About Ann-Margaret
Ann-Margaret Giovino, owner and operator of Gym Giovino, is a World Class Competitive Powerlifter:
- winning a Gold Medal in Amsterdam, 1998.
- She holds the title of “Top Twenty Women Powerlifter in the 198 lb class” in the USA in 1998 and 1999.
- Ann-Margaret has won the title of Michigan State Champion,
- and State Record holder for the 176 lb, 181 lb, and 198 lb weight classes in two different drug-free powerlifting federations.
Ann-Margaret became a Personal Trainer in 1998, specializing in the three powerlifts: squat, bench & deadlift and teaching people how to get strong. She credits her kind and generous powerlifting coaches throughout the years of competition: Ernie Milligan, Ralph Galvin, CJ Batten with helping her become a teacher in the sport.
Her passion for lifting coupled with the need to find a space to train herself and others, was the impetus to owning her own gym. She opened Gym Giovino in Ann Arbor in 2003.
After years of working solely on strength training with clients she noticed more and more of the muscular imbalance presented by each new client. These imbalances were so ingrained in the person’s anatomy that traditional strength training did nothing but strengthen the imbalances, not get rid of them. There needed to be a way to help people with these postural issues.
In 2007 Ann-Margaret became a Certified Postural Alignment Specialist, trained by Egoscue. With this method Ann-Margaret can now coach her clients to a pain free and posture perfect state, before starting her clients with strength training routines.
Speaking Engagements
Ann-Margaret Giovino will be starting a series of speaking engagements on Pain Free Living at Arbor Farms in Ann Arbor.
from 10:30-11:30 am and again at 7-8:00 pm.
