CHOICE FITNESS & SPORTS PERFORMANCE

Our Fitness Team

 Alex Baskerville

Alex Baskerville, owner of A+ Fitness Solutions, has been a fitness professional for over 12 years . He has a history of training clients who just want to look and feel better as well as clients who are recovering from various muscular-skeletal  injuries. Alex possesses a vast knowledge of the strength and conditioning required for the rigors of various sports. He has applied this knowledge to the various amateur and professional athletes (boxers, football & baseball players) that he has trained. Helping people effectively achieve their fitness goals through one-on-one personal training and group training is his passion. As a fitness professional Alex began his career   in in the tri-state area of New Jersey, Philadelphia, and New York. He is well known for helping those who struggle with weight loss find success through total lifestyle change, which includes nutrition and exercise, and has helped numerous women accomplish the goals of muscle toning by passing bulky muscle growth. As part of your consultation, Alex will perform a battery of postural and movement assessments to identify any muscle imbalances that may keep you from obtaining your goals and will design a progressive, integrated training program to help you perform at your highest level. 

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Vydashon-Telese Coleman

 Telese earned her B.S. degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and has been doing 1-on-1 and group in-home personal training for nine years.  Three years ago she began Keep It Moving, In-Home Personal Training.  She has a C.S.C.S. from the National Strength & Conditioning Association, is a Russian Kettlebell Instructor and Level IV Z-Health Mobility Instructor, which focuses on postural distortions and natural movement patterns.  As a native to the area, she is involved with various Diabetic grant church programs as a part of Durham’s Health Initiatives with the Community Health Coalition and the Diabetes Improvement Project.

Although Telese trains clients with various types of equipment, she also teaches clients how to use the BEST piece of equipment they have, their own body.  In other words, “No gym, No equipment, No excuse...just make it happen”!  Teaching you to live a healthy and active lifestyle is her passion.

“You only have ONE body, if YOU don’t take care of it....who will?”

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Tyrone Irby 

Tyrone Irby is the founder of Choice Fitness and Sports Performance™   As a featured motivational speaker over the last 15 years, Irby has given hundreds of health, fitness and cooking seminars to a number of different groups.  Irby is trained as a personal trainer and sports performance enhancement specialist by N.A.S.M (National Academy of Sports Medicine) and NFPT (National Federation of Personal Trainers).  He is also a member of the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Association (C.S.S.C.a). He along with his sister Kathy Fall, is the author of several articles on sports performance, general and youth fitness and healthy cooking.  

Choice Fitness and Sports Performance™ was founded in 2007 as a state-of-the-art personal training enterprise.  Choice™ creates individualized training programs for adults and youth targeting general fitness or sports specific gains.  The basis of all movement begins in the core and all of the Choice™ programs focus on developing core strength and proprioception (balance) while increasing muscular strength and endurance.  

In January, 2009, Irby accepted the position of assistant strength and conditioning coach at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina - a Division One school in the MEAC Conference.   Email Tyrone Irby

Jamal Thompson

Jamal is a 1993 Graduate of East Carolina University, with a degree in Management.  After growing up playing all different sports he was a member of the ECU Football team.  After college he worked in several different areas of North Carolina as a salesman.  After 12 years in the Real Estate industry and spending a lot of time not taking care of his body (gaining lots of weight with high blood pressure) he started working out.  Using techniques learned as a D-1 college athlete, Jamal became very passionate about proper diet and exercise.  Now along with personal and group fitness training, Mr. Thompson helps faith based organizations educate their congregations and communities on the benefits of proper diet and exercise in the battle against diabetes, obesity and heart disease.   In his spare time he plays different recreational sports, cooks healthy but tasteful meals and does project management for a local construction company.

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