2015-16 Complete Fitness & Spa Program

Michael Podwal Pilates Trainer

Native New Yorker, Graduate of The High School ofPerforming Arts (Music Dept.); Scholarship student at The Juilliard School of Music (Dance Dept.). Performed on Broadway, Television and Movies. Worked for Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Donald Mckayle, Jaime Rogers and Anna Sokolow. He moved to Los Angeles in 1972 to assist choreographer Jaime Rogers on The Sonny and Cher Show and Mary Tyler Moore Television Specials. Under the auspices of Dr. James Garrick he created the first Pilates Certification Program with the 1979 opening of The St. Francis Memorial Hospital’s Sports Medicine Center in San Francisco. He trained Karma Kinztler in implementing Pilates at The Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona and relocated to Florida in 1999, where he began the Pilates program at Frenchman’s Creek in 2000.

Mike Soldo Personal Trainer, Massage Therapist NASM, LMT# MA38063

Mike Soldo has over 22 years experience as a fitness trainer. He is certified through The National Academy of Sports Medicine and The Titleist Performance Institute as a golf fitness instructor. He is certified to teach Mat Pilates, Dynamic Stretching, he is a Senior Fitness Specialist and has completed the TRX group Rip Training Course. Michael has also been in massage therapy for 12 years through Palm Beach Academy.