What My Clients Say
Need some motivation? Check out these success stories from past clients who were able to break the cycle!
"Kari's experience and understanding of fitness, training, and nutrition helped me get in the best shape of my life, but more importantly helped me accomplish a second place finish in Triple T, a 3 day Ironman distance triathlon event, and finish a-week long cycling tour in Colorado of 425 miles with an elevation gain of approximately 16,000 ft.! Her methods will definitely get the results you want whether strength, weight loss, or improved level of fitness."
"I can’t say enough great things about Kari Dempsey. In addition to her extensive knowledge of nutrition and exercise, Kari is compassionate, non-judgmental, positive, and encouraging. I always left our sessions feeling hopeful and successful, even if it was over one small accomplishment. Kari gave me many tools to use that were practical and sustainable over time including journaling, which helped me to go deeper with myself and examine my thinking patterns and beliefs. I highly recommend Kari as a life/wellness coach, nutrition consultant, and personal trainer. She has blessed my life immensely!"
"I reached out to Kari during my fitness journey because I knew she was an expert in this area. Her genuine dedication and unwavering support have been instrumental in helping me achieve my fitness and health goals. Not only does she possess an incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise but she has a very cheerful and encouraging personality. Thanks to her, I have not only seen incredible physical changes, but I have also developed a newfound confidence and love for taking care of my body. I cannot recommend her enough to anyone looking for a personal trainer and nutritionist who will go above and beyond to help you reach your goals."
"I have been meeting with Kari at least twice a week for the last 3.5 years. Over the course of the years, Kari has helped me improve my eating habits, increase my strength, and settle my mind. She has been very helpful in explaining macros and how the different types of foods I eat affects me. She encourages journaling my eating habits so I can see where I need to adjust. Kari is very good at examining my activities to see where my nutritional intake is challenged. During training sessions, Kari is an amazing motivator. Knowing that I can do more, weights or reps, she pushes me when I start to slack. By changing our workout routine every time I come in, she keeps the sessions fresh. Many times, during our session, Kari is there to listen to the positives and negatives going on with me. She is there to just listen when I need to vent or to offer advice when I am stuck with a direction. I would not be the person I am today without Kari being in my life."
"First time I met Kari I was going through a low point in my life. She helped me with great advice and a positive outlook on life. She has the ability to connect with everyone that meets her. Makes everyone feel important and wants to help in any way she can. I grew up in an athletic family (all brothers that trained in weight lifting and fighting professionally). I did work out with them growing up and learned some from them. But it didn't compare to everything Kari taught me about working out. Starting with good form, keep challenging myself. Also when I was not able to work out due to a back injury, she helped show me exercises and stretches I could do with the limited abilities I had at that time until it healed. I enjoyed being trained by her and started noticing a difference in months feeling healthier in all aspects of my life...even motivation to go forward on a side job/dream job I have been wanting to do for a long time. I strongly believe her guidance has changed my outlook on leading a healthier and happier life. I would strongly recommend her as a life and wellness coach and trainer. Even now, a few years later, I still go to her for guidance and advice. She always points me in the right direction."
"It is my honor and pleasure to write this about Kari.
She has been a true blessing in my life. I have been struggling with my weight for over 20 years, wasting time on new fad diets or quick fix exercise routines that only ended in disappointment.
Kari noticed my struggles and she began to focus her attention on my nutritional education. Her nutritional expertise is quite extensive, she guided me through what I should eat, how much to eat, and how to keep track of what I ate. Her positive attitude is inspiring, along with her persistence, she keeps me focused on reaching my goals. Kari has completely developed a new confidence in me. With her guidance, I now consistently make the right diet choices and we have developed a diet plan that I actually enjoy so it can be sustained for the long term.
Over the past 2 months working with Kari on my nutrition, I have lost 30 pounds. Before Kari, it took me 6 months to lose the first 30 pounds. She is amazing, and I think the results speak for themselves. I look forward to continuing my partnership with Kari in the next phase of my fitness journey."
"I had always struggled with my weight. Tried every diet. Gained and lost weight several times. I had always been active. I thought I ate healthy. Trained and ran 1/2 marathons, then marathons, 5k’s. Even with all that training and running I could never reach my BMI fitness goal. I was very frustrated. In 2011 my husband and I joined our local YMCA. We started taking classes, spin, bootcamp, HIIT classes. I was addicted. Kari was one of the instructors for the classes. She was amazing! I could tell she was very experienced and made the classes so enjoyable (even though they were very challenging!). That Christmas my husband asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I said personal training with Kari. So started training with Kari in January 2012. She taught me the importance of strength training, weight lifting (which I love!), and the importance of nutrition. I would log my diet and activities on My Fitness Pal and she could see my diet and activities and help me tweak them. She was always available by text for questions. By spring/summer of that year I started seeing changes in my physique I’d never seen before. I had muscles! I felt amazing! Not only did I train with Kari once a week and take the classes at the YMCA but she was there for me and taught me the proper techniques for weight lifting/strength training (which I love!). She helped me to completely change what I thought was a healthy diet. I was so proud of myself for doing it without any fancy diets or gimmicks, Just pure hard work and sweat! 2017 life happens and kinda fell off the fitness wagon and started to see the weight return. Fast forward to 2020-2021 I kicked it back into gear. Being accountable to a friend who had also trained with Kari. So we reminisce and remember how Kari had changed our lives and we try to simulate her workouts and nutrition she taught us. And we are making a comeback! What Kari taught us was life changing!"
"I got serious about losing some weight on my birthday in March 2023. I had put on about 70 pounds in about eight years and was having some health issues so when I began to focus on getting the weight off Kari reached out to me through social media and started asking me questions about what I was doing. When I told her, she was so generous to help me by figuring out what was missing. I began to look more closely at the foods I was eating, and to pay close attention to when I’d eat and how much. I’ve known Kari for about 30 years and I’ve seen her love and passion for wellness and helping others. She has a big heart and is abundant in knowledge for health and nutrition. I’m just one of many who she has had experience helping to succeed with weight loss. Kari enjoys and loves what she does and I’m very thankful that she reached out when I needed her. She was literally my missing link. She has taught me a lot about food, how to break the bad habits, how to count my macros, how to switch up my workout routines, and also just give myself grace and patience. Eventually, I found myself having more energy, sleeping better, and hyper focused on getting the weight off so I don’t have the health issues that were preventing me from being the best that I could be. I’ve moved into a more holistic lifestyle that I can sustain with my diet, whole foods, and combining it with my love for yoga, biking, hiking, weightlifting, and playing with my kids and dogs. I am enjoying my life even more now that I have the tools to continue being the best version of myself. With her help I have lost 35 pounds and also will continue to lose another 35. Before the weight loss, I really could not see myself doing all that I dreamt of because I was stuck in my own mind that it would never happen for me to get the weight off. Now I’m excelling in so much more strength, energy, smaller clothes, playing baseball, coaching my son, am way more flexible and have a better state of mind with confidence. I believe Kari has a passion to help other people reach their goals whatever they are in health and fitness and I know that she will be successful in helping you be successful. You will learn so much from her and also love her heart in helping you achieve what you desire. I’m very thankful for her friendship and you’ll be glad to have Kari on your team!"
"My first contact with Kari Dempsey was taking one of her famous Boot Camps. This was one of the most difficult workouts I've ever done. I continued to take the class when I could get in (as she always maxed out the class limit) and I became more motivated to work out. I decided Kari was the person I'd like to get to do personal training with. I honestly never considered this as an option until I met Kari. I was concerned that I would not physically be able to do the training with her. I could not have been more wrong. Kari was fabulous at knowing my limitations without allowing me to sell myself short. We trained together for a few years. Our workouts became much more than the physical training. Kari took our sessions and used them to talk with me about the importance of not only working out but the impact of Nutrition on wellness, Stress and what role it plays and how to manage and reduce it, Sleep and how this factors in. We always talked about my personal goals and what I wanted for myself. Kari's workouts were tailored for me specifically, they were never a "canned" workout. It was always about what I needed physically. I no longer work out with Kari as we are too far away from each other now, but Kari continues to impact my choices with movement, nutrition, and my overall well being. Since the time that I worked out with Kari, which was ten years ago, I continue to carry with me the necessary tools that she taught me and have continued to understand the value of nutrition, movement and stress management."
Need even more motivation?! Here are some clients with success stories and photos to prove!
When I first contacted Kari I weighed 322lbs and was extremely unhappy with how I looked and more importantly how I felt. I had no confidence and the thought of making a change felt daunting and impossible. I felt lost, and I had no idea how to start my journey. My first meeting with Kari I could tell I was in for a wild ride and by the end of it those thoughts were gone. I’ve never met someone who enjoys what they do as much as Kari enjoys helping others meet and exceed their fitness or lifestyle goals. Her passion for helping me truly inspired me to keep pushing. Her constant texts of dieting tips, workout plans, and moral support made everything so simple. I think that is what my biggest take away of my time with Kari is….SIMPLE, it’s hard work but it’s so simple. Looking back on my journey with Kari it doesn’t feel like I did anything extraordinary or unachievable and it never felt like the goals we set were impossible to reach. I just followed the simple advice Kari gave me and it just felt easy
(hard work, but simple work). I never gave up the foods I loved, Kari taught me simply how to fit them into my diet. I never gave up activities I enjoyed to workout, Kari taught me simply how to fit workouts into my schedule. Everyone can do any exercise routine or diet for a week or even a month, but Kari teaches you how to make it a sustainable simple lifestyle change without feeling like you are changing anything at all. And the results are real. I worked with Kari weekly for 9 months and I went from that unhappy 322lbs to happy and confident 217lbs! I lost 105lbs which is awesome. But the best thing I got from my time with Kari is a simplified view of how to maintain a healthy and happy lifestyle, and the confidence to set and achieve goals to keep going.
When I first contacted Kari I weighed 322lbs and was extremely unhappy with how I looked and more importantly how I felt. I had no confidence and the thought of making a change felt daunting and impossible. I felt lost, and I had no idea how to start my journey. My first meeting with Kari I could tell I was in for a wild ride and by the end of it those thoughts were gone. I’ve never meet someone who enjoys what they do as much as Kari enjoys helping others meet and exceed their fitness or lifestyle goals.
Her passion for helping me truly inspired me to keep pushing. Her constant texts of dieting tips, workout plans, and moral support made everything so simple. I think that is what my biggest take away of my time with Kari is….SIMPLE, its hard work but its so simple. Looking back on my journey with Kari it doesn’t feel like I did anything extraordinary or unachievable and it never felt like the goals we set were impossible to reach. I just followed the simple advice Kari gave me and it just felt easy (hard work, but simple work). I never gave up the foods I loved, Kari taught me simply how to fit them into my diet. I never gave up activities I enjoyed to workout, Kari taught me simply how to fit workouts into my schedule. Everyone can do any exercise routine or diet for a week or even a month, but Kari teaches you how to make it a sustainable simple lifestyle change without feeling like you are changing anything at all. And the results are real. I worked with Kari weekly for 9 months and I went from that unhappy 322lbs to happy and confident 217lbs! I lost 105lbs which is awesome. But the best thing I got from my time with Kari is a simplified view of how to maintain a healthy and happy lifestyle, and the confidence to set and achieve goals to keep going.
– Scott Baker
I started working with Kari in late 2021. We would meet once a week for a personalized work out, and in that time we would go over my diet/nutrition and fitness goals as well. I have some physical limitations due to a past injury, which Kari was always very conscious of when designing an exercise routine for me. I started seeing results very quickly when working with Kari, and have definitely become a healthier person overall. She helped me make long term changes to my diet, and taught me several ways to exercise that didn’t involve going anywhere near a treadmill. I’ve never felt more comfortable talking about my body than when I was working with Kari, she has absolutely zero judgements about a person. 10/10 would recommend working with Kari for any fitness goals you have!
– Shannon Novreske
I started working with Kari in late 2021. We would meet once a week for a personalized work out, and in that time we would go over my diet/nutrition and fitness goals as well. I have some physical limitations due to a past injury, which Kari was always very conscious of when designing an exercise routine for me. I started seeing results very quickly when working with Kari, and have definitely become a healthier person overall. She helped me make long term changes to my diet, and taught me several ways
to exercise that didn’t involve going anywhere near a treadmill. I’ve never felt more comfortable talking about my body than when I was working with Kari, she has absolutely zero judgements about a person. 10/10 would recommend working with Kari for any fitness goals you have!
I started working with Kari in late 2021. We would meet once a week for a personalized work out, and in that time we would go over my diet/nutrition and fitness goals as well. I have some physical limitations due to a past injury, which Kari was always very conscious of when designing an exercise routine for me. I started seeing results very quickly when working with Kari, and have definitely become a healthier person overall. She helped me make long term changes to my diet, and taught me several ways to exercise that didn’t involve going anywhere near a treadmill. I’ve never felt more comfortable talking about my body than when I was working with Kari, she has absolutely zero judgements about a person. 10/10 would recommend working with Kari for any fitness goals you have!
– Shannon Novreske