Healthier 901 Trainer Challenge
Our First Trainer vs Trainer Step Challenge
Two Memphis trainers are challenging you and each other in a step competition. Coach Alton Williams of T.R.A.P. Fitness and Coach Kenny Fleming of Kenetix Performance & Fitness want you on their team.
Whose Side Are you on? It’s Time to Join a Team
Download our app, join the challenge, and choose your side. Your efforts could make the difference in this step challenge and Healthier 901’s ultimate goal of the Mid-South losing 1,000,000 pounds. Which team will you join?
Healthier 901 is constantly fighting for the health and wellness of the community, and this is work I do every day.
Finances and education are barriers to fitness, but Healthier 901 is a barrier-breaker. No more excuses. Take advantage of it.
Kenny Fleming's Bio
Kenny Fleming, owner — Kenetix Performance & Fitness
Kenneth Fleming, owner of Kenetix Performance and Fitness, has spent the last 14 years as a fitness trainer known by friends, families, and gym members as “Coach Kenny.”
After spending much of his college career in the rec center training, Coach Kenny turned that passion into a career.
“I enjoyed the camaraderie of it. It’s a hobby, it’s a passion. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve transitioned into seeing it as an overall health aspect. I enjoy the physical, mental, social, and even spiritual aspect of fitness, because each one depends on the other.”
Coach Kenny found Healthier 901 online and started keeping up with the program’s social content, but rediscovered the program through a friend and fellow gym owner.
“The overall goal is a Healthier 901 and a healthy Shelby County,” he said. “We know the facts about our obesity rate – we’ve been at least in the top five for a while. We know our health facts in our community. We know what we have to do.”
Joining Healthier 901 is a way to allow trainers and gym owners across the Mid-South to share knowledge and be a health ambassador.
“We always talk about what we don’t have, but what we do have is Healthier 901 – which is an amazing resource for health and wellness,” he said. “Finances and education are barriers to fitness, but Healthier 901 is a barrier-breaker. No more excuses. Take advantage of it.”
Coach Kenny has some advice for those in the community just starting out on their health and fitness journey: find something you enjoy and can do. Start walking with a friend, your family, your children, and take a stroll around the neighborhood or visit one of your Memphis City Parks to start your way to a Healthier 901.
Alton Williams' Bio
Alton Williams, owner — T.R.A.P. Fitness
Alton Williams is a Memphis native, born and raised in the Bluff City. While he’s been an athlete a majority of his life, his passion for fitness grew to new heights while playing basketball at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville.
Alton’s personal fitness journey started with training for collegiate sports, but his coaching career came later in an effort to help loved ones lead a healthier life. Alton’s title might be fitness coach, but the job description entails much more. He not only helped friends and family improve their health through fitness, but also encouraged them to implement small, sustainable changes to their daily eating habits that they could manage long-term.
Alton’s inspiration to become a trainer started when he saw the product that came from guiding his sisters into a healthier lifestyle.
“As a brother, of course I’m going to do everything in my power to help,” he said. “As they started to lose weight, I saw their countenance change. Their confidence grew for a deeper reason than simply being in a smaller pant size. The progress made during their fitness journey assured them that they have the resilience to carry out hard tasks. The momentum created from this is very contagious, and has the power to affect every other facet of their lives. Once he realized the trickle effect that fitness can have on other areas of an individual’s life, he knew he wanted to use his gift to help other people have the same experience.
Alton has accepted the Healthier 901 Trainer Challenge because it fits his own values and goals for a healthier life.
“Healthier 901 is constantly fighting for the health and wellness of the community, and this is work I do every day. It gives me the opportunity to assist in carrying out Healthier 901’s vision to positively impact the city. It was a no brainer.”
Alton says his goal is to educate people about the importance of fitness, but also to know that it doesn’t have to consume your life to reap benefits that come with it. His mission is to improve the health and wellness of the city. His motto? To meet his clients where they are and remind them what they are capable of. “We can fit fitness into your life. You don’t have to force fitness to be your entire life.”
By registering for Healthier 901’s wellness app, you are eligible for prize drawings from sponsors via a random drawing. As a condition of participating, you also agree for MLH to use your name on social media and the Healthier 901 website if you win. The registrant pool for monthly drawings will be closed at midnight the night before the drawing. The registrant pool for events will be pulled within 30 minutes of the random drawing. By registering for the app you also give your permission for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare communications staff to contact you regarding sharing your story publicly about your Healthier 901 story. You have the right to decline to share your story. You can unregister from Healthier 901 at any time.
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