Helena Collins, Boston's Best Personal Trainer

" So I started out with genetics that would predispose me to be overweight, with a body type that blessed me with "thunder thighs", an athletic training backround that left me with chronic back, neck and knee pain. With a frustration and anxiety that no matter what I did that I was never going to be happy with my body. That it would never look good enough, that I would always have to starve myself and force myself through endless hours of cardio and squats that I hated!! I knew that there had to be a better way. A smarter way, a workout that could be challenging but not leave me feeling like I was beaten up. A lifestyle that did not require that I be a professional dancer to feel elegant, or a yogi to be centered. A way to simplify all of the confusion about nutrition, good days vs. bad days and the endless emotions and roller coasters that I felt like I was riding! A way to have fun and love me and my body.

So, being the geek that I am, I went in to full research mode. Studying and guinea pigging everything from pilates to chi-gong, tai chi, martial arts, yoga, weight training, meditation, cardio training and stretching on myself. I looked at the effects both aesthetically and emotionally of each one on my body. I spent countless hours researching the kiniesiology of the body (how it moves) as well as how different exercises and lifestyle patterns effect the shape and health of the body in general. 

The Synergistics Fitness Method® and my personal training studio Synergistics , Life in Synergy® class studio and now studio MANA my online learning center are the result of this research and my effort to bring you optimal results. 

I cannot tell you how upsetting it is every time I see someone do an ineffective exercise, or lift a weight in incorrect form or beat themselves up uneccessarily. Every day I see people working so hard, really trying and never getting results!!!

 Health and fitness should be smart, FUN and concise. The shape of your body is an engineering issue, the size of your body is a math issue. The true answers for getting the body you want, the body that brings you peace are here.  The Answers to ALL of your questions about health and exercise are here. I have spent the last 29 years understanding, developing and perfecting the true science of exercise to award you the fastest, most effective results ever.

Not with a fad, a pill or by beating you up but by teaching you the science of the human form.  You are the most important person in your life, you deserve to understand how your body works, to be in control, to be free of  the bad advice and the double negative of the fitness industry where you are either beating yourself up physically or beating yourself up emotionally, because you are not beating yourself up physically.  There is a much better way, a true understanding of how your body works and how to create the body you want. All of the tools are here.

 Let me be absolutely clear about my Life in Synergy® mission; I make fitness and health  fun, understandable, accessible, smart, enjoyable, affordable, and excellent.

Going beyond anything you have experienced before. This is the answer to your questions.

You need not sacrifice anything on your journey to a Life in Synergy®, I will never have a required membership, joining fee, "levels" of trainers or pushy sales staff.  I try to live each day with the philosophy of Constant Improvement (you can see that phrase hanging over my desk at 867 Boylston Street), I know that each day brings an opportunity to learn something new, teach something to an eager client and improve on the person I was the day before.

I love the T.S Eliot  quote: "The journey, not the arrival, matters."

I have spent the better part of my life learning and teaching about all aspects of health and fitness and, like any teacher,  I can tell you the joy in my life comes with the "Aha" look on someone's face when they truly understand something about themselves they did not know the day before and  I share that same joy in my ever-deepening understanding of what I am teaching. The most interesting and exciting thing you can ever learn about is you"

Helena Collins, creator of the Synergistics Fitness Method®