About Midtown Strength & Conditioning
At Midtown Strength and Conditioning there are no televisions, no mirrors, no fancy machines and attitude. Our goal is to provide our clients with a safe and non-threatening place to train. Our clients range in age from 15 to 78. They come in all shapes and sizes.
Strength is the core concept of what we do. We flip tires, press kettle bells, throw sandbags swing sledgehammers. We are not afraid to squat, lunge or dead lift. Many of our conditioning/endurance workouts utilize bodyweight only. And our group training and personal training workouts never exceed one hour. In fact, The Sacramento Bee called us “Sacramento’s non-nonsense gym.”
At Midtown we train in groups or in personal training sessions. Each group workout is designed by a trainer and supervised by one or more trainers. This method ensures the continuity and ideal placement of movements for maximum benefit. It also allows us to help avert injury.
For some people, personal training is the only way to get strength. And for others, specialized fitness needs (such as injury) prevent them from training in groups. In order to accommodate everyone’s needs, each of the trainers at Midtown offers needs based personal training packages.
To check us out in person please visit 2010 3rd Street in the Southside Park neighborhood of Sacramento.
Our Personal Trainers
Camilo Guiterrez
Camilo Gutierrez is a co-owner, personal trainer and coach at Midtown Strength and Conditioning in the Southside Park neighborhood of Sacramento. He has worked at several noted gyms in the Sacramento region including Body Tribe, Muscle System and Capital City Health Club.
Camilo is a firm believer that our bodies are tools to unleash our overall abilities and we are without limits in the gym if our minds are free. That is why his workouts involve body and spirit. His clients enjoy a supportive environment without judgments or callous behavior.
A star baseball player at McClatchy High School (Sacramento), Sacramento City College and the University of Texas, Camilo now excels in the arena of sports fitness, bodybuilding and intense strength training. His workouts are dynamic and incorporate Olympic lifting techniques, “old school” movements and traditional conditioning.
A natural leader, Camilo has attracted a wide range of clients to Midtown Strength and Conditioning…from law enforcement officers to firefighters, bodybuilders, executives and many people in between…he pushes each to achieve their goals and realize their overall fitness potential.
Camilo began weight lifting at the age of 13. Now in his 30s, he has trained under some of the best instructors in the athletic and strength community; including Paul Carmozzi, Jerry Weinstein, Al Biancani and Chip Conrad. And while he has taken a little from each, he has developed his own unique style of training.
Camilo is CrossFit certified, a member of the National Physique Committee (NPC). Camilo regularly competes in various arenas of fitness and sports performance including, body building, Olympic Lifting, Power Lifting and Crossfit. He has competed in the CrossFit Games, APF Power Lifting meets and several NPC bodybuilding competitions.
(916) 599-5877
Tara Getty
Tara Getty is a co-owner and fitness coach at Midtown Strength and Conditioning in the Southside Park neighborhood of Sacramento. Midtown Strength and Conditioning is a non-commercial gym specializing in “traditional” methods of achieving strength---the gym has no mirrors, no machines and no attitude. It is, as her clients call it, “No joke.”
A graduate of Cal Poly State University, SLO, Tara brings practical business skills to the gym and the clients she coaches. Her style is no-nonsense and she goes to great lengths to help everyone reach his/her fitness goals. She constantly e-mails, texts and calls her clients to keep them on track. She takes them through intense conditioning workouts, sometimes utilizing only bodyweight movements. She also provides them with nutrition services based on established guidelines for weight gain, lose or maintenance.
As a young adult, Tara swam competitively and excelled in the butterfly and individual medley races. She currently competes as a powerlifter. Her best lifts to date are — 319 dead lift, 314lb squat, and 214lb bench press.
In her free time, Tara loves to travel. She has visited many countries including Cuba (twice), Guatemala, Belize, Mexico (several times), Thailand, France and plans to visit Vietnam in the Spring of 2009. Tara and her partner Camilo Gutierrez live in East Sacramento with their two cats.
(916) 955-0536
Ben Claridad
Benjamin Claridad was introduced to the sport of Olympic weightlifting his freshmen year at CSU Sacramento. New to the sport, Ben used it to continue his active lifestyle after high school athletics and as a means of personal expression. 6 years later, Ben is now one of the top weightlifters in his class and regularly competes on the national level. With his eyes on eventually competing internationally, Ben spends most of his time in the gym both training himself and others in Olympic weightlifting, sports specific and functional fitness workouts. Ben is very experienced in coaching a wide spectrum of athletes and non-athletes seeking to make themselves faster, stronger, and more powerful. And as the youngsters in his kid’s class can attest to, Ben’s positive attitude and knowledgeable instruction make his demanding workouts fun and functional whether your goal is to improve sports performance, build lean muscular weight, or snatch 130kgs.
(916) 832-6081
Sam Brinkhuis
Sam Brinkhuis is a Personal Trainer, a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS through the NSCA), and a Competitive Olympic Weightlifter from West Sacramento, CA. He is a Sacramento State University graduate with a degree in Kinesiology, an option in exercise science, and a minor in biology and brings a diverse base of knowledge to Mid Town Strength and Conditioning.
Weight training and Fitness has been a part of Sam's life since he was a student at River City High School where he competed in two local powerlifting meets. Upon graduation, Sam attended Chico State University where he was exposed to Olympic Style weightlifting and competed in the 38th Annual Golden West Open in 2001. As a Junior, Sam had the opportunity to study Kinesiology at the University of Hawaii and recalls training with some of the locals in the UH weightroom as one of the highlights of the semester.
Back from Hawaii, Sam transferred to Sacramento State University where he had the opportunity to intern with some of the areas premier sport specific training organizations including Velocity Sports Performance, Biancani Fitness, and Hornet Football Strength and Conditioning. As an intern Sam coached training sessions with youth and adult athletes and learned many training principles and techniques used to increase athletic performance including speed / acceleration mechanics, agility, and plyometric training.
Following graduation Sam worked as personal trainer at local gyms and rekindled his interest in Olympic lifting as a member of Body Tribe fitness. He has had the opportunity to learn from some of the areas premier coaches including Don Weidemen (former vice president of the Pacific Weightlifting Association and business partner of Sports Palace, SF) and like Camilo, has developed his own training philosophy through the years.
Sam brings a passion and enthusiasm for strength training and has the knowledge and experience necessary to train clientele to reach just about any goal.
(916) 599-3118