About Katherine

About myself:

"I have been a fitness trainer by profession for almost a decade now and a devotee and disciple of athletic lifestyle from the age of five when I began my gymnastics training. The lifetime dedication to sporty lifestyle, thorough grounding in educational sciences (Master's Degree in Early Childhood education) as well as ample and direct/hands-on experience of a variety of different takes on fitness and athletic preparation and training have shaped me into a personal trainer by vocation, which I turned into my professional walk of life by obtaining a number of significant American certifications of personal training. The most important formative experience on this path was my injury in my adolescence, a result of unprofessional coaching, which abruptly put an end to my athletic ambitions, at the same time putting me on the trail for "holy grail" quest of injury-proof, effective, versatile, and lasting training for everyone in their own pursuit of fitness goals."

Katherine "Kasia" Tarantino

Higher Education:

· Master's Degree in education

Personal Training Certifications:

· NASM CPT - National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer

· NASM CES - National Academy of Sports Medicine Corrective Exercise Specialist

· NASM CES - National Academy of Sports Medicine Nutrition Specialist

· NASM OPT FOR PRENATAL CLIENT - National Academy of Sports Medicine Optimum Performance Training For Prenatal Client

· NASM OPT FOR SENIOR CLIENT - National Academy of Sports Medicine Optimum Performance Training For Senior Client

· NASM CES - National Academy of Sports Performance Specialist

· NESTA PTF - National Endurance And Sports Training Association Personal Fitness Trainer

· NPTI PT - National Personal Training Institute Personal Trainer

· ISSA PT - International Sports Sciences Association Personal Trainer

· 24 HOUR FITNESS CERTIFIED MASTER TRAINER

· SCHWINN SPINNING INSTRUCTOR

· PILATES INSTRUCTOR

· C.H.E.K. Holistic Lifestyle Coach (HLC) - Level 1

Career sports performance record:

· over 10 years as a professional fitness trainer

· run 14 marathons and 28 half marathons

· academic champion of PL in beam exercise · academic vice of PL in combined team gymnastics

· junior vice champion of PL in 800 m run