Beyond Image Certified Personal Training & Windsurfing Instruction (PORTLAND)
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Beyond Image Personal Training and Windsurfing & Mountain Board Sailing Instruction. The best of OLD SCHOOL and NEW SCHOOL techniques and strategies. You want to reach your goal ....i can help you reach it faster and better with the following....Specializing in building home gyms for you. No matter what space you have we can make it work great with many different solutions to making ALOT out of even a little, making your gym your safe space and getting some great equity out of your home investment. You may even decide to hire me to build you a great gym and set you up with a great routine to better reach your goals. If you live in an apartment/condominium i can train you in your gym facility if they will let you bring in a Personal Trainer. As a child i was sickly. I lost my Olympic lifter/Bodybuilding father at 6yrs old when he was 35yrs old to brain cancer. Therefore, I have been determined not to go that route and i have mined many aspects of Wellness to change my outcome as best as possible due to genetic predisposition to cancer. The Wellness aspect of what i do is on as needed basis and upon request for your individual situation or if i see any warning signs in your lifestyle/diet or other telltale sign you may have overlooked. "A Text with out a context is a pretext" one of my professors introduced his class with that phrase...i WILL understand YOU in context. So back to my services....
*Nutritional Guidance - Implementing a lifelong healthy life-changing immune boosting eating plan..not a fad diet.
*Develop a training program with focus on your desired wants and needs
*Motivation and progressive training techniques both time tested and contemporary
*Results oriented goal setting that includes workout record tracking
*Sports specific training to gain advantage in your game..Baseball, Football, Soccer, Hockey , Basketball, Track and Field, Tennis, Boxing and Natural Bodybuilding
*Crossfit
*Healthy Weight loss and Weight gain (nutritionally sound)
*Cost effective Home Gym builds and designed to integrate into your own home
*Wellness/Holistic Health Life Coach
*Electronic Body composition test (non invasive)
*Time management workout strategies
*20 years experience aggressive rehab under auspices of Kaiser Permanente with a Brain Injured Client
Right now is an opportunity to invest in learning to windsurf. The water is around 72 degrees in Hood River now August 2026. April - October Windsurfing Instruction day trips (Columbia River Gorge) Safe and fun instruction in Hood River in a secure protected area not directly in the main River. You will not want to miss this opportunity. The Blue sail is me summer 2021 at Rooster Rock. The photo is yours truly at Hookipa Maui last year. My days for Windsurfing book fast for summer and fall... so hurry and reserve a day or three for a very exciting and cool time together with Time tested EQUIPMENT to Succeed Fast. April- May Steamer suit June- most of Sept you may want a shorty wetsuit or just a swimsuit will do with a pfd and you are good to go and October through November full wet-suit and Dec thru March appropriate Wet suit or Drysuit weather.....i have many extra wetsuits and Dry suits(cold weather) on hand that may fit else you will need to purchase one...water temp is usually around 50 degrees by the end Nov. The only weather i will not teach in is under 50 air temp and water under 50 degrees. Feel free to call and we can chat and give you day rates and all the cool details. Guaranteed to have a good learning experience. Don't want to get in the cold water...you can learn to windsurf first on a Mountain Board. Cold weather just can’t stop us. I teach at the Coast, Rooster Rock (during low water levels plenty of sand) Jibing is way easier to teach on a land board for both of us. A windsurfing sail is connected to my Mountain Board with the exact same connection that I use on a Windsurfing board. Large Pneumatic Tires. It is so fun and rewarding not to mention a work out. The learning just keeps on going. Ages 5 to 85. I have extra helmets you can use as well as knee pads and elbow pads. Just make the move and call me and you will enjoy the stoke we feel on all bodies of water in the PNW.. If you don't move it. You lose it. My YouTube channel is Marcus Hollis if you want to see what happens on the Mighty Columbia River right in your own backyard! People come here to sail from the world over.
I am an experienced ACE Certified Personal Trainer who has been immerced in the field for over 35 years at Health Clubs and Gyms from coast to coast. Jack Lalanes'(1st club I trained at in LA), Golds Gym, Mavericks, Nautilus Plus, Princeton Athletic Club ,Loprinzis Gym in the Portland area and Ricelli Physical Therapy in Syracuse N.Y. I earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Houghton University plus 3 yrs of Post Graduate Studies in Nutrition and Food Science at Syracuse University. I was first runner-up in the 1986 Light Heavy Weight Division in the Collegiate Mr. New York State Bodybuilding competition held in Rochester, New York., 3rd place in Light Heavyweight division in MR New York 1987..Runner up light heavy weight in the 1985 Mr. Syracuse Physique Contest and Best Poser Trophy. I know that dates me a bit but allow me to borrow a famous quote " I will not hold others youth and inexperience against them" :) .
If you have a young person in the family that wants to excel in a specific Sport or just get engaged with fun healthy affordable outdoor activities..i have the tools to give them an edge over the competition...Thirty fun packed years have passed since the photos you see of myself. I am not in the shape you see in the competition photos from back in 1986, but give me another year :). I have taken around 8 cumulative years off due to sports related injury and am back into semi- high intensity training again now in 2025. My late father Bob Hollis won Mr. Boston , Mr. Massachusetts and Mr. New England in 1953 and Olympic Lifting Contests held on the same day at the age of 19 (pictured in last photo in Strength and Health Magazine). He was a great man who left an incredible positive impact on our family and my oldest brother who has won many Power Lifting Championships and who made US Secret Service Academy competition Records preceding his years of service: 105 push ups and 35 pull ups in one minute.... and on many other people. Healthy living easily becomes a lifestyle that can be enjoyed at any age. Its in my DNA. Its in my Blood. The choice and action is up to you. The body was made to MOVE..so Go for it. Get in touch with me! I don't take myself too seriously but will take you seriously and strive try to improve every area of your life. Remember this is not my first rodeo so I will not waste your time. I am anti drugs of any kind except for life saving ones from a doctor... Using ANY illegal performance enhancing drugs or Anabolic Steroids will exclude you from my services as i want to see results from OUR work together, not what the drugs are doing not to mention the psychological effects or physical side effects that i prefer not to be associated with. Just google anabolic steroid deaths and that will make my point clear.
Client Referrals : an email or ph# of any or all of the following will be given by request if you are a potential client:
Tyler Van Brocklin (Student: University of Washington, Summer Employee at Nike)
Mr. Rick De Neffe (Master Herbalist)
Mr. William Caffee (Corporate Attorney)
Suzie Miller-(Interior Designer)
Mr. Mike Danovich ( Retired Police Officer-Businessman)
Contact Mark today for a free consultation over a cup of coffee (on me of course)....Mark Hollis at Beyond Image Personal Training 503.484.5258 Feel free to give me a call and we can chat about reaching your goals and how to diversify your activities and get your nutritional ducks in a row. We can talk about where and how we can train. Some recommendations where we both can train, my Gym or i can help build your own Home Gym. 2025 rate of $100.00 an hour. I can also work with you on a sliding scale if times are tough for you at the moment. I am also extending my service area to 50 miles from my home in Tigard, Oregon. Thanks for checking in and always happy to help it happen. Best to use chat message or text/call as my email is not reliable.