O.F. owner, general fitness, advanced exercise programming, injury prevention, and post rehabilitation.

The body is designed for movement. When our daily activities involve certain positions or movements that cause structural imbalances and instabilities then pain and injuries can develop. Training the body to move as a whole unit is the focus of Carla's training. Being fit is more than lifting a weight or running on a treadmill. Carla will focus on all aspects; balance, strength, endurance, stability, agility, and flexibility.

She has been training for over 14 years and is nationally certified through American College of Sports Medicine--ACSM and American Academy of Health, Fitness, and Rehabilitation Professionals--AAHFRP.

Ann K.
Training with Carla has been fantastic. She is innovative, direct, and focused, yet also manages to let you know she genuinely cares about your overall health and well-being. While muscle toning and strength-training are key areas of Carla's training style, she addresses cardiovascular and flexibility as well - building an individualized training program that is challenging, interesting, and fun. She is the perfect blend in a trainer - tough when you need it, and an uncanny ability to push you farther than you think you can go. I highly recommend her!

Laura
In 1996 I was trying to maintain not smoking, decrease my weight, and get in shape. I had joined a gym six months before and worked out regularly, but was just not getting the results I wanted. A friend told me to try a personal trainer, but I thought that personal trainers were for wealthy people already in great shape.

Finally, I decided to try it out and that is when I discovered Carla Quam. I have trained with Carla since 1996 and in those ten years I have gotten more fit, stayed off of cigarettes, and learned how to make fitness my lifestyle. I have a bad knee and because of Carla's unique experience in dealing with joint injuries, my knee is the strongest it has ever been. I have much less pain with it and haven't injured it from working out since I started training with Carla, even though we sometimes really work my legs.

I have been training at Outrageously Fit (OF) since it first opened and would never think of going anywhere else. I have taken many of the classes at OF and know all the trainers. Each one offers a unique style and interest in fitness, making OF one of the most diverse and fun places I have ever worked out at. In addition to giving their clients great training, I feel that the people at OF provide a wonderful support network for all aspects of fitness and health. Whether I have a question about fitness, nutrition, massage or even my son's growing pains, I can always ask someone at the studio and they gladly point me in the right direction.

In the ten years I have trained at OF, I have never felt bored or stuck on a plateau. I am constantly challenged and feel like I continue to move forward in fitness. I haven't used a weight machine at a health club in years, yet, I have never felt stronger than I do now. OF takes fitness to the next level and that is why I love going there.

Vana
Carla has been my personal trainer for approximately seven years. She's very knowledgeable and very skillful, but to me her greatest talent is her ability to focus on her clients personal goals and to find methods to help each client attain them.

When I came to her initially I wanted to lose fat and get in better shape but felt physically defeated because of mobility problems caused by a frozen shoulder. Hours of physical therapy had done little to help me beyond temporarily easing the pain. Carla was terrific. She created result-producing sessions for our time together. She referred me to a R.D. who devised an eating program that worked for me. She helped me get a pulley system for my shoulder, and developed a complete work-out program I could use with it at home to supplement our work in the studio. It has all worked beautifully for me I'm happy with my weight, I'm back to full mobility with my shoulder, and I'm much, much stronger.

The recent remodeling of Carla's studio is really just icing on the cake I couldn't imagine going anywhere else. For me there's no one better able to give me the personal attention I need to be in the physical shape I want.

Timothy
I started going to Outrageously Fit about six years ago. Although I had used personal trainers in the past I have never had anyone who was as thorough and capable as Carla Quam. I am 55 years old and when I started with Carla I weighed 156 pounds, and on my 6'2" frame was not much. I also was not very toned or strong. I am now weighing in at 170 pounds with no flab anywhere.

I went skiing for the first time in 30 years and am about to take up squash. Not only does working out help get your body in shape but mentally I feel I can do anything physical without being afraid. Particularly because we don't just work on bulking up or getting great abs or pecs, but a major part of the workout is devoted to balance and working in areas of your body that give you your underlying strength i.e: rotator cuff; knee stability exercises. No trainer has worked these areas before.

Also, my past trainers have never exhibited such patience. It has been a pleasure to work out with Carla, and I look forward to her keeping me in shape for years to come.

Jennie
I came to Outrageously Fit as a person who hated exercise. I had finally realized that the only way I was going to start doing it regularly was to have someone forcing me to both show up and work to my potential. After checking out and deciding against a couple of other training studios, I met with Carla, and right away I knew I'd found my fitness guide.

Carla is a terrific motivator with skills in rehabilitation and in helping people to overcome fitness blocks and injuries. I was surprised when I found out we wouldn't just be working on the regular old 'weights and cardio' routine, but would also be adding in a number of exercises designed to increase balance and stability. I didn't know I needed these, but after a few months of them I realized that a lifetime of knee problems may not be in my future after all. Instead, I've developed stable joints and a strong core, and feel that I can participate in activities I wouldn't have dared before.

As a trainer, Carla has helped me identify my strong fitness areas and has designed programs that made me learn to enjoy working out, finally. She also continues to help me improve my weaker areas. Additionally, she is a very flexible trainer I had a repetitive-strain injury so she was able to design a whole new type of workout so that I would still get a strength workout without overtaxing my arms pretty amazing!

Carla is the sort of person who expects greatness from you, so you are inspired to it yourself. So that, even on days when you don't really care about letting yourself down, you never want to let her down, and that gets you through. This is a quality found only in the best teachers, and you will find it in Carla Quam at Outrageously Fit.

Carla Quam

ACSM Certified Personal Trainer

AAHRP Rehab Specialist