Meet The Team
Working Together to Achieve Your Fitness Goals
Whether you are looking for virtual or in-home fitness trainers or massage therapists in Manhattan, Brooklyn or Queens we’ve got you covered!
Leading Edge Personal Trainers and massage therapists are focused on getting their clients results. Our team is certified, licensed and top-rated to ensure you achieve your desired goals. With over 10 years of experience Leading Edge is here meet and exceed your expectations.
Meet Our Team Of Certified Trainers and Massage Therapists
Noelle
As a Temple University alumni, Noelle gained her admiration for personal training after competing in Division 1 collegiate track and field where she broke the record in the 1000 meters. Through this experience Noelle became enthralled at what the body can do with the proper training and mindset.
Shortly thereafter she moved to NYC and became an ACE certified personal trainer, which is when she learned she had an act for helping people achieve life-long fitness goals. She has since become an ACE certified functional training specialist and a level 1 Kettlebell Kings certified training expert.
Noelle’s training style pulls from her yoga and animal flow background as well as her love for kettlebell training. Her focus with clients is on form and function first to improve movement and quality of life.
Noelle works with clients of all types from the novice to the athlete. She specializes in pre and postnatal training, weight loss, strength training and correctional work.
Noelle believes a healthy mind resides in a healthy body. You have to first train your mind to believe that you have the power to change your body and your life and then the body is capable of just about anything with the right guidance.
Kern
An adolescent pre-diabetic scare was enough to motivate Kern to make a change and start taking responsibility for his health from an early age. Bullied, overweight and unhappy Kern began playing basketball every day and making healthier snack choices. He also took a interest in weight lifting and soon morphed his body into a strong muscular physique.
This body and health transformation has been the drive behind Kern’s passion for personal training. Kern is a NASM certified corrective exercise specialist. He also has an Ace certification in fitness, nutrition & personal training. To further his education in kettlebell training, Kern is also Kettlebell Foundations to Flow Level 3 certified by Living Fit. Kern has used his 12 years of experience training and 15 years in the gym to develop a very eclectic style. He specializes in weight management, macro tracking, body building and strength training. Kern combines block periodization and daily undulating periodization in tailoring his program to your specific fitness goals and needs.Using all the tools in his tool belt Kern prides himself on his ability to help his clients reach and sometimes exceed their
fitness goals. Working with a wide variety of clients from celebrities trying to look great for an upcoming event to bankers and lawyers just wanting to live a healthier life, Kern gladly takes on the task. Kern believes that the most effective workout program is the one you enjoy enough that you look forward to it week after week.
Kevin
A proud native New Yorker, Kevin’s passion lies in guiding others towards becoming the best versions of themselves. His journey into the realm of fitness began with a personal hurdle—an ACL injury in 2014. During his recovery, he not only overcame the setback but also cultivated a deep appreciation for strength and conditioning, performance training, nutrition, and the overall enhancement of one’s quality of life.
As a Lionel University certified personal trainer and dedicated strength coach, Kevin boasts a profound understanding of exercise training principles and methodologies. His approach is meticulous—beginning with a thorough assessment, he tailors a personalized plan based on an individual’s athletic background, objectives, and goals. Kevin is committed to not just fitness, but to the holistic well-being and growth of each person he works with.
Kasey
Kasey Ryan is a fitness enthusiast! She is well versed in the fitness industry and has worked in NYC over 12 years. She is certified in multiple modalities including strength training, correctional exercise, yoga, pilates, pre and postnatal and meditation. She has a very strong passion for helping people achieve their fitness goals and loves taking time during each session to identify her clients moment to moment needs! Kasey will meet you where you are and prepare you for your fitness journey, in the path you see fit to take.
To Kasey, movement is medicine and awareness is a way of life. Be you!
Tamar
With over 6 years of experience as a NASM certified personal training specialist and pre and postnatal trainer Tamar is adept in designing customized training programs. She has a passion for fitness and improving clients health by not only transforming their body, but their minds too.
Tamar enjoys helping clients become confident and comfortable in their bodies through weight loss, strength training, and corrective exercise. Tamar has experience working with people of all ages and fitness levels. Her specialty is in mobility training, gymnastics, prenatal and postpartum exercise as well as strength and conditioning.
Valerie
Valerie believes that there is no “one” right way to train to achieve your fitness goals. Her job is to figure out a strategy that works best for each individual clients’ needs and goals.
As a certified personal trainer she wants to share her passion for exercise and show clients what their body is capable of. Her role is to make every single workout enjoyable and safe and to show to clients that fitness is a lifelong goal rather than a short-term fix.
In her approach to training she focuses on building mind and body connection, using correct form and proper technique to avoid injury and improving physical performance outside of the gym for a better quality of life.
Alisa
Native New Yorker Alisa is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and a Women’s Fitness Specialist with 15+ years of experience as a fitness professional. With a background in dance and martial arts, in addition to teaching a variety of modalities at top tier commercial gyms (Pilates, Barre, Indoor Cycling, HIIT), Alisa draws from an extensive toolbox to effectively create programs for her clients. She has trained dozens of pre-natal clients to healthy, natural births, and has also worked extensively with women through both postpartum and menopause.
She enjoys educating her clients about form and function and helping them become the best version of themselves so that they can enjoy the highest quality of life!
Erin
Erin started her career as a Certified Athletic Trainer serving collegiate-level athletes. Through this experience, she was able to provide injury prevention, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation techniques to numerous athletes ranging in athletic abilities. With the injury cases Erin participated in, she came to find that many of the injuries could’ve been prevented if patients had been educated on proper movement patterns. This lead her to gain her Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist credential.
She believes that training requires a customized approach because every individual is built differently. She previously served as Head of Sports Science at an elite-level training facility where she used a variety of techniques to assess clients and design customized goal-specific programs.
The people Erin works with quickly learn that while she’s brimming with enthusiasm and positive energy, she brings a serious approach to her work and the importance of delivering high-quality results. She has coupled her passion for human anatomy/physiology, biomechanics, and functional training to optimize training results.
She believes there are four pillars to health and wellness, they are mindset, recovery, exercise, and nutrition. It’s difficult to master one without the other so she strives to stress the importance of each. She is committed to walking with people on their fitness journey to help identify what is possible and then create and equip her clients to convert the possibilities into reality.
Courtney
Courtney Thomas is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer & Nutrition Coach who is driven by inspiring people to live a healthier and stronger lifestyle. He has over 8 years of experience training individuals, bootcamps and teams including teaching families, youth and adults on incorporating healthy lifestyle habits. Courtney lives a plant based lifestyle and specializes in functional movements to help fortify our foundations. He is also a Correctional Exercise Specialist that makes him an expert in human movement assessment.
Marina
Marina is a NASM certified personal trainer. She started weightlifting as a hobby at the age of 15, and at the time she happened to meet a trainer that was passionate about teaching her about form and technique. Marina developed a passion for learning more absorbing all the available literature on body building and human physiology.
She then jumped at the opportunity to apply this knowledge and spent the next several years devoting herself to classic bodybuilding. She was fascinated by how proper knowledge and consistency can change one’s body and even psychology.
Marina practiced bodybuilding for 10 years creating a strong yet feminine body that she was proud of.
Once she became a mother she began to fully appreciate the importance of having a healthy and functional spine and deep-lying muscles.
Not only did she cure herself from severe back pain associated with nursing a baby, she also greatly improved her posture. She is how she became interested in holistic integrated training.
She teaches clients that crunches should not be the first exercise choice for a bulging stomach and that slim toned arms begin with having a mobile thoracic spine. She helps clients understand that that under-active glutes are easier to activate through the engagement of their feet.
Marina takes the best from the worlds of bodybuilding, functional training, Pilates and pelvic floor training to help clients safely and effectively change their body compositions, improve quality of movement, obtain
healthy habits and boost their confidence.
Stacey
Stacey is a NASM and prenatal certified personal trainer. She also carries a degree in Nutrition and Exercise Science. Stacey has spent years working in conjunction with physical therapists and chiropractors to gain an understanding of the vast benefits of corrective exercise for those with postural issues and muscle imbalances.
She first took an interest in a career in the health and wellness industry when she watched her son struggle with pre-diabetes and being overweight. She helped him change his life around by adopting healthy habits of her own and influencing him to do the same. It was then that she realized obesity is a growing epidemic in this country not just for adults, but for our children as well and she wanted to do something to help change this.
Stacey is an advocate for holistic and preventative medicine. She believes in the 80/20 approach to wellness, which concludes that 80 % of the time the body can heal itself naturally through the integration of proper nutrition, exercise, lifestyle changes, and adapting a positive mindset/outlook on life. The other 20% of the time we can benefit from the use of allopathic medicine, science and our health care practitioners.
Stacey specializes in working with women throughout pregnancy, body builders, athletes, children and the elderly. The one thing that we all have in common is -movement! Movement is medicine.
Kurush
Massage therapy helped me personally to heal my body. Growing up, I was doing a lot of sports. Because of that, I had several minor injuries in my body: shoulders, lower back and etc. Becoming a massage therapist (2015) and learning the muscles and how to treat them properly helped me to fix my injuries without getting a surgery. After I felt the positive effect of the manual therapy on myself, I decided to do it professionally and help other people. Thankfully, it has been a great journey for me and my clients! I also became a certified personal trainer. Because these fields are connected.
After the COVID-19 took away my father at the age of 61, I found healing in breathwork and other spiritual practices. The Universe sent me a fascinating idea to combine Breathwork and Massage therapy. I would like to end my statement with the following quote: “A Healer’s gift, comes from his own wounds…”
Feel the infinite, loving and nurturing energy of the Universe through my hands. Massage is where art meets science.
You can always adjust the pressure. Communication is the key!