Deena Russo - Certified Personal Trainer

Meet Deena Russo

Deena believes in a "Fit Family" lifestyle and encourages parents and children to lead a healthy, active life. Giving her clients the tools they need to get in shape and stay in shape as a family is one of her happiest achievements.

Deena Russo is a certified personal trainer and body sculpting specialist in Los Angeles. Her clients range from high-school students to senior citizens, men and women of all ages and goals. She encourages women to stay fit before, during and after pregnancy with specific pre-natal and post-partum exercise techniques. Deena has more than 14 years experience as a fitness expert in New York and Los Angeles.

Her experience in New York includes private training and aerobic at Nassau College, Long Island as well as many other gyms in the Tri-State area.

Currently residing in Santa Monica, CA, Deena provides personal training services in a number of locations including private homes. Deena leads a group on weekends for beach walks and stair climbing adventures at the famous Santa Monica Stairs. She enjoys taking clients on outdoor excursions where aerobic activity is mixed with resistance training for body sculpting.

Deena works in conjunction with holistic doctors, chiropractors and acupuncturists to assist her clients with physical limitations or special rehabilitation needs. She has recently trained clients for the Avon Breast Cancer Walk in San Diego as well as many other walking/running fund raisers.

Her career in fitness began as a talk show host for a New York based television health show entitled "Creative Wellness. The show covered such topics as exercise, nutrition, self empowerment and holistic healing. She has worked as a life coach and leads guided meditation groups.

Deena is also a working mother. She understands the unique challenges of balancing family, career and a healthy lifestyle. She develops programs for her clients incorporating cardio, balanced nutrition plans, strength training and more to achieve maximum weight loss, fitness and body shaping goals - all while addressing the needs of busy professionals, parents on the run and stay at home parents.  One of her favorite things is giving her clients the tools they need to stay in shape and to watch them thrive.

If it's a trainer who genuinely cares about people and motivates her clients to push past their comfort zones and become leaner, stronger, healthier and more self confident, it's Deena you want.