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Abby Kurtz is the owner and lead personal trainer of Transitions Fitness (formally known as Pea in The Pod Fitness), a mobile, women’s-only, personal training business, located in Indianapolis. She has been in the fitness industry since 2003. She has a Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she competed as a division I athlete in Cross-Country and Track & Field. She is a nationally certified personal trainer with an emphasis in women’s fitness, prenatal and postnatal fitness, Perimenopause and Postmenopause, and diastasis recti rehabilitation (a common condition of abdominal separation that occurs during pregnancy). She is also a Prenatal and Postnatal Performance Training Specialist with PROnatal.
Prior to Transitions Fitness, Abby owned two other successful personal training businesses, House Call Fitness in downtown Chicago and Pea in the Pod Fitness in Boulder, CO. She has also worked in a variety of settings including gyms, hospitals, and physical therapy offices. All of these experiences have led her to a greater knowledge of the body and how it adapts under exercise stimulus.
Abby is aware that women are overloaded with fitness misinformation, most of which is not backed by science and is primarily geared toward men. The fact of the matter is, women are not men. All of this misinformation can leave them feeling ashamed, helpless, and hopeless inside of their own bodies. However, when women are armed with the correct program and learn how to take care of their bodies during life's transitions, rather than punish them, they will absolutely recover the strong bodies that they have always known.
Abby finds it rewarding to be a small part of the various physical transitions that women go through in their life and takes great pride in empowering women to face each one of them with confidence, strength, and resilience.
Aside from enjoying what she does and working with countless clients over the years, Abby has stayed up to date on the latest information by taking many hours of continuing education courses on prenatal and postpartum exercise and Perimenopause and Postmenopause exercise.
Abby's Stats
1999-2003
University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology
Division 1 athlete in Cross-Country and Track & Field
2003-Present
ACE certified Personal Trainer
American Council on Exercise (ACE) is an accredited personal training certifying body. The health and fitness industry is largely unregulated and anyone can claim to be an exercise professional or health coach. Accreditation of certification programs is focused on the quality, validity and reliability of the program, its competency-based assessments, and its ability to differentiate individuals who are qualified to practice in a given profession from those who are not qualified. Abby's certification with ACE provides verfication that she has met the criteria to work as a qualified personal trainer.
2025-Present
Menopause 2.0
20 hour continuing education credit taught by Dr. Stacy Sims, a well-known exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist with an MSc and PhD.
2003-Present
Countless hours of continuing ed credits
In order to maintain her personal training certification with ACE Abby must meet the required hours of CECs every two years. Since 2003, Abby has sought to learn as much as possible, with particular focus in the following areas; Women’s Fitness, Prenatal and Postnatal, Perimenopause and Postmenopause, diastasis recti rehab, pelvic floor health, runners, athletes, and Breast Cancer Survivors
2018-Present
PROnatal Certified
PROnatal pre/postnatal Performance Training Specialist
