A partnership to bring you peace, energy, and joy.

We are proud to partner with Ken Walrond of Strength Through Practice to bring you personal and group coaching sessions that can help enhance your experience as a student at Fit2Shine Studio.

Ken’s experience as a physical therapist and strength and conditioning coach offers a new perspective while evaluating your body mechanics to help you find simple changes that can have big and lasting effects. Our shared goal is to help you avoid injury and show up as your best self for every class, and to keep you moving better and longer.

This is not your average personal training session. Ken’s approach to physical wellness is unique in that he brings extensive orthopedic training and exercise science expertise to evaluate and treat a full range of musculoskeletal and neuromuscular conditions.

Ken combines expert knowledge of exercise science, anatomy, physiology, and pathology, with a true understanding of how your brain influences all of these. By considering the whole self and the connection between mind and body, we seek to empower you with the tools you need for lasting change and the full life you want.

Who is a Good Match for Ken’s Coaching?

• Avid Everyday Athlete- If you are running, cycling, lifting, playing soccer, or tearing it up on the pickleball court, Ken can help you train your body to avoid injury doing the things you love.

• Seeking Healthy Aging - As we age, our bodies change, but so does our approach to lifelong fitness. Ken can help you protect your body and grow in all the right ways for a long, healthy, active life.

• Committed to Lifestyle Change - You’ve just started with us and are looking for a lifestyle change that helps you live and thrive longer. Ken can help you manage your body’s changes, aches, and pains through check-ups and make sure you’re addressing your body’s needs in the right classes.

• Specialized Health Needs in Fitness - If you are dealing with a diagnoses like Cardiovascular disease, Parkinson’s, Diabetes, Osteoperosis, or another health condition that is relevant to your overall health while trying to stay active, Ken can help provide safe recommendations.

• Pain Relief- If you’re just sick of hurting and want to be able to move without pain, Ken can help with that too.

Coaching Session Options

• Technique Tune Up- 30 minutes - A chat about your current movement routine, chat about your goals, look at your movement patterns, and some tips for how to improve your technique to avoid injury. - $50

• Personal Coaching Session- Evaluation - 60 minutes - A review of your history with movement, injuries, posture, movement mechanics, and desired goals, followed by a recommended plan to meet those goals. - $135

• Personal Coaching Session - Follow Up - 60 minutes - Follow-up sessions to the plan developed during your evaluation will help you achieve your goals and keep moving seamlessly. - $115

• Group Coaching Session - Find some friends and come together. A time and budget friendly way to get results in a coaching session, but with friends that make it fun. Three (3) students - $165, Two (2) students - $150

Note: These costs are per session and will be discussed with and paid directly to Ken at Strength Through Practice. This service is not currently covered under most insurance, but Ken is able to provide a receipt for potential reimbursement. Please ask Ken for details.

About Ken, Strength Through Practice

Through a wide range of clinical experience in his career, Ken has developed a deep and profound love for helping people. He launched Strength through Practice after feeling like there were many clients whose lives would be enriched by what physical therapy had to offer, but who weren’t getting the care that worked for them in a traditional setting.

Prior to starting Strength through Practice, he was a physical therapist with True Sports Physical Therapy, the premier sports rehabilitation clinic in Baltimore. He had the privilege of learning from and working alongside some of the best sports orthopedic therapists in Maryland. It was during this time that he honed his skills of diagnosing and treating movement pattern dysfunction in the context of helping athletes return to high level competition.

Prior to that, he spent time in the intensive care unit at Prince George’s Hospital Center, where he was exposed to people recovering from complex and traumatic injuries and in the acute stage of incredibly trying physical and emotional times. He has also spent time at Union Memorial Hospital working exclusively with patients in the immediate days following joint replacement surgery. That is where he observed the interplay between intense post-surgical pain and unrelenting drive for returning to independence. All of these things add up to experience that can help you

Ken holds a Doctor of Physical Therapy Degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine, and is also credentialed as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.