About Rachel
First thing first, I am a personal trainer and I love what I do! I have been a certified personal trainer for several years and my decision to become a personal trainer came about for a number of reasons. For starters, I'd been a fitness fanatic for over 10 years and couldn't imagine not having it in my life. But beyond my 
love for fitness, I wanted to be able to help other's achieve their goals, whatever they may be.
Let me start by telling you that I spent the majority of my life unfit and overweight. In high school I was a swimmer, competing primarily in butterfly until I got tendinitis in my shoulder and could no longer compete. So, I went to college and did virtually no exercise for four years. I graduated from George Washington University in 1988 with a degree in finance and spent the next several years working in banking, sitting on my a*s all day long, partying after work and exercise.... well it consisted of an aerobic class at best, a couple of times a week, when I had no excuse not to attend. At 22, I was diagnosed with high cholesterol, IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) and suffering from a herniated disk, I sustaineded in a horseback riding fall when I was a child. As you can guess, I was far from healthy and fit!
When I had my first child, Erica, at 29 years old, I stopped working and decided I needed to do something other than sit in my Manhattan apartment with a new baby. I joined a gym, hoping not only to lose my baby fat, but maybe meet some people. Well, thats when everything changed for me.
All of a sudden, I started to see the baby fat come off. I started feeling better about me and I began my journey to become not only "thinner" but healthier. I started educating myself about nutrition, realizing how little I knew, and continued to do cardio, cardio, cardio until I lost all my weight and then some. My cholesterol went way down, my IBS flared up much less often, because I was EATING better and overall, I started to feel better about everything.
At 32, I had my son, Jonathan, and the process started all over again. Only this time, I got a personal trainer six weeks after I gave birth. Wow, what a difference! Not only did I lose the weight, but my body started to change. I became tighter and more muscular and my back even started feeling better, as I strengthened my core and all the surrounding muscles. It was amazing. I realized, hey, there's something to this weight lifting! Cardio is great, but in order to see changes, I needed strength training, as well.
Ten years later, I am probably in the best shape of my life and have dedicated my time and efforts to helping other's learn what took me so many years to learn. Now I spend my days helping, motivating, and learning about my clients so I can help them succeed at losing weight and becoming more fit! Having been there, I understand the struggles, and my goal is to make it not only easier for them, but enjoyable, as well.
When I'm not working or working out, I spend my time with my husband and four children (2 of my own and 2 stepchildren), and my big lovable dog, Molly. My life is very full and I feel very fortunate, every day!
My family and me! My husband, Mike and me
Molly and me