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Good Neighbor Podcast: Delco
Jennifer Warriner Eskridge Moving Boundaries With CardiYO FIT
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Jennifer Warriner Eskridge Moving Boundaries With CardiYO FIT
This episode of the Good Neighbor Podcast recalls when the world shut down during COVID-19, with a visit by fitness instructor Jennifer Warriner Eskridge, who refused to let physical distance break the connections she'd built with her community. Hear host Bob Blaisse interview Jenn about those times prior to the pandemic, teaching 14 weekly classes at the Rocky Run YMCA, to suddenly having just one half-hour session. That loss and need saw Jenn transform due to the challenge, and launch her CardiYO FIT virtual fitness experience that brings her personalized training directly into the homes of her fitness clients.
You'll hear that what makes CardiYO FIT special isn't just the convenience of online access—it's Jennifer's remarkable ability to adapt workouts for everyone from 80-year-olds to competitive athletes, all within the same session. "Movement is for everyone," she explains while describing fitness as medicine, and her training programs as prescriptions for wellbeing. This philosophy extends beyond traditional exercise into Jenn's holistic approach to health that emphasizes connection through movement.
Discover how this Delaware County, PA-based fitness trainer brings contagious enthusiasm to every personalized fitness session with her special energy that translates into both challenging workouts and fun and accessible movement experiences that break down barriers for people who think they "can't dance." Whether providing personalized training, leading group sessions where friends split costs or bringing "the vibe" to community events, Jenn shares how her mission remains the same: helping people find healthy outlets through movement.
CardYO FIT
cardiyo-fitness.weebly.com
facebook.com/jennifer.warrinereskridge
youtube.com/channel/UC_ih40TSB5Yvc3GX6-iC29w
484-485-0245
--- About The Show--- Good Neighbor Podcast is a spotlight on local businesses in and around Delaware County, PA (“Delco” ) and Beyond... The executive producer and host, Bob Blaisse, is a community sponsorship advocate, business branding specialist, and publisher of several hometown magazines, including: Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors, Marple Friends & Neighbors and Newtown Edgmont Friends & Neighbors, mailed monthly to more than 12,000 homes in Western Delaware County, PA, and also available for reading online.
Welcome to Good Neighbor Podcast
Speaker 1Hello, delco. This is Michael Barkan, welcoming you to the Good Neighbor Podcast, where fans of local businesses and their neighbors come together. It's my pleasure once again to introduce my friend and neighbor, our host Bob Blasey.
Meet Jennifer Warner Eskridge
Speaker 2Thank you, michael Barkan, for that introduction. Welcome everybody again to another episode of the Good Neighbor Podcast. My name is Bob Blasey and this podcast is coming to you from Delaware County, pennsylvania. We lovingly refer to Delaware County, delco. Well, it's right just north of the state of Delaware, just south of the city of Philadelphia and west of New Jersey, right across the river. From New Jersey. We're here in the southeast corner of Pennsylvania, lovingly referred to by everybody here as Delco, and there's a real Delco vibe. This podcast is one of the vibes and we're attempting to bring the vibe to you Good neighbor businesses that can be found in Delco and beyond. And today our episode is all about getting healthy and the opportunity to get healthy now that things are really online awful more than they were before COVID, and so we wanted to bring an expert to the episode and talk about really the ability to get fit and to do it with some fitness training. Let me bring to the stage the owner and founder of CardioFit. Her name is Jen Warner Eskridge. Welcome to the program, jen.
Speaker 3Hi Bob.
Speaker 2It's great to have you here, and I wanted to mention to our audience that what we have is something just a little bit different tonight, because we have a case where you are a fitness trainer. Some people might call you a personal fitness trainer, although you do groups. We're going to hear about that. But really what's different, jen, I think, is that with all those many years, as I understand it, you were a fitness trainer at the Rocky Run Y for many years and you're obviously trained and had to be a fitness trainer. But something happened there in that COVID era where we couldn't just come together as much as we used to and you needed to still get your fitness folks together. You did it online and you're still doing it online. Right, the whole business has kind of blossomed to become a personalized business, really cardio fit online. Tell us a little bit about what your practice is as a fitness trainer these days.
Speaker 3Okay, hi, tip Bob. What I want to say is that my whole passion, my livelihood, everything has been in fitness. I love it Always have. I've worked here forever at Rocky Run Y and unfortunately, like so many other people, kind of lost everything in that time. You know my job, everything. I was coordinator, personal trainer, group X instructor, teaching like 14 classes a week and unfortunately I was only able to come back for one half hour class after COVID.
Adapting Fitness During COVID
Speaker 3But the good news is, in that time I did have a following. It was a great group of friends. We stayed connected through our group texts and, the next thing, you know, we went to the park. It was that very Monday of when the Y shut down and we got our little group together until we could no longer be in person even at the park, which made us then find a way to keep the workouts together and stay connected. And so that equated to what I did, which is the virtual fitness.
Speaker 2Using technology to be able to have really streaming fitness lessons, really Jen the cardio fitness trainer, to be able to be in your home and you to be in your home, and even not just maybe by yourself with Jen getting trained, but really groups too. Perhaps Tell us a little bit about this method of having an online, really personal fitness trainer, but online. I'm imagining that your clients would set a time and it's in your schedule and you start to stream and they see you by invitation. It's only your clients that can see this in some password protected way. But are they always by themselves? Is it always one-on-one, or is it at times where you're with more than one person training them at the same time online?
Speaker 3Yeah, so in the very beginning stages, like you said, with the technological aspect of it I am not so good with that and we can fly people to the moon, but we still can't like, send a four minute video anywhere in an easy way. So I had a resort to hitting that button on Facebook, which I really didn't want to do because I was very nervous and the whole world was shut down. I'm doing nothing but scrolling through Facebook, right? So I feel like I did it for the right reasons. As nervous as I was to do it, I just put myself out there because everybody was tuning in and we needed to move and you know, the music got us going and we stayed active and we stay connected. So that is the one thing I want to say about it. What I learned from virtual is that where we were in a time of social distancing I like to say physically distancing, but staying socially connected and we did that through that platform.
Personalized Virtual Training Options
Speaker 2So one really helped. You help people in those times when they weren't even able to socialize and be around people and to be able to think that this many years later, it's even going stronger than ever and you're at the helm. We're talking to the owner and the founder of CardioFit and I should say it's Cardi-yo like yoga, cardi-yo-fit fitness. You can get a chance to see Jennifer online at her Facebook page and she's even got a YouTube channel. If you Google Jennifer, jennifer Warriner Eskridge is her name and really the brand Cardio with a Y there Cardio Fit is the name of her business. Jennifer, tell me now when you're putting this together for new clients. You explain to them that there is a fee in having this personal training service to be able to come online at a certain time to join a certain class, and do you invite them to share that cost with their friends? Is it ever two or three people at the same time that might be kind of logging in to be able to get a personal fitness training session with you?
Speaker 3Yeah, so I offer many packages and there's a lot of different services that are online, so it would just be dependent upon what the person was interested in, but there are incentives that I offer if you want to come in with your friends, split the cost, things like that. So I guess it really just comes down to having a first initial assessment phone call to determine which route would be the best for you.
Speaker 2Right, and then from there, everybody's different. Do you try to help different people of different ages? I mean, you're certainly not going to push a senior the same way you might push, you know, a young person. Or how about men and women together? That can be even different. Or even is it sometimes it's like entertainment when you do this stuff. Do you bring groups together for fun, or is it all really hard sweat, workout?
Movement as Medicine for Everyone
Speaker 3Overall, my objective here is to keep us connected through movement right, a certain forte and having the ability to make really quick adaptations and adjustments based on the client's needs and where they are. And I've been able to successfully do that from, you know, the person who's 80 years old down to the athlete, all in one same experience, through quick modifications and adaptations. So, you know, I like to kind of embrace that skill that I feel like I have and have the ability to then therefore say, hey, this is for everyone, movement is for everyone. It's just we have to do it different ways based on where we're coming in to this and what our limits are. So, yeah, I mean, it works for everyone and it's a great outlet, and we all need a healthy outlet, and so that's the other piece of this that I just encourage people to understand that fitness movement, understand that fitness movement it's medicine, okay, and a good training program.
Speaker 3That's your prescription here that I'm giving you. You know, if you can stretch with me, there's your supplement. And, to take it on a real deep level, I love the idea of people who need to overcome major life situations looking for a healthy outlet. This is it, and I got your back. You know, I like to say I'll be your movement mentor and I will take you there, I'll be your friend to help you along the way for what you have going on.
Speaker 2Goodness, that's really wonderful. It's what we would expect, I think, from someone that has this kind of a mission to help people with their fitness, and we're talking to a specialist fitness specialist. Jennifer Warner Eskridge is here tonight speaking to us on the Good Neighbor podcast and sharing how she comes to you really through the virtual world, and you can get a chance to meet Jennifer. You can see her online, really, if you check out her YouTube channel. Look up Cardio Fitness. It's with a Y there at the end, like Philly, but it's more for yoga, and it's C-A-R-D-I-Y-O-fitnessweeblycom is her website and you can check her out on Facebook too.
Speaker 2If you'd like to talk to Jennifer, her phone number is 484-485-0245. And you can even email Jen if you'd like to get a chance to really set up a time with her. You can email Jen at cardi-yo with a Y there cardiogen2ns at gmailcom. Jennifer Warner Eskridge, our fitness specialist on the Good Neighbor podcast here tonight. Jen, there's a story going around that you are not just a fitness trainer for fun and health, but also for party, like cardio, are you together with some great music? I understand that you're quite the DJ as well at times.
Speaker 3Well, I would love to say that yes.
Music, Movement and Community Events
Speaker 2I said it for you because it's already been said. But tell us a little bit about people who are maybe not into having a fitness trainer, but they want to have something different going on. The girls are coming over the house tonight or we're going to have a party. Do you go out on site to kind of do fitness on location as well and in a party atmosphere? Tell us about that.
Speaker 3Well, like, I just love music and the blasted music is my thing, to the point where the speakers are going to blow. But not everyone likes that. I understand it, but it moves me, so I get really lit up with that and then my energy just comes through. I feel the music and it's not just about me doing my passion and what I love, what lights me up. I am really.
Speaker 3I feel like I'm here to encourage everyone that we don't have to look at like cardio and movement and dance as, oh, I can't dance. No, it's movement. And if you just listen to the music and not worry about what you look like or what other people think, I always say everybody moves a different way and that's the great part of it. And so I'm just here to inspire people to get up, move, have fun, go to events like salsa, dancing in the streets, at dining under the stars, you know, and things like community days.
Speaker 3I like to go out there and to bring the vibe to the event. We have the DJ, we have the music, but we have no one dancing and everybody walking around and you know if you can move to it. That's the missing link. So I'm here to bring the vibe to the event. You know, whether it's community day or 5Ks, anything outside, anyone who is looking for that missing component where now we need to move. We got the music but we need to move and sometimes it just takes that little bit of encouragement from a person like me. That's like, okay, you say you can't dance, but I bet you can go like this and kind of sway side to side, feel the beat, and then with more you're more relaxed, You're more able to get into it, more you feel great and that's the spectrum there.
Speaker 2We've heard it all from our fitness trainer here on this episode of the Good Neighbor podcast. Jennifer Werner Eskridge has been our guest and boy. It's covered from party fun and just move, get started to even the killer workouts. But more importantly, I think it's got some skilled technique there. That's where the yo comes from for yoga or, though you might hear in Jennifer's voice there's kind of a Philly accent like mine.
Episode Closing and Contact Information
Speaker 2So cardio fitness you can see them online at cardio-fitnessweeblycom and you'll see Jennifer's website and you can reach out to Jennifer to get a chance to figure out how can I have a moment, have a session with you for your cardio fit and bring it right into your home, jen, I have to say this is really a mission of love. We can hear it in your voice and it's a mission of health. So thank you for bringing your cardio fit to the Delaware County and beyond community online, virtually the. So thank you for bringing your cardio fit to the Delaware County and beyond community online virtually the world. Thank you for your mission, your passion and for getting us healthy. Again, thank you for being a guest here tonight on the Good Neighbor Podcast.
Speaker 3You are welcome, Bob. Thank you.
Speaker 1Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor Podcast hosted by Bob Lacey. This is Michael Barkan inviting everyone to get on the Good Neighbor Podcast hosted by Bob Lacey. This is Michael Barkan inviting everyone to get on the Good Neighbor team. Nominate your favorite local business to be featured on an upcoming episode by going to gnpdelcocom or by calling Bob at 610-557-3745.