Adamson’s Peak Performance is uniquely different than a fitness center. We are a team of professionally trained personal trainers eager to help you achieve your goals. This is a critically important distinction as our staff doesn’t compliment our business- they ARE our business. We hand-pick each trainer to fit the business values, exercise philosophy, and team attitude that we wish to exemplify each day. Each trainer must be certified by a nationally recognized certification agency. All of our trainers are employees, not independent contractors, and we work as a committed team to help each client succeed!

Joe Adamson

Joe is the founder and co-owner of Adamson’s Peak Performance. He holds a bachelor’s degree in PE with an emphasis in commercial and industrial fitness from Oregon State University and a master’s degree in exercise physiology from Chico State University. He is a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

During his professional career, Joe has worked as a cardiopulmonary lab technician, fitness club manager, wellness program coordinator, personal trainer, and now oversees his team of seven personal trainers. He utilizes a combination of scientific knowledge, enthusiasm, and over 30 years of personal experience to help his clients reach high levels of physical fitness, sports performance, and optimum health.

Joe’s hobbies include pumping iron, backpacking, gardening, mountain biking, and backyard barbecues (he can grill a mean burger). His favorite pastime – hanging out with his family – Kathy, Zak, and Jamie.

Amy Palko

Amy Palko joined the Peak Performance team in July 2008. Amy is certified in Fitness Therapy through the International Sports Science Association and is a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Nutrition from Chico State University.

Amy draws on her extensive experience in nutrition, fitness, athletics, and physical therapy to help her clients work around injuries, improve body composition, increase sports performance, and become physically fit. Her former experience includes working as a personal trainer, nutritionist, water aerobics instructor, indoor cycling instructor, physical therapy aide, gym manager, fitness director, and fitness/nutrition lecturer and educator.

In her fitness industry tenure, Amy has run kids’ fitness camps, high school athletic conditioning programs, injury rehab programs, and senior fitness programs. In her free time she enjoys strength training, golfing, tennis, trying new recipes, and spending time with family. Her fitness philosophy: Make it fun, make it real, and make it work!

Calvin Robertson

Cal Robertson, a 2007 graduate of Simpson University, joined our trainer team in 2006. He is a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Personal Trainer (NSCA-CPT). Cal works half-time for Adamson’s Peak Performance and half-time for Neighborhood Church of Anderson/Cottonwood where he serves as a junior high youth pastor.

A Redding native, Cal’s athletic career includes soccer and cross country at Foothill High School and three years of soccer at Simpson University. With the diversity of terrain in the north state, outdoor sports and recreation are a big part of Cal’s life. He enjoys mountain bike riding, cross country skiing, backpacking, and soccer.

While Cal works with men and women of all ages and fitness levels, he particularly enjoys focusing on strength training for junior high and high school endurance athletes. Cal makes multi-joint, multi-plane functional movements the foundation of his exercise programs.

Zak Adamson

Zak Adamson brings years of personal experience in strength training, a body building style of training, and supercharged energy to our training team. A graduate of Liberty Christian High School, Zak is a senior at Chico State working toward a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Outdoor Education.

Zak enjoys working with clients of any age and fitness level who are willing to put out the effort to make great strength and fitness gains. He is one of our sports strength and conditioning coaches and has an excellent ability to help athletes and body builders gain lean body mass through intense training and proper nutrition.

Zak's personal interests include body building, kayaking, fishing, backpacking, shooting, mountain biking, and taking naps. In high school he developed into a team leader and excellent midfielder on the Patriot's soccer team.

Brook New

Brook joined Adamson’s Peak Performance in 2009. She has a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Willamette University in Salem,Oregon and is a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Academy of Sports
Medicine. Brook ran track at Willamette and holds sprint records at the university. After college, Brook moved on to become the head personal trainer at Gold’s Gym in Salem, and also worked as assistant coach on the track team at her alma mater.

Brook enjoys working with people of all ages and with any fitness background. She has had great success working with athletes striving for peak performance, as well as with beginning exercisers seeking to become fit for the first time. Brook’s goal for each client is to get them to reach the point where they are delighting in achieving fitness goals on a daily basis. She feels that it is each day’s decisions which create the life that you want.

Exercise spills over into Brook’s personal life as well. Strength training, running, hiking, and playing in the park with her two children, Gideon and Savannah, are some of the activities she enjoys. She even met her husband Chad at the gym!

Tina Salazar

Tina joined Adamson’s in November, 2009 after returning to her home town from Birch Bay, Washington where she began her fitness career. Tina is an ISSA certified personal trainer with experience in personal training, small and large group exercise classes, women on weights programs, and fitness boot camps. She serves as director of Adamson’s indoor and outdoor boot camp programs as well as personal training.

Tina’s mission as a trainer is to empower her clients to live a more abundant, healthy, and active lifestyle; and to help them reach and maintain their ultimate fitness goals and dreams. Her passion for fitness extends to her personal life as well. She, her husband, and three children enjoy hiking, camping, snowboarding, and enjoying life to the fullest.