The coach in your corner.
Cherteria Smith runs Heart and Hustle Fitness Co. in Chicago, IL — personal training for total beginners, shift workers, and anyone who wants health that lasts.
"I offer a kind, caring, and empathic approach to coaching that holds you accountable and challenges you to exceed your own abilities. I am fully adaptable. I'm chill with my clients. No aggressive management techniques or goading. Only your personal motivation drive burn through here. I am merely a guiding factor in your fitness journey."
— Cherteria Smith, owner & coachTen push-ups between loading screens.
Cherteria's own journey started with a simple challenge during covid: ten push-ups during loading screens, in between video games. From there it grew — learning new exercises and calisthenics every day, talking training with people in and out of the gym, and encouraging others on their fitness journeys who genuinely only needed information and motivation.
That was when she knew this was the work. Fitness should be accessible to everyone, even on a 40 hour work week. Our health means everything, and our loved ones deserve to see us at our best for years to come.
A plan is tailored craft, never a copy-and-paste program.
That's how Cherteria coaches: she watches how you move, listens to what you're aiming for, and builds the plan by hand around your goals, abilities, and schedule. We begin with general fitness, then work up to powerlifting, yoga, cardio training, or HIIT when that balance fits you — and adapt it as your life changes. Nothing off a shelf, nothing rushed.