Samantha Baldarrama

Connect What fuels your passion for health and fitness?

Clients fuel my passion. Empowering their confidence strength and consistent progression. Helping them recover from injuries, conditions and watching them accomplish things they’ve never done. Ability to cultivate family in the communities I work in. Giving clients a safe place to call home even for 50 minutes. Proving to them inclining age doesn’t mean their bodies have to get old. Being sponsored by a veteran drives my desires to rehabilitate those who come back injured physically/mentally.

What’s your favorite way to train or stay fit?

Scoliosis, damaged nerves and herniated discs are a result of my accident so strengthening my core through daily Reformer Pilates is non negotiable to remain mobile, flexible and pain free. I exercise 5 days a week multiple times a day. Other modalities include Mat Pilates, barre, cardio sculpt classes and yoga when I feel like being humbled. I lift weights five days a week because lifting promotes muscle growth and bone density which is vital to women as they age, especially after menopause.

What would you do with $20,000?

Invest in advanced Pilates education to earn my NCPT, expand injury rehabilitation training, and deepen trauma informed care. Funding would support mobile and studio-based Pilates programs for injured veterans and underserved communities, new equipment, and reduced prices for clients recovering from injury. Mobile Pilates equipment to bring sessions to veterans’ centers and rehab facilities. Marketing and outreach to grow awareness of Pilates as a rehabilitation gateway. Yoga cert is a goal too!