About
Strength for Every Season of Life
Valdes Performance is a strength-first wellness studio dedicated to helping people build strength, confidence, and health for life.
More than a decade of coaching, pointed at real life.
Cristina Valdes is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA, with a B.S. in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology from the University of Florida, where she competed as a Division I pole vaulter. Her coaching has run through college weight rooms and professional sport, more than a decade of it.
Valdes Performance started as a small personal training business and grew into a community, built for adults who want to feel strong for the long run, especially women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. She and the team learn how you move before writing your first program, adjust a lift the moment it stops serving you, and remember what you are training for outside these walls.
We do not sell workouts. We help you build strength, confidence, and connection that hold up for years.
We build strength that supports life, not workouts that consume it.
Exercise shouldn't leave you feeling defeated, overwhelmed, or burned out. It should leave you feeling stronger, more energized, more confident, and more capable.
At Valdes Performance, we believe movement has the power to improve far more than physical health. It can improve confidence, energy, mental clarity, independence, resilience, and overall quality of life.
We lift the heavy things, so life feels lighter.
Proud Partner of the UCF Kinesiology Program
Valdes Performance is proud to partner with the University of Central Florida Kinesiology Program to provide hands-on learning opportunities for future professionals in exercise science, kinesiology, health, and human performance.
Through mentorship, observation, and real-world coaching experience, students gain practical skills while learning what it takes to help people improve their health, strength, and quality of life.
We believe great coaching is built through education, experience, and a commitment to lifelong learning. By investing in the next generation of professionals, we're helping raise the standard for coaching while continuing to grow and learn ourselves.