About Us

Our mission

“Our mission is to construct customized exercise programs based on methodology of general progression with individual elements integrated into training sessions. This allows clients to focus on their limiting factors while improving overall performance. You may not be an elite athlete. You have responsibilities, both personal and professional, that make multiple demands on your time. That doesn’t mean that you don’t have athletic goals and a desire to improve. We’re here to teach you how to train your body to be the most powerful, effective, and efficient vehicle possible.”

We train movement patterns, not individual muscles.

We promote healthy eating, not diets.

We endorse recovery and rest, not burnout.

Within this process we provide realistic, actionable coaching, keeping clients accountable and focused. We educate people how to incorporate movement into time spent away from the studio, how to make ideal food choices, and how to get the recovery the body needs to sustain vital energy. Essentially, we all have one body to last an entire lifetime. Like any other investment, the better care it gets, the greater the payoff later in life.

Our staff

Mark Kahila

Mark Kahila: personal fitness coach, Elevate Conditioning, Boulder CO Mark began his career as Student Supervisor of Recreational Facilities at his alma mater Northern Michigan University. From there he became Fitness Director at Beverly Hills Health and Racquet Club where he implemented the clubs Personal Training Program. His desire to learn more about exercise and rehabilitation led him to Beaumont Physical Therapy where he served as Exercise Physiologist specializing in outpatient transition programs. In 1990 Mark joined First Fitness in Chicago, Ill. a company specializing in corporate, residential, and personal fitness programming. While at First Fitness, Mark served as Director of Operations and Training for a staff of 75 trainers and helped expand the company to Indianapolis, St.Louis, Milwaukee and Washington, DC. Also while at FF, Mark co-developed materials, lectured, and consulted for organizations such as ACE, IDEA, ACSM, Precor, Schwinn, Arthur Anderson and Harpo Studios.

1997 Mark was recruited by Schwinn to oversee Programming and Sales for their Fitness Advisor product, an Interactive Computer Network that tracks and coaches exercise performance.

In 2001 Mark’s passion for helping others improve their performance led him back to training. He and Christine Neff founded Elevate Conditioning to offer clients the opportunity to train with professionals that use proven methods from a variety of disciplines such as strength and conditioning, physical therapy, cardiac rehab, pilates, yoga ,etc.

Christine Neff

Christine Neff, Personal fitness trainer at Elevate Conditioning, Boulder, CO Christine Neff is the founder and co-owner of Elevate Conditioning, LLC.
Christine began helping people reach their fitness goals in 1988 teaching aerobic dance at Miami University. With a degree in Health Education, she then accepted a teaching job in S. Clarendon, Vermont. From there, she traveled to Indianapolis to begin her career in personal training, first through the YMCAs and later through First Fitness. After becoming certified through the American College of Sports Medicine in 1994, she headed up the Indy team of trainers. Shortly after her move to headquarters, she then led a new team of trainers in downtown Chicago. Christine was also involved with lecturing at IDEA conferences, writing materials for the American Council on Exercise, and acting as test examiner for the American College of Sports Medicine HFI practical examination.
In 1997 Christine founded Front Range Fitness and specialized in residential and outdoor training.
In 2001, Christine and Mark joined forces to form what is known today as Elevate Conditioning. Together they formed a company that gives clients the opportunity to train with experts in sports science, performance conditioning and exercise physiology.