Cross-Training For Dummies
by Tony Ryan and Martica K. Heaner
Cross-Training For Dummies
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About the Authors
Martica Heaner: Martica is an award-winning fitness instructor and health writer. She lives in New York City and is the fitness director of Fitness Magazine. She teaches classes at New York Sports Clubs, Equinox, and the Peninsula Spa and makes regular appearances as a TV fitness presenter on NBCs Weekend Today and other shows.
You might say that cross-training is Marticas middle name. After a childhood spent playing tennis and competitive softball and volleyball in Texas and Arizona, Martica became an aerobics instructor and runner during high school and college. She went to London, England in 1987 to do Europe after graduating from college. Instead of traveling, she proceeded to become an integral figure in the development of the British fitness industry. She presented workshops and master classes on choreography and taught techniques to instructors throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. She produced and featured in five fitness videos released in the United Kingdom, including the best-selling Thighs, Tums, & Bums; SkiFit; Marticas Perfect Curves Workout; and Marticas Sexy Body Workout. She starred in the daily fitness show, BodyHeat, which aired in the United Kingdom for 1 1/2 years on L!VE TV. She also wrote over 400 feature articles on fitness, nutrition, and health for newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times and The Times in London, Fitness, GQ, Mens Health, Shape, Cosmopolitan, Zest, New Woman, Top Sante, Health & Fitness, and Fit Body. She is the author of six other fitness and health books, which were published in the United Kingdom and ten other countries: Eat More Weigh Less (1998), The 7 Minute Sex Secret (1995), The Squeeze (1996), CURVESThe Body Transformation Strategy (1995), Secrets of an Aerobics Instructor (1994), and How To Be a Personal Trainer (1991). She even did a two-year stint as an NFL cheerleader, doing funky dances with pom-poms to stadiums of 15,000 as a member of the Crown Jewels dancers for the European World Football League team, the London Monarchs.
Martica was awarded National Fitness Leader of the Year in 1992 based on votes by fitness industry leaders and members of Fitness Professionals, an organization of 20,000 instructors in the United Kingdom and Europe. She was awarded British Aerobics Champion (Silver Medal, Mixed Pairs) in 1989 and was nominated for the Special Achievement in the Fitness Industry award in 1993 by the Exercise Association of Great Britain.
She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Exercise & Sports Studies from Smith College in Massachusetts, and if she ever finishes her masters dissertation on cleft sentences, could have a Master of Arts in Modern English Language from University College, University of London. She has been a fitness instructor and personal trainer for 18 years and is Gold Certified by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and the Aerobics & Fitness Association of America (AFAA).