Catherine Tojaga

Catherine Tojaga has an ACE Group Fitness Certification and has been teaching group fitness since Sept 1999.  She has been a popular instructor at Lifetime Fitness in Schaumburg since 2001 and teaches at smaller, more personalized facilities as well.  She is a Master Cycling Instructor and travels to different facilities to train other instructors on effective heart rate training on the bike.

Her Core class has been designed over the years under the principals of the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) and the Chek Institute to work on posture, stability, balance and nervous system activation.  The class focuses on training this inner unit to function correctly to stabilize the core and extremities to avoid injury.  We learn to activate the core properly during movement which in turn, gives us a stable working environment making us less prone to injury.

She teaches a meditation class and is currently working on her Yoga certification.  Although currently not on the schedule, she also teaches include strength, circuits & boot camp. 

Other interests include mountain biking, adventure racing and racquetball.  Catherine accomplished her goal and advanced to Women’s Open in Racquetball by winning the 2002 Women’s A State Championship.