Featured
Exercise

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Difficulty Level:
Highly Advanced

Muscle Group(s):
Core Modality

Modality:
Strength

Equipment:
Stability Ball (SB)

Benefits:
Integrated total body strength and stability with emphasis to the shoulders and hip flexors.

Featured
Recipe

Muhammarah

Muhammarah, from the Mediterranean, blends walnuts, roasted red peppers, honey and cilantro, creating a colorful, sweet spread. Combined with grilled country bread, the result is irresistible. Read more...

Welcome to the website of Albuquerque's most unique human fitness laboratory. Using methods and techniques from the world's strongest and most beautiful bodies, XXPAC trainers and fitness consultants help you reach your optimum strength levels without sacrificing agility and flexibility.

Our equipment represents the best minds in fitness engineering and science from a wide variety of disciplines including strength training, body building, professional dance, and exercise physiology. Our trainers come from diverse backgrounds that include advanced training in fields that range from ballet to the martial arts.

XXPAC's Founder

My name is Marsha Gonzales. I am the founder of XXPAC. I was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and moved to Albuquerque with my parents as a child.

Being born and raised in a place like New Mexico has been a gift to me because I have always loved the outdoors.

I have participated in some form of fitness my whole life. I danced ballet through college. I played tennis all through, junior high and high school. Shortly after high school I took up cycling and became a bicycle racer for 16 years. It was at this time that I became interested in weightlifting. I also participated in a few body building contests.

Through it all, my first love was dance. So, I decided to go to the University of New Mexico and take ballet. I soon became interested in physiology and majored in biology. At this time I was torn between the Arts and Sciences. I went on to get my degree in exercise physiology from the University of New Mexico.

I have been a personal trainer for 16 years. My clientele ranges from young athletes to the elderly. Because of this diversity I have helped young athletes make it to the Olympic tryouts and elderly clients live a more pain free life style.

I had a vision of a fitness studio where clients could be trained full spectrum. Where the environment would be private and the client would have the full attention of their trainer. The atmosphere would be urban with a view of the Sandia Mountains and the lights of the Nob Hill district.

Then XXPAC was born.

The XXPAC studio is a multidimensional health and fitness site. Unlike others we provide full spectrum training; programs that align the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of the human body. The client will train with a personal trainer, as well as an expert in palates, martial arts, or sport specific experts.

Our studio is equipped with Pegasus, Master Stretch, Elvis, medicine balls, stability balls, diversified balance devices as well as other traditional equipment (dumbbells, exercise bands, etc.).

XXPAC stands for "cross training," "power," "agility," and "core."