Meriden YMCA

Built For Life

Build the Body Your Future Requires

Built for Life is a strength, mobility, and longevity coaching program combining:

  • Individual assessment
  • In-person coaching
  • Personalized programming
  • Progress tracking
  • Accountability
  • Long-term maintenance planning

Who is this program for?

  • Adults approximately 50–65 years of age
  • Formerly active adults who have become stiff, weaker, or inconsistent
  • Adults training for an active life of travel, recreation sports, activities, and longevity

What this program helps you do:

  • Identify the physical limitations most relevant to your future.
  • Build meaningful strength around your current starting point.
  • Improve mobility you can actively use and control.
  • Train around previous injuries with greater confidence.
  • Develop balance, conditioning, and real-world physical strength.
  • Measure progress beyond weight and appearance.
  • Regain confidence in your ability to move.
  • Create a sustainable plan for the next decade of your life.

Skills you will learn:

1. Foundational strength-training technique and execution of movements: Squat, Hinge, Push, Pull, Carry, Step, Brace, Rotation & Anti-rotation.

2. Joint Mobility and Flexibility

  • Techniques proven to improve joint space
  • Stretching muscles the right way

3. Just Right Challenge - Clients will learn when to:

  • Increase or decrease reps/weight to create change
  • Adapt range of motion in an exercise
  • Modify or progress an exercise

3. Consistency management - Clients will learn how to preserve momentum through:

  • Busy weeks
  • Travel
  • Minor flare-ups
  • Low motivation
  • Schedule changes

4. Recovery Awareness - Clients will understand how sleep, nutrition, stress, soreness, and workload affect training readiness.

What the participant receives:

  • Initial touch base - training goals and history
  • Baseline Functional Fitness Assessment.
  • 16 coached in person sessions
  • Individual exercise modifications
  • One optional weekly workout
  • Short Daily Mobility routine
  • Weekly Accountability
  • Progress tracking
  • Final assessment
  • Personal results report
  • Recommended next-step plan

Days/Times/Location:

  • Day/Time: Monday and Thursdays 6:00 p.m.
  • Dates: September 21 - November 12, 2026
  • Location: CrossFit Meriden, 74 Cambridge Street, Meriden, CT 06450

Fee:

  • Full Member $349
  • Program Member $379
  • Non-Member $410
  • Bring a friend $25 for one drop-in class

Instructor

Eric Carrero

Eric is a Personal Trainer and holds a Masters Degree in Occupational Therapy, offering a clinically informed approach to exercise and movement training. His experience across healthcare, athletic, and community-based settings allows him to work effectively with individuals managing movement limitations, returning to exercise after injury, or seeking to maintain strength and independence as they age.

Eric specializes in strength and mobility training that supports joint health, functional movement, and long-term physical resilience. His programming emphasizes proper mechanics, progressive loading, and individualized exercise selection to ensure training is both safe and effective for a wide range of abilities and goals.

In addition to working with adults and older populations, Eric has experience training high school athletes, focusing on foundational strength, movement quality, and injury risk reduction. He holds multiple strength and mobility certifications and integrates evidence-informed principles into his coaching to support sustainable, lifelong physical activity.