Meet Our Team

Hannah May

Hannah is one the most passionate, positive and bright people you will meet. Her approach is comprehensive and very integrated. Her mission is to reach and help as many people as possible reach their health and wellness goals.

She truly believes the physical body is only one element in the picture of overall health. This is the foundation for HMFT’s mind/body/spirit approach to fitness, healing and better health.

Personal Training and Massage Therapy allow her to also transform the external body. But there’s much more to achieving better overall health.

Good nutrition is a key building block to healing, health and fitness. And nutrition is one of Hannah’s passions. She has much experiential knowledge, having grown up on an organic farm.

An example of a terrific tool for healing and health is Colonics. Bringing the body’s internal and digestive systems to literally a clean slate is accomplished with Colon Hydrotherapy, eliminating impurities and creating a better foundation on which to build your better health. Ask Hannah about it.

Hannah is proud to come from a large family on an organic farm. Besides her fitness and healing work, one of her passions is traveling. Everest basecamp, trekking expeditions and retreats are how she vacations!

From training at the gym, to rock climbing, yoga and meditation—Hannah is passionate! HMFT was built on Hannah’s sense of adventure, love for people, social nature and desire to create a fitness environment that would touch people’s hearts as well as bodies. Hannah May Fitness Training is a high energy, fun, supportive and social environment that challenges people to be the best version of themselves! Hence, our motto—“Dare to be Great”!

Find out more about HMFT and what Hannah and our team can offer you. Just call (413) 335-8110.

Alycia Mikels, CPT

After changing her own lifestyle and starting a family, Alycia decided to take her passion and experience in weight training, strength & conditioning, weight loss and general fitness—and make it into a career. Her fitness journey has led her to many amazing opportunities such as assisting in the opening of a Crossfit gym, working with hundreds of amazing clients and joining the HMFT family!

As an athlete all of her life, she recognizes the incredible impact it has had on her own life and the opportunity she has to share that with others.  Health, wellness and fitness isn’t a luxury, it’s truly a way of life that she hopes to inspire others to achieve.

During her downtime, she loves spending time with her family, enjoying the outdoors and chasing her fitness goals.  In fact, Alycia’s passion is in goal chasing. Her brain functions that way naturally – creating a strategy, setting goals and problem solving along the way to achieving them.  The programming side of being a personal trainer lights her fire.  To hear a clients goals, be able to create a strategy, implement the plan and watch a client succeed is her true passion.

• Certified Personal Trainer
• Level 1 Certified CrossFit Trainer
• Les Mills Certified Grit Group Fitness Instructor

Alycia’s motivating energy is contagious. Call (413) 335-8110 to learn more.

Nick Babin

Nick Babin has always been guided by “the principle of balance”—not just in the world of physical fitness, but in all aspects of intellectual and emotional self-care. So, Nick combines aspects of his qualifications as a Certified Personal Trainer and Registered Yoga Teacher, then individually customizes the approaches he recommends for each of his client. It’s a very special experience.

All of the following and more are vital building blocks in Nick’s approach to total wellness:

—Building strength and endurance
—Improving body composition
—Increasing flexibility
—Optimizing frame of mind

Recognizing that most people place an emphasis on only one component of fitness, Nick makes it a point to maximize traditional strength and cardio-based exercises, then enhancing them with flexibility and mobility techniques from disciplines such as yoga or even martial arts. Nick tops it off by gently helping you understand how nutrition affects your body.

And once a client has their physical needs addressed, it becomes much easier to quiet the mind and relieve tension and stress through breathing techniques, the practice of yoga and even guided meditation studies.

Nick relishes helping his clients achieve their goals—and push beyond them—regardless of your experience level, strengths, deficits or overall goals. Dare to be great. Call (413) 335-8110 for more information!

• ACE Certified Personal Trainer
• Registered Yoga Teacher
• Les Mills BodyPump Certified
• Les Mills BodyFlow Certified
• Silver Sneakers Instructor
• 2nd Degree Black Belt – Goju Ryu Karate Do
• Blue Belt – Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Call (413) 335-8110 to learn more and meet Nick.

Lisa Payne

Lisa has been a part of our Hannah May Fitness Training family for a couple of years now and teaches yoga on Saturday mornings.

She began her yogic journey over 15 years ago by taking a basic introductory course where she soon learned the deep benefits that come with stretching, breathing, and meditating. Lisa deepened her practice by becoming a Certified Yoga Instructor through the well-respected Frog Pond Yoga in Princeton, MA.

Lisa is passionate about teaching yoga to people of all ages and fitness levels.  What we feel makes her so popular is that she truly believes that yoga is accessible for everyone—and approaches the practice with a gentle authority.

When not on her mat practicing, Lisa can be found teaching K-6 Visual Arts in Quabbin Elementary schools, hiking or skiing in the woods, biking the back roads—or gleefully torturing herself on a spin cycle!

Begin your yogic journey gently and joyfully with Lisa. Call us at (413) 335-8110 to learn more and begin your journey.