Brian Shiers

Personal Trainer Overview

Train across from the backlots of Warner Brothers Studios in a lush, well-equipped Mediterranean fitness Oasis that Los Angeles Magazine named one of LA's 10 Best Gyms two years in a row. Brian Shiers has been the Personal Training Director for over fifteen years training celebrities, athletes, and civilians alike with equal respect and enthusiasm.

Training Philosophy

"Training your body is training your mind: to fully integrate with your body's intelligence, to find joy in movement and wellbeing, and to come to a compassionate awareness of what it means to be both powerful and vulnerable. Life and training are one and the same."

Education

BA Kinesiology, Cal State Northridge 1993

Certified Mindfulness Facilitator, UCLA MARC

Bio

I started my career in 1984 as a trainer at Nautilus Aerobics Plus in Studio City, CA after graduating highschool and never looked back. I taught at UCLA Extension training trainers-to-be, did research at UCLA's BioMed library for publishers Healh For Life, graduated cum laude from CSUN while training celebrities like Tom Selleck, Bernadette Peters, Scott Bakula, Bob Saget, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Neil Patrick Harris, Blair Underwood, and many more. I started the personal training department at the Toluca Lake Tennis Club & Sport Center where he has led the training team to excellence. In the last year I have honed my 19-year meditation practice into teaching skills that bring mindfulness to people from a walks of life. Helping others is my life purpose!