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Biography
 Karen
Van Ness is a Certified
Fitness Trainer and Specialist
in Performance Nutrition with the International Sports
Sciences
Association (ISSA), the oldest certifying organization in the United
States.
She is a member of the IDEA Health & Fitness Association and the
Medical Wellness Association.
She has a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College and a Masters
of Science from the Johns Hopkins University. She has many years of
experience in the areas of athletic training, fitness and health, nutrition, and
personal development principles.
Karen lettered
in basketball and softball in high school and was a league all-star and
team captain in both sports. She lettered in basketball and track and
field at Dartmouth College.
At Dartmouth, she was a member of two Ivy League
Championship basketball teams and participated with her team in the
women's NCAA Division I basketball tournament her sophomore year. In
track and field, she
was one of the pioneers in the women’s hammer throw, a relatively new
event at that time, and set a school record (since broken) after only a
few months of
training.
Karen
has been a
devotee of the martial arts since childhood. She holds a third degree
Black Belt in
Tae Kwon Do and a first degree Black Belt in Karate, as well as
advanced rank in Hap Ki Do. She has extensively studied Qi Gong (Chi
Kung)
and other disciplines focused on the development of internal energy.
Over the
years, Karen has taught martial arts and energy principles to people of
all
ages. During her fighting career, she was undefeated in amateur
sparring and
full contact kickboxing competition.
In addition to a
successful career in the financial services and information technology
industries,
Karen has transformed her knowledge and love of martial arts, fitness
training, and health
and wellness principles into
her profession. She teaches a unique and exciting program that
leverages time-tested principles and techniques from the martial arts
and related disciplines, along with modern and proven training and
nutrition strategies.
Karen
appreciates the opportunity to inspire people to make profound
changes in their lives. As
a business owner, teacher and
busy mom, she understands how challenging it can be to attain - and
retain - the ideal levels of fitness, health and energy to which we
each aspire. Her
no-nonsense, practical, and comprehensive
approach is designed to achieve optimal health, energy and
vitality.
Karen lives with
her family in Annandale, Virginia. She can be reached at Karen@overcomeasthma.com
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