Fitness Tailored to Your Body

Achieve Fitness Studio's training staff: Shari, Nick, owner Lisa DeSico-Boyd, and Jason.

Everyone has fitness goals. If you want to meet yours, you need a workout and nutritional plan that’s as unique as your body. At Achieve Fitness Studio in Rocky River, personalized fitness training starts on Day 1. Achieve Fitness is a personal training studio that offers one-on-one and small-group training, as well as sports and conditioning training.

An initial consultation gives your new trainer an idea of your fitness goals, and a physical assessment evaluates key areas of your current fitness, such as strength and endurance. “After we gather all that information, we sit down, talk about your goals again, and design your program based on your test and goals,” explains Lisa DeSico-Boyd, owner, trainer and fitness instructor at Achieve Fitness.

Lisa has been a personal trainer for more than two decades. She switched her graphic arts major to kinesiology during her sophomore year in college after she joined a gym to get into shape. “The next thing I knew, I loved working out so much that I became a fitness instructor and a personal trainer,” Lisa recalls.

Lisa has taught various fitness classes as well as personal training at gyms such as Bally Total Fitness, Fitworks and the Jewish Community Center. She managed three Fitness Together personal training studios (Chagrin Falls, Solon and Rocky River). Last March, Lisa took ownership of the Fitness Together studio and transformed it into Achieve Fitness. “Before, it was just personal training for one hour, and I noticed that a lot of people don’t have an hour to work out,” Lisa explains. “So I added 30-minute sessions for those who don’t have the time to do the hour session and 45-minute classes for those who like the group setting.”

Achieve Fitness offers Boot Camp classes and TRX Suspension Training. The 45-minute boot camp class is the most popular, Lisa says. “In the boot camp class, we incorporate various equipment in the studio, and it’s more of a circuit-style workout,” she explains. “You’re in different stations, so there might be one person doing battle rope and another doing squats with a stability ball.”

Boot camp provides a full-body workout in a small-group setting, which allows the trainer to observe and correct the form of each trainee. This class, while intensive, is beneficial for people at a wide range of fitness levels. “You can pretty much just join in and catch up with everybody else,” Lisa assures. TRX, on the other hand, is a suspension training class in which you work against your own body weight to develop strength, balance and core muscles. Lisa recommends doing a one-on-one TRX session before joining the class to learn the terminology, exercises and proper form.

Achieve Fitness Studio trains clients of all fitness levels. Its clients range from eight to 85 years of age. If you’re looking to lose weight, build muscle, condition for a sport, maintain what you have, or simply to live a healthy lifestyle, Achieve Fitness Studio will help you reach your fitness goals.

Achieve Fitness is located at 19910 Detroit Road in Rocky River. You can reach the studio by phone at 855-444-9575 or email Lisa at lisadesico@ruready2bfit.com. Visit ruready2bfit.net for more information on the studio, its trainers and its fitness services.