About

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Caroline Duncan

With years of experience coaching at the Spears and Bryan YMCAs, Caroline developed a passion for helping people move well and live confidently through sustainable, functional training.

Her philosophy is simple: fitness should meet you where you are. Caroline creates a positive, judgment-free environment where clients of all fitness levels can build strength, balance, and confidence — one session at a time.

When she’s not training clients, you’ll find her drinking hot tea, shopping at the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, exploring Greensboro’s trails with her dogs, attending sporting events with her family, and finding joy in everyday movement. She believes fitness should support and sustain your life, not control it, and that every person deserves to feel strong and capable in their own body. And she knows they’re more likely to do that when they’re having fun.

GET MOVING WITH CAROLINE
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  • ACE Certified Personal Trainer since 2020

  • ACE Sports Nutrition Specialist

  • ACE Behavior Change Specialist

  • ACE Youth Fitness Specialist

  • Trauma Informed Weightlifting training, Trauma Informed Yoga training

  • CPR/AED/first aid certification

All certifications are active and up-to-date. Additionally, Caroline has experience working with people who are on the hypermobility spectrum, including Ehler’s-Danlos Syndrome, as well as people with anxiety and ADHD diagnoses. She is comfortable with and capable of offering additional proprioceptive cues, mind/body connection training, and breath work to help build lasting efficacy and confidence in exercise, particularly for people who have struggled to develop them in the past.

Credentials

Philosophy

Fitness should meet you where you are.

Caroline Duncan, the founder and lead trainer of FUNctional Fitness in Greensboro, NC, Creates a positive, judgment-free environment where clients of all fitness levels can build strength, balance, and confidence — one session at a time.

  • Training with Caroline has been such a gift. She is an exceptional trainer and an extraordinary human being, and I’m deeply grateful for the impact she has had on my health, confidence, and well-being.

    Martha H.

  • Caroline can laugh at herself and in response, she has helped me laugh at myself and take things less seriously. She has helped me connect exercise to being a form of play. I haven’t “played” in years but I do with Caroline.

    Nancy D.

  • In Fall 2021 I needed to tune-up my nutritional and fitness routines. In a few personalized sessions, Caroline taught me ALL about nutrition and since has focused on strength and fitness. Today, I am equipped to make informed nutritional choices that fuel rigorous strength training circuits and demanding aerobic activities and, I’m still growing!

    Lisa L.