CLIENT HIGHLIGHT | JULY 2025

This month’s Client Highlight, Noni Culotta, shows how important the mental aspect is to success in training! Noni brings a positive attitude with her every time she steps in the gym, which helps her train hard in the moment and then walk out feeling serene. We love to see our clients getting stronger in a way that supports recovery and feels amazing. Keep going, Noni, we can tell you’re a lifetime lifter!

ATHLETE OF THE MONTH: Noni Culotta

From Noni’s trainer, Nick Murillo Deluz:

I chose Noni as our Athlete of the Month because of her unwavering dedication, impressive progress, and positive attitude throughout our training sessions. Noni not only sets and consistently achieves her fitness goals but also inspires those around her with her enthusiasm and commitment to wellness. Her ability to overcome challenges and maintain a strong focus on her growth makes her a standout client. Noni’s journey exemplifies the spirit of perseverance and the transformative power of fitness, making her a deserving athlete of the month.

Here’s what Noni told us about training with Nick:

What do you enjoy most about working with your trainer at ASF? The thing I realized pretty quickly after beginning to train with Nick, was that I was gaining a lot more than purely physical benefits from the sessions. My favorite thing about showing up and spending half an hour together is really the grounding effect of Nick’s perspective and care. It’s more therapeutic than any kind of workout I’d done previously– in fact, normally as a Pilates or HIIT girl I’d walk away in the past with raised cortisol levels from my workouts. When I say goodbye to Nick and the gym in the mornings, I feel a bit serene, not overtired but worked out and sort of situated in my body for the day. I sleep better too, it’s really obvious to me. Anyway yeah, I’d say the overall therapeutic effects of his program and presence, combine with not being too upset about fitting better into my jeans these days :).

What have you been most proud of since you started training? I’d never been someone who lifted weights, and to be totally honest I’m not sure it’s something I’d want to do on my own still. There’s so much mental keeping track of where you left off, and just even the tiniest bit of math as you add weight each week haha-  I’m really glad Nick does that bit. But anyway I think I’m most proud of committing to something new and really sticking with it long enough to start to understand its benefits as a practice. Weightlifting is really a game-changer, and I’ve heard people say that forever, but I’m beginning to experience what they’re talking about after a few months of sticking to it. I think a lot of my relationship with my body thus far has been about sort of stressing it out for the sake of staying lean, and now it’s just very freeing to feel myself getting fitter steadily and leaner, but minus all the adrenaline and gasping discomfort in a way. I’ll never go back to Orange Theory lol.

What are you looking forward to? I’m looking forward to sort of identifying through life as a gal who lifts weights or trains in the gym– as I get more experienced with it, I feel like that’s a fun category to inhabit that was previously not within my imagination. I think maybe the next step would be to make some friends who I look forward to training with on my own time too. Baby steps 🙂

 

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