We’re kicking the new year off with our 4th Annual Fitness & Wellness Guide! Feeling good is top of mind for so many these days. We’re incredibly lucky to live in a community packed with amazing local resources available to keep your mind and body feeling and looking it’s best. This year’s guide is full of local gyms, wellness centers, mental health specialists, fitness studios, nutrition experts, meal services, and more! You’ll find something for everyone in the family, no matter what your fitness and wellness goals are this year. Check it out below, and be well!

Eating healthy is a priority for all moms, but the reality of eating healthy regularly is often a tall task.  Freshii Middletown is unique in that it is “healthy fast food.”  Local owners Kevin and Joan O’Hear were inspired by their own struggles with their oldest child being diagnosed with Celiac Disease 15 years ago and the lack of appealing fast-meal options not just for gluten-free, but healthy and special diets in general that could appeal to families with and without the restraints that made everyone happy for a one-stop meal for all.

Freshii has built a great following of northern Monmouth County residents. Located at 838 Route 35S in Middletown (the Stop & Shop/Kohl’s/Big Lots plaza), it is a “fast-casual” restaurant led by nutrition, offering delicious, quick, healthy, and affordable meals to Middletown and the surrounding areas. The perfect spot to stop in for a healthy lunch, with options for kids too!

  Freshii serves made-to-order and customizable bowls, burritos, salads, wraps, soups, smoothies, and juices using only fresh, natural ingredients. Optional proteins include chicken, steak, tofu, and falafel, their meals cater to regular, vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, keto, paleo and/or dairy-free diets, and all dishes can be customized. Their portions are super-satisfying and very reasonably priced. And although kids often choose from the regular menu, they do have a special kid’s menu with items that appeal to smaller eaters!

Despite just opening in February of 2019, they were THRILLED to be voted “One of the BEST! of 2020” for TWO restaurant categories by Asbury Park Press readers: Casual Dining and Fast Food. If only there was a “healthy” category, it would have been a trifecta!

Eighty is a functional nutrition company for women. We help moms – the busiest members of the family – feel good and look good.

   Think of us as personal trainers for your nutrition. Our programs are based on “real food” eating, designed to reset your taste buds and your habits, and reframe your relationship with food. Through functional nutrition coaching and protocols, we teach you to shift negative habits and regain control of your body’s inflammation, energy levels, weight, sugar cravings, and mood.

We do not offer you gimmicks or magic bullets, because there are none. We believe that feeling good in your body only comes from feeding your body well.

At Eighty, we offer three pathways for long-lasting nutrition success:
Real Food Resets: Seasonal, two-week resets focused on eating your way healthy with real food *Begins January 10th!
Eighty Bootcamps: An easy-to-follow, six-week clean eating and accountability bootcamp for sustainable, long-term results *F*ck Your Diet Bootcamp begins February 1st!
Eighty Blueprint Coaching: Our signature, twelve-week results-based coaching program for life-changing results *Available any time!

Ready to (re)discover your best self? Contact Eighty today!

Add Our Counseling Service To Your Wellness Routine

RECEIVE COUNSELING AT OUR WELLNESS CENTER IN MANASQUAN, NJ

  There’s no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to wellness. That’s why we choose to remain flexible at La Luna Counseling and Wellness. Our counselors treat individuals dealing with mental health challenges through yoga, meditation, and other customized services on a one-on-one basis or in a group healing environment.

You weren’t meant to deal with heavy emotions alone. Get the help you need from a licensed and trained professional. We offer holistic counseling solutions for individuals dealing with:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Bipolar Disorder
• Postpartum Issues

We offer individual therapy and group therapy sessions along with insightful workshops and seminars for the community at our center in Manasquan, NJ. Our therapists specialize in kids, teens, adults, couples, prenatal, postpartum.

   Wheee Get Fit & Play Stroller Fitness, LLC is a boot-camp-style fitness class for Moms, whose babies can attend in strollers, or older children, playing on the side. These classes are designed to foster a community of Moms who connect, bond, support, commiserate, and cheer each other on during this “brutiful” (beautiful + brutal) time in our lives called motherhood. It takes a village to raise a child, but it also takes one to raise a Mom! Our classes are judgement- free! We welcome Moms of ALL fitness levels, ages, sizes, and backgrounds! Our class format involves a 30-40 minute workout for Moms, followed by a 15-20 minute “Mommy-and-Me” playtime. 

  We ask Moms to come as they are…”be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyway” (Glennon Doyle).

Mention Monmouth County Moms and receive 20% off your first month membership!!

   Established in 1995 by Certified Clinical Nutritionist and Wellness Expert, Ed Levy, Nature’s Corner Natural Market is the area’s premier grassroots destination for all things healthy.  Designed with the intelligent, attentive, health-conscious customer in mind, we offer an incredible selection of the finest organic, local and natural products available.

  Nature’s Corner is committed to the health and well-being of our community.  That’s why we choose local.  Whenever possible we bring you the best our area has to offer.  Everything we label local comes from no more than 200 miles away.  Choosing local helps us reduce our carbon footprint and strengthens our economy all the while providing our customers the freshest, highest-quality products possible.

  Our store boasts the county’s largest selection of local organic produce, three to four times that of other area stores, so fruits and vegetables are always incredibly fresh and flavorful.  We also use that produce in our deli, organic salad bar and our organic juice and smoothie bar. Each of our offerings is hand-crafted with the highest standards of quality, cleanliness and taste.

  Nature’s Corner features an incredible Nutritional Supplement selection. Our well-informed staff can help you find everything you need for better health.

  The Atlantic Club is a premier health & wellness club with locations in Manasquan and Red Bank, NJ. Along with state-of-the-art fitness equipment and extensive GroupEx schedules, including Spin, Yoga, Barre, BodyPump, HIIT & more! Their amenities include Indoor Pools, Steam Rooms & Saunas, Milagro Salon & Spa, Pilates Studio, Café & Juice Bar, and child care available in their dedicated KidZone! The 44-acre Manasquan campus is also home to Atlantis Prep Preschool, The Atlantic Club Summer Camp, Sports Training, NJSwim, and The Tennis Center, where both adult & junior tennis lessons and programs are offered.

  Coastal Core Fitness is the Jersey Shore’s destination for the Lagree Fitness Method™and the Megaformer™.  Our boutique fitness studios deliver 45 minutes of high intensity, low impact, muscle quivering exercise!  The Method™, developed by celebrity trainer, Sebastien Lagree, combines effective muscle stimulation with effective intensity to produce a low impact, heart pumping, muscle shaking, full body workout. With consistency and dedication our clients find themselves at the peak of their physical and mental health.

The Megaformer™ – 10.5′ long and 250 lbs of fitness equipment GOLD.  Plan to lunge, plank, and squat in various ways, all at a consistently slow tempo with energizing music, small group classes and semi-private instruction led by a Lagree Fitness Certified Trainer.  Results – long lean muscle tone, decreased body fat, increased self confidence and overall bad ass attitude.  Classes are small, our instructors focus solely on positive reinforcement and they love the workout as much as you will.  If you’re ready to make change happen, step out of your comfort zone and find the best version of you, now’s the time and Coastal Core is your answer.

    Lauren Dorman, a local Registered non diet dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator, provides local families the guidance they need to make healthier food choices without starving themselves or jumping on the fad diet bandwagon. She believes that dieting harms our mental and physical health and steals the joy from eating. With over 19 years experience, Lauren has a passion for improving her patient’s mental, emotional, and physical health.

Coaching Specialities Include:

• Chronic Dieting
• Disordered Eating
• Emotional Eating
• Body Image and Self Esteem Therapy
• Intuitive Eating
• Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes Education; Improving Glucose Levels without Restrictions
• Helping families with selective/picky eaters to create peaceful mealtimes

Book a virtual consultation with The Don’t Diet Dietician!

Barefoot, an athleisure boutique, featuring active and lifestyle apparel, opened on March 25, 2015, in the heart of downtown Spring Lake on the beautiful Jersey Shore. Store owner Ali Maccione, a 200-hour certified Vinyasa yoga teacher and retail specialist in active and leisure apparel, is pleased to present her stylish and eclectic collection of athleisure apparel. The mission of Barefoot is to provide a variety of high-quality, fashion-forward athleisure apparel for any woman to live a comfortably confident life. Our inventory will take any woman from workout to walk out.  The Barefoot wardrobe is designed and crafted for high-energy beach, gym, and studio lifestyles.

Barefoot provides a variety of high-quality, fashion-forward active and lifestyle apparel for women to live a comfortably confident life.

YogaSix in Shrewsbury, owned by four friends, Tracy and Tom Dibari, and Dana and Steve Robinson, are excited to introduce their studio the Monmouth Mom community. Offering six different class types, from hot and powerful to slow and mindful, along with beginner and sculpt classes, there’s certainly a class for everyone! YogaSix teachers have been trained in the YogaSix methodology to provide a consistent but creative experience for each class type every time. They’re also instructed to teach in a way that is easy for everyone to follow and understand.

“Our teachers use modern language that helps people get over typical obstacles of yoga,” owner Tracy DiBari says. “We don’t want someone to think, ‘I don’t know what that means’ when the teacher names a pose. You don’t have to be a yogi to succeed at YogaSix.” The studio also features a private yoga room for up to four students in order to offer more personalized classes. Find your perfect YogaSix class this winter, and ease the endless mom stress!

Lauren Deckert is a certified Holistic Health Coach, certified in Pilates, and NIA Dance. After years of working as an International Model she founded The Model Mentor, a consulting and coaching business that assists models and women through all phases of their life. She offers individualized  one on one coaching programs as well as a virtual workout program called The Model Mentor Method where she provides Members access to her workouts, meditations, prayers, and health tips. Her website offers monthly and annual memberships. Lauren, is a Monmouth County local, and hosts Pop up and Quarterly MasterClasses in Red Bank and around town. Model Me Masterclasses covers training in a wide range of topics that Lauren has expertise in from Runway Training, Posing, Modeling 101, to Pilates, and Plant Focused Nutrition. For info on attending an upcoming Masterclass visit ModelMeMasterClasses.com and for individualized coaching or membership/virtual workouts visit themodelmentor.com

The leaders in allergy and asthma care, Allergy Partners of NJ has two Monmouth County locations, Ocean and Middletown, NJ. We pride ourselves in taking the time to understand each patient’s concerns and work effectively alongside our highly skilled support staff to make certain we provide the highest quality care available.

Our facility is dedicated to redefining what health care should be – health care, not sick-care. Now, more than ever due to recent world health concerns, we continue to lead by saving lives with cutting-edge alternative approaches to diseases and ailments. Our mission is to help as many people as possible avoid unnecessary surgery, medication and get-well using diet, exercises, and the natural therapies available here at Soul Focus Wellness Center. Our practice helps people express their maximum vitality, educates patients on how their body can heal naturally, and teaches them how to build and maintain optimum health.

We promise to deliver personalized, goal-oriented treatment designed to relieve pain and restore our patients function while at the same time giving them a wonderful experience with excellent service and personalized care.

Services & Treatments Include:

• Peripheral Neuropathy
• Functional Medicine
• Sexual Dysfunction Treatment
• IV Nutrition Drips
• Chiropractic Care
• COVID-19 Testing

Pelvic Health/Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy and Mental Health Counseling devoted to helping women take back their power and find lasting relief.

   We help women recover from and prevent pelvic pain, urinary and bowel challenges, including incontinence and constipation, sexual dysfunction and pain, including vaginismus and vulvodynia, prenatal and postpartum issues, including pain during pregnancy, labor and delivery preparation, Diastasis Recti and C-section recovery, prolapse, as well as other pelvic and orthopedic conditions. We also address difficulties with stress, relationships, unresolved trauma, grief, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and more…

  These challenges are all interconnected, so our practice uses a whole-self approach, acknowledging and honoring the entire mind-body system. We search for the source of pain (physical and emotional) and treat multiple concerns at once, for optimal outcomes. We help women reach their fitness goals by focusing on optimizing core strength, flexibility, and overall power in order to do all the difficult things that moms have to do on a daily basis—and feel confident, capable, and proud of what they achieve day-to-day. To feel strong, and be strong. We provide full hour-long sessions, and we ensure 1-on-1, undivided attention, in-person, in your home, or virtually—removing barriers to you getting your needs met. No need to worry about finding childcare, factoring in driving time to appointments, or waiting in a busy waiting room— we come to you!

  We both have advanced clinical training—Kim in external and internal hands-on pelvic-floor PT evaluation, treatment, and corrective exercise, and Sam in perinatal mental health and the trauma-focused treatment approach, EMDR. We are determined to help women discover their physical and emotional strength, so that they can live active, confident, fulfilled lives on their own terms. And, while something may be amiss, we hope to decrease your fear of there being something “wrong” with you, and provide first-line, holistic, and integrative prevention and care.

Owners & Clinicians:

Kimberly McLaughlin, PT, DPT, WCS + Samantha Breslin, LCSW

Board Certified Women’s/Pelvic Health Physical Therapist + Licensed Clinical Social Worker

  Pivotal Pilates is an inclusive space for all fitness levels. We not only offer classes to people who are physically fit but those who might want to go from frail to fit and everything in between. Our New REHAB track offers clients a chance to work with experienced instructors who can help them recover, renew, rehabilitate their bodies using our state-of-the-art equipment and master level Pilates instruction.

When you walk into Pivotal you feel at once settled. The tranquil setting and community-minded atmosphere encourage focus and excitement. We know that experience matters which is why we go out of our way to make sure yours is a gratifying and successful one.

Absolute Chiropractic, located in Sea Girt, NJ, is led by Dr. Anthony Pellogrino. We are a neurologically based prenatal, pediatric, and family chiropractic office that loves to see families get healthy together, naturally. Our mission is to let the jersey shore know that your body’s ability to heal is greater than anyone has lead you to believe. When your nervous system is free from stress- miracles happen! Sick kids grow up to be sick adults. That’s why we are certified by the ICPA to care for kids of all ages and pregnant moms to make sure they have the best pregnancy and birth possible.

  HerSpace MedSpa in Little Silver, NJ is making your aesthetic dreams a reality! Part of the well-known Little Silver Mammography & HerSpace, HerSpace MedSpa offers health coach services, cosmetic injectables, microneedling, PRF, skincare, and more. If you are looking to naturally enhance your look, without changing your appearance, HerSpace has you covered! Designed with you in mind, HerSpace provides a relaxing, spa-like environment that will keep you stress-free and serene!

Services Offered:

• Wrinkle Relaxers
• Health Coach Services
• Dermal Fillers
• Microneedling
• PRF
• Kybella
• PDO Threads
• Soft Threads
• IV Infusions

All services are provided by trained, licensed, and certified medical professionals, as their patients’ safety, as well as their complete satisfaction with their results, are top priorities. Their providers share a powerful mission: to ensure that each of their patient’s aesthetic dreams becomes a reality.

Scheduling a mammogram? Make an unpleasant experience a bit more pleasant, and schedule a service at HerSpace MedSpa for after your procedure!

Monmouth County 5K’s

Lake Como Spring Break 5K -Saturday April 23rd

Run With The Eagles 5K – Saturday April 23rd

The Beer Run 5K – Saturday April 23rd

Jersey Shore Trail Empanada 5K – Sunday April 24th

Lobster Run 5K – Saturday April 30th

Sandy Hook Lighthouse 5K – Saturday May 7th

Run the Hook 5K/10K – Sunday May 8th

Ride Road Run 5K – May 15th

Avon 5K – June 4th

Walk or Run Through Monmouth County Parks

Check out our favorite local running spots here!

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