The Philosophy:

Freestyle Fitness Addiction was founded by the delightful yet devious Kristina. Freestyle Fitness Addiction is a day-in, day-out drive to increase fitness through a mixture of fun, outside of the box, extraordinary, playful, unconventional, efficient, and sometimes extreme methods. (Think gymnastics, acrobatics, parkour, breaking, dancing, running, skipping, jumping, dumbbells, barbells, cables, med balls, stability balls, trampoline, BOSU, treadmills, stepmill, bodyweight exercises, trail running, yoga- even mopping the kitchen to the beat is a form of exercise!) By removing the stigma of exercise as something boring, dreadful, mind-numbing, endless, and confined within gym walls, Freestyle Fitness Addiction aims to transform your conception of what exercise is and can be, as well as transform. your. body.

The Site:

This site will feature clips of fun, effective, and/or unconventional exercises for fat loss, strength, rehab/prehab, etc; highlight local fitness attractions; analyze current health and nutrition trends; share inspirational quotes; discuss training ranging from bodybuilding and figure/fitness to functional conditioning; and include some personal stuff, too.

Who is Kristina?

Kristina is a Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) with advanced training as a Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES) from the National Academy of Sports Medicine. She is trained as a Holistic Lifestyle Coach (HLC) from the C.H.E.K. Institute, and is Reiki-certified. She has numerous CEU’s and is certified in different modalities including the TRX and Kettlebells, and has a passion for all forms of training, from functional training to bodybuilding.

An athlete from a young age, Kristina started off with competitive gymnastics. As she got older, she started choreographing dance routines, and just generally being a ball of energy. During college, she began lifting weights and would frequently visit forested trails to run off her energy. After she graduated summa cum laude, she joined two professional dance groups- one all-female breakdance crew, and another dancehall group. She started training martial arts (focusing on boxing) and also continued with adult gymnastics and weight-lifting.

She decided that she wanted to share her love of exercise and nutrition with others, and became a personal trainer. She specializes in training females for fat loss, strength, performance enhancement, and in coaching them in achieving the psychological mindset for successful physique transformation.

Along the way, she has traveled to over 20 countries; exhibited her acrylic, oil, and mixed media paintings in art shows; worked in the field of social science research; produced music broadcast on FM Satellite radio; and become fluent in American Sign Language.

She is currently prepping for her first figure competition, and will start her Master’s degree in Kinesiology in August 2010.