Meet the Fit Esteem Kids
Jubilee
When Jubilee isn't skating, or running, or jumping, or playing, you'll find her relaxatating!
As you can see, she likes to wear headphones when she relaxatates.
If you're lucky, maybe she'll share her favorite lullaby meditation with you.
Gianna
Gianna can strike a mountain pose better than any mountain we've ever seen!
If you chat with her long enough, you'll find yourself standing on one leg too!
Rumor has it that she can even do a headstand without messing up her hair.
Ricardo
Penelope
Ricardo AKA "The Saturday Slugger" lives, eats and sleeps baseball ever since his pop-pop took him to see the famous baseball classic, Fields of Dreams.
In case you're wondering, he has a baseball jersey to wear for every occasion.
Penelope
Penelope
Penelope knows how to make an entrance, and she's always fashionably late.
We'll leave it at that for now- just remember this beautiful feather!
Meet Our Creator
Chesna Closs, MSW, CHC, ACE-CPT
Chesna has a master’s degree in Social Work from Rutgers University and is an integrative health coach and personal trainer with extensive experience working with people of all ages and ability levels.
Her professional experience includes a three-year term as a Governor-appointed member of the New Jersey Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. And as Founder and CEO of Fit Esteem, LLC, she designs fitness, and health and wellness programs that are unique, engaging, and culturally relevant for adults, teens and tweens. She is also a senior fitness specialist and is experienced working with people living with neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's and dementia.
In 2024, she left NYC and made Iowa her home. In 2025, she became a CultureALL Ambassador as a meaningful way to promote cultural diversity, understanding and acceptance in Iowa. In her spare time, she enjoys 'roadtrippin' to see all that the Midwest has to offer.
About Fit Esteem...
The Broader Mission
Fit Esteem is "the feeling you get from being fit" in mind, body and spirit. Our broader mission is to help people of all ages (and abilities) achieve physical, nutritional, emotional, spiritual and social fitness. We refer to this expanded notion of fitness as "holistic fitness.'
To that end, the goal of Fit Esteem Kids is to encourage and promote holistic fitness habits through lifestyle programming that's fun, realistic, creative and culturally relevant for participants and their families. We believe that the daily practice of holistic lifestyle habits teaches the kids while helping to reinforce the same habits in the parents.
Empowering people to live a healthy lifestyle requires an all-inclusive approach that goes beyond the limited scope of just diet and exercise. Understanding the social variables, cultural values, norms and economic factors that may act as barriers is crucial. We incorporate this approach into everything we do. For more information, click the link below.
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