Meet Your New Trainers
Mark and Karen’s approach to fitness has become a whole lot simpler over the years.
Build strength. Move well. Stay capable. Because getting stronger should help you do more of the things you love, both now and for years to come.
Stay consistent.
Keep progressing.
Never stop moving.
That’s the philosophy behind Lift. Life. Longevity.
And the story behind it started long before LLL did.
How it Started
2009
Where it began
After a car accident led Mark and Karen through physiotherapy, they became interested in strength, movement and what the body is capable of when it’s trained well.
2010
A new direction
Both became certified personal trainers, turning that interest into a career in fitness.
2020
Lift. Life. Longevity. was born
After years of training clients in the gym, Mark founded LLL and began bringing his experience to clients through in home personal training.
2025
LLL goes online
LLL expanded online, bringing strength and movement to more people through free follow along workouts on YouTube.
2026
Strong for Life
LLL has grown into online coaching, follow along programs and a shared approach to training built around strength, movement, consistency and longevity.
Meet Mark
With more than 16 years in fitness, Mark brings extensive knowledge of strength training, human movement, injury, pain and exercise modification to LLL.
His ability to understand how someone moves and adjust training around their body, experience and limitations plays a major role in the way LLL programs are built.
His philosophy is simple:
Get stronger. Move well. Keep progressing.
Meet Karen
Karen became a certified personal trainer in 2010 and quickly began sharing her love of fitness through running local bootcamps, starting a fitness blog and creating free workouts online.
After stepping away from the industry, she also gradually stepped away from her own training. Years later, becoming a mom made her realize that if she wanted to stay strong, capable and active for the life ahead, she had to start prioritizing her own fitness again.
That experience shaped one of her biggest beliefs today: age doesn’t define what you’re capable of.
For Karen, getting older isn’t a reason to do less, it’s a reason to keep building.