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Heather Rider MAP- psychology( eating disorders- body image) AFAA ,ACE, NASM,ACSM
Heather Rider Quick Facts
Main Areas: fitness, eating disorders, mind body, functional fitness for women over 50Career Focus: Author, speaker
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Heather Rider, MA, AFFA, ACE, NASM, ACSM, is the president of Riderfit, a fitness consulting company located in Los Angeles, California. She holds a Masters Degree in Psychology with a focus on eating disorders and mind/body fitness. She has worked in the fitness industry since she was sixteen when she got her first job in a women’s only health club. She has developed many successful programs specifically designed for women suffering from eating disorders , as well as women over fifty .
Heather has used her own experience of fighting an eating disorder from the age of 8, to teach women the connection between working to be fit and strong and being proud of the bodies they have.
Heather also uses her experiences with her mother to teach women that it is never too late to learn about being fit and healthy in the mind and body.
Her mother also suffered from an eating disorder and is now a sixty something year old woman who hikes the Swiss alps.
Heather stars in two fitness videos, one with her mother that demonstrates exercises for the over fifty women’s group and another with step choreography as well as abdominal and lower back work. She has appeared in numerous TV and Video series and has been a quoted expert with some of her workouts featured in magazines such as “SELF”,” FITNESS”, “SHAPE”,” HEALTH”,”OXYGEN” and” MARIE CLAIRE”. She has also been a Reebok University Master Trainer and given lectures on fitness around the county.
Heather has worked at the top gyms from New York City to Los Angeles, including Crunch, New York Health and Racquet Club, Voight by the Sea, Gold’s Gym, Sports Club LA, and Equinox, as well as corporate fitness centers located at the United Nations, the American Stock Exchange, Sony, and NBC.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Heather Rider
I believe that there is a wide range of people out there who are desperately searching for answers on getting fit and losing weight. There is so much information out there and everyone keeps looking for the magical answer. Whe they do not find it, they go oon diets, over exercise, and try every infomercial product out there, or they go a more serious route and develop an eating disorder. I want to teach people how to stop looking outside of themselves for the answers. How to eat what they need and are hungry for, how to syop when they are not hungry, how to become strong and fit without using exercise as punishment, and lastly, how to really accept their bodies in a healthy way. we can't all be a size 0, and why do we all want to?
Getting Started With Heather Rider
My website is www.heatherrider.com. This site tells my story about how I had an eating disorder and the work I have done to overcome it and to help others do the same. There are pieces from magazines that featured articles that I contruibuted to and a link to purchasing my exercise DVD. The best way to learn about me is to ask!
