a philosophy and methodology that integrates the Muscle Health and Exercise skills, marketing, sales, data collection, legal, client education, and medical communication into a streamlined delivery model that accelerates the learning and delivering of Muscle Health and Exercise skills.
April – September 2016
Muscle System Consortia, Greg Mack – Physician’s Fitness
Manual Muscle Testing
Empower autonomous decision-making unique to your practice and individual circumstances. Improve the practical understanding, the useful application, and the interpretation of information collected during the use of a “Manual Muscle Test”.
April 2016
FNS 1: Principles of Human Motion
Emphasis on how Physical activities shape the body by stimulating tissues to adapt. Main focus is an understanding of how the physical forces that we apply (both internal and external) cause changes to the body and the brain.
September 2015
ACE Certified Personal Trainer
ACE, the world’s largest nonprofit health and fitness based on 30 years of science-based research. This program is built on the foundation of an Integrated Fitness Training Model, created to help health and fitness professionals deliver the type of individualized programs people need to adopt long-term, healthy behaviors.
September 2014
RTS – Continuum Training Upper Extremity
Resistance Training Specialist (RTS) Program
Identify the spectrum of planes available to the individual for pressing and pulling. Recognize the shoulder as the primary shear concern in the body and how to alter loading accordingly. Examine single joint and multi-joint pressing and pulling strength profiles and create appropriate resistance profiles. Identify the influence of restraint (bars, floor, machines, etc.) upon movement and ranges and how set up an individual to maximize effectiveness…
August 2014
RTS – Continuum Training Lower Extremity
Resistance Training Specialist (RTS) Program
Explore the real factors in LE alignment assessment and adjustment (it’s not the foot and knee, it’s the knee joint!). Distinguish between the knee and the patella-femoral joint and how keeping your knee behind your toe doesn’t solve the problem because it has nothing to do with your toe! Identify Valgus and Q-angle and modify forces via delivery and resistance-joint alignment. Explore hip, knee, and ankle function and output. Examine single joint and multi-joint pressing strength profiles…
July 2014
RTS – Continuum Training Trunk & Spine
Resistance Training Specialist (RTS) Program
Explore the value and accuracy of assessments like posture and how to implement it realistically. Distinguish between exercise for your “core” vs. exercises that simply involve your core to lesser degrees. Examine spinal structure influences for each exercise. Examine Trunk strength profiles and create appropriate resistance profiles. Explore perspectives on “weight loss” and why “cardio” for burning calories is not the best answer!
June 2014
Opened Symmetry Fitness
2012
Accounting & Business Courses
Completed courses for the application of recognized accounting principles and procedures to manage financial data and prepare financial reports. Education based on a wide range of tasks relating to strategic financial planning, management, and control.