Fitness & Wellness Department
Fitness Instructors & Personal Trainers
Mary Pat Hawkins — Health & Wellness Director, Master Personal Trainer
Mary Pat has 30+ Years Experience. She attended Merrimack College and achieved the following certifications: AFAA CPT, Group Exercise, ISCA CPT, Master Trainer/Presenter.
MP specializes in working with all age groups and levels and injury prevention and rehabilitation.
mphawkins@jccns.com
(857) 285-7917
Claudia Rodenstein — DancEnergy Instructor
Claudia has been with the JCCNS for five years. Trained in ballet, jazz and tap, she was also a member of the Young Dance Company in Marblehead for many years. 20 years ago, she discovered DancEnergy and found the program to be a perfect match with her dance background.
Dennis Goldsmith —Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor
Dennis has been at the JCCNS for 15+ years as a GEX instructor, Personal Trainer, and Tae Kwon Do instructor. He is AFFA/NASM and ACE certified. Dennis is also a CPR/AED Trainer for the JCCNS and teaches a variety of self-defense formats.
He specializing in evaluation and design of corrective exercises and fitness programs for clients who want to maintain or improve their level of fitness. He also specializes in working with Seniors, Post-Rehab, and both Pre and Post-Natal Women.
Dennis received a B.A. from Temple University and a Masters Degree in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University.
Joyce Colahan — DancEnergy Instructor
Joyce is the Owner and Choreographer for the JCCNS DancEnergy program which has called the JCCNS home since 2013. DancEnergy has recently celebrated it's 35th year in Marblehead. Joyce studied Dance at Umass Amherst and danced professionally for 7 years with Trisler Danscompany.
Lisa Gillis — Fitness Instructor, DancEnergy Instructor, and Personal Trainer
Lisa Gillis brings with her a lifetime of active living, with over 29 years of fitness/personal training and dance coaching experience, and has taught at the JCCNS since 2013.
Lisa grew up in Marblehead and her fitness and athletic discipline started at the young age of 6 years. Lisa was a dancer, a competitive gymnast and a Varsity soccer player at Marblehead High School.
Lisa is certified with American Council of Exercise (ACE) Kathy Gs Tread Tabata ,ISCA Personal Training, ISCA Kettle Bells, ISCA Boxing, TRX, Scw Barre and Scw Small Group Training. She teaches, DancEnergy, sculpt/conditioning and circuit classes, Tread Tabata, TRX, Bosu, Barre, small group and personal training.
Rick Discipio — Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor
Rick has been in the fitness and wellness field for over 20 years. He has extensive training and conditioning experience with collegiate and high school athletes, has designed conditioning and post-rehab programs, taught HIIT group ex classes, and presented health education lectures. He is certified in CSCS, NSCA-CPT, NSCA-RSCC, NASM-PES, and USA Weightlifting Coach II. In addition to being a competitive powerlifter, Rick holds records in the Masters division at the State and Regional level.
He brings over 20 years of martial arts experience in Uechi-Ryu karate, and competed at the International level in kata and sparring!
Rick graduated from Salem State College with his BS in Movement Science followed by Master’s of Education from Endicott College.
