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Your objectives and goals within the fitness industry constantly evolve as your
body transforms through life stages. Whether you workout to support your
eating habits or to relieve stress or even if you're one of the privileged few
who (gasp!) ENJOYS pushing yourself to new levels, YOU have a lifetime
career in health and fitness! Some choose to direct that career into the
corporate world where their passion becomes their source of income, while
others may opt to retain that pleasure as a personal hobby. Regardless of all
of the hundreds of clinical reasons to exercise daily, fitness is an integral part
of your LIVELIHOOD that deserves adequate development to ensure that
longevity, health and happiness are yours.


As a home-grown athlete, my workouts and concept of fitness revolved
around competitive swimming. On average, I attended 6 3.5 hour workouts
a week that included weight and/or dryland plyometric training, coupled with
an additional 1 hour morning workout 3-4 times a week. This dedication to
my training afforded me several opportunities, the best of which at one point
entailed training at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs,
Colorado. I had also experimented with other sports while growing up:
gymnastics at a very young age and volleyball in elementary and middle
school, but swimming was always the constant athletic passion in my life.
When I graduated from high school as the Women's Swim Team Captain, I
thought for sure I would continue excelling in my sport during my college
years. However, several factors arose that ended up directing me towards the
next stage of fitness in my life- water polo.

Despite the fact that I had never seriously played water polo prior to joining
the U.S. Air Force Academy Women's Water Polo Team, I found that I
possessed a natural talent for "the cage" and became their starting goalie my
freshman year. I wholly enjoyed 4 seasons of comraderie amongst the team
culminating in a trip to U.S. Nationals, but after graduating and moving to
England, women's masters water polo teams were difficult to find. I
rediscovered swimming by joining the Cambridge Masters Swim Team in
Cambridge, England and rededicated myself to establishing a challenging
training regimen. But by this time, I had discovered how to combine my
passion for people with my enthusiasm for fitness and I also became a group
fitness instructor at RAF Lakenheath. It was at this point that I began
branching out to explore all types of fitness activities- from various formats
of group exercise to breaking into and exploring the world of bodybuilding
and figure. It is a sport of constant self-sacrifice, both in training and diet
but at the same time, it is an entirely rewarding transformation. I still
consider myself to be quite a novice competitor but am already several
months into building a foundation that I hope will continue to carry over into
the next several life stages of my personal fitness career.