Hi, I’m Marisa

I’m here to help you achieve your fitness and health goals.

To help you find your inner strength and develop a healthy, sustainable lifestyle.

To help you not only feel and look great now but also still kick ass when you’re in your 80’s.

I am an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, ACE Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist, ACE Functional Training Specialist, and MIT grad.

But beyond that…

I am what one might call, fit and nerdy.

I’ve always been nerdy, but I wasn’t always fit.

I was that kid in middle school who felt the need to get extra credit on everything and always be right. Like Hermione, but without the magic, unfortunately. I loved school but HATED exercise. My parents literally had to drag me out of the house to get me to stop doing my homework and actually move my body. I had zero interest in working out or being active.

My dedication to learning and knowledge got me in to MIT where I eventually got a Bachelor of Science in Digital Media Writing. My freshman year I finally hopped on the elliptical after I started to gain weight.

My only goals for this were to:

  • Be skinny.

  • Not hate my body.

  • Not feel bad about myself for not exercising.

I hated it.

I hated fitness because:

  • I saw it as punishment and a way to compensate for what I ate.

  • I felt like I was killing myself on the elliptical but didn’t see any change.

  • I didn’t know what I was doing.

  • I felt trapped.

  • The elliptical felt like my own personal torture device designed to crush my soul.

But one winter while procrastinating on studying for finals,

I discovered a whole new world

I was binge watching other female fitness YouTubers and discovered a whole new meaning of fitness.

I discovered that fitness could be about so much more than trying to not get fat.

I discovered that a fit and healthy lifestyle could be:

  • Empowering.

  • Designed around what I personally enjoyed.

  • Whatever I wanted it to be.

So I signed up for a weightlifting PE course at my school and immediately fell in love.

I had found a way of exercising that made me:

  • feel strong.

  • feel less stressed.

  • excited to get out of bed in the morning to go to the gym.

  • feel as though the gym was a place of salvation rather than torture.

Learning to lift inspired me to dive deeper and deeper into fitness and nutrition, reading study after study on all sorts of topics. I got my personal training certification just so that I could learn more about fitness. I was constantly listening to podcasts to absorb as much information as possible.   

Even though I had done sports as a kid and dabbled in the elliptical at the beginning of college, this was the true beginning of my fitness journey.

I felt reborn.

Since starting my fitness journey, I …

  • Have gotten closer than ever to building the body of my dreams

  • Sped up my metabolism to where I am now eating 1000 more calories today than I was trying to eat before.

  • Learned how to stop hating my body for not looking “perfect” all the time and instead love it for what it is capable of and how strong it is.

  • Discovered that I don’t need to be on some extreme diet or starve myself to be lean and look “toned.”

  • Started to appreciate that food is fuel, not the enemy. And that exercise is a practice in self-betterment, not punishment.

AND NOW…

It is time for me to pay it forward.

My ultimate goal is to help you find the same passion that I found and to provide you with the educational tools to do something with it so that you too can transform your body and mind into a healthier, stronger, you. I want to help you look and feel great now but also set you on a path to still kick ass when you’re in your 80s.

Does that sound good to you?

If so, there’s no better time than the present to check out the options I have available to work with me. And if you don’t have time to work one-on-one (I know you’re probably busy studying and getting those #BrainGains) then check out my workout programs!