{"id":28382,"date":"2021-01-09T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T18:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/?page_id=28382"},"modified":"2021-01-09T10:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T18:40:19","slug":"colleen-bridges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/about-us\/industry-experts\/colleen-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleen Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong><\/em>\n\n\"Colleen<\/a><\/p>\n

Colleen Bridges, M.ED<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/div>
\n\"\"Colleen Bridges has worked for nearly 17 years as a NSCA Certified personal trainer, group exercise instructor and fitness consultant and as an independent contractor for Nashville\u2019s first personal training center, STEPS Fitness. Her passion for understanding the body in sickness and in health, and how it moves, as fed her interest in and enhanced her talent for working with senior adults, especially those living with a neurological disorder such as Parkinson\u2019s Disease.<\/p>\n

Colleen earned a BA from Ouachita Baptist University and an M.Ed from Louisiana Tech University and went on to earn certifications such as NSCA Certified Personal Trainer, \u201cRock Steady Boxing Certification\u201d, \u201cBrain and Balance Certification\u201d, \u201cParkinson\u2019s Cycling Certification\u201d, she has attended multiple conferences offered by NSCA, IDEA and completed an internship with Dr. Irv Rubenstein in 2005. Colleen\u2019s love for special populations took a unique turn in 2016, when she began teaching \u201cRock Steady Boxing Music City\u201d classes for those living with Parkinson\u2019s disease. Almost 4 years later, Colleen has two locations, 14 classes per week, 10 assistant coaches and over 120 boxers fighting against Parkinson\u2019s Disease.<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt University Movement Disorder Clinic took notice of the improvements of their patients attending Rock Steady Boxing classes and invited Colleen to participate in a research project studying how exercise intervention affects Parkinson\u2019s Disease.<\/p>\n

The international headquarters for Rock Steady Boxing invited Colleen to present her seminar \u201cEffective Program Design Part 1 and 2\u201d at the 2018 and 2019 conferences. In February of 2019, Colleen was invited to lead a certification training camp for 37 incoming Rock Steady Boxing Coaches.<\/p>\n

With a desire to encourage, educate and empower coaches\/personal trainers, Colleen created her website power4parkinsons.com<\/a> which provides essential training for Rock Steady Boxing coaches and personal trainers as it pertains to working with those living with Parkinson\u2019s Disease. Colleen has leveraged her formal education, her personal training expertise and her passion for helping clients to create proprietary formulae for Rock Steady Boxing coaches\/personal trainers to follow as they endeavor to help those fighting Parkinson\u2019s Disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colleen Bridges has worked for nearly 17 years as a NSCA Certified personal trainer, group exercise instructor and fitness consultant and as an independent contractor for Nashville\u2019s first personal training center, STEPS Fitness. Her passion for understanding the body in sickness and in health, and how it moves, as fed her interest in and enhanced her talent for working with senior adults, especially those living with a neurological disorder such as Parkinson\u2019s Disease. Colleen earned a BA from Ouachita Baptist University and an M.Ed from Louisiana Tech University and went on to earn certifications such as NSCA Certified Personal Trainer, \u201cRock Steady Boxing Certification\u201d, \u201cBrain and Balance Certification\u201d, \u201cParkinson\u2019s Cycling Certification\u201d, she has attended multiple conferences offered by NSCA, IDEA and completed an internship with Dr. Irv Rubenstein in 2005. Colleen\u2019s love for special populations took a unique turn in 2016, when she began teaching \u201cRock Steady Boxing Music City\u201d classes for those living with Parkinson\u2019s disease. Almost 4 years later, Colleen has two locations, 14 classes per week, 10 assistant coaches and over 120 boxers fighting against Parkinson\u2019s Disease. Vanderbilt University Movement Disorder Clinic took notice of the improvements of their patients attending Rock Steady Boxing classes and invited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28383,"parent":5804,"menu_order":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28382","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28382\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}