BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Furkalo has been a certified fitness leader since 1996. He is currently certified with the Manitoba Fitness Council to teach Group Fitness and Resistance Training. Patrick enjoys teaching group fitness classes anywhere, however, he enjoys it most in the rural communities.
Growing up in a small town in Northern Manitoba (Snow Lake), he realized after he left, the rural communities are deprived of many things the larger centers offer. What he came to notice mostly was how far behind they were in the current fitness trends. New research and studies were coming out and taking months and in many instances years to get to the smaller communities. He felt it important that everyone gets an opportunity to experience the newest fitness tools and knowledge out there.
Patrick and his wife Deanne opened a fitness facility in Dauphin, Manitoba "Ladies Choice for Fitness" and they use it as a tool for educating the public while providing a safe and friendly environment to work out. Patrick is also a Manitoba Certified Level 2, Tennis Instructor and loves teaching people a sport they can enjoy for a lifetime. His philosophy is, if you keep it fun, its not like excercising at all. A short while ago he became an advocate for functional training. With people having less and less time to work out, its more beneficial to train muscles to work together making it a more effective and efficient workout. Taking those excercises and being able to implement them in your everyday lives is a true sense of accomplishment. Those are the excercises you will find the participants doing when you come to Ladies Choice for Fitness. Formula 3 came together from encouragement by his participants. He needed a way to teach what he believed in to more people and found that a fitness DVD would be one way of doing that. Patrick enlisted the help of marketing guru Jim MacMillan another young firecracker with a flare to succeed. Together they formed Formula 3 Fitness and the rest they say is history in the making.