Twenty years experience and 60,000 hours of one-on-one personal coaching has made Gina Lombardi one of the most sought after Fitness Experts in the entertainment business.

Gina is HOST of FIT NATION on the Discovery Channel’s FitTV, their only investigative reporting show. Gina has a regular column in HEALTH Magazine called ”Inside Track“ , where she tests and reviews health & fitness products. She‘s been a TELEVISION SPOKESPERSON for HEALTH Magazine and SHAPE Magazine. WWW.MSNBC .COM features her celebrity fitness tips on their FIT LIST. She is a Spokesperson for NASONEX, The Yogurt Smoothie, Purple and FUZE Beverages as well as fitness expert for the WEIGHT WATCHERS Start Getting Healthy DVD series. Gina is the most requested health & fitness RADIO GUEST on the radio waves, entertaining markets such as New England, New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta and more! She is a featured reporter on the successful radio program, The Weekend Workout sponsored by PURPLE RADIO Sundays at 5pm EST, syndicated in NY, Los Angeles and Miami.

Gina, known as the WELLNESS DETECTIVE in her industry, stands out from a field of pretenders because of her integrity, her honesty, and her incredible knack for getting to the truth and distilling information into something people can really use.

BORN in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Gina relocated to Southern California after college. Here she began working with celebrities at a large Public Relations firm in Beverly Hills. While working with high profile actors, she identified their need for specialized services like personal training. Having a strong science background, experience as a trainer & a high affinity for exercise & fitness, Gina pursued her certifications in fitness training and began her own business. Since that time she has had the privilege to work with famous Actors, Musicians & television executives such as Andy Garcia, Catherine Bell, Isaac Hayes, Leah Remini, Val Kilmer, Kirstie Alley, Sally Pressman, Clementine Ford, Robert Towne, Kevin James, Clancy Brown, Beck, Chick Corea, Les Moonves, Beth Sullivan, film producers Colleen Camp, Craig Perry, Nancy Roberts and many, many more.

Gina‘s success as a TRAINER not only led her to notoriety in the press but also amongst her peers. In 1993, she was invited onto a special development team at the National Strength & Conditioning Association to create a nationally accredited certified personal trainer program. This prestigious program is still the only one of it‘s kind in existence today. Gina has also served on the NSCA‘s Examination Development Committee and was Chair Person for the Personal Trainer Committee for 5 years. She received an award from the NSCA for her contribution & work devoted to the Personal Trainer Program. In addition, she contributed to the Journal of Strength & Conditioning as the COLUMN EDITOR for the One-On-One section for personal trainers. Inevitably, writers and reporters began calling on Gina for her expertise and experience in weight training, advanced program design, nutrition, weight management and current fitness trends. This brought her to the 2003 PERSONAL TRAINER OF THE YEAR AWARD recipient from the NSCA.

As a PUBLIC SPEAKER, Gina has traveled around the globe teaching health & fitness professionals as well as the general public on popular topics such as fat loss, weight loss, exercise and nutrition. She has presented to audiences in Japan, Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. Captivating from 20 to 10,000 people in a room, Gina has been touted as a ‘dynamic and entertaining speaker who gets down to the grit of the matter‘.

A rock solid RESOURCE, Gina has one of the largest personal networks of nutritionists, world renowned research scientists, strength & conditioning coaches, olympic training coaches, athletic trainers, physical therapists, exercise physiologists, biomechanists, wholistic practitioners, fitness consultants and physicians of every specialty including anti-aging medicine, endocrinology and immunology. All of these resources are at the top of their game and constantly feed Gina with current information before it is even published in clinical journals, periodicals and/or local news.

She is an HONORS GRADUATE from the University of Pennsylvania in Dental Hygiene/Health Science and holds certifications in personal training from the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) & Univ. of So. Cal at Los Angeles. In addition, Gina has achieved certificates in Post-Rehabilitation Conditioning and Weight Management. She is proficient in Kickboxing, Boxing, Shudokan Karate, Weight Lifting, Rock Climbing, Mountain Biking and Motherhood.