As the winter season melts away, people are ramping into their springtime activities. For many that means checking in on their fitness in order to achieve their goals. Services like Feel Good Body Coaching are available for residents wanting support on their athletic and lifestyle endeavors.
“Keeping people consistent is part of my job,” says Lauren Flores-Doucette, the Feel Good Body Coach.
Flores-Doucette was on her own personal quest for an adequate definition of health and wellness, sifting through the ambiguous culture and literature with different messages for a pathway to a happy life, when she developed her holistic philosophy on fitness.
She was inspired by the “glow” of yogis, the physical fitness built through strength training, and the peace achieved through meditation. She employs aspects from these different modalities for her clients.
“Watching my clients grow in that way is super rewarding, I would never stop doing it,” Flores-Doucette said.
Flores-Doucette recognizes that the secret recipe for happiness and wellness varies from person to person. So, she begins each session with an initial assessment and health history interview, including medical information and past history in order to develop a plan that appropriately fits into their life.
She takes a “biopsychosocial” approach, which considers the unique biology of a person (what a person is capable of in any moment), their mental states (how they view their fitness goals), and their social desires (what they want to be able to do within their relationships) in order to support their whole lives.
“The way we experience movement is based on how we think about movement,” Flores-Doucette said.
As a coach, Flores-Doucette focuses on more than just fitness. She strives to connect the “what” with the “why” so that her clients understand the bigger picture of their personalized training plan. She also matches their capabilities and motivations, providing consistent check-ins. These methods build her clients’ trust.
She started her professional career as a personal trainer with a certification from the American Council on Exercise. Initially, she was mostly interested in gaining knowledge to inform her own practice. However, she offered her services during the COVID shut-down as people were looking to see how to get healthy and stay fit, and her business started to grow.
Since then, she’s sought additional training based on the needs of her clients, and has become a “functional strength trainer,” meaning she helps clients focus along the soft-tissue lines, including full body movements along more planes of movement.
She also offers a unique fitness class called “Animal Flow,” a quadrupedal movement that samples from martial arts and yoga, incorporating continuous movement transitions and core strength.
She uses a program called Girls Gone Strong to help her serve the needs of pre-or postnatal women.
She’s also developing modalities in somatic movement, which focuses on stability and strength through the core, tending to the emotional responses to certain movements and being able to release physical tension and negative emotions like anger, frustration and sadness.
Flores-Doucette trains at the Moab Recreation Center and is taking clients. She asks new clients to commit to one month of training, two days a week in order to develop a routine and alter and adjust to the client’s needs.
To inquire about one-on-one training and nutrition coaching, email feelgoodbodycoach@gmail.com. The Animal Flow classes will be held at RIZE at 350 Fourth E St, Moab, UT 84532. Classes are scheduled to commence March 11. Find the Core class at the Moab Rec Center, Wednesdays 8-9 a.m., starting March 20.
