Impact Your Fitness

We're muscle specialists, systematically transforming your movement frustrations into strength and flexibility for quality living.

Located in Alexandria, VA

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How We Help

You're a busy professional that's dedicated to an active life, but injury and pain are preventing you from being the athlete you desire to be. We can help.

Sports Injuries

Sports-related injuries inhibit your quality of life and prevents you from doing what you love.

You deserve to pursue your passions.

Body Imbalances

When your body is out of balance it limits your ability to perform at high levels both on and off the field.

Reclaim your balance.

Limited Flexibility

Limited flexibility can cause unnecessary pain and discomfort throughout your day.

Find freedom with flexibility.

Strength & Power

Without healthy levels of strength and power, our daily lives are far more difficult than necessary.

Rebuild your power and strength.

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Our Services

Our promise is to help you improve your strength and flexibility, in a safe and effective manner, that's tailored to your body’s needs

Muscle Activation Techniques

Move better & gain strength for sports

Improves joint stability & strength

Treats the cause of your pain, not the symptom

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Neux NX Pro

Supercharge your movement with Interactive Neuromuscular Stimulation technology

Target the nervous system to significantly amplify your results

Neux NX Pro is a medical grade stimulation device

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NormaTec Recovery Therapy

Maximizes circulation to help you recover faster

Three massage techniques to speed recovery process

15-30 minute compression sessions

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Red Light Therapy

Tested across hundreds of peer-reviewed clinical trials

Boost muscle recovery & sleep optimization

Reduce joint pain & inflammation

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Core Restore Training System™

Use of all our strengthening equipment

Muscle Activation continuum to strengthen muscles at the deepest level

Gain strength, flexibility and stability....all in one session.

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Our Process

Assessment & Intake

Our Starting Point

Here we take inventory on what's ailing you and how your body is functioning.

We offer a virtual consultation. Our assessment is unique that will take your body through movements to gauge your current state and how previous injuries have impacted your movement.

Planning

Your Plan from Pain to Movement

We create a plan built for you and your goals.

By focusing on the brain-muscle connection we rewire your body to prepare for exercise, sport, and daily activity - which means more living and less pain!

Treatment

Hands-on Attention to Heal

With guided exercises and muscle treatments, we decrease muscle tightness and increase ease of movement.

Homework and maintenance treatments reinforce your body's functionality to improve your freedom of movement and reduce pain.

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Impact Your Fitness Philosophy

Why does your exercise need to be tailored?

Every body is unique. Our training will be programmed to work with your personal goals, individual injury history, and current imbalances.

How do we improve strength?

By challenging the body in all planes of movement, using spring tension, other props, and body weight exercises. The equipment challenges your muscles, with the springs specifically adding resistance and the need for muscle control.

Optimizing muscle health

At Impact Your Fitness we believe exercise is a long-term investment for your health. So we specialize in the one thing that will make you better at every exercise that you choose to do; optimizing the muscular system. Our goal is to recalibrate, bring equilibrium back to the body, and raise its stress tolerance.

Testimonials

Jenn delivers results that help you take your game up a notch; this scientific method alleviates pain so whether you're working out or doing day to day activities, your body moves as it should!

Eshael Johnson

I've been a trainer for years and you were able to correct some of the problems I have been experiencing with such accuracy! Felt better all day. Excellent session. Warm setting and friendly service.

Remi Rory

I injured my knee over 10 years ago and hadn't realized how damaged it was until one day it popped and hurt to walk for weeks.

I walked in not even knowing what MAT was and now I can't stop telling people about it. She has truly changed my life and well-being.

Jeanette Wages

Meet the Team

Jennifer Schwartz

Owner/ MAT Rx specialist/ Neux Nx Pro Practioner

As one of only 150 of the world's Mat™ Rx Full Body Specialists, an elite group that have dedicated 6-8 years to their education beyond the Masters Program.

Jenn is passionate about helping people of all ages learn the most effective methods for developing strength for longevity and being competitive.

Jenn's Story & Approach

She developed her love for health and fitness while growing up as a fierce competitor on the soccer field. Throughout her years as a college athlete and youth soccer coach, she learned the value of injury care, injury prevention and fitness.

Jenn takes a full-body approach to injury recovery and strength training, incorporating her love for learning and functional anatomy to aid her clients. In order to maximize performance and health, she focuses on muscle function and movement mechanics in almost every session.

Jenn has developed strength and injury recovery programs for athletes at all levels. She's worked with competitive athletes as a program coordinator and coach to integrate injury prevention and fitness into a year-round sports curriculum.

Currently she hosts a podcast that discusses exercise as a skill to improve lifestyle and chronic injury and wants to grow the internationally recognized podcast to a network of hosting fitness thought and academic leaders.

Jenn's Specializations

Late stage injury rehabilitation
Arthritis management
Correcting muscle imbalances from old sports injuries
Injury prevention for athletes of all ages
Pain Neuroscience Education
Strength & Conditioning Programming
Nervous system optimization
Post-surgery exercise
Improved exercise and athletic recovery

Jenn's Certifications

American College of Sports Medicine - Certified Exercise Physiologist - 2010
MAT™ Master Level Specialist - 2016
MAT™ RX Hand & Foot - 2017
MAT™ Full Body - 2020
Pain Neuroscience Education

Jenn's Advanced Training

Resistance Training Specialist Mastery program 2011
Neuro-Logic Training with Force and The Nervous System
numerous continuing education classes in Cadaver dissection and anatomy Numerous continuing education classes in Neuroscience and Neuro-physiology MAT™ Mastery Courses
MAT™ Jumpstart courses
Sport Science and data analytic coursework with Seattle Sounders
Interned with Mela Therapeutics for NFL Combine Draft Preparation
BS in Physical Therapy and Health Sciences
Co-Author of Lifestyle Medicine certification with Evidence in Motion

Angela DalMolin

Exercise Specialist

Angela loves empowering people to move without pain and reach goals they thought may have been impossible. Constantly driven by the question, “why?”, she is committed to bringing greater intention and understanding to the fitness world.

Angela's Story & Approach

Excelling in athletics throughout her life, she understands what it takes to keep the body as safe as possible while challenging it in novel ways. Having overcome significant physical challenges and her own painful patterns, she knows how to optimize movement and recognizes in her own unique way how to help others do the same.

Her attention to detail, warmth, and understanding of what her clients need to heal themselves makes her approach effective and empowering. She is committed to educating everyone she works with so they understand how to remain strong and move without pain on their own.

Angela's Specializations

Chronic pain recovery
Rehabilitation, and injury prevention.
Posture and gait cycle training
Adopting a holistic lifestyle
Core Restore Training System
Re-patterning movements

Angela's Certifications

National Academy of Sports Medicine
Anusara yoga
Functional Patterns system

Gina Fortuna

MAT Rx Specialist

Gina Fortuna is the owner and founder of BEyond FITness Personal Training Studio, LLC. Gina’s philosophy at BEyond FITness is: regardless of the workout or equipment that is chosen, it is YOU who must put forth the effort . You are the most important Element for Success. It’s not how hard you train - it’s how much YOU want it. Her clients would say her approach is encouraging and positive and she is extremely knowledgeable, conscientious and passionate about her work.

Gina's Story & Approach

She is a Michigan native and received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from The University of Michigan. In 1999, Gina won the MET-RX sponsored World's Best Personal Trainer Contest.

Gina has two children that were collegiate athletes and as she did MAT with their teammates, her love of helping athletes be at peak performance grew to become one of her favorite aspects of MAT. She enjoys working with all her clients to help them overcome challenges ranging from minor back pain to improving the effects of Parkinson’s disease.

Gina's Specializations

Managing arthritis and joint inflammation
Rehabilitation and injury prevention
Adopting a fitness lifestyle
Muscle Activation Techniques at all levels

Gina's Certifications

NSPA Conditioning Specialist 1990
ACE Group Fitness Instructor 1993
Brains and Balance Past 60 Specialist 2014
Original Strength Coach 2017
MAT Jumpstart 2014
MAT Specialist 2019
MAT Mastery 2020
MAT Rx Specialist-Full Body 2022

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Think Fit, Be Fit - Podcast

Effective thinking for potent workouts

Think Fit. Be Fit. podcast is dedicated to optimizing exercise and overall human function. It is best described as the intersection of exercise mechanics, muscle expertise, and embracing curiosity. The human body is a wonderful teacher if you know how to listen to it, being open and having fun is part of that process.

Jennifer Schwartz, hostess and founder of Impact Your Fitness and Impact Sport Science Group has helped hundreds of athletes and people around Washington DC move without pain and exercise to their fullest potential.

This podcast is important because people are missing out on living a better life because they don't understand that body awareness is a combination of taking feedback, listening, and learning. It is not a practice of self-judgement and societal expectations. Don't choose unhappiness over uncertainty. Embrace the process!

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The online Impact Your Fitness community has special curations of education and exercises for specific, fitness health topics and avoiding injuries.

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Phone: (571) 473-2287

Address: 105 Oronoco Street, #200B Alexandria, VA 22314