Nicole Will

Nicole Will is the Group Fitness Coordinator and a Group Fitness Instructor at the Harbor Bay Club. She currently teaches Step Aerobics, Dance and Bodyworx classes. She’s been teaching fitness for over ten years and received a minor in Group Fitness from the University of California , Santa Barbara . She’s an ACE and AFAA certified Group Fitness Instructor. She has a passion for fitness and movement, she enjoys choreographing routines and putting them together with great music. She also loves attending fitness conventions where she brings to Harbor Bay all the best new workouts and exciting new equipment being used in the industry.

Suzanne Fong

Suzanne Fong is a certified Group Exercise Instructor and Personal Trainer through (AFAA) Aerobics and Fitness Association of America. She has taken classes in Complete Core Care, Floor Core & More, Aqua Aerobics, Perinatal Fitness, CPR, and Nutrition Fundamentals. She enjoys learning new ways to improve the body.

Suzanne started her fitness career teaching Baby Boot Camp, a stroller fitness class for post-partum moms. Then, she taught Lark in the Park, an outdoor fitness class, combining cardio, strength training and flexibility. She has worked at the Harbor Bay Club since 2007. She has been teaching and subbing a variety of classes, in particular Aqua Aerobics, Stretch, Gliding, and Boot Camp. She has also been working as a Personal Trainer, customizing workouts to each client’s needs.

Most of her fitness work has been with post-partum moms and Baby Boomers. Each group has its challenges, limitations, and areas that need improvement. She enjoys helping people improve themselves. It’s all about living the SWEET Life, integrating Sleep, Water, Eating, Exercise and Tranquility. All are necessary elements in a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

Paulette Staats

Paulette is the Spa Director at the Harbor Bay Club. She joined Harbor Bay Club in 1996 as the Aerobic Coordinator (now Group Ex) and became the Spa Director in 1997. She handed over her Group Ex duties to Nicole in 2007 as the Spa grew. She has been teaching various forms of group exercise since 1985 at gyms around the Bay Area. Paulette began Omega Fitness Associates in 1987 and actively ran the business until 1998 doing corporate wellness, group exercise and fitness evaluations for local businesses.

Paulette has an Associate of Science in Animal Health, is certified by ACE, AFFA and Cal State Hayward in Group Exercise, and is certified as a personal trainer by ACSM. She has attended conventions and workshops over the years and has attended many Spa related workshops, training and classes.

Lisa Oyen

Lisa Oyen has been an Instructor for over 27 years. The last 19 of those at the Harbor bay Club. She currently teaches the Monday and Wednesday 5:30 PM Spin class. She has a dedicated following. You can find her running 6-8 miles before her class and on her off days she puts in another 20 miles. She is also the owner of Lauren’s Closet on Park Street. She started that business over 18 years ago. She has a daughter Lauren, who is a Junior in College and her youngest Kristen will graduate from high School this year. If you haven’t tried her class yet, stop in, the students are very welcoming and supportive to new faces. The class is very much a social time, as well as a workout. All levels are welcome.

Jean Rubin

Jean Rubin is a Group Fitness Instructor at the Harbor Bay Club. She has previously taught at many clubs throughout the Bay Area and has been a guest instructor at Rancho La Puerta. She received fitness certification froms CSU,
Madd Dog Athletics, and Schwinn cycling. She has a passion for coaching Group Cycling classes and creating a variety of rides using coaching techniques from countless hours of continuing education from Madd Dog and other fitness
conventions. She loves creating simulations of real road rides and training profiles and setting the rides to great, motivating music.

Amy Haines

Harbor Bay Club has been Amy’s home away from home for 30 plus years. She began coming to the Harbor Bay Club in 1978 with her family enjoying the swimming pool, tennis courts and club house. In high school she became an employee of the Doric Family as a Junior Tennis Instructor and Front Desk Associate; for the past six years she has had the pleasure of working in the Group Exercise Department. Currently she instructs sculpting and cardio classes, but has also enjoyed teaching step, stretch, abdominals and hi/low classes. She is AFAA certified and CPR trained. She owns and operates a small business at Alameda’s Towne Centre – Baby Boot Camp/soon to be Family 360. She teaches PE to grades K-5, and is a Mom to Abbie, age two.
Harbor Bay’s Group Exercise Program/Department is top notch and she is privileged to guide members through fitness classes and hopefully improve/maintain the cardiovascular and muscular health of it’s members.

Catherine Brewer

In addition to her professional career, Cat Brewer also instructs fitness classes for the Harbor Bay Club. Fitness has been a huge part of her life as evidenced by her 13+ years of instructing fitness classes, including step, hi/lo aerobics, body sculpting, personal training, and her personal favorite – spinning. You can find Cat spinning early at HBC with a group of enthusiastically committed individuals on M/W/F mornings from 5:45am – 6:30am.

Although work keeps her busy, Cat enjoys spending time with her husband and their two dogs, and achieving personal goals such as competing in triathlons and half-marathons with the goal of completing a 1/2 Ironman (70.3) in the next year!

Cat really enjoys challenges that force her to step out of her comfort zone and she accomplishes this by using her three principles of heart, balance and growth.

Noel Wise

Noel Wise is a AFAA certified group exercise instructor at Harbor Bay. Currently, she teaches Spin, Abs and Pump & Pulse. Noel has been teaching fitness classes for several years and has a specialty certificate in spin. Noel strives for her classes to be fun and challenging with excellent music. She was formerly a high school English teacher. Noel has a J.S. M. from Stanford and currently works as an attorney and mediator in Alameda when she isn’t teaching fitness classes at Harbor Bay.

Jo Baker

Jo Baker currently instructs Advanced Step on Saturday mornings. She’s been teaching fitness for over fifteen
years and hold both ACE Group Exercise and Personal Training certifications. Jo teaches aerobics at
several clubs in the Bay Area and currently administers a wellness program at UC Berkeley.